Who's interested in a re-bang of WotW?

[burbel]

OK, in quick defense for my post - the way we play, we don't attack each other early, and we don't fight much. Given a game like that, last game I was able to get 20 planets with around 400k colos and a level 4 citadel and lots of level 3s pretty quickly.

Towards the end I was making around 6million a day in interest, plus 40million every three days from port-pair trading.

We tend to play long drawn out and mostly non-violent building games on WotW (except when Aeturneus is playing 8P), so the main thing I was thinking of is at least let it be the goods vs. the evils. However, with the current evil settings, my strat would go around beating the oponents early, which really isn't fun (for me at least).

Yeah, when I play Civ, I don't go military until either I am ahead in tech (like tanks/mechs vs. musketeers) or until the end of the game, when all bets are off.

I just have fun developing the cities/planets. But to each their own...

[aeturneus]

BTW - both Burbel and I have played evil, making multiple millions per day... just so you don't mistake us for the same players that squawked about 80k ships a year ago

[Xentropy]

I'm the same way, I enjoy development, but that's just how TW is balanced... ya either play evil and smack down the good players early and often, or you go good and try to hide until you've got a colonial base for your economy to take off... With the "requirement" of no fighting for X days or whatever, evil pretty much loses all purpose...

Not that evils don't have their fair share of ways to use a lvl 4 planet, but without supportive farming income, you just can't keep up once a good has been left alone for 15-20 solid days in a row..

I may still try it anyway, just because I haven't played evil in so long, it'd be kinda fun My incompetance alone should keep the game from getting too bloody too early

[Urban Ranger]

I suppose it depends on the settings whether evils have the advantage or not. Things like steal/rob ratios, planetary trade agreement ratios, population growth (I am not sure if that's adjustable but should be) and a whole bunch of other parameters.

[Xentropy]

Originally posted by aeturneus
OK, I've got a date - for the rebang of WotW

My new ISP is scheduled to install sometime on the 25th or the 26th, so I will rebang at 5:00 PM sharp, Mountain Standard Time on the 27th of April, provided everything goes as planned.

This will be a standard game, no modifications, like all WotW games. The guiding principle behind WotW game design is to create an environment suitable for building large planetary empires, with a heavy endgame and little initial combat. This time I'm thinking of making it more convoluted than usual, with more 1 ways, longer max course length, and hence more bubbles and a larger "feel" to the 5k sectors that I usually bang with.

Any opinions on settings? I'd especially invite Wittlich and Burbel, the two longest playing WotW traders, to kick in with their opinions on how to balance this game.

Since Aeturneus has not been in my game since sometime on the 24th, I'm assuming the ISP thing has been keeping him busy and is even now still not done, so I'm guessing this rebang didn't get done on time?

I'm sure when Aeturneus has access back, he'll be posting here.

[Wittlich]

Actually, Aeturneus posted his status concerning his ISP on a new thread titled: "What's Up" ... but you are right Xentropy, there has been a slight delay on his rebang date due to his new ISP service.

[Xentropy]

Yeah, I'm aware of that... My previous post on this thread is dated before he started that new thread ;>