[LA] Les Ponpons Flingueurs - running

[Herode]

Era : LA

Map : Asia Twist (16 land, 3 water)

Host : The game will be llamaserver/quickhosted on 48h during the first 20 turns, and we'll see later. 48h QH often means 24h turns but leaves some freedom for those who may have RL constraints - most of us I guess ^^
The game's page on llamaserver is here :
LesPonponsFlingueurs (http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=LesPonponsFlingueurs)

3 stales in a row => subbing or IA.
Delays will be liberally granted as long as they are asked in time.

Version Dom3 : 3.21+
Mods : Nope
Indeps : 9
Graphs : on
HoF : 15
Other : standard
Victory : VP.
42 points available (1VP/capitol = 17VPs, +25 VP scattered on the map), Victory gained at 30VP/42.

This game has been opened on the french forums of Cyberstratege : http://www.cyberstratege.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2087
You therefore must be prepared to deal with a whole bunch of grumbling froggies but don't be afraid : we all speak english :p

The game will run as soon as all players are ready. Of course, due to the forecoming Winter Solstice and New Year, the first turns may be run with an erratic ryhtm...

Nations :

++++ (16)
- Abysia : mscfish *
- Agartha : SpiritOfSnagga
- Arcocéphale : Radulphus
- Atlantis : Herode *
- Bogarus : veto *
- C'tis: david
- Ermor : Bébert
- Gath : Olive
- Jomon : Radioheart *, sub. Cupido2
- Man : Kuritza *
- Marignon : Quitti
- Mictlan : Juffos *
- Pangaea : Pataplouf
- Pythium : don_Pablo *
- T'ien Ch'i : Brazouck
- Ulm : Cyberpioupiou

~~~~ (1)
- R'lyeh : Galou

Subs if one of the registered players dismisses :
- Manfred


(*) : player name on the Shapnel forums.
Otherwise, playername on the Cyberstratege forums

[Juffos]

Can I take Mictlan, s'il vous plaît?

[Kuritza]

Yo, LA Man!

[don_Pablo]

LA Pithium please

[veto]

Bogarus, please

[Tifone]

I choose... LA Materazzi!! :D

Joking. Have fun mes amis :p

[mscfish]

Abysia,please.
THX~~

[Kuritza]

Ahem... 16 land, 8 players in your lists and 5 signups, which makes it 1,3 provinces per player (and 3 water provinces)...
Forget it, I'm out of this madness. :)

[DonCorazon]

Kuritza, those are the amount of players targeted for the map, not the number of provinces :)

[Wendigo_reloaded]

I'd like to join as Midgard

[Herode]

Welcome guys !
The players list has been updated.

Kuritza, those are the amount of players targeted for the map, not the number of provinces
:lol
Yep ! Kuritza, you're still registered of course. :smirk:
Asia Twist is one of the splendid maps of PashaDawg :
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41101

It doesn't seem to be currently registered on the llamaserver, I'll try to check this out asap.

[Wendigo_reloaded]

I'd like to join as Midgard

Err, nevermind, on second thought maybe this game is too big a time comitment after so long without playing. Sorry, it seems I cannot edit the previous post.

Have fun.

[Quitti]

I'd like to take Marignon

[nozshand]

sounds interesting, ULM for me plz

[Tifone]

Ulm's already taken, noz ;) - unless you're even Cyberpioupiou :)

[Radioheart]

Vive la France!

I am in as Atlantis

[Cyberpioupiou]

Hi.

nozshand, if you still want to play with Ulm, say it again and I'll switch to Marignon.

[Herode]

Ok, the list in page 1 has been updated.

@Radioheart : the game has been filled, sorry... I register you as a potential player if one of the registered ones vanishes in the Void. Keep an eye at the thread, anyway I'll PM you if a place becomes vacant before we start.

@Cyberpioupiou : Marignon is played by Quitti.

@all : please PM me your email @ddress, I'll build a mailing list and I'll send it to all players when the game starts.

I'll post here as soon as the game will be ready for your pretenders on llamaserver. Don't forget that we are llamahosted : no password on your files please (I want to be able to give any nation to a sub if a player stales 3+ times in a row :smirk:)

[Cyberpioupiou]

@Cyberpioupiou : Marignon is played by Quitti.

Oops... my bad, sorry.

[mscfish]

Only one sea nation?
I dont think it's a good idea.

[Herode]

I'm afaid we don't have much choice here : R'lyeh is the only LA aquatic nation. But many of the other nations have access to amphibian troops and/or summons
:capt:

Anyway, if you know some moded LA aquatic nations compatible with the current Dom version, we can try to advertise in their favour in hope 1 or 2 more players. I confess I don't know much about moded nations : there are soooo many vanilla nations that I'll never have time to try them all... :hurt:

[mscfish]

I'm afaid we don't have much choice here : R'lyeh is the only LA aquatic nation. But many of the other nations have access to amphibian troops and/or summons
:capt:

Anyway, if you know some moded LA aquatic nations compatible with the current Dom version, we can try to advertise in their favour in hope 1 or 2 more players. I confess I don't know much about moded nations : there are soooo many vanilla nations that I'll never have time to try them all... :hurt:
Haha,I'm sorry.
I forgot the atlantis had been land to the earth in LA.

[Juffos]

Late R'lyeh isn't quite the unstoppable juggernaut it once was because of patch changes, though having the land/watermass of three players is a huge advantage.

[Herode]

Indeed. I guess we, humble players, will have to fight fiercely against the Void Things, not even speaking of the Ermorian threat. :hurt:

Note : the Asia Twist map is not registered on the llamaserver - I thought it aw. And I'm unable to download it, the server sends me an error 500. I noticed llama about thais but he may be busy at the moment and I've got no asnswer.

Would you guys mind if we switch to another map ?
Alexandria maybe, or another one at your choice if you have ideas. As long as the map is a wraparound, I am open to suggestions.

[mscfish]

Indeed. I guess we, humble players, will have to fight fiercely against the Void Things, not even speaking of the Ermorian threat. :hurt:

Note : the Asia Twist map is not registered on the llamaserver - I thought it aw. And I'm unable to download it, the server sends me an error 500. I noticed llama about thais but he may be busy at the moment and I've got no asnswer.

Would you guys mind if we switch to another map ?
Alexandria maybe, or another one at your choice if you have ideas. As long as the map is a wraparound, I am open to suggestions.

I am in another game which use asia twist as the map at present.
When I first time down the map,there is also something wrong with it.
I use Firefox(not IE) and TOR(a proxy software) to solve it.And i down the map file with no probelm.You may try it.

[Kuritza]

I dont see this game on Llamaserver. Where (and/or when) should I upload my pretender, hmm?

As for Rlyeh... we'll see if patches changed anything for real. I kinda frown each time I see this Lovecraftian horror - it screws its neighbours worse than Ermor.
P.S.
This is a double-edged thingy, to think of it. Without Rlyeh Atlantis may grow fat too easily. :)

[Herode]

P.S.
This is a double-edged thingy, to think of it. Without Rlyeh Atlantis may grow fat too easily. :)
True, although Atlantis in not the only nation having a good access to water, it has strong arguments to use in this direction :D

I've just created the game with - temporarily - Alexander map.
The link is here :
LesPonponsFlingueurs (http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=LesPonponsFlingueurs)

You can upload your pretenders now.
llamabeast will look at the error I had when downloading & he will try to solve it and to enable us to use AsiaTwist as planned.

I've set up the game with "no automatic start" in order to avoid stales with players unable to play during Christsmas Holydays. But if we have all the pretenders, the game will start ASAP & I'll set up confortable delays during the said holidays.
From January 2009 to turn 25-30, the turn delay will be set up to 2 days. If some of you need more time, please MP me & I'll set up deadlines accordingly (as long as requests do not cause excessive delays...)

@mcfish : thanks for the tip but I'm trying to upload AsiaTwist on the llamserver library, not to dowload it on my computer. Sorry for the miswording ^^
(& of course, I'm using Firefox - or Opera. ;))

[Kuritza]

I wouldnt call Patala a nation with 'strong access to water' - nagas are pathetic fighters. So there's Atlantis and Mictlan to compete over the seas. I believe I didnt miss anything this time? :)

[Herode]

10 pretenders uploaded so far, we still wait for the last 7 (amongst them... my own :o)

I'm going out of home for a few days (you know, the Xmas thing & so on...). I'll check the game this week-end when I'll be back in my starting province and i'll launch the turn 0 if we are complete.

I noticed that a pretender has been register for Chelms, is that you nozshand ?

Also, thanks to llama, the map has been updated & we will play on Asia Twist as expected !

Merry Winter Soltice/Christmas to you, guys, & see you on the TOO in a couple of days :p

[Kuritza]

Chelms is belong to us. :)

[Herode]

Ooops, of course, Chelms = Man ! My bad :o

Nozshand, could you plase confirm you are still with us and what is your nations's choice ?

[Herode]

Still not a single word from nozshand.
I'll contact the reserve players in order to find a sub for the vacant nation.

[Herode]

Radioheart joins us as Jomon :)

[Herode]

Wrong start : I messed the victory condition in the setup... You will receive a new Turn 1 very soon and you will have to re-send your order. Sorry for the invonvenience, guys.

[Herode]

OK, not my mistake eventually. I'll post on the main forum to notify the bug. Please check your mail for the full details.

[Herode]

Another false start : a unknown player has uploaded a pretender for caelum, pushing Gath out of the game. Not very cool.
I'm going to see how we can correct this...

[Herode]

OK, game reverted to tha "waiting for pretenders" state. You don't have to actually reload your pretenders : I erased the prétender for Caelum and we're just waiting the missing one (Gath).

[Kuritza]

Eh... guys, we had holydays here so I missed the first turn. Staled turn 1 is a bit too much of a handicap for me, so I'd like to ask you for a rollback, or perhaps a restart... otherwise, I'm out. Really sorry for this.

[Herode]

3 stales this turn, and 2 stales in a row for Chelms.
Kuritza, are you still with us ?

Fellow competitors, don't forget to let me know of you need a delay or a sub in order to avoid stales.

[Herode]

2 stales in a row for Jomon, looking for a (temporary ?) sub.

[cupido2]

Hello everybody. I'm the new (temporary or perma) Jomonleader. Do I have any NAPs or wars going on, that I have to know of?

[Herode]

Sub needed for Pythium. Somebody interested ?

[Juffos]

Would C'tis and Gath please soon capitulate so we can put this game to rest? It was a good game. Mictlan is a beast.

[yandav]

I've just set myself (C'tis) to AI. Congratulations to Mictlan!
PS: you shoud post on cyberstratege'forum, I'm not sure that Gath's player is reading this forum.

[Olive]

Gath never gives up. :p

Okay, they do. Congratulations to Mictlan. :)

[Herode]

OK then, end of the game.

Congrats to the winner and thanks to the other players for the fun !

Can I declare the game finished on the llamaserver ?