HOTW7 Set up thread

[LzPrst]

I second the motion to wait for warlords.

[Sabrdrak]

Is Warlords and expansion that I'll have to buy?

[MMC]

You really should pay attention to the news a bit more Sab...

I'll put my name in... and my vote is:

Huge
Islands (Many Extra Large + Many Small)
Epic or Marathon (both could do with tweaking to find a middle ground)

As for time to play... July and August will see me alternating between Sleep, Food, and Gaming (possibly a bit of TV). September onwards, I'll be busier on Weekdays, but I'll probably still only have a 2 & 1/2 day week as far as Uni is concerned (may even be able to play in lectures ). I'm in Europe, but I tend to operate on a US timetable when I'm Gaming. That said, I'll probably have to confirm each week if I'm available as I tend to do random things on the spur of the moment (to the annoyance of some people).

[Thrar]

Since I'm (central europe) currently on GMT+2, and on GMT+1 from october, it would be possible for me to play Fridays starting at 9pm GMT, but not earlier, and preferably not later, since that'd mean a really long evening.
I would like to keep Saturday night free for other things, so if we play on Saturdays, I'd like to finish the session by 9pm GMT at the latest. On Sunday it doesn't matter when.


On the topic of waiting, I'd really like to get the game going, but with the summer vacation issues and warlords around the corner, I guess it's a lot less hassle to wait for that.

Terra maps are much bigger than other maps anyway, so I don't think it's an important point that there's so much water - the "old world" will still be almost the size of an equal-sized pangaea map. Anyway, if we decide to wait, then we should decide once we know about the number of players.

[OmnipotentTrout]

Welcome MMC to HOTW7!

I'll be posting summaries as we go along with debating the ultimate Diplogame!

It seems that we are getting a consensus on postponing the start date until after the summer issues.

I suggest a preliminary startdate/time of Friday August 11th at 21:00 UTC

This gives LzPrst, Ozzy and whomever time to join.

Americans will have to start playing in the early afternoon local time (about 14:00, 2 PM), Euros in the late evening (about 23:00, 11 PM) and Aussies (about 8 Saturday morning).

[OmnipotentTrout]

Version 4: Set-up sumary for HOTW7
Suggestions so far

Confimed Players 9-10 players can join:

OmnipotentTrout
Metaliturtle
Toni
Thrar
MMC
LzPrst (?)
Ozzy (?)

START DATE:
Friday, August 11th
4000 BC

Timezone standard:
UTC

Playing length:
4 hours

No. of Sessions per week:
1

Playing day:
Friday

Playing time:
21:00-01:00 UTC

Map:
Terra

Tech issue:
- Honor System -
Players can only give away/trade technology which they themselves have invented.

Attack sequence:
Simultanious moves/attack

Role Playing (story thread):
minimum 1 post per session

Short form of "Diplo code of honor", which is not the law but recommendations for avoiding conflicts out-of-character and in-character:
Avoid sneak attacks (unless you have a RP reson)
Try to stay in character (behave in-game as you think your ruler would, no out of character grudges or similar)
Avoid destruction of wonders (unless you really want to)
Avoid excessive conquering (except if you want to make an empire (should have RP reson), but peace negotiations should be sought)
Try not to start a caveman war
Behave Civil towards other players

More definite rules:
No annihilation of players
Do not use savegames for cheating (i.e. checking other civs or playing in single player to see what happens)
Don't edit your story posts (If you say that you are an ally, then you are, can't change history only the future )

Restart conditions:
Turn 1 if there is agreement
Breaking Diplo code of Honor early in the game

Please post other suggestions and comments: this list is Incomplete

[deity]

Originally posted by OmnipotentTrout
I'm thinking that we should postpone the start date for HOTW7 until we get our hands on Warlords, and when we can have enough people for a game with 9-10 players.

Perhaps wait until after the summer issues have died down, and we can sit down and have a real game
Waiting will also give some more time for discussions, and testgames


Any thoughts about postponing?

Great. If HOTW5 is done by then you'll get deity, lz and ozzy I'd say...

[OmnipotentTrout]

OmnipotentTrout has registred that deity still speaks of himself in third person

[Sabrdrak]

Sabrdrak joins the trend as well as the game and is perplexed at not having been included in the most recently posted player-list.

How is civilization selection being done, as well? I <3 Bismarck.

[MMC]

MMC decides to remind Sabrdrak to join in the ongoing pitboss game... MMC also invites others to join (#c4pitboss).

[Robert]

Originally posted by deity


Great. If HOTW5 is done by then you'll get deity, lz and ozzy I'd say...

[KunojiLym]

And Kuno too!

[OzzyKP]

Then again there are enough players interested in this game to start a new one, and then maybe us HOTWVers can pick up a Warlords game for HOTW8

[Thrar]

My vacation ends on that day, 11th of August, I doubt I'll be able to play on that day. Can we start a week later?
Everything else is fine with me!

[OmnipotentTrout]

Version 5: Set-up sumary for HOTW7
Suggestions so far

Confimed Players 9-10 players can join:

OmnipotentTrout
[Frederick of Austria]
Metaliturtle
[?]
Toni
[?]
Thrar
[?]
Sabrdrak
[Bismarck of Germany]
MMC
[?]
deity
[?]
CyberShy
[?]
Kuno
[?]
LzPrst (?)
Ozzy (?)

START DATE:
Friday, August 18th
4000 BC

Timezone standard:
UTC

Playing length:
4 hours

No. of Sessions per week:
1

Playing day:
Friday

Playing time:
21:00-01:00 UTC

Map:
Terra

Tech issue:
- Honor System -
Players can only give away/trade technology which they themselves have invented.

Attack sequence:
Simultanious moves/attack

Role Playing (story thread):
minimum 1 post per session

Short form of "Diplo code of honor", which is not the law but recommendations for avoiding conflicts out-of-character and in-character:
Avoid sneak attacks (unless you have a RP reson)
Try to stay in character (behave in-game as you think your ruler would, no out of character grudges or similar)
Avoid destruction of wonders (unless you really want to)
Avoid excessive conquering (except if you want to make an empire (should have RP reson), but peace negotiations should be sought)
Try not to start a caveman war
Behave Civil towards other players

More definite rules:
No annihilation of players
Do not use savegames for cheating (i.e. checking other civs or playing in single player to see what happens)
Don't edit your story posts (If you say that you are an ally, then you are, can't change history only the future )

Restart conditions:
Turn 1 if there is agreement
Breaking Diplo code of Honor early in the game

Please post other suggestions and comments: this list is Incomplete