"Newbie's Arrival" turn tracking thread

[Darsnan]

This is the turn tracking thread for the SMAX PBEM "Newbie's Arrival".

Players are listed in order of turnage:

freshman: Gaian
Ellestar: University
Sentry33: Hive
Lord_Icewind: Svensgaard

AI's:

Lal
Aki
Roze


Difficulty: Transcend


Here are the rules:

All victory conditions enabled, including co-operative. However, no more than two players may participate in a co-operative victory.

Do or Die - eliminated players are not restarted
Non-Blind Research

Restrictions - general gameplay:
- A player may not restart a turn without good reason. The player should specify the reason in the game thread if he was not able to avoid reloading the turn. (Obviously, if a player has suffered some sort of crash during a turn, such a reload is unavoidable)

- A player is not permitted to establish contact with another faction prior to having met them in-game.

- If a player performs a probe team action other than to infiltrate against another player with whom (s)he is in a truce, treaty or pact, they must inform the probed player what it was they did and what they stole/sabotaged. They must also choose the 'declare vendetta/cancel pact' option when they perform the action.

- A player is not permitted to make more than one social engineering change per line, per turn. For instance, one is not permitted to start the turn in wealth, switch to power mid-turn for the extra disbanded minerals, and then switch back to wealth that same turn, getting the refund.

- A player is not permitted to use the 'demand withdrawal' feature against another player, leaving the AI the decision of whether to withdraw or not.

- A player may not accept a bribe from another player's AI during council sessions.

- A player may not perform multiple airdrops in a single turn with the same unit using the right-click menu.

- A player may not use the F4 screen when infiltrated to change an opponent's workers to specialists.

- A player may not insert stockpile energy into the build queue after the production of a military unit. Due to a bug in the game, should you put stockpile energy into the queue, you will get the benefit of the extra energy on the same turn as production of your military unit.

- If a player declares vendetta upon another player, either directly or indirectly, they must not accept a pending diplomatic agreement between the two factions in the same turn.

- A player may not upgrade a particular type of unit using the design workshop, and then attack with that unit in the same turn.

- A player may not make air drops using the right click "air drop to" function, when it is not possible to do so with the "i" button, ie. after already having moved or made a drop.

First turn has been sent to freshman.

Good Luck to All!


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[sentry33]

Thanks Darsnan!

My email is aw750 AT students.mimuw.edu.pl - for use of the person who sends turn to me

(replace AT with @ - spam blocking)

Looking forward to see you all in game

[freshman]

I didn't get Ellestars email yet - so you all get to rag on him
I'll post the turn here for him...

And thanks to Darsnan for setting up this game (and taking my bribe for giving me a good starting position -- just kidding of course)

BTW my email is ccooke1 AT pacbel.net

Activity level will be most likely 1 turn per day - though faster if I get my work done and taxes - or wife goes away

[Lord_Icewind]

Yes! We're started! Let's hope we all do well!
Email: xdmon007@yahoo.comx

[Ellestar]

Turn sent to Sentry33.

My email is ellestar AT fromru.com (AT=@)

[sentry33]

Turn 2101 sent to Pirates

[Lord_Icewind]

Turn 2102 sent to freshman...ah, Finally started!

(edit) Are you sure your email is xxxccooke1@pacbel.netxxx? the mailer daemon says it does not accept it...I'll try to send it again, and to send it via ICQ when you connect..

[freshman]

sorry ccooke1 AT pacbell.net

That's 2 l's in pacbell

I'll see if I can play 2nite....
I'm not going to be on ICQ tonight - so unless Lord reads his email or this post with my correct email, I wont be able to play this turn.

[Lord_Icewind]

Turn 2102 sent to freshman for real...let's cross our fingers!

[freshman]

Allrighty then turn's on to Ellestar

[Ellestar]

Turn 2102 sent to Sentry33

[sentry33]

2102 to Pirates

[Lord_Icewind]

Turn 2103 sent to freshman

[freshman]

Turn 2103 to Ellestar

[Ellestar]

2103 to Hive

[sentry33]

2103 to Pirates

[Lord_Icewind]

Turn 2104 to Gaians (Now this is getting faster, dontcha think?)

[freshman]

turn to ellestar

[Ellestar]

Freshman, you send me 2103 save instead of 2104.

[Ellestar]

2104 to Hive

P.S. Got a fungal boom with a fungal tree from a pod at the very start of the game. That's exactly why i don't like randomise.

[sentry33]

2104 to Pirates

As for pods in close proximity of base - I generally do not pop them until moment is right ( have critical techs and formers already there )

Aaaanyroads.. pods are *great* source of income and the growth leg-ups if you know WHEN to trigger them.

[Lord_Icewind]

Turn 2105 to Gaians...

[freshman]

turn to ellestar

[freshman]

that fungal tower is awesome - when you destroy it you get lots of $$
learn to live with pods dude - its a great part of the game

[Ellestar]

2105 sent to Sentry33

[sentry33]

2105 to Pirates

Sorry for the reload - for some strange reason computer switched off when I was about to finish the turn

[sentry33]

hmm - found nice article about popping pods

http://www.civgaming.net/forums/showthread.php?t=954

[Lord_Icewind]

2106 sent to freshman..

[freshman]

turn to university - actually 2106

[Ellestar]

2106 to sentry33