I'm ready for another SMAC/SMAX game.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Chaunk
I can think of at least three PBEMs I've played in where this rule would have seriously limited my offensive options due to distance from my foe.

You mean like in CGN 6?

I sure hope mart7X5 starts me out "within chopper range" of Chaunk in this one!


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[Chaunk]

Originally posted by Darsnan
You mean like in CGN 6?

I sure hope mart7X5 starts me out "within chopper range" of Chaunk in this one!

CGN6 may have been one of the games I was thinking of yes Although in reality, our little fight only weakened both of us to the extent that neither of us could win the game. Still, twas fun

And what makes you think you'll survive long enough to get choppers?

[Mart]

I'm here.
I will organize you requests.

[Mart]

Could you vote for the settings? Then I could prepare map.

______________________________________
Preference..	|	Settings

Map size	|	?
Ocean		|	?
Erosion		|	?
Life		|	?
Clouds		|	?
Difficulty	|	?

Transcend	|	?
Diplomatic	|	?
Economic	|	?
Cooperative	|	?
Do or Die	|	?
Flexible start	|	?
Tech stag	|	?
Spoils of war	|	?
Blind research	|	?
Intense riv	|	?
No survey	|	?
No scatter	|	?
No rnd events	|	?
Time Warp	|	?
Iron man	|	?
Rand person	|	?
Rand social	|	?

[Darsnan]

______________________________________
Preference.. | Settings

Map size | Huge
Ocean | 50%
Erosion | Low
Life | Average
Clouds | Lots
Difficulty |

Transcend | Yes
Diplomatic | Yes
Economic | Yes
Cooperative | Yes
Do or Die | Yes
Flexible start | Yes
Tech stag | Yes
Spoils of war | No
Blind research | No
Intense riv | No
No survey | No Survey
No scatter | Yes scatter
No rnd events | No random events
Time Warp | No
Iron man | No
Rand person | No
Rand social | No
Chaunk starts in bad position | Yes


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[Net Warrior]

Cooperative off is one condition I asked for at the beginning of the thread....no joint victory....otherwise what Darsnan said sounds fine.

[Chaunk]

I'm fine with Darsnan's settings, except for techstag. I very much want this to be off.

[Darsnan]

One other thing we need to decide on is a name for the turn tracking thread. Anyone got any ideas for this?


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[Mart]

Game name:
Human Crossfire

Preference..	|NetWarrior|Darsnan|Googlie|Chaunk
		|Cybernetic|Gaians_|Caretak|Hive

Map size	|Huge	Huge	Huge	Huge	|Huge
Ocean		|50	50	50	50	|50
Erosion		|Low	Low	Low	Low	|Low
Life		|Aver	Aver	Aver	Aver	|Aver
Clouds		|Dense	Dense	Dense	Dense	|Dense
Difficulty	|-	-	-	-	|Guess what

Transcend	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Diplomatic	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Economic	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Cooperative	|No	Yes	Yes	Yes	|No*
Do or Die	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Flexible start	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Tech stag	|No	Yes	Yes	No	|No/Yes**
Spoils of war	|No	No	No	No	|No
Blind research	|No	No	No	No	|No
Intense riv	|No	No	No	No	|No
No survey	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
No scatter	|No	No	No	No	|No
No rnd events	|Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	|Yes
Time Warp	|No	No	No	No	|No
Iron man	|No	No	No	No	|No
Rand person	|No	No	No	No	|No
Rand social	|No	No	No	No	|No

*Special request of Net Warrior (the game initiator)
**Since Net Warrior started the game his vote may decide

AI factions:

Proposed variant 1:
- University
- Drones
- Peacekeepers

Proposed variant 2:
- Drones
- Peacekeepers
- Usurpers

Please see if it suits you all, still there can be changes made.
I will give all factions some bonus units in order to speed the game up a bit in the first turns.

[Net Warrior]

Suites me fine; any AI configuration is ok with me as well.

Please note that I think we also have a house rule that choppers are limited to two attacks on a base.

[Chaunk]

I think I prefer variant 1 for the AI, as the usurpers may give googlie a massive disadvantage with an automatic vendetta.

And please Net Warrior and Googlie, ask for tech stag off! I hate that setting!

[Net Warrior]

I usually play with tech stag off, so off is fine with me. I'll bow to the majority on this one.

[Mart]

You may propose AI players, I just made these 2, coz I do not recall other proposals from the thread

Tech stag changed for Net Warrior

[Googlie]

Hmm - my thoughts on set-up

Ok with most of the suggested, but with a couple of suggestions:

The AI plays better with sparse cloud cover - they forest the arid land right from the beginning (and don't put those stupid farms and solars on arid soil like they do in other settings)

I like random events turned on - it puts a premium on base facilities that counter them (energy banks, research hospitals, etc) and again, the game algorithm seems to have the AI focus on these too, thus creating (forests and facilites) an AI that can actually challenge a builder

I don't mind the Usurpers bsing in the game - it adds an element of diplomacy, forcing other players to choose their poison ( )

And just a personal preference - with co-op disabled, I've lost 2 ways to win (Caretakers can't transcend, and with the no-coop rule, can't assist another to transcend either). If we stick with the no-coop rule, then I'll change to the Cult - which would make the AI variant 1 the choice

(And by "no scatter", I'm assuming we won't see Unity Pods all over the map? - a big disadvantage to the Gaians (and Cult) as their ability to get IoD's becomes virtually non-existent. If the intent is to reduce the free tech lottery, then the scenario can be tweaked to say that Unity Pods never produce techs - or artifacts or whatever - there are 5 possible prohibitions)

[Mart]

Originally posted by Googlie
...

(And by "no scatter", I'm assuming we won't see Unity Pods all over the map? ...

The way I understand this:
No scatter, No=the option is off, thus pods are scattered on the map.
Is this what other players meant?