One-Armed Bandits

[snoopy369]

I'd prefer 70% water, also. I agree that with six players you'll end up with too many poor starts with 80% water...

Also, I suggest that Ag civs can call for a restart iff they run it by a neutral 7th party who agrees their start sucked royally and it's not just a pansy river request. It's not fair to penalize Ag civs in that way just because they are abused sometimes, and in the scheme of things if you thing Ag is a more powerful civ trait than any other, just say "no ag civs."

[self biased]

sounds good. i'll pm my choices in a moment.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by snoopy369
I'd prefer 70% water, also. I agree that with six players you'll end up with too many poor starts with 80% water...

I take back what I said about starts being poor under these settings- I just generated 3 maps and all 18 starts were good enough I wouldn't restart. The key is that we're only doing 6 tribes- when I generated a map under these settings with 8 Civs, 3 or 4 of them were poor positions. 80%/standard works out well for 6 tribes. If did go with 70%, I think it would be best to switch to a small map...

Also, I suggest that Ag civs can call for a restart iff they run it by a neutral 7th party who agrees their start sucked royally and it's not just a pansy river request. It's not fair to penalize Ag civs in that way just because they are abused sometimes, and in the scheme of things if you thing Ag is a more powerful civ trait than any other, just say "no ag civs."

I like this rule because it is a simple, non-moded way to give the other traits a benefit over ag. It still doesn't have a serious impact on ag's power; If you remember, we had this rule in Double Blind, but I still picked the only ag tribes 1-2-3 (and didn't get them :-).

[Rommel2D]

It looks like I have everyone's picks but Trip's...

[Jon Shafer]

Sorry for the delay, internet has been down lately...

[Rommel2D]

My Picks

1> Netherlands
2> Celts
3> Maya
4> Scandanavia
5> Aztecs

[Rommel2D]

I'm getting hit with alot of work while trying to squeeze in as much outdoor stuff as I can before the weather heads south. I might be able to set this up tomorrow morning or evening, or friday night (CDT) at the lastest.

Anything else I'm forgetting...?

[Theseus]

Ivory for me, please.

[Rommel2D]

Pick List

Rookie:
Celts
Egypt
Hittites
Babylon
India

And here are the results of the Scottish Jury:
1 - China
2 - Japan
3 - Persia
4 - Maya
5 - France

sn00py:
Celts
Ottomans
Greeks
Persians
Byzantines

He who's words speak for themselves:
japan,
babylon,
germany,
byzantines,
ottomans

Trip:
Maya
Celts
Sumeria
Aztecs
Chinese

Moonbars has China
self biased has Japan
Trip has Maya
Rommel2D has Netherlands
Theseus has Egypt
and
snoopy369 has The Ottomans

[Jon Shafer]

Haha, never thought I'd get the Mayans...

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Theseus
Ivory for me, please.

And snoopy requested a new pair of shoes. Did we agree to wager on the outcome of this game...?

[Rommel2D]

Oh yeah, the last thing- Everyone needs to answer three questions:

1. Are you familiar with the Iron Civer etiquette/exploit list and willing to go by it for this game?

2. Do you wish to use the optional diplomacy limitations listed under rule 1-2?

3. What level of Combat Reporting would you like?

[Rommel2D]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. 2.5

[Theseus]

1. Yes
2. What is the option?
3. 2

[Moonbars]

1. Yes
2. a - yes
b - no
c - yes
d - no
3. level 2, for simplicity

I would like to remove "declared on the foriegn advisor" and replace with "declared on the tracker thread.