Turns of MABB

[Googlie]

This is a SMAX game with 4 players and 3 AI factions.

Players, in turn order, are:

arborman - University of Planet
knowhow2 - Peacekeepers
Bella Hella - Cyborg Consciousness
Black Sunrise - Free Drones
AI - Hive, Believers and Pirates

Settings:

Thinker level
large world, 50% to 70% water, average everything else

Transcendence - ON
Conquest - ON
Diplomatic - ON
Economic - ON
Co-operative - OFF
Do or Die - OFF
Look First - ON
Tech Stagnation - OFF
Spoils of War - OFF
Blind Research - OFF
Intense Rivalry - OFF
No Unity Survey - ON
No Unity pod scattering - OFF
Bell Curve - ON
Time Warp - OFF
Iron man - OFF
Both randomizes - OFF

Gameplay rules:

> Communications - none till contact, obtain commlink, or build EG

> Total freedom in Design Workshop (upgrades anytime, during turn or on-field)

> Retro-engineering - OK, except for using the probe rover chassis before discovery of Doc. Mobility

> SE switches "quickies" forbidden - (obviously you can experiment to see what effect various SE choices have, but cannot change, play moves, then change back in the same turn just to gain the benefit of a temporary SE choice)

> Council notification - immediate broadcast to all players (Post in the thread and e-mail to all immediately by player who has called elections, citing candidates and votes. After each player's turn, post in the thread the running totals)

> Stockpiling in Build Queues OK at any time

> Crawlers Upgrade anytime - OK

> Probe actions: Must choose vendetta option when probing other players

> Using the AI - Cannot use the AI to bribe on coucil votes nor to demand withdrawal of units

> Demon boil mindworm creation - forbidden (setting multiple waypoints for a faction mindworm in fungus to generate a wild demon boil to kill or capture each turn)

> Infinite-range drop troops - forbidden before building the Space Elevator (i.e. bans the use of the right hand mouse click to make multiple 8-square moves in the same turn)

> Multiple reloads of the game are forbidded (without posting a convincing explanation to the other players) - guards against the obvious cheat of trying multiple times for a different result in pod popping or combat.

Good luck all

Googlie

[Black Sunrise]

A new world.
A new chance for Freedom.
A clean start, without the money grubbing industrialists of old Earth.
My people! I will lead you to a land of true Equality! A land of plenty! A land without the tyrents who led us astray!
No longer will the sweat of our brow feed the money-hungry! Let us feed the truely hungry! Ourselves!
The voice of the People shall be heard!

[arborman]

A new world to explore

At last, we have arrived. I have sent out scouts to explore this strange and exciting new world. The opportunities for research are immense. Our work has begun, our destiny awaits.

[Googlie]

e-mail problems

This match seems doomed.

arborman can send out e-mails, but can't receive (at least from me)

Master Devlin's account is showing as inactive (to arborman) - but I apparently got through with the password

Until this gets straightened out, can we use the Apolyton "attach file" feature to hang the game turn on and the "personal message" feature to advise of turns posted.

It does mean that players will need to visit the board fairly often.

(Bella Hella - your e-mail sends to Black Sunrise should be unaffected)

That's all I can think of to keep the game going

I'll keep trying to send to arborman - meanwhile can the others try sending him an e-mail to see if he can receive from you - particularly Black Sunrise?

I'll e-mail again to Master Devlin to see if it's just a router problem for arborman

Googlie

[arborman]

My email should be working now, though it wasn't before. I'll check it out again though. However, my message to Master Devlin got bounced back. Just for now I'll post the turn here, and hopefully we can keep it going.

[arborman]

Use nickistca@yahoo to contact me, as my main email is down and malfunctioning for some reason.

[Bella Hella]

master devlin won't be participating. we need to find someone else to play the peacekeepers.

should we just start over or what?



wait, i'm the emotionless cyborgs....

[knowhow2]

I can replace Master Devlin.

my email: lawalan@hotmail.com

[Bella Hella]

thanks !!!!



oops, hang on, i'm still the emotionless cyborgs.

[Googlie]

Password for the PK's has been sent to knowhow2

Turn is hanging on the thread with arborman's post above

Thanks, K2

G.

[knowhow2]

turn 2101 to Bella Hella

"Brother Lal, I suggest we should move east."
"Why is that a good idea, commander Knowhow2?"
"With all do respect sir. There are ears listening."
"You're rigth, commander. Lets obtain silence. All units remain alert and silent. Now lets move!"

[Bella Hella]

digilog of prime function bella hella
time index 2101.1029.1901

we have landed on planet. our scouts have efficiently fanned out to most effectively explore this uncharted land. we have found something of which our collective memory banks have no previous knowledge. i shall, however, not reveal it in this log due to the possibility of datalink infiltration. we look forward to increasing our knowledge through research and exploration. logic dictates that we shall soon have a better understanding of the land which stretches beyond our current scope.

the consciousness is content.

[Black Sunrise]

2102 to Arborman

"Sir, message sent out."

"Lets play it safe. Engrave this years events onto a tablet. Place the tablet here. Other people may find the tablet and know what has transpired with our people."

(Move emailed, and left here)

[Black Sunrise]

On this, the year 2101, Our People founded our first city. Explorations revealed many things of great interest, and likely they will lead to us dominating the field of produced goods.
Also, we have already made a friend.
We wish luck to our neighbors, who may find this tablet.


(tablet lost in the sands of time)

[arborman]

The tablet is unnecessary. The traditional mail system has worked. This is a new and hostile land, but we have had some success in our explorations. We have discovered some sort of alien construction, a tower of some sort. It had a most interesting effect on our scouts. We have resolved to send further scouts to see if the results can be replicated. Still no sign of the others.
Turn sent to k2