Our Civ and Leader

[sunrise089]

Originally posted by Sullla


Bumped for potential discussion.

Sorry, I knew Krill very well but my knowledge of players ended with his involvement in the game.

[Swiss Pauli]

From the team list, we know a bit about Dale and Methos. Other than those two, Unorthodox and Locotus seem to be switch on based on their posts, but one point to note is that we're starting on 2 landmasses.

Also, the GS players have been spread around which could well change the their teams approach. Finally, we don't know who's going to play the turns: although I'm Team Leader, I don't intend to play many turns, or dictate the strategy.

I think the best approach is to focus on our own game, but not to get too distracted by shiny things

[Swiss Pauli]

Originally posted by ruff_hi
Do we have a volenteer for this post yet? If not, I'd like to do it.

Re playing a character - I think this is important when communicating with the other team - it helps with consistency. Do we know our leader yet? We could play it staight up and down based on who that is (ie Play Louis XIV - SunGod as worried about his people becoming decadent while he himself likes to trade wheat for gems, etc). Little inconsistencies and off topic stories that leaders might swap would be good to throw in too.

BTW - are these communications between leaders or between leader's lackies?

Ruff

Thanks for volunteering: you're hired

As to character, let's stick with the 1984 theme, but the best approach to diplomacy is to be yourself: trying to act out a persona will make it diffcult for other teams to work you out and so they're less likely to trust you.

[ruff_hi]

Originally posted by Swiss Pauli

Thanks for volunteering: you're hired

As to character, let's stick with the 1984 theme, but the best approach to diplomacy is to be yourself: trying to act out a persona will make it diffcult for other teams to work you out and so they're less likely to trust you.

So much for exercising my acting talents! I'm planning on writing up a history based on our leader and 1984 (maybe Animal Farm too) and will post it here - will share that with teams as we meet them. Typically PBEM games start this way but then quickly just drop the whole leader thing and interact personally.

I'll also use our gmail account that Lee set up for communication - will post copies of emails here (one thread per team?).

[mostly-harmless]

Ah, don't we have a dedicated gmail account already set up by Kylearan couple of months ago? Or are we talking about the same here?
mh

[ruff_hi]

Originally posted by mostly-harmless
Ah, don't we have a dedicated gmail account already set up by Kylearan couple of months ago? Or are we talking about the same here?
mh

errr yes. Isn't Lee = Kylearan or have I got that mixed up?

[Kodii]

Lee = LKendter, unless there is more than one Lee o_o

[ruff_hi]

ahh - so Kylearan <> LKendter even though they share a KLER&N ... can we call one Bruce so that I don't get confused again?

[Zeviz]

Thanks for volonteering to be the diplomat.

I like roleplaying, but I don't know how other teams would respond to it. It might help relax the mood if done well, so I wouldn't object to you doing it, as long as you don't RP a dystopian dictator, since that might not go over as well.

Zeviz,
Minister of Peace

(Or was I supposed to pick one ministry and stick with it for all of my posts? )

PS To answer Sulla's question about other teams, here are my guesses based on what I saw in this forum. (These are just guesses, so if somebody knows key players in other teams, please post.)

PAL will probably play this game as a regular MP (early rush)

Templars might roleplay crusaders (based on the discussion I saw near the end of their signup thread), so potential for aggression against those who don't share their religion.

Rabbits sound a little too obsessed with roleplaying to be a serious threat, but we shouldn't underestimate them.

Banana sounds like a 1-person team, so they might end up replaced with an AI.

And Imperio is probably competent, but I have no idea.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

Originally posted by ruff_hi
errr yes. Isn't Lee = Kylearan or have I got that mixed up?

I don't have Lee's impressive game and post record, and never would have thought somebody would mix me up with him...

Let's hope you won't mix up the other teams as well when forging alliances or delivering a declaration of war...

-KyLeearan

[ruff_hi]

Did you guys see the thread about the game historian? Some poor smuck wants to write up what happens during the game for 'publishing' post game. He would like access to our thread to help with this process.

Thoughts? I think - sure, go for it.

[mostly-harmless]

Hmm, don't know about the historian. Why would he need access to the team forums? Couldn't he just open the savegame in the worldbuilder to keep track of history?

Letting some dubious outsider peer at our tribal cave drawings and allow him to count through our stockpile of loinclothes??? I advise caution, but are willing to follow the guidance of your esteemed diplomatic corps.

mh

[Sullla]

I really could care less if Krill wants to be game historian. I do enough of that professionally, no desire to take it up for fun.

More importantly - wasn't the game supposed to start today? (April 28) I was expecting to find the start already posted when I signed on this afternoon, doubly so since RobWorham is "down under" and it's already the next day where he is. Please tell me we're not going to suffer through yet another delay with this thing. Not sure I could take that.

[mostly-harmless]

Hah, I was checking the site all day, which is almost over for me here. I guess the guy hosting the game sits on Samoa or somewhere near, so he is just about to get breakfast. ...

[Swiss Pauli]

Beta, the host, might be in Malta (if his flag is to be trusted), so maybe he plans to start it this evening, though I wish he'd posted something this morning to confirm his plans