New Horizons - New Diplogame Set-Up Thread

[deity]

ozzy, I will be playing in the new big diplo that Cyber starts after DoC; plus he will be hosting the non posting "deity rules diplo game" - quite a few want a break from posting.

I'll still play in New Horizons provided it is not succession but will not post a lot. I'd rather be a backup.

I won't let you down ozzy if I'm needed and may learn a bit from succession...

[St Jon]

I will play and I don't reckon 7 is too small for Europe. It could be a quick game and rather like the old classic board game 'Diplomacy' which I remember playing over many a drunken Sunday afternoon. 7 would be ideal as you should have.

England
France
Germany
Italy
Austria
Turkey
Russia

If you do an advanced start you can pile on the pain for Russia and with an Austria as well as a France next door Germany has no easy ride.

Turn Spain, Serbia, Poland and Sweden into AI and neither England or Turkey have an easy ride either.

Have to be careful not to be too unkind to Russia as on such a map Turkey becomes the number 1 favourite and England always will be a great choice. Italy will be last on the list but only a tiny bit behind France.

Only a suggestion.

[Dubhghlas]

I'm ready and rarin' to go.

I would have tested your setup the other weekend, Oz, but I read that the IP wasn't working...

[OzzyKP]

CS is working with me to try and figure out this whole hosting thing. Looks like my ISP is presenting some problems...

[LzPrst]

it should be possible to set up a static IP by fooling around with your settings a bit...

iirc, you need to tell windows that you will be using IP such as such rather than having one assigned automatically.
as for isp, that can be a bit of trouble, but most of them run your router through a central router, assigning you a dynamic ip on the network. there is a way to figure that all out somewhere somehow...

http://www.whatismyip.com/

if you bring up the command window and type in ipconfig you will get your standard gateway as well as internal ip addresses. (router (standard gateway) and local comp)). if things turn out to be impossible, maybe I will be able to help... I'm thinking of making some upgrades to my comp soon and then the leftover parts will likely go to a fool-around-with linux machine\file server\pitboss server. but that will take several weeks at least.

[Robert]

I'll try to setup a 2nd Pitboss Server on my 2nd server for you guys.
Just me the save I must load and the detailed settings. (open a pitboss game yourself to see what settings are required! don't let me guess )

[OzzyKP]

Awesome, thanks CS!!

I spent last night working on the map for deity's game, and haven't worked on this game's map yet. I'll do that tonight! Yay!

[OzzyKP]

Ok, I worked on the map a bit, but I'm not 100% finished yet. I shrunk it, so I cut off tiles from the east, south, and north to make it as compact and playable as possible. Now I just need to add in our mystery civ (I'm leaning toward Ukraine) and do some more tweaking and we'll be good to go.

[deity]

Awesome, thanks CS!!

I spent last night working on the map for deity's game, and haven't worked on this game's map yet. I'll do that tonight! Yay!

CS been on your PC again... ?

[Robert]

No, I'm now in his head. (there's (not a surprise) enough room here to live!)

[OzzyKP]

[LzPrst]

Ok, I worked on the map a bit, but I'm not 100% finished yet. I shrunk it, so I cut off tiles from the east, south, and north to make it as compact and playable as possible. Now I just need to add in our mystery civ (I'm leaning toward Ukraine) and do some more tweaking and we'll be good to go.

I think we should move Germany east, rename them Prussia and add in Austria (symbolized by HRE)


Do I understand that there are no vikings?

[OzzyKP]

Yea, no Vikings. I cut off most of Scandinavia too. Sorry. Btw, one of my interns this semester is from Norway.

[LzPrst]

no problem that there is no north, with a few short exceptions the scandinavian nations were never powers to be reckoned with (exceptions: viking era 800-1000 and swedish power status from 1600-1815). perhaps a mini civ owning copenhagen and south sweden would be in order?
but I still say we move Germany east to Prussia. it wil balance things with Russia and give more room to France.

then another civ (Austria-HRE) in central europe will be possible and it will compete with the Ottomans and Italians.

[St Jon]

Are we now playing any Mod or just straight on a custom Europe Map?

Whatsoever, have any rules been set on Tech Trades, Tech Buddies or Espionage Buddies?

These are important as even in succession you are only looking after the Civ you are running so such agreements will serve extremely well even if you inherit them. Tech Trades can only be banned or free in such a game as this. Tech Bud or Tech Esp will make a huge difference early on and to abandon an inherited one would be a very tough decision. Are they to be allowed?

Personal interest. Can the start here be delayed until the end of DoC? 3 pitboss games plus a pbem and smac game will be very hard work for me. If DotD required stories I would not have even considered both of these regardless. It sounds weak but real life hits home and I will end up being very late on the pbem's, which is unfair on the other players, and they are well advanced. I doubt DoC will take more than 10-12 days to finish now and there are still the questions I raised above to be answered.