Double Blind

[Beta]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

(no wonder Kloreep says you have no honor. )

con has lots of honour!!! (It's just a bit tarnished.....)

[conmcb25]

Im a diamond in the rough

[Rommel2D]

Nominations are all in. Mine:
England
Portugal
India
Spain
Byzantines

Even though con obviously hacked my system in order to copy my list off the sheet of paper on my desk, we have a good variety of tribes to pick from. I'll post the final list with everyone's picks in a little while

I just tried generating a Y wrap map and deleting the start locations. A few problems: It doesn't just allow travel across the top and bottom borders, it generates land across that border. This might not be that bad, but the map I generated didn't come close to looking like a pangea, more like an archipelago actually.

The bigger problem is that it seems to have reassigned starting locations upon saving. I started a few SP games on it with different seafaring tribes and they all started at the same land-locked location.

I'll see if anyone in the mod forum has an idea if this can work, but I don't know if it's worth holding off on this game until we find out...

[conmcb25]

well make up your mind quickly, if I have to repick CIV's Id like to do it tonight.

I ot a busy week this week.

[Rommel2D]

The Ballot

Nominations:
Snoopy:
Koreans, Aztecs, Zulu, Arabs, Hittites

Mickeyj:
Iroquois, English, Portuguese, Hittite, Dutch

Beta:
1. mongols, 2. zulus, 3. aztecs, 4. koreans, 5. russians

Kloreep:
Hittites, England, Germany, Mongols, Portugal

con:
Korea, England, India, Portugal, Spain

Rommel2D:
England, Portugal, India, Spain, Byzantines

Final Pool:
Aztecs
Arabs
Byzantines
Dutch
English
Germany
Hittites
India
Iroquois
Koreans
Mongols
Portugal
Russia
Spain
Zulu

[edit:missed Germany the first time...]

Rank all the Tribes in the pool, not including any of your own nominations, from one on up, starting with the most preferred.

The first unique request for a tribe gets it. For example, if two players pick England #1 , and another picks them #2, the player that ranked them second would be 'awarded' the Brits.

This one is more important to keep secret. I'll send my picks to Kloreep (the first respondant in this thread) before asking for anyone else's. Please make up your lists, but don't PM them until I've sent mine (sometime tonight...).

Just to make sure we're clear on the issue, I'll start the game on a randomly generated, unmodded Pangea as discussed earlier. Everyone has until the end of their first turn (4000BC) to call for a restart, except for anyone with an agricultural Civ. Once you call for a restart, you must play what you get from then on.

This is the set up I was suggesting before I tried to do the Y wrapping mod. If this was not understood and affects anyone's choices, speak up before sending me your final picks.

Oh, and please post your likely availability times so's we can make a turn sequence...

[Kloreep]

What happens with conflicting #1s? (Or #2s, etc)

Flip a coin?

Edit: And I have my picks ready now

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Kloreep
What happens with conflicting #1s? (Or #2s, etc)

Neither conflicting player gets the tribe, but the next one to pick that same tribe does.

The first unique request for a tribe gets it. For example, if two players pick England #1 , and another picks them #2, the player that ranked them second would be 'awarded' the Brits.

Sending my list right now...

[Rommel2D]

Just noticed I missed Germany in the pool. Added.

List sent to Kloreep. Everyone can send me your picks now, unless you'd like someone else to hold them in eschrow...

BTW, if I'm thinking right, everyone should have 10 tribes to rank for their picks...?

[Kloreep]

My list PMed to Rommel.

Originally posted by Rommel2D
Neither conflicting player gets the tribe, but the next one to pick that same tribe does.

Heh, that could open up strategies for the lists. I'll keep mine my honest top picks, though.

Originally posted by Rommel2D
List sent to Kloreep.

3 times.

You do want the last one sent at 21:32, right?

Originally posted by Rommel2D
BTW, if I'm thinking right, everyone should have 10 tribes to rank for their picks...?

Yep. I did, anyway, and I didn't have to worry about Germany, so mine should be the correct number.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Kloreep
3 times.

You do want the last one sent at 21:32, right?

The second one was just a note that I messed up the list- there should only be one that says "revised" and has all 10 picks...

[Kloreep]

I don't know the contents yet, but yeah, there's only one that says "revised"

[conmcb25]

you will get mine tomorrow

too tired tonight u

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by conmcb25
you will get mine tomorrow

Since you posted that at 2 minutes past midnight CDT, does that mean Tuesday?

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

Since you posted that at 2 minutes past midnight CDT, does that mean Tuesday?

Hmm Im too tired to think about it, Ill let you know tomorrow

[snoopy369]

One question -- once someone's got their choice, are the rest of their choices thrown out? That would i suppose be very different from if they're still in ...

IE, if Conmcb has Mongols (1) and thus gets mongols because every sane person has them at 9, does his having Dutch (2) affect my ability to get Dutch at 2 if I have it ranked there as well (and nobody else does)?