New PBW game - Great Experiment 3

[Unknown_Enemy]

Geochmo,

Will you start a Great Experiment3 game anytime soon ?

[ December 30, 2003, 17:25: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Puke]

what was one and two?

[Unknown_Enemy]

you start with 3 colony ships, and nothing else. No homeworld, no research, nothing.

Well, Geo did include point defense 1, but that was it.

There was quite a few AI also. I remember meeting the cryslonite early on was no fun. But the game was good.

I think it was medium AI and no bonus. But I am not sure.

[Joachim]

Sounds like a very interesting game set up....
I'd be on the team.

[geoschmo]

For those of you familiar with TGE 1 and 2, this time you will be the ones left behind. No colony ship. Just a planet laid bare by the ancients and a few people left to rebuild your shattered empire.

The Great Experiment III (Link to game on PBW)

Your people were once proud and strong. Your empire once spanned the all the lights of the night sky visible from your homeworld. Your ships traveled between them with impunity. You stood among the races of the galaxy and held your head high. You were the masters of your domain.

Or so the old stories go. For you have no knowledge of those times except in the tattered remains of a few dusty books passed down from generations long gone. In all of your years, and those of your father before you, and your fathers father, your people have led a hard scrabble life. Scraping by in the bones of the old cities of another age. Your people that once were as numberless as the stars above, now number a pitiful few souls.

But the old knowledge long forgotten is being remembered again. You are no longer content to merely exsist. Your people’s long dormant longing to ply the blackness of space is once again stirring.

You look once again to the stars…

Starting resources: 5000
Starting planets: 1 ***You will be given one medium world, with no facilities on it, and only 1 Million in population
Home planet value: Average
Score display: Own
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 2000
Quadrant type: random
Quadrant size: Depends on number of players
Event frequency: None
Event severity: Low
Technology cost: High
Victory conditions: What you make of it
Maximum units: Max
Maximum ships: Max
Computer players: Medium depending on number of players
Computer difficulty: High
Computer player bonus: Medium
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings:
No Ancient Race (you can redicover tech, but the knowledge of the stars is gone until you go out and explore them again)
Maybe if I think of something else before the game starts.

[ December 30, 2003, 17:38: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

Thanks Geo !

[geoschmo]

I am thinking to give the AI high difficulty and medium bonus. This time around they will have the same poor start as the humans. Maybe if we have enough players we will go without AI alltogether. Actually I guess we could do that even with few players on a small map. You guys can let me know which way you prefer on that. If we go with AI I don't think they will be as significant a threat as they were Last time.

[Alneyan]

I know I shouldn't, but I will join the game nevertheless. (No matter how hard I tried, I could not resist the urge to join this game. *Shrugs*)

I would rather play without any AI if we have enough players. We will see if many volunteers sign up for this peculiar experience.

[AMF]

Ummm..yesss...sounds vey interesting...

I've always wanted to play a gipsy race ala battlestar galactica refugees, now perhaps I can play those left behind...hmmm...yesss....

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I am thinking to give the AI high difficulty and medium bonus. This time around they will have the same poor start as the humans. Maybe if we have enough players we will go without AI alltogether. Actually I guess we could do that even with few players on a small map. You guys can let me know which way you prefer on that. If we go with AI I don't think they will be as significant a threat as they were Last time.

I would say we need AI. An atraction in TGE is that AI are a treat because you are so weak when you start the game. But I am not sure about medium bonus. A player starting near 2 agresssive medium bonus AI would be in a difficult situation.
What about low bonus ?

Then, could we have 36h turns ? I am usually able to get a turn per day, byut sometime I need a few extra hours.