OFT (One Free Tech) Game

[Grandpa Troll]

...sorry Flameflash has Native Americans..hmm

Let me be Czar Troll IV of the Ruskies

Peace

GT

[hatschy]

Let's collect some setup info (some of the settings were not part of the discussion yet):

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Players are
Mathemagician (Rainerman of the Turks)
Protoss72000 (Aragorn of Germans)
FlameFlash (FlameFlash of the Native Americans)
Grandpa Troll (Czar Troll IV of the Russians)
J Bytheway (John of the English)
Dimytes (King Dimytes of the Vikings)

Game settings
Map:
- Size: Gigantic Map
- Shape: Doughnut

Slider settings:
- Wet/Dry 50%
- Warm/Cold 50%
- Ocean/Land 30% (more ocean than land)
- Island/Continent 50%
- Uniform/Diverse 100%
- Few/Many Goods 100%

Difficulty:
- Skill Level: Deity
- Barbarian Threat: Raging Hordes

Rules:
- Bloodlust off
- Pollution on

No AIs

OFT szenario settings
Free Tech: Within the first five turns (last chance is in the year 3800 BC)
One free warrior in first city: No

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If there are no objections, I'll start the game tomorrow evening. If you'd like to have some settings changed, please post to the thread before that time.

[J Bytheway]

Those settings are all fine by me.

[Dimytes]

Allright, and I still haven't checked out my free tech yet.... gahhhhh I really need to work hard making my mind up now.

[Mathemagician]

im fine with this.

@Dymites, im sure you will make the right choice

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Dimytes
Allright, and I still haven't checked out my free tech yet.... gahhhhh I really need to work hard making my mind up now.

Dimytes

Glad to have you aboard

Umm..to "help" you, although you did whoop me, I am thinking that a tech that would most probably help you would be Domestication ..I mean..with those strong,virile,young Tony Curtis looking Mounted Archers...what chance would we stand???


Peace

Grandpa "Trying-2-Help" Troll

[Grandpa Troll]

How does one work it with this many folks playing?

Do we allow restarts?

If so how many times?

By what turn?

I mean..if someone starts out on a river in a nice mountain range with goods..sweet!

not so sweet if you have an iceberg...

Just asking

Thanks

GT

[Dimytes]

You have a point Troll.
Maybe we should ban too much ice, swamp and desert near starting position.
If more than 12 of 20 tiles are crap(desert/swamp/ice) within city raiduis of first city, assuming you build it where settler starts, a restart could be in place. This leaves a minimum of 8 usefull tiles for capitol.

Limit 1: At least 2 players must ask for restart at same time.
Limit 2: 3 restarts total and a player may only ask for a restart once. ( It could take 3 weeks or more to just start up the game with 3 restarts)

Just some suggestions from me.

But there is a problem with restarting.
An example:
The game has been restarted 2 times and a 3rd and last restart is done.
Player 2 had a good start position on restart 2, forest+river.
On the 3rd and last restart player 2 gets Glacier+river. Now how fun is that?

[Protoss72000]

Those settings are fine by me. As for restarting, I don't really care so whatever you guys want.

[Grandpa Troll]

Ill go with what we agree with...BEFORE the game starts that is.

I mean..I dont mind a moderator modeating..BUT..if I say i dont like my start and someone else is same..then we go that way.

Just want to know..

I mean..Dimytes does so great when he plays Lawrence of Arabia..

Desert,dead @R$e tiles are actually playing into his strengths..
so he would like them..throw in a Caribou (deer) and maybe some cold crab cakes..

[Mathemagician]

im fine with the restart rules suggested by dimytes.

[J Bytheway]

It's probably easier if hatschy looks at all our starting positions and checks that none are unreasonable (using the cheat menu on the first turn) - that's the kind of thing that moderators often do...

[FlameFlash]

One thing I'd like to recommend is that, for fairness sake, Hatchy maybe kill off blue, start with 7 players, and just disband (if possible) all units of blue.

Blue, standardly starts on a river for some reason. RC and I did some testing of that a while back...

Green sometimes gets lucky, but blue almost always does.

[Mathemagician]

fine with that too...

[J Bytheway]

You can't disband all the units of a player (as a guard against stupidity). The best you can manage, AFAIK, is a SLIC trigger to kill off the player for you.

On second thoughts, you might be able to kill all the units with the cheat mode kill function.

The game does distribute the starting locations in order from the best that it locates downwards, so it is unsurprising that player 1 often starts on a river.