Maniacal And Modded Herculism

[Hercules]

Because of the other games I was in I didn't want to widely broadcast my absence for a few days.

[Hercules]

Turn to Fosse

[Fosse]

Turn sent.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Hercules
Because of the other games I was in I didn't want to widely broadcast my absence for a few days.

[AndiD]

2121 to Maniac.

[Maniac]

2121 to Hercules

[Fosse]

2122 to Andi.

[AndiD]

Got the turn - possible problem - CMN Googlie contacted.

[Googlie]

The query refers to one of the earliest posts, when I had forgotten to set the "Force current diff" flag.

At that time i thought that only the SE change costs were affected, but it seems that the human players are playing at Librarian level (so drone alleviation, lower SE change costs, and all the other goodies that librarian level brings.

But, I just checked it as an IP game, and altho it shows the global level as Transcend, the human players are playing at Librarian and the AI at Talent, except for the unfortunate AI Gaians, who are indeed at Transcend!!

Note, though, that as the global level is at Transcend, the Game events that have "DIFF" in their formula will use Transcend as the level (whereas your tech research rate, which is particular to each faction, will have a DIFF of Librarian in the research formula)

But as all human players in the game are at the same level, I don't think there is a problem

[Maniac]

Yes there is IMO.
Having less drones means less use for secret projects such as the human genome project, less use of the Peacekeeper and Drone boni, a completely different strategic situation with regards to vertical versus horizontal expansion, makes popbooming ridiculously easy (even for the Morganites), has as a result that free market has no big penalty anymore (good for everyone except the Cult who can't run FM), etcetera... It completely screws up the balance in the game and between the factions.

I'm sorry guys, but I'm not interested in playing a game under Librarian level.

[AndiD]

Me neither...

[Fosse]

I'm not particularly bothered, and can continue to play if some of us drop and get replacers. But I also wouldn't be against a reboot if the four of us wanted to start up a new game.

[AndiD]

I second the second option - MAFH Reloaded.

[Hercules]

So looks like the same factions in new game?

[Googlie]

I'll rebuild it with the flag properly set ab initio this time - give me 24 hours