How active is the team game?

[Darkness' Edge]

While the team game will likely come back too, there's no reason we can't have a non-team game running alongside it.

And as for the parties, well, we'll see. MWIA and I broke them once before...

So surely we have enough interest to create a new forum?

[MrWhereItsAt]

Kody, isn't your idea pretty close to the existing team game anyway? I am not interested in team games unless I can't get SMAC/X any other way. This will be a straight up team human vs AI situation.

And what would be the problem with using the forum we have for a DG? It's not as if the team games use it very much.

[Method]

Originally posted by Vev
I love a challenge.

i don't

but meh, put me on the list, i don't guarantee activity though. I'll probably end up "pulling a kassi"

[Vev]

You mean an obsession with Rei dolls, oh you mean disappearing with a trace.

[Googlie]

Hmmmm

Morgan, with a prebuilt energy park crawling with crawlers, each in a bunker defended by a 1/8AAA/1*3 unit, marked as objectives (so the AI doesn't muck about with them) and lurking for 100 years

So you'd have to survive to 2220 to see Morgan corner the market (or take out his HQ first)

In a permapact (but not submissive/master) with .......

Marr, with Roze in submission (who, of course, starts with everyone infiltrated), and the alphax.txt putting nervegas' prereq as Secrets of Creation(so that you get it just 2 techs before the AI can enable the Progenitor Battlefleet via Singularity Mechanics ...... oh, and give the Aliens a subspace generator pre-built in six bases, so that they just have to have these bases by size 10 and research Singularity to summon the fleet. Or maybe set it at size 15, but give Marr AV so that he's not hanging around for Super Tensiles)

That's 3 AI

What else ...

Oh - also have Morgan permapacted with his buddy .....

Lal, set up as a master with Deirdre and Dawn as submissives, give Lal the EG and CI, give Dee the PTS and the HGP, and start Cha in the Jungle and give him the CV and LV. Set Lal up for a co-op victory as El Supremo.

What have I missed?

Sounds like a challenge? - survive against the Energy King, the Alien battlefleet and Lal's Emperor complex. Turn off conquest victory so that Transcendence is really the only option for the human team

That's prolly too difficult, but something doctored along these lines might give a few surprises

G.

[Vev]

Me as a poor newbie is lost amongst some of the initials like AV, CV and LV.

[Googlie]

AV - Ascetic Virtues SP - would let Marr grow to size 16 before a hab Dome

CV - Cloning Vats SP - perma pop boom (assuming facilities and nuts are present)

LV - Longevity Vaccine SP - minus 2 drones at every base if running Planned, one less if Simple or Green

G.

[Vev]

Thanks, all the V's got to me.

[Darkness' Edge]

The only reason I'm against using the forums we have is so there's no confusion between the two games.

[Kody]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Kody, isn't your idea pretty close to the existing team game anyway? I am not interested in team games unless I can't get SMAC/X any other way. This will be a straight up team human vs AI situation.

And what would be the problem with using the forum we have for a DG? It's not as if the team games use it very much.

Not really, the other normal non-team players are just there to act as an advanced AI.

[Corellion]

I would be willing to participate in another game... count me in.

[Darkness' Edge]

Please, no other human players. We've already got the one MP game.

Let us have this one for a standard DG. I'm sure we can find enough ways to create challenges without MPising it.

[johndmuller]

Originally posted by Kody
Hey that was my idea!!!. . . .

So true, my apologies - profoundly .

As for the idea itself, I wouldn't be lobbying for it at the expense of people who wanted to play the regular style and for sure not this variation; I was just volunteering to be a more interesting opponent than the AI, no matter how beefed up (Although for sure Goog's can make them plenty challenging and probably impossible if he wanted to spend the time at it, the AI seems to usually end up as a paper tiger once you start to get the upper hand, not to mention the stupid way it handles some stuff).

While it might be interesting to see whether a committee of 20 or so would be a plus or a minus compared to individuals, I wouldn't be relishing trying to outthink 20 people (not to mention 20 times the flaming for slow play or trying to negotiate anything with the multimind).

[Maniac]

Hmmmm...

If you don't count that as cheating AIs, I wonder what you do.

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Vev
Me as a poor newbie is lost amongst some of the initials like AV, CV and LV.

Me as a poor newbie is lost long before those V initials.

Anyway, I do think it may be better to use a separate forum. Although the public forum is currently not very active for the team game, we don't know if it will be like this once everybody has met and infiltrated everybody.