Naval PBEM - Huge, Pre-Made, Rich, Islands, No Corruption, No Tech Trading, 6 Players

[Harovan]

Hmmm, I have 1.21f, not sure about the others.

[Harovan]

Oh, I forgot to mention the tech rate in my mail, Alex. Could you please check if it's at 280 for huge?

[ormuzd]

no, I am still at 1.14f and it seems I can't read saved with 1.21 games.

[Adagio]

I haven't tried 1.21f yet, and didn't bother installing it, since it didn't help much in PBEM games...

[Eli]

I dont have 1.21f too and i'm not planning to install it in the near future.

[Harovan]

I will downgrade then. Make it 1.14.

[alexman]

This game has started.

Please be aware that unlike the Pyramids, Sun Tzu, and Hoover, there is no way to make Bach's affect all continents.

Have fun!

[Adagio]

My e-mail is a_grau at hotmail.com

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by alexman
This game has started.

Please be aware that unlike the Pyramids, Sun Tzu, and Hoover, there is no way to make Bach's affect all continents.

Yes there is. You simply DESELECT the continental mood effect option in the lower left corner of the editor screen.

[Eli]

Err... So should I play the game or wait for the Bach fix?

[ormuzd]

wait for the bach's fix
this time wil allow all to set their versions to 1.14 too

:-D

[alexman]

Oops, sorry about that. You learn everything every day... I'll fix it. But since I'm fixing it, I just noticed that you wanted everyone to be able to build all the UUs? Are you guys sure you want that? First of all, all the regular units they replace would be useless (Warrior, Spearman, Swordsman, Chariot, Horseman, Archer, in the ancient age alone). Secondly, because of the upgrade path, you would not actually get all the UUs. For example, if Swordsmen upgrade to Legionaries, which in turn upgrade to Immortals, so you would never be able to build Legionaries or Swordsmen. The same goes for most of the knight UUs. I would have to remove the UUs from the upgrade paths for you to be able to build all of them.

Also, I believe that without corruption, your research rate will be very high after you get a few cities going. So while it will probably be OK in the beginning of the game, by the middle ages you will be getting a new tech every 4 turns for sure, and I cannot even imagine what would happen if you start trading. At least the AI tech-whores but they all research more-or-less the same techs. When humans cooperate in research, it goes much faster.

Let me know, especially about the UUs.

[Harovan]

Good point about the UUs. I would dare to say, let's exclude UUs at all and trigger the GA in some other way. Not sure about the others. Perhaps we could add "Triggers GA" to all standard medieval units.

As for research: We won't trade techs, that's one of the game conditions. That's why we lowered the tech rate. The original rate for a huge map is designed for 16 tech whoring civs, while we are only 6 not whoring. We could have lowered the rate to the rate of a small map, but that would be too much, because we have no corruption. So (methinks) a fair compromise should be the median between a standard and a large map (thus: 280). Do you doubt this would work? If so, we could increase the value.

[CerberusIV]

I did wonder about the UU's. If we are going to allow all UU's I would suggest removing them from the upgrade paths. That way players have a choice between building a normal unit and being able to upgrade it or building a (better) UU but having to scrap and replace it. It is going to give a VERY long build list in the city screens though. Should we make it simple and play with civ-specific abilities off? No starting techs and no UU's.

I assumed no tech trading at all so no cooperation in research. It is a choice between researching hard and being first to a tech or doing minimal research and picking up a tech easily because all the other players have it. The game isn't really going to take off militarily until the industrial age because of the map so quick research in the earlier stages won't matter but we will probably end up with all techs researched and fighting with modern units!

[Harovan]

I'm inclined to say, let's play with Civ specific abilities off (no UUs, no starting techs), and add "triggers GA" to Horsemen, Knights and Cavalry.