Jane PBEM

[Aqualung71]

Ummm....did we agree no restarts?

Just my luck....after recommending we add the wheeled attribute to Conquistadors, I draw Spain! Oh, and a Spain set amongst hills and forests, with water seemingly 2 tiles north, west and east, and a wall of mountains at least 2 tiles thick to the south. Not to mention the 5 tiles of forest in my 9 tile town!

Not that I'm complaining...after all, I did start on a river.

Oh, and Dom drew Celts. Those GS don't have wheels, do they? Nice

Anyway, couldn't find Vovan's email address posted here, so have PM'd him to send it to me.

[snoopy369]

GS only get one move per turn, don't they?

Eww on your start. I like my start personally, so i'd rather not have a restart, but if you ask i'll not object. Sounds like you have a loooousy one.

[Dominae]

Setting aside the fact that I drew the Celts, we did agree before the game started to play random civs and starts with a map checker to make sure everything is fair. Let's give Sir Ralph a little credit and assume this game is more balanced that it initially might seem.

Then again, maybe he goofed with respect to Aqualung71's start. I'll PM him to find out.

Gallic Swordsmen still have 2 movement points and are not Wheeled because they do not require Horses to build. Same with Jags, Impi and Samurai in this mod. I asked about this before the game went up and I assumed that the lack of replies meant that everyone was fine with this (each secretly hoping for the Celts or the Japanese!).

[snoopy369]

oh, right. Forgot about that ...

[Aqualung71]

Don't take my complaints as sour grapes....I just want to lodge an early excuse for losing other than not being good enough

No, I'm quite happy to continue as is - random is random, you adapt as best you can! Spitting the dummy on a start is not in the spirit of PBEM, IMHO

Turn sent to Vovan - thanks for the address Dom. Pretty cool email address Vovan, I must say!

[Harovan]

I didn't "balance" the map. I did exactly what I proposed: making sure nobody starts on an island, and everyone has space for at least 3 size 12 cities, which means grassland or easily irrigatable plains. I added a little river and a sugar resource to ensure the "irrigatable" bit for one of the starting positions. Other than that, the map and all civs are left completely random. I did not touch other resources, be it bonus, luxury or strategic.

If you want me to craft a "balanced" map, I would have to redo it.

[Dominae]

That's what we asked for.

Let's keep moving!

[Aqualung71]

Dom, I just started up an SP game of the Jane mod to have a look, and it seems the only victory method is domination, and there is victory point scoring enabled. Is this right or have I screwed it up somehow?

[vovan]

Hey, sorry 'bout that, Aqualung. I thought I'd posted my addy here somewhere.

Okay, now I have the same problem though. Anyone know ducki's email?

[ducki]

Sent you my addy in pm. Haven't been able to access 'poly for over a week, good timing, eh?
Anyway, I'd like to find out about the victory conditions too, before we go too far, since the "flavor" of the game _might_ make domination near impossible, no?


Edit: Won't be able to play until this evening, though. Work, don't ya' know.

[vovan]

Ah, sweet, thanks. On to you, ducki.

[Dominae]

Well, my version of the mod looks fine. Maybe Sir Ralph forgot to check the standard victory conditions (you have to do it manually in the MP setup screen even when you load a scenario)?

In any case, our game is at Regent level too, so we should start over to correct that. As alexman noted, the way to do is to set the difficulty in the setup screen before loading in the scenario.

We'll get these games humming along eventually!

[vovan]

Aww, and I had a nice starting position, too.

Well, if we're missing victory conditions, and playing on too easy a level, a restart is fine with me.

[Dominae]

I imagine Sir Ralph kept the map.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Dominae
I imagine Sir Ralph kept the map.

Ah, it's all good either way.