Signed, Sealed, and Delivered.....

[JAMiAM]

Proposal:

Players - Vel, jschwab, Fist, Mongoose, JAMiAM.

SMAC, Huge, randomly generated map, pods only at landing sites, all victories enabled but NO cooperative victory allowed, no restart for eliminated players, no Unity survey, Transcend level.

AI factions to be eliminated by a neutral CMN who will found 1st base of each of the two AI players, disband 2nd colony pod, and self destruct base on the first turn.

Let me know what you think.

[JAMiAM]

More thoughts...

Specifically prohibited:

1) Air drops from non-base, or air base tiles. Also, only one drop per turn allowed.

2) Probing a treaty or pact brother, without choosing vendetta, on the pop-up warning.

3) Unnecessarily delaying the game. Any absence resulting in a 48 hour unplayable period must be life threatening, or previously arranged to be covered by a designated, temporary replacement player.

Specifically allowed:

1) Unlimited SE tweaks, including crawler disbanding for production.

2) Full extension of stockpile energy "feature" to unit production.

3) Backstabbing, ear biting, name calling and any other non-fatal, anti-social behavior.

Can you handle it? Do you want to play with the big boys? Or, like Georgi Peorgi, will you run away?

[Mongoose]

I'm game for that.

Play with the big boys?

Maybe 'Swim with the Sharks'?

(Reference to 1500m rising sea levels in Pente)

[Mongoose]

I have some further thoughts.

Let's NOT use the declare vendetta default on probe actions, for a change. How about let's play with anything goes with probes?

Too bad we can't set the game NOT to go to vendetta when you eliminate a foriegn probe in your territory...

But, if wishes had wings, pigs would fly...or something like that(Can't remember now, Gramma used to say it all the time.)

Next, have we determined that we're playing SMAC 4.0? What faction selections?

Finally, starting with only one colony pod, while the rest of the players get two, is a definite no go. That happened to me in the Morgan-Sparta Challenge. I may not recover from the disadvantage. (If Korn ever plays his turns, that is.)

[JAMiAM]

Ooooh nasty Mongoose! I can deal with anything goes probe rules. Be interesting to load up a boatload of probes and unleash them on an unsuspecting pact brother. Just my kind of devious behavior.

Pente...what a wonderful game. Combined sanctions of the three remaining participants >2000 years, sea levels to rise 1500 meters in the next 20 years, and I haven't even dropped my first PB...yet.

Come on Vel. Chime in!

[JAMiAM]

Oh, almost forgot. A mulligan should be allowed for any faction starting with only one colony pod.

[jschwab]

I have no particular preferences regarding the rules, as long as we are disallowing teh true cheats...

Faction choices, hmmmmm.....

I'll have to think about it with this bunch that is signing on.

JSchwab

[Fistandantilus]

Those rules are fine with me, let's start the backstabber game

[Velociryx]

Man! I go home for the evening, come back this morning and find all this new stuff! Cool....and the rules outlined sound okay by me....with the crowd we've got assembled to play, I think it's gonna be a rockin' game!

-=Vel=-

[Fistleaf]

Vel, what happened to your website? Message says "Site does not exist."

[Fistleaf]

Actually it's "That URL is not presently being used. Would you like to use it?"

[Velociryx]

Yeah....sorry 'bout that....Bravenet was having some technical difficulties last night.....it's working okay this morning....

-=Vel=-

[Kinjiru]

*Bump*

Oh and Vel, did the 'offical' version ever get released?

[Beör]

^

This post should not disappear from the top of the list till ver 4!

As everybody knows Vels guide is unsurpassed for beginners as well as for experts

[Googlie]

You can download it (permission of Vel) from The Spartan Chronicles website:

http://clik.to/spartanchronicles

Googlie