Anyone for ANY PBEM here?

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Humphrey
Sent. Hopefully there will really be no more delays now.
btw, purely hypothetically and just out of interest, how much harm do you think it would do, if someone lost their second colony pod?

That really tough-- it puts someone quite a ways behind-- basically the empire is half as big-- Some of the impacts will depend on the available terrain but 20 years sounds like a good guesstimate

[Humphrey]

20 years you think? ouch.
And my new computer still crashes randomly (less often now though). Oh what a fun day.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Humphrey
20 years you think? ouch.
And my new computer still crashes randomly (less often now though). Oh what a fun day.

Having such a thing happen to me was the reason I learned to plant the first two bases ASAP. Its all turn advantage in getting things started quicker.


If this happened to you, I can console you with the fact that my start is a fungus ridden desert

[Humphrey]

It was pure supidity on my part. 'oh, if I move the pod along that river, I can get it to a good spot quicker, but the river has fungus on it. nevermind, what are the chances that a worm will appear?'. Oh well. At least I have a river. And the worms are very weak for the first 15 turns, maybe the pod will be lucky.

[Flubber]

2104 to bluetemplar

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Humphrey
It was pure supidity on my part. 'oh, if I move the pod along that river, I can get it to a good spot quicker, but the river has fungus on it. nevermind, what are the chances that a worm will appear?'. Oh well. At least I have a river. And the worms are very weak for the first 15 turns, maybe the pod will be lucky.

ahh-- if its not dead yet you will likely be fine-- As you observed, worms are very weak early

As the energy challeged Hive, I am jealous of your river

[Humphrey]

It's a lovely river. You can't have it, so there!

[bluetemplar]

If you want we could restert the game: I've found a way to place more starting units on random maps:
I make a new scenario
I press Y so I can't see the map.
I randomly generate the map
I randomly generate 2 numbers for each player => starting coordinates.
On these coordinates I create one "Unity crash Pod" : an Unity Transport Foil with X transport capability.
The I add all X units to the same square!
I think I will make all units veteran so that Santago don't receive the elite +1 movement bonus.

This would help much for the start : we could win 20-30 turns if it's 4 pods one crawler 2 formers 4 scouts for the normal factions.
(for santiago I think it would be 3 rovers 1 scout...)

PS: of course I will communicate you everybody's position coordinates... It takes a bit of the "randomness" bit it insures you will have the same knowledge of the map than me. Of course you'll have to trust me about not looking at the map itself...
I also think that I will delete the Monsoon Jungle.

PS2: Anyway, turn 2104 sent to SebP...

[SebP]

2104 to humphrey. restart or not, i don't care. IF you restart, i'm cool with the above. only 1 former perhaps, so that cent-eco is about as good as 1st tech choice as with the usual start (then again, maybe more choices here is a good thing)

[Humphrey]

I'd rather not restart I think.

Haha! Take that, you stupid mindworm!

turn sent.

btw, I've never seen a river that is so long.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Humphrey

btw, I've never seen a river that is so long.

I hate you even more ---

All I have seen so far is fungus and arid tiles

[Humphrey]

/that/ river isn't actually in my first base's production radius, so it's not actually being worked yet, so, don't worry, it could be worse.

[SebP]

"/that/" river?

[Humphrey]

[Flubber]

2105 to blue

Given my terrain I would KILL for a river