An old PBEM for you...

[Mart]

We should hear from Bdanv, his factions were: Gains, Drones, Hive, Morgan, Univ, but now I'm not sure what it will be.

I can make map now, though.

[alexx]

please see my second pbem ad.

I seek there ppl for beta test of my multiplayer scenario.
Maybe you would like to play?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171219

Alexx

[bdanv]

1. With abundant alien life, I prefer Gaia also. If we are going to have abundant life, perhaps no one should have Gaia.

I'll take the Drones then.

[Mart]

I am testing the scenario. The setup is currently with tech stagnation, so:

bdanv - Drones
florin79c - Pirates
alexx - Morganities
mmontgomery - University

You can send your preferred passwords in pm.

And it's not to late to change your faction (if I got them wrong...)
I will test scenario for some number of turns, coz we have Pirates - I will try to determine if everyone has enough opportunities and no serious hindering drawbacks about the starting location.

[Mart]

Originally posted by mmontgomery
... I would rather play without any AI factions at all. They are typically cannon fodder for the closest human opponent. ...

After this many years we have quite a few ways to change that. It's maybe too late now, but AI may be sufficiently enhanced and no game files would be in need of modification on your computers (all this stuff gets saved in a save file, we now know what these settings are, which get into the save file and which don't)

Anyway, there should be balance between difficulty and ability to win, it is no fun to loose to AI in turn 40 or 50, but loosing transcendence to AI or maybe winning by 1 or 2 turns would be interesting. But it's so difficult to tune the scenario - there are numerous factors during play.

[bdanv]

You can send your preferred passwords in pm.

@ Mart: I pm-ed you my password for the game

[mmontgomery]

I pm-ed my password also.

[mmontgomery]

Has everyone PMed their passwords? Are we about ready to get started?

[alexx]

I PMed my passwor yesterday. I asked Mart where are we now.
Hopefully it should be not long from now...

[bdanv]

Originally posted by alexx
Hopefully it should be not long from now...

can't wait ...

[Mart]

Game launched here
Hopefully everything works ok.

University should be able to choose the free tech. In the last test I haven't seen any problems. You should be able to select first techs ok, I had to move Morgan though one place up, switched with Gaians cause of Centauri Ecology tech. For some reason Morgan did not work well on 5th position. It should be ok now.

For graphics you can make a version of Alpha Centauri.ini with factions as in the turn tracking thread linked.