The Great Alliances

[TheBirdMan]

I'll setup a "plain" game with 3 settlers today.

I presume Ricketyclick is right - therefore the play-list will be as this:

TBM, team 1
Ricketyclick, team 2
FlameFlash, team 1
JPWW, team 2

Settings (proposed):

Map size: Gigantic
Difficulty: Emperor
Barbs: Raging Hordes
Doughnut World ??
Bloodlust Off
Pollution On
Number of Civilizations 8

Map:
Wet/dry 40%
warm/cold 50%
Ocean/land 40%
Island/continent 40%
Uniform/diverse 100%
few/many goods 60%
3 Settlers
100 Gold (default)

First, I will setup a few SP games with those settings and see, how the map looks like. I might change those sliders 10% in either way: Wet/dry from 40%, warm/cold from 50%, Ocean/land from 40% and Island/continent from 40%. I'll publish the final settings in the starting thread.


Any objections?

[ricketyclik]

No objections here

[jpww]

Doughnut, please!

No objections

[FlameFlash]

Looking good, I'm happy.

[TheBirdMan]

Those settings were changed.
Ocean/land 40%
Island/continent 30%

Turn 0 to Ricketyclick, cc to Jpww.

Let the best team win.

Ehhhh.... reminds me. Victory conditions (if not won by alien life): Any suggestions?

[ricketyclik]

Turn 0 to FlameFlash, cc to TBM.

I heard a scream after "end turn"...?

[TheBirdMan]

It wasn't me

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by TheBirdMan

Ehhhh.... reminds me. Victory conditions (if not won by alien life): Any suggestions?

Victory conditions? Alien life (a team member would be placed in rank 1 with the other team member ranked 2.)

For bloodlust victory (if the team just goes out to kill the oposing team) maybe have it understood that once bloodlust has been accquired (by the one team) a five (or longer?) turn peace can ensue and then the teammates can turn on each other.

Just my suggestion.

Originally posted by ricketyclik
Turn 0 to FlameFlash, cc to TBM.

So, I send this turn to both JPWW, and ricketyclik?

And then the next time I see the turn I'll be a different nation?

I'm still just confused.

[FlameFlash]

Oh... and turn recieved... will play after work.

[TheBirdMan]

Turn to both yes.

My thoughts were, that if I was away/not responding for say 24 hours, You should open my turn and play it - preferable just the way I would have done it. But most important - it would be played without unreasonable delay.

And for the confusion: We play with the Russian, the Viking, the Irish and the Native Americans TOGETHER against Jpww and Ricketyclick (Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and Indonesian).

So coordination between each team will be very important.

[FlameFlash]

*nods* I'm starting to understand it a little bit better... hopefully after I've had a look at the map I'll understand what's going on more and then talk to you over e-mail about it all, all right?

[TheBirdMan]

Right!

[jpww]

Turn 0 to Birdman & Flameflash
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no Keygen's fast-start mod?

I guess fast starts are overrated!

[TheBirdMan]

No, decided to take it plain - and believe me, with 3 settlers each, we will soon enough be able to change the coastlines.

I got this in mail from Jpww:

Arghh! I thought I was going to play my civs back to back

I do see you point. It would make the turnrate much faster. If we shall make a restart with that little change - THEN IT IS NOW!

Turn 0-0 (second nation turn 0) to Ricketyclick.

[ricketyclik]

I don't mind either way with the turn order, but I guess I have a slight preference toward back-to-back turns.

Btw, the filename says email to Birdman, but isn't it Flameflash's turn? You'll both get it anyway.

Turn 0.2 --> Flameflash & Birdman