New MP Game!

[Lord_Icewind]

Yup, I want to play a new MP as I'm at the moment playing one only. Only one limitation to the type of player: No Vet's please. Apart from that, anyone who wants, join now!

Ideal setting would be Standard Planet, Standard Native Life, Standard erosive forces (2 moons ), 50% Ocean coverage, No Unity survey, Unity scattering, and Directed research (it wasn't caled like that, but you ppl know what I mean )

Well, that's the main idea...hmm and now that I remember, NO aliens. Just in case.

[Fosse]

I'm in a couple of games, one which has managed to make it to turn 70 just about, but I wouldn't call myself a vet by any means (I'm dead last in the power charts, and learning the nuances of PBEM).

Assuming that qualifies, I'd be willing to take on Zak.

How many players?

[Senethro]

Another person interested (in SMACX).
I've just installed on my new laptop and have been having some terranx.icd crashes so I mgiht pull out if I can't sort them.

[Lord_Icewind]

Well, I was thinking the standard 4 players, and BTW, I'll play either Gaians or Pirates (if another person chooses either, ill choose the other one).
And I would be glad to have you both
Let's look for a "game arranger" or whatever's his title is, ok? (I was thinking in Darsnan)

[Fosse]

It's called a CMN, and they do a great service by setting up a balanced (and interesting!) map, tweaking the AIs, and keeping passwords. If you PM Darsnan then he may be willing to give us a hand. He's done that for a game I'm in now that's turning out to be lots of fun.

[Darsnan]

Hi All,

Lord_Icewind PM'd me to set up this game. I can probably do this over the weekend.

What I will need from you are the game parameters you want set up (i.e. SMAC or SMAX, whose playing what Faction, NL setting, land/ocean percentage, passwords, title for turn tracking thread, etc.). So if you can get this done by Friday PM est then I can get started.
Also, right now you only have 3 signed up. Are you going to run with just 3 in this one? Finally, if the game is SMAX and you post your timezone then I can set up the turnage such that you can take advantage of the timezone differential.


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[Fosse]

Hi Darsnan! Thanks for taking us on.

From Lord_Icewind's first post I get:
PLanet size: Standard
Water Coverage: 50-70
Erosion: Average
Native Life: Average
Cloud Coverage: ?
Difficulty: ? (But I hope Transcend)

I've chosen Zak, and I live in GMT - 6 hours.
I'm okay with just three players, but that's not my call.

[Lord_Icewind]

Let's see...

Cloud Coverage: Medium
Difficulty: Transcend, of course!

Me: Pirates if 4, Gaians if 3 I guess...
Senethro: ?
Fosse: Loonyversity
Rest of the settings as stated before

PM Darsnan to give him your password (Darsnan, use the one I'm using on the other game as Pirates for me please)

I suggest we call it "A Glimpse of Chiron" (Open to suggestions)

I want it to be 4 (or more if able) players, but as a minimum, I say 4. So let's see who we can lure into our trap!

My Timezone is GMT+1....

Anything else?

[Senethro]

I request PKs, but on a map with many landbridges and AIs that are not godlike I would be happy to take Believers.

[Fosse]

I would personally prefer to keep it four or under. Even with four players turns can take a while to get from one to the next.

Darsnan will have my password request momentarily.

[Fosse]

Question: Regarding the game rules, since we're all professed non-veterans we should make sure to review the standard tournament rules that seem to be the de facto rule set here at 'Poly.

Also, would anybody else be for disallowing the Stockpile Energy Bug? It's really tedious, but if one person is doing it everybody sort of has to to keep up.

[Lord_Icewind]

I agree, and I suggest u guys go looking for the "new PBEM game for relative newbies" thread, which has the resumed rules Darsnan gave us.

[Fosse]

So are we set to go at three, or are we fishing for one more?

[freshman]

Can I please play - I'll play any faction? I've been lured. But I'm getting really used to playing the Gaians. And I've only got 1 PBEM, 2 1v1 s going right now for a total of under 100 turns MP ever! BTW I'm GMT+8.

[Darsnan]

And then there were 4!

Originally posted by Lord_Icewind
I suggest u guys go looking for the "new PBEM game for relative newbies" thread, which has the resumed rules Darsnan gave us.

Actually I just copied them from the previous game signup thread. It might be better just to reference the official rules. Anyways, if someone can synopsize the settings for me, I can get started building the game.

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