[NEXT GAME DG IV] Epic Game or Conquest?

[Spiffor]

So, here is the first poll aimed at deciding what the next game will look like.

The question is: "Do you want to play an Epic Game, or a Conquest?"

The answers are:
1. Epic Game
2. Conquest

There will be many other polls that will follow. Here is the list:
1. Epic Game or Conquest
2. Map properties / choice of Conquest
3. Difficulty level
4. Choice of the played Civ
5. Use of mods or not
6. (if needed) What mod to use

This poll will be opened until Tuesday 04 May, 23:00 GMT

[Spiffor]

I personally favor the Epic Game. One of the thrill of the Democracy Game is that we are in the unknown, and we may disagree on what is coming. I think it is the main reason why our map designers (BFM and Togas) didn't play in the current game, because they didn't want to spoil the surprises.

In a Conquest, we will have players who know the conquest too well, who'll known exactly what will heppen. As such, I expect a conquest to be less "democratic" than an epic game, because there will be power players who'll be pretty much agreed on an optimal course of action. Since the victory conditions are clear in most conquests (score victory in Age of Discovery, wonder victory in Mesopotamia...), there won't even be the debate between peaceful or warlike strategies.

Epic Games are the ticket to continue having fun while disagreeing And debates, disagreements, and eventual common decisions are the spice of Democracy Games; if it wasn't for it, we should go to the Apolyton University instead.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I wanta play an Epic game with the Feudalism/$MiniGame system we talked about last time.

[Beta]

Standard epic.

[conmcb25]

I wanta play an Epic game with the Feudalism/$MiniGame system we talked about last time.

If this looks just like GF posted, thats because it is.

We need to try this fuedal system, it has a lot of potential for role play and some other interesting situations, like different parts of the CIV (Kingdom) doing different things, etc.

I say lets try it

[Paddy]

yes Epic games are good.

Yet we have some great Conquests all ready to rumble.

Japan in the WWII South Pacific Conquest... could we win?

France in the Napoleonic Conquest... couls Europe fall to the French at last?

These are real scenarios.

[GodKing]

Epic game is my pref.

[joncnunn]

Conquest!

[Nimitz]

An oldie but a goody. Lets do an epic game.




A message from Nimitz at school.

[Rasputin]

epic of course.....

[Inverse Icarus]

the conquests are jokes. i beat the ww2 pacific as japan in 21 turns. the AI has no concept of the victory conditions. sure, they station troops on VP spots, but they have no centralized strategy. They didn't even try to stop me from taking all of China. in fact, America only moved towards me three times, and all three times my Pearl Harbor fleet bombed the piss out of them.

feudal dg

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
the conquests are jokes. i beat the ww2 pacific as japan in 21 turns. the AI has no concept of the victory conditions. sure, they station troops on VP spots, but they have no centralized strategy. They didn't even try to stop me from taking all of China. in fact, America only moved towards me three times, and all three times my Pearl Harbor fleet bombed the piss out of them.

feudal dg

what level did you play on?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
feudal dg

That's three so far.

1) GhengisFarb
2) conmcb25
3) Uber KruX

[Spiffor]

I'm interested in the feudal DG, but I find the system you linked to too complex

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I'm interested in the feudal DG, but I find the system you linked to too complex

That was just a discussion, and it starts our fairly simple, we didn't have much problem with it on the Feudal Team, other than no land to implement it that is....