SMAX PBEM game with 4 players on CGN "Veterans league" map

[Googlie]

Archaic (et al)

I'll set you up as a University clone, The Academy: download the txt and graphic files here and load them into your alphacentauri folder. (all players should do that - you don't need to actually load academyinto your alpha.txt file - that's only needed if you want to select that faction when starting a new game)

G.

[Googlie]

Turn order would appear to be:

Archaic - Academy - GMT + 10
Minute Mirage - University - GMT + 2
Hercules - Gaians - GMT
Flubber - Morgan - GMT - 7

(which means that if Archaic plays his turn by midnight(his time) and sends to MM, it'll be there by 4 pm in the afternoon (same day) for MM (and can follow the clock to Herc and Flubber respectively)

So if (after the game matures) Flubber gets his turn out by midnight - mountain time - it arrives for Archaic at 5 in the evening for him (the next day)

Sounds like a plan

The start will be normal smax start (ie no extra CP's scouts, etc etc)

If anyone has a "must have" password, e-mail it to me now.

I presume that Co-op victory shoiuld be disabled (to remove a potential 3 vs 1 ganging up)

G.

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Googlie
Turn order would appear to be:

Archaic - Academy - GMT + 10
Minute Mirage - University - GMT + 2
Hercules - Gaians - GMT
Flubber - Morgan - GMT - 7


The start will be normal smax start (ie no extra CP's scouts, etc etc)


I presume that Co-op victory shoiuld be disabled (to remove a potential 3 vs 1 ganging up)

G.

All are fine by me.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Googlie
I presume that Co-op victory shoiuld be disabled (to remove a potential 3 vs 1 ganging up)

G.

Absolutely-- In fact I am trying to make all my new games of the variety that only one human can win. I've seen it happen that there are 3 equally matched players and lesser skilled where even 2 vs 1 was enough to make the game nearly impossible

with co-op OFF, ganging up is certainly possible but the team-mates have to be concerned as to which of them emerges as the stronger afterwards

[Minute Mirage]

One clarification concerning the rules -- I was hoping that the random events be turned off, in order to ensure equality, once again.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Minute Mirage
One clarification concerning the rules -- I was hoping that the random events be turned off, in order to ensure equality, once again.

I assume that it is -- I don't believe I have EVER played a PBEM with this feature ON

[Archaic]

I can't recall one I've ever been in with that option on either.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Archaic
I can't recall one I've ever been in with that option on either.

Ya can you imagine an asteroid strike in your super science base

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Flubber


Ya can you imagine an asteroid strike in your super science base

I'm not sure I'd like 20 years of sunspot activity either...

[Googlie]

Well, the susnpot activity can't be turned off - it's a feature of planet's ecology and not a "random event" per se.

All a CMN can do with the "sunspot" option is to start a game in the middle of a sunspot event, with xx years to run

And am almost there - look for the first turn later today

G.

[Flubber]

excellent

Sunspot activity os less an issue since it affects everyone at the same time and for the same duration. I always thought it could be turned off but in this game with NO AI its irrelevant I think-- I can't EVER recall not being able to contact another human controlled faction in the commlinks

[Googlie]

That's prolly 'cos the default alphax.txt has a flag re "always contact other humnan players in e-mail games" ....... set to "1" is "always", set to "0" overrides the 'always" .......... most CMN's haven't edited their alphax.txt file

1, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in net games
1, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in hotseat/email games

I've started - after the ACDG set-up - setting this flag to "0" to avoid the in-game messages before contact has been made (or commlinks acquired) - it also blocks communication during sunspots

G.

[Flubber]

Ah-- that explains it-- I have probably been trading and communicating with humans during sunspots without ever knowing it

This game, do as you wish, but personally I see no benefit to the game in losing the ability to trade with each other and would put the flag back to 1 . . . There are no AI right ??