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[Dinner]

With the resounding success of our most recent succession game (a quick domination victory) I thought we might start a new succession game. The purpose of this thread is for people to discuss which settings we want and to set the play order. For the order we'll make a list of players on a first come first served basis. I'll play at the end of the list since I played first during the last succession game.

Some suggestions based on our experience from the last succession game. Marathon speed might be a bit to slow for some players so we should consider bumping it up a notch to epic. Also 100 turns might be a bit long so we could cut it down to 75 or 50 or something.

[Thoth]

Count me in!

As far as settings go, I would favour Epic speed, normal size map. I don't have any strong preferences as far as map script goes, but I've been having some fun lately playing on Tectonics Randomized Actual Earth. The continents are similar to Earth, but with enough variation that the map is still interesting to discover. They also seem to produce more land per civ, and feel like a map size larger.

As to turn length, I would be in favour of shortish turnsets with some discussion between sets as to where we want to go, best moves ect.

As far as other settings go, I usually play with Aggressive AI on, tech brokering and Vassal states off, but I'm open to other settings.

I'm thinking that Monarch would be an appropriate difficulty, we spanked the AI pretty hard last game on Prince.


I actually went ahead and generated a start this morning, but didn't have time to post it before I had to go to work. The settings are Monarch, Tectonics Randomized Actual Earth, Monarch, No Vassals, No brokering, Aggressive AI. The leader is Mehmed Polytubby of the Ottomans.

4000 BC save attached.

I'll volunteer to go first.

[self biased]

i'm in favor of cutting the number of turns down as well. a hundred was nice, but there was a lot of pressure to perform as well.

[Thoth]

It's also *way* too much to write up in detail. Just getting the bare bones of 100 turns written up took a considerable amount of time. I'd have liked to go into more detail about some of what I had done (and more importantly *why*) but I ran out of both time and patience.

40-50 turns each until 1 ADish and then 20-30 each would allow for a lot more detail in reports as well as more discussion in between sets. We'll want to be disciplined in terms of time per set (hanging onto the save for a week before playing would be poor form), but I think we'll have a better game overall, and we'll all have a better chance to learn something new.

[self biased]

the shorter amount of time spent playing turns would also result in more of a roleplaying aspect as well, which adds to the fun.

[fed1943]

I am in.
Any settings are good to me.
Do I need to post screens? That can be a problem...
because I'm not sure if i can do it.

[Dinner]

OK, we'll use Thoth's settings and we'll give the first guy 100 turns to found the civ with each subsequent player getting 50 turns which should be pretty reasonable on epic speed. The only reason the first guy gets double turns is because he starts out with a warrior/scout and a settler so it isn't very interesting sitting there watching one unit move around.

The order of play so far is:

1. Thoth
2. Self Biased
3. Fed1943
4. Rah
5. Theben
6. Me (unless someone else wants to join in and then they can go before me)

[rah]

Depending on the timing, (I am leaving town for a few days upcoming) I wouldn't mind participating again. Later in the game when combat is more of an option lends itself better to my aptitude.

[Theben]

throw me in there somewhere.

[Dinner]

OK, we have six players so if Thoth will start we can add more people on the list as we go along if more people want to join.

[Dinner]

Thoth?

[Theben]

I went and started one... rather interesting results. Played til turn 87 but could cut back. Any interest?

[self biased]

keep going, and i'll take over. toth can play whenever he comes out of torpor.

[Thoth]

Sorry guys. Got the set done on Monday but got bogged down with RL, and haven't had time to finish off the report yet. Go ahead from Theben's save when he gets it done.

@ Theben: what game settings are you running?

[Theben]

I downloaded your game and ran with it.