2nd Coalition New Game Discussion Thread

[Paddy]

Ok, just waiting on some word of Dialetic2003, he is not answering any mail at this time to me.

IJ, have you had any news in the last few days?

[bongo]

Originally posted by Iron Jackson
Giant map still ?

Ever since I saw that you could actually randomize map-size I wanted to try it. As we are 8 players, it will not be smaller than standard.

IMO, all that randomness add to the challenge, if we pick our tribes, map size, world shape, age, climate and so on we pretty much know from the start how we are going to play.

More 'random' gives a more open start to the game, like in 'anything can happen'

[Paddy]

ahh we mose well pick it out... yeah we will have some idea... but plenty of space to grow...

[bongo]

Do we need a poll on this? Or would it be fine if everyone just posted with their preferred settings?


Mine are:
AIs: None
Barbs: REstless
Tribes: Random
Difficulty level: Monarch
Map size:Random (huge would also be fine)
World Shape: Archipalego
Water coverage: High
World age: Random
Climate: Random

[Shogun Gunner]

AIs: none
Barbs: raging
Tribes: random
Difficulty level: monarch
Map Size: large
Word Shape: archipalego
water coverage: low 60% is the lowest I think...
World Age: 3 billion
water: wet
temp: hot

Jungle/Mountain warfare!!!

[bongo]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner water: wet

[Paddy]

Ok, we are back to 7 players.

Dialectic2003 will not be joining us for this game.

So if we wanted to each choose a seafaring civ, we could.
And we would not have to muk around with the editor for that then.



AIs: None
Barbs: REstless
Tribes: Each Choose
Difficulty level: Monarch
Map size:huge
World Shape: Archipalego or continents
Water coverage: High
World age: 3 billion
Climate: Random

[Iron Jackson]

Mine are:
AIs: None
Barbs: Restless
Tribes: everyone may choose (seafaring civs are I think first choice now)
Difficulty level: Monarch
Map size:not smaller than standard (I think maybe large is o.k.)
World Shape: Archipalego
Water coverage: High (80 %)
World age: Random
Climate: Random

I think the problem is that some of the seafaring civs are somehow crap (no, I won´t mention the ones I mean ) whilst the good ones are somehow overpowered (think of the Vikings with their berserks).

Quite sad that Dialectic won´t join.

[Paddy]

ok we are making some progress........

I am adding all of the suggestions to the first post.
so that we have a rally position etc.

we should be able to start soon

Dialectic2003 sent his greetings and regards to you all

can I get lists from Wittlich; Chrisius and Johann

[Johann Moritz]

AIs: none
Barbs: random
Tribes: random (someone could draw the seafaring civs between us seven )
Difficulty level: Monarch
Map Size: Huge
Word Shape: archipalego
water coverage: Random
World Age: Random
water: Random
Climate: Random

[Wittlich]

Wittlich's Input:

AIs: None
Barbs: Restless
Tribes: Random
Difficulty level: Monarch
Map size: Huge
World Shape: Archipalego
Water coverage: High (80%)
World age: Random
Climate: Random
temp: Random

Thanks for the notice Paddy!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Archipalego map, massive ie change the size via the editor to 256 x 256 or bigger.

Most water possible,
Monarch,
Barbs dont care,
age temp climate middle setting,
Tribe Byzantines if possible.

If you do use the editor to increase the map size then increase the distance between civ starting positions too.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

I still really like the idea of a league of viking tribes though and hope some one can find the time to sort it out via the editor.

That really would be cool

[Paddy]

ok, we need some judgement on the Viking idea.

I like it too

[Paddy]

The final settings

AIs: None x 6
Barbs: Restless x 4
Tribes: Random x 4
Difficulty level: Monarch x 7
Map size: huge x 4
World Shape: Archipalego x 6.5
Water coverage: High (80 %) x 3
World age: Random x 4
Climate: Random x 5
temp: random x 5



any discussion on this