C3CDG: Desolation Row - Discussion Thread

[Aqualung71]

Welcome, fellow team members of Desolation Row.

The rest of you can bugger off right now

Ok, here is our very own discussion thread (until we get our own forum) to talk about things such as leaderhead name, and vital important issues in the wheels of progress such as team noun, team adjective, team philosophy, team sponsors, team shoes, and team diet and any special team recipes.

[Aqualung71]

Map Settings:

Age: ?
Water: ?
Temperature: ?

Other:

Figurehead: ?
Team Theme: ?
Goal: ?
Philosophy:?
Adjective: ?
Noun: ?
Title: ?
Colour: ?

[Aqualung71]

My vote is for

3 billion
Wet
Hot

[sabrewolf]

we have a team thread?

my opinions:

Map Settings:
Ocean: 60% (with 6 players on small it's too squashed otherwise)
Age: 3 or 4 billion years
Water: wet
Temperature: warm

Other:
Figurehead: something hairy?
Goal: victory!
Colour: is black possible? otherwise some dark grey?

i the other things do not really matter to me.

[sabrewolf]

can someone enlighten me how we are going to play?

- we are spread pretty well around the world to guarantee the round being played in time. but... when do we know if we should play the round or wait for captain aqualung?

- it is clear that strategic decisions are made democratically. but how about the more specific stuff, eg. build order? and what about the detailed stuff such as scouting warriors, city micromanagement, etc?

- turnchats? if we use them, what to use? IRC? MSN? ICQ? skype?

i havn't joined a DG since the first one using civ3 vanilla. that was against the AI only and imho each turn got discussed to death.

[marcuspeddle]

Age: 3 billion
Water: 60%
Temperature: temperate

Other:

Figurehead: Persia
Team Theme: Dagger up the strap!
Goal: Cause as much grief to other teams as we can, even if we can't conquer them.
Philosophy: Pillage
Adjective: ?
Noun: ?
Title: ?
Colour: ?

I prefer to use MSN for chatting.

Thanks for letting me on the team.

[Aqualung71]

Welcome aboard Mas

MSN is good, I use it too.

As for how to play the turns, it falls to me as team leader to take the main responsibility for actual playing of the turns. However, I can guarantee that I won't be able to play them every day, in which case someone else will need to step in, so that then depends on timing.

My best time for playing is early in the morning or at night, so probably GMT2300-2400 or GMT 1200-1600. If I don't manage to play the turn I can easily email the turn to any one of you from work (where I can't play the turn). Discussions on strategy,etc, should be via email. For more detailed stuff such as build queues we should probably setup MSN chat times to discuss build priorities and worker job assignments for the next 5 turns or so.

Micromanagement is something we need to focus on, since we can be sure the other teams will be good at it, so we need to get it right.

Comments, suggestions?

[marcuspeddle]

I'm off work until March so except from about GMT 15.00 to 2400 I'll be able to take place in discussions or play the turn.

[Jon Shafer]

Hi guys.

I vote for standard map.

Definitely want black, our leaderhead ought to be the Grim Reaper.

[sabrewolf]

hi guys

after solomwi's icons, i decided to try one of my own.

it probably doesn't show very well, but it should be a skull with crossed bones (like a pirate flag)

i used this as base drawing: http://www.bilderberg.org/weekly.jpg

if you like the idea, i can do some more pixel editing to make things clearer. the DR is quite small at the moment. using different colors could make it more readable. but imho black and gray are "our" colors.

input/feedback?

[sabrewolf]

here the inverse version, except that i kept the central part black. although it's not as clear anymore, it's possibly a bit more "spooky"

[marcuspeddle]

It'll be good if you can get it a bit clearer.

By the way, please take the masuro33 at hotmail dot com off your mailing lists. I think the euphrates address will be fine.

[sabrewolf]

just text here...

[sabrewolf]

and another modified negative version...

[sabrewolf]

or - last for the moment - a simple one.

the space beneath could also be used for something else. a pentagram, a upside-down-cross, ...