New(b) game: Borrowed time -*Running*-

[ckfnpku]

Being impatient I have taken finding a game into my own hands. Just long enough to put the game in reverend's hands.

Seriosly though, this is my first dom2 mp game. Reverend is hosting though and I'll listen to the voice of experience so it shouldn't be a problem.



I was thinking these settings:
- Map: Zen's cradle
Found here:
http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip
Unzip in maps directory. Use with cradle.tga found here:
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/cradle.zip

- Players: See below.
- Hosting: starting 24qh, later 48qh
- Victory condition: One vp per capital + 6 free vp's. 9 needed for win.
- Indies: 9
- Sites: 45
- HoF: 15
- Research: Very difficult
- Graphs: On
- Renaming: On
- Rest default

- Clams, fever fetishes, soulcontracts, vampirelords Banned. You may have no more than 5 Bloodstones.


Players:

ckfnpku .......... Marignon
Legacyspy ........ Man
Leblanc .......... Machaka
The_taurent13 .... C'tis
Nappa ............ Pangea
RonD ............. Pythium
rex_havoc ........ Caelum
rylen ............ Abysia

Pick me pick me pick me. Yayayayayayayay ckfnpku. Your are my god. I would really like to join, this would be my first multigame. I would like to take man.

[Leblanc]

Ive been wanting to try out mp.
Id like Machaka.

[The_Tauren13]

I'll take C'tis.

ckfnpku said:
- I would like to restrict all gemgenerating items to 10 of each kind and soulcontracts to 5 per player. Maybe Vampirelords too?

I would prefer to either ban these outright or to have no limit. It is not only difficult to enforce, but with a numerical limit it might be a pain to keep track of how many clams you have, and to not forget and accidentally go over the limit.

Karan is horribly overplayed, and not even that great of a map (it’s in dire need of some nostarts, for one thing). How about Inland? Only problem with Inland is that there is very little water. Or maybe it's not a problem; there should be enough for one water nation. If not, I would also like to suggest Cradle; I've never played it but it looks pretty good.

VPs are fine, but I would prefer only 50% for victory.

Could we go with just 35 sites?

I vote for graphs on.

Edit:
I just realized I might not be what you consider a New(b). I have completed 4 MP games, but in 3 of them I died quickly and utterly. I currently have 2 ongoing games.

[Nappa]

I'll take Pangaea. I've finished one MP game and I'm at turn 17 in my 2nd MP game.

I'm still a newb.

I vote for no clams/fetishes/contracts/vampire lords etc.

[The_Tauren13]

What about blood stones, wraith lords, draconians, and call of the wild?

[RonD]

I'll sign up as Pythium.

Any mods? Zen pretenders, Zen spell mod?

Can some one tell me where I can DL cradle?. And I too would prefer not play on Karan. I do care if theres a limit on the above things or there is, cause I never use them as man.

[archaeolept]

I'd use zen's modified cradle - its not such a barren impassible wasteland as the default Version.

[ckfnpku]

Pick me pick me pick me. Yayayayayayayay ckfnpku. Your are my god.

Nice to see people like it reverend is your god though I think.


I don't particularly care if you are newb or not, whatever. Play and have fun I say.

Ok, so let's do cradle, zen's Version.

You people also seem to dislike hoarding. Good. We could ban the clams, fetishes, soul contracts. Bloodstones, I am uncomfortable banning since they are useful for the +1 earth. Limit 5 bloodstones? Vampirelords are tricky, I think. But we could make it simple on ourselves and ban them, sure. Other stuff, not worth the bother of restricting, I think.


No zen's mods or other mods, unless a lot of people want them. I'd like to play the game fairly 'au naturele' once before playing modded.



I'll update the first post as we go along, to incorporate what people want.

Oh, zen's Version is the PhilD fixed map or what?