New Horizons - New Diplogame Set-Up Thread

[Heraclitus]

I think having a few easter civs should balance this.

Perhaps have the Mongols start East of the Russians and Polish, Hungarian start west of them?

[Robert]

I'm sorry but I'm not in this anymore (see post #118)

[St Jon]

Always a downer with Europe.

As the rest of the map fills quite quickly in Europe why not turn on 'Raging Hordes' and flood the Russian steppes with barbs? Early game that should slow them down and also force Germany to look east.

Downside, of course, is that we could have a dead Russia if they cop a few axemen hordes very early!

[OzzyKP]

So I believe this is the final roster for the game:
OzzyKP
Dubhghlas
CyberShy/Robert Plomp
St Jon
deity
LzPrst
Heraclitus
mzprox

And since RFC isn't going to work we are going to do a Europe map game. I found a decent Europe map of the right size for our game. The one problem with it, or any Europe game is there is a large amount of empty space between Berlin and Moscow which strengthens both these civs, especially Russia.

So we have some options for fixing this:
1. Really make Russian land crappy. Put in loads of tundra and take out most of the resources, etc.
2. Give Germany a start in Prussia or even further east of that in order to better balance things.
3. Create a mod that has Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, etc civs in it and make sure someone picks a civ occupying this eastern Europe area.
4. Drastically trim the map so that most of Russia (and Turkey, middle east, black sea) is cut off.
5. Some combination of all the above options.

Assuming we figure out the Russia situation we will need to pick from the following civs:

England
France
Spain
Germany
Rome/Italy
Russia
Ottomans
Dutch or Vikings or Greece or Arabs or Poland/Ukraine/Lithuania

[OzzyKP]

Ah, I thought we were still going to work on figuring out your server issues. Ok, I'm gonna work on setting up my own server. The desktop I lugged home from the office really isn't suitable for this. I just set everything up again a few minutes ago and trying to start BTS took several minutes and caused the computer to restart for some reason. I think it just can't handle it.

So I'm gonna try it on my laptop. Not ideal, but I don't know what other choice we have. Anyone around tonight to test stuff out?

[Dubhghlas]

dunno. It appears that trying a RFC game won't work, my computer had server issues, which I wasn't able to solve, and I think Ozzy got busy.

[Russia (DoC)]

whass happnin?

[OzzyKP]

Ok, I'm going to try and set up my own server tonight. Please keep an eye on this thread (or look for me on AIM) so we can test. I'm not sure what happened to Dub.

[Heraclitus]

Don't worry fall is still a long way off. I think we should aim for starting sometime early next month.

[OzzyKP]

Come back Dubhghlas! I want to get this game started before Civ5 comes out!

[St Jon]

Sorry, no posts for a while but very busy at work.

I vote Europe as a change.

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As an aside. Heraclitus, I just bought Civ Col and I reckon it's brilliant! Same spirit as the original but much better mechanics and a lot tougher to beat the King - in fact I haven't done it yet at any decent difficulty level.

If you fancy a 1v1 some time I'd love to try. Cannot be PitBoss as my only other PC is a crappy old laptop which can only just run CivIV and could never be trusted as a server.

[OzzyKP]

Well, unfortunately for you, we've already filled up this game. Just waiting to get things together to start. We did just have someone drop out, but we've got two people waiting for that slot. I'll put you next in line, but it is likely at least one of those folks will take the spot.

Definitely keep your eye on this forum though, there are always more opportunities to get into a game. Welcome!

[firehound]

participate

Hi,

I would like to participate in your game. The idea sounds really interesting. I've already run and played a number of pitboss-games with my friends. So far only plain bts.

When would you like to start? What turntimer? What still to do / to decide?

[Heraclitus]

Both are ok with me.

[Dubhghlas]

Europe