PBEM: Heart of Fire GM needed, and rules discussions

[GeoModder]

In the game: Menu/Help/Show version number (ctrl + F4)

Or ingame ctrl + F4 alone.

[Snowflake]

Can somebody list the bugs that would be allowed or not allowed explicitly here so we are all clear?

[Snowflake]

Here's the rules I could find. Please add more if you are aware of others.

- A player may not restart a turn without good reason. The player should specify the reason in the game thread if he was not able to avoid reloading the turn. (Obviously, if a player has suffered some sort of crash during a turn, such a reload is unavoidable)

- A player is not permitted to establish contact with another faction prior to having met them in-game.

- If a player performs a probe team action other than to infiltrate against another player with whom (s)he is in a truce, treaty or pact, they must inform the probed player what it was they did and what they stole/sabotaged. They must also choose the 'declare vendetta/cancel pact' option when they perform the action.

- A player is not permitted to make more than one social engineering change per line, per turn. For instance, one is not permitted to start the turn in wealth, switch to power mid-turn for the extra disbanded minerals, and then switch back to wealth that same turn, getting the refund.

- A player is not permitted to use the 'demand withdrawal' feature against another player, leaving the AI the decision of whether to withdraw or not.

- A player may not accept a bribe from another player's AI during council sessions.

- A player may not perform multiple airdrops in a single turn with the same unit using the right-click menu.

- A player may not use the F4 screen when infiltrated to change an opponent's workers to specialists.

- If a player declares vendetta upon another player, either directly or indirectly, they must not accept a pending diplomatic agreement between the two factions in the same turn.

- A player may not upgrade a particular type of unit using the design workshop, and then attack with that unit in the same turn.

- A player may not make air drops using the right click "air drop to" function, when it is not possible to do so with the "i" button, ie. after already having moved or made a drop.


Bugs allowed:

- A player may insert stockpile energy into the build queue after the production of a military unit.

[GeoModder]

Mmm, the demon boil bug is not covered here?

Also, in the present DG a feature/bug came to light:
- when scrapping a Command Center in a base, and letting a unit in that base attack a stronger enemy unit (qua armor) just outside, a way higher chance of success is likely.
eg. a laser synthmetal infantry attacking a plasma steel garrison and killing it without having much damage itself with a successrate of close to 100%. It's like the +2 morale scrapped with the CC is transfered to that unit for that turn (AFAIK).

[Barinthus]

Thank you, HongHu, I was looking for that list.

I may be crazy but I recall there was a 'topped' thread containing those rules and I was going to refer you folks there but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

[Frankychan]

damn.....all these bugs that I didn't know about.

Well, that means that I've been playing without cheating this whole time .

Thanks HongHu.

Well, rest assured that I won't be cheating. I may be an atrocity-committing, nervestapling-crazy, Apolytoner, but I'm not a cheater.

[Snowflake]

Ok add these two:

- A player can not exploit the demon boil bug by setting patrolling waypoints for a mindworm.

- A player can not use a former to accumulate teraforming while the former is in transit.

Btw I got the PBEM rule from CGN.

[Barinthus]

Ohhh I didn't think of looking there. I swore I saw it somewhere here, ah well. Seems nobody has any objections?

[Frankychan]

Nah, we seem to all be honorable ppl.

(but nervestapling and atrocities are fair game to me)

[Frankychan]

That reminds me, what if one of us commits an atrocity against our own ppl. Will the other factions automatically declare vendetta against us?

[GeoModder]

That depends on how we feel towards you ingame, off course

[Frankychan]

[GeoModder]

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[Hercules]

Originally posted by Frankychan
That reminds me, what if one of us commits an atrocity against our own ppl. Will the other factions automatically declare vendetta against us?

I don't know, but I joined two games where there were sanctions against me but not necessarily vendettas. The big downside is in not getting economy pluses
and benefitting from trading.

[Snowflake]

Yes I believe the game automatically give you a sanction, but whether you'll be at war with everybody depends on the human players.