Rules/Settings Discussion

[Whip[lash]

Post any comments you have regarding rules or settings here.

[IanDC]

Unless they start suggesting weird stuff it looks ok for now.
I agree with only polling major issues.

[Atomation]

I think that the archipelago with various small islands would be a fun map.

Regarding the turns, simultanious turns would be nice but I don't really mind normal turn taking since it will be a long game anyway.

[Whip[lash]

I voted for arch - snakey.

without simultaneous turns you kinda defeat the advantage of pitboss and might as well play a PBEM.

[Atomation]

Well I heard that there was rampant cheating with the pbem game last, so that would be the main advantage of pitboss. I obviously have no problem with simultanious turns since I do it all the time, but I can see the intrinsic flaws that lie with excessively long turns and double moves, especially with ships where it's easily possible to move 10 squares to attack a city that may not even know it's at war yet!

[crescentfresh]

looks like Terra map won in a runoff that we missed. heheh. ah well. Archi would've been fun maybe.

[Atomation]

We should vote for huge because I think we can outbuild anybody. 8 old wolrd masses would let us each have a land mass that seems good to me. I don't really care about new world masses, climate, or sea level, they will just change our strategy. We should begin discussing possible civs, is this an unrestricted game or set leader? Financial is probably preferred since having a fast tech lead will allow us to leverage alot of powerful strategies.

I think a cannon rush could be intersting for conquest, as they can't be collateraled until the later age mounted units. I have divised an interesting path to persue this idea if anyone else feels it has merit. Cannons are pretty tough to deal with if they are rushed, especially off of boats where you can attack directly. Would be especially interesting with the vikings using amphibious berserkers with double city attack upgraded into amphibious grenadier with 2 city attack (insane for attacking cities after a few boatloads of cannons hit). Of course this assumes that we are going for some sort of a military conquest, we will have to see how the settings work out.

[Whip[lash]

Originally posted by crescentfresh
looks like Terra map won in a runoff that we missed. heheh. ah well. Archi would've been fun maybe.

We didn't miss it. I submitted a vote for snakey continents.

[IanDC]

Looks like they haven't yet come up with anything weird, so ok so far
I'm glad your keeping the pressure up on the timer, more than 84 hours - jeez !!!

[crescentfresh]

whip says we need to come up with a civ to pick now.

[Atomation]

Judging from the settings...the map really isn't very big. I think we need financial or portugal given the circumstances. Portugal would be a strong choice since they can expand rapidly and, more importantly, they can expand to the new world continents very early in the game. This can prove to be extremely powerful if not too powerful if we leverage it.....

The other option is simply using elizabeth. But with tech trading on ...Idk....I don't like tech trading much .

With portugal we might also be able to grab colossus. Not really sure if we will be near enough to the coast to make that worth it or make getting fast boats worth it. Thoughts?

[Whip[lash]

Thanx for your input but it's too late. The deadline for submitting civ choices was 2 days ago. With no input from anybody I submitted Ramses as our first choice and Elizabeth as second.

[Whip[lash]

PS:

I see that the map is already made, so the die is cast. Look for game launch in a day or two.

[Atomation]

ah rams isn't really a good choice...oh well.

[Whip[lash]

I made that choice based upon my belief that the map will resemble the earth18player map. That map has superior placement for Egypt. We'll see if it pays off.