Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread]

[India (DoE)]

I think for some the game is more interesting than the story-writing. I know that I am very caught up in playing my turns and the diplomacy. As for story-writing, I simply do not have the time and energy to devote a lot of thought in effort into it. I did make one (I felt) good post though.

[Germany (DoE)]

Sure, I agree and with little competition in the stories you should do well

[Inca (DoE)]

Kind of sucks for T4 players who didn't have a shot at RP points for a solid third of the game, no?

[Germany (DoE)]

Story voting is becoming pointless with so few stories and many still not even voting. Inca and England are working hard on story but I'm holding back as there is little response or interaction with several story points I planted seeds for...

Role playing is strong and votes are coming for ig messages and PM's (not just the thread). I remain concentrated in this area.

NOTE: The Vikings have posted nothing but they are very busy with ig messages and PM's. India too is strong on direct communication as is Israel. France use to be...

I think the role playing is the most important aspect of the game as it integrates with the game mechanics. Story telling could be good if all participated and stories were integrated but it's barely happening.

It's become a diplo-lite game I'm afraid.

Best not to question on what criteria others use for voting. We all have our own perspectives.

The danger with this type of analysis is that secret diplomacy starts to get revealed.

[England (DoE)]

So... not to be whiney Mr. Sour grapes, especially when I did well with the voting, but I am really curious what is the basis on which people vote. It is pretty obvious that the Inca were the greatest this month, I am glad to see them recognized for their contributions, but past that I am rather confused. Why was Germany a better role player this month than England? What criteria do people use for the role playing category? I understand Mongolia hasn't posted at all and probably doesn't engage with people much diplomatically, so they should get nothing for story telling, but by declaring war on China (the war is still going on, right?) they should get some good roleplaying attention.

As for stories, why so many points to France? They wrote a couple very short posts all from their leader (former leader?) dreaming of world affairs. Why is that worth twice the number of votes as the Ottomans? I appreciate how the French posts used symbolism a bit (references to the Eagle, etc) but generally it seemed like a fairly weak showing compared to the Ottomans. Heck, I invested a lot of time into these stories and only had 5 more votes than the French. This whole month they probably wrote as much as I did in any one of my posts.

I understand the complaint that it was a very weak month overall and tough to assign points when plenty of civs didn't deserve much, but that doesn't explain why France did so much better than the Ottomans or why Arabia got more story points than America when America posted and the Arabs didn't!

Again, I don't mean to complain, but with dwindling participation in the storytelling in this game I think a proper reward for good work is essential. If all you have to do for votes is throw in a random picture now and then with a one-sentence caption, or put in a small handful of terse, bland posts, then I think more people won't bother with the more elaborate (and interesting) posts and get by with less. If they post at all.

[Robert]

Let's be in time for at least once!

[Robert]

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[America (DoE)]

Yes, life has been getting in the way a bit, America will redouble its efforts, apologies! I did vote though

[Robert]

Not posting players are too blame for that.
I'm trying to improve myself. I'm sorry.

[Inca (DoE)]

It's kind of difficult to give exactly 20 points with a 5point maximum per player, especially if only a handful actually post, and one happens to post way more than the rest in one of the categories. Not naming any names, but if I feel like one player deserves 4x the score of the rest, I can't quite do that without randomly handing out 1pt to non-posting players.

[OzzyKP]

All you need to do is read through the story thread. Heck, even skim over it to get a sense of who you'd like to vote for. It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.

[India (DoE)]

I have been very busy with work lately so I have only played turns and checked PM's, so I really don't feel I have much of a basis for voting.

[OzzyKP]

It would appear that you aren't. The voting app is here: http://plomp.eu/apolyton/doevoter.nsf

As you can see it says that America, England, Germany, Native America, Ottomans and the Vikings are the only civs who have voted so far. Today is your last day to vote, so do it soon!

[Inca (DoE)]

Are we one of those four?

[OzzyKP]

Tomorrow is the last day to vote!! Only four civs have voted so far, so get on it!