Pitboss Diplomacy Game

[Robert]

Ok, let's do business.
Is this the correct idea for this game:

- 18 players (currently 14)
- Start with 1 turn / 8 hours, advance to 1 turn / 24 hours later (after 100 turns?)
- Huge map
- Terra (random, though tweaked by someone)
- 10 civs start on old earth, 8 civs start on terra. no contact untill caravels, etc.
- No Tech Brokering, max 15 trades through the entire game, voucher system? (someone explain!)
- posting at least once every 100 turns
- Epic speed
- all other settings 'default'
- Pinchak runs the pitboss server (other option: me)
- we start ASAP and move over to the new patch as soon as it's been released

- we try to get 18 different civs!! And at least 18 different leaders
- In this post we require our civ/leader, first comes, first serves?
- No Huayna Capac, Bismarck, Elisabeth (correct?)
- If we can pick 1 or 2 moments to play a simultanious startup session we skip the entire 1 turn/8 hour thing.

If everybody is fine with this, we can start picking civs/leaders.
Let's first try to agree on this, let's say in the next 48 hours.

[Toni]

I agree with all the above CS

Perfect 1st 100 turns be on a 8hr timer.

For the ppl who haven't played PB before you have no idea how beneficial is that 8hr timer. ALSO there is nothing to worry about if you miss a turn so little is happening at this early stage.

Just an example if we have a 20hr timer from the start you will need roughly 20-25 days just to build a worker

So having this 8hr timer will speed the game greatly!!

[Toni]

SO in around 44hrs we can start picking civs?

[OzzyKP]

There isn't much point to having a terra map if civs are gonna start on both continents. We should go with a pangea or that like big/little map from HOTW XI.

[Heraclitus]

I agree with everything on the list.


The Voucher system is like the the normal tech trading cap, with the small and game improving difference of allowing players to trade their right to trade techs.

Civ A has 7 tech trades left
Civ B has 9 tech trades left

Civ B gives the right to one tech trade to civ A
Civ A gives something else to civ B

Civ A has 8 tech trades left
Civ B has 8 tech trades left



Also with this system you can create a saftey net by voting every 100 or so turns on which bottom civ deserves an extra trade to help it. This extra trade represents the leaking of technology present in RL and has the effect of helping less skilled players but still requiring them to use diplomacy to properly capitalise on it.

The last part is optional.

[Robert]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
There isn't much point to having a terra map if civs are gonna start on both continents. We should go with a pangea or that like big/little map from HOTW XI.

Well, it's a Terra map only in the sence that it has 2 continents that are divided by a large ocean.

I'm absolutely open for another map, though I thought we had a consensus on Terra. I'd prefer a pangea map myself.

[Toni]

pangea map

I love that - time we try something new in DIPLO

Imagine all the diplomacy, WARs and negotiations !!!!!!!

Terra map is getting boring

[Toni]

Well done CS suggesting it

[Toni]

From what I read:

For pangea map:

1. Ozzy
2. CS
3. Toni

By the way has pangea ever been played in DIPLO? Since i joined we always go with terra and one time had small and big.

[Toni]

CS and Pinchak are the org people for this game i guess. CS being the person who suggested the whole thingy to start with and Pinchak for being our future host.

SO my question goes to you guys when do you think we should start this diplo PB baby?

Any date in mind?

[MMC]

I prefer Islands, but I'll play on anything that invloves sea (as a major obstacle) and that is randomly generated.

BTW, any premade / pregenerated map can be loaded using the SmartMap script to further generate awesomeness. Even if you don't use SmartMap to generate the actual map, I still suggest using it to tweak the map to balance it out and make it fair.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Toni
Well done CS suggesting it

I suggested it!!

[Toni]

Dear Ozzy you misunderstood us we ment well done CS for coming with the Diplo PB

:desire:

[Heraclitus]

I am firmly against pangea.

If people want to start on the same continent we can do an old world only start. There are people who really enjoy the New World. On a pangea map the game would more or less develop linearly.

I think we should really look at some of the techtonic map scripts, they are birilant.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Toni
Dear Ozzy you misunderstood us we ment well done CS for coming with the Diplo PB

:desire:

Ok, you're forgiven.

CS for suggesting the game.


(Ozzy for suggesting pangea)