Iron Civer II Green Theater

[snoopy369]

2430bc to Sir Stenz ...

[Krill]

Sent to Paddy.

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Damn it. Rommel, when this is over, I would like to hear a full explanation of how you balanced this map.

And if everybody that is playing this game is willing to, I would like to create a full world map of the explored areas.

[Theseus]

Not sure I know what you mean, Krill.

[snoopy369]

One presumes he means he'd like to see a full map once we're legally able to do so. I'm adding in "legally allowed to do so" myself, since I for one intend to play this game fully by the Iron Civer Code of Conduct, at least ...

Krill - it's a crappy map. It's tiny, and it is obviously under substantial duress in terms of terrain options. That's what you get with a 5-player tiny random/random/random map ... Perhaps some players had slightly more to work with than others, but such is civ. Trust me when I say that I don't think anyone that i've seen yet has a remotely good start here, and you probably don't have the worst, though I'm not sure where your settler started. (Though I may or may not have contacted every civ, and would never indicate contact with any particular civ prior to having an embassy, nor refer to any specific map details prior to whichever tech is necessary for such things, mapmaking or navigation.)

Can we now table this discussion until the appropriate techs and embassies are established? Thanks!

[Rommel2D]

To reiterate what I've tried to stress a few times (notably at the beginning of this thread), I don't make an attempt to 'balance' maps. Basically, I try to make sure every player with some knowledge of game strategy has good enough land to survive until the late ancient ages to give them ample opportunity to make some diplo/strategic moves- at least a chance to overcome a disadvantaged start.

I really ought to post the first save from the Blue game that I did let go by mistake. Sir Ralph had exactly one land tile capable of producing more than one food per turn between himself and his nearest opponent. He didn't say anything at all about it until I double checked the map and informed everyone it needed a restart for this reason. Sir Ralph then expressed sincere disappointment that he was not being allowed to continue with his 'challenging' start.

[Paddy]

Iron Civver II, To Theseus, 2430 BC

[snoopy369]

Apparently theseus either needs to be on freeze time or have someone play his turns, per admin thread ...

[Rommel2D]

Banana Sundae

Freeze time it is...

[snoopy369]

Banana sundaes bYnw (Aka Banana Splits? )

[snoopy369]

I will be out until 9/10/05 as well, so at least it looks like my freeze time shall remain untouched

[Theseus]

2390BC to snoopy

[snoopy369]

Unfortunately I do not have the save. Email sent to Theseus.

[Theseus]

Resent

[snoopy369]

Received (after hunting around a bit, sending it to my yahoo account caused it to junk itself!) and sent to sir_stenz

[sir_stenz]

to krill