Doomsday 2 - Fast-track-dif-res-high-magic-high-scores game

[Ossa]

It's time for another Doomsday game, this time without a chinese hacker pushing LA TienChi up through the roof.


Hosting time will be 24h for the first 2 weeks, then 48h. You should have plenty of time at hands to play.

The setting is for apocalyptic clashes of armies with battle-deceiding magic playing a part only in the endgame.


I'd suggest 10 players, if possible no water nations.
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Map:
- Glory of the gods (MP version 227+47 provinces)

Mods:
- Conceptual Balance Mod 1.4 complete

- Banned Spells
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?p=653551

Hosting:
- PBEM on llamaserver

Game settings:
- Indies: standard, Early Age
- Magic Sites: 70
- Gold: 225%
- Resources: 225%
- Supply: 200%
- Research: difficult
- HoF: 15
- Renaming: On
- Score graphs: On

Banned Spells:
- Utterdark
- Astral Corruption
- Arcane Nexus
- Burden of Time

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Players/Nation:

1. Ossa (EA Sauromatia)
2. PsiSoldier (EA Mictlan)
3. ReveredZombie (EA Ermor)
4. Juffos (Helheim)
5. Quitti (Vanheim)
6. Dragar (Abyssia)
7. Qiu (Arco)
8. LoloMo (Hinnom)
9. Traks (Niefelheim)
10. Falkor (Llanka)


Game is full!

I'll set up the game so you can send in your pretenders;)

[PsiSoldier]

I'll go with Neifle

[PsiSoldier]

Actually make that EA Mictlan if we get enough people to do this...

[Reverend Zombie]

I'd like to play as Ermor.

[archaeolept]

225% gold... heh. I'm tempted, but currently sanity is preventing me from joining a new game :D

[Juffos]

Helheim for me.

[Quitti]

I'll try my luck with Vanheim

[Dragar]

Abysia please

[Dragar]

should we go to CBm 1.4?

[Ossa]

*bump*

[qio]

Arcoscephale

[LoloMo]

Caelum please

[Traks]

I will try Niefels.

[LoloMo]

Oh wait, I changed my mind, let me try pangaea instead. Caelum is free now.

[Falkor]

I'd like to join.
My choice is Lanka.

[LoloMo]

Bump. And while waiting, I've decided to switch to Hinnom haha. :p

[PsiSoldier]

Any problem if I switch from Mictlan to EA Tir Na n'Og ? I cant imagine there would be a problem as no one has chosen it and its not off a list of nations that can be chosen from but thought I'd at least mention it here.

[Dragar]

It will be interesting to see how this one pans out.. I have the feeling that the difficult research will be more than countered by the gold boost

[LoloMo]

Ack, I'll be up in the mountains Thursday coming back on Monday. If we start before then, I'll have to bow out of the game. Sorry!

[Ossa]

I dont mind anyone switching;)

[Dragar]

judgin by the rate of pretender upload shouldn't be an issue lolomo ;)

[Ossa]

True....


Send in your gods!

;)

[Dragar]

just bumping this as it seems half the players aren't aware that the game is accepting pretenders?

Perhaps a change in the thread title?

[PsiSoldier]

Or maybe PM'ing those who have not sent in...

[Ossa]

I'll do both - but how do I change the title;) ?

[Dragar]

I have no idea, but everyone seems to do it ;)

[PsiSoldier]

Well I just sent PM's to everyone who has not sent in pretenders with the exception of Ossa who has not sent in his but I'm sure being the Game admin he may just be waiting for the others and hasnt forgotten.

[LoloMo]

Just got in from a trip into the mountains. I notice that CBM 1.41 is out now, shall we use that version instead? It's mostly typo fixes, so I don't think there would be any need to resubmit pretenders.

[Ossa]

I'll change that, you're right.

[Ossa]

I've send my pretender and readjusted the game to cbm 1.41.

The only one missing is now Qiu with Arco.

I'll ring him again - shall we go without him otherwise? I would like to set tomorrow evening as the latest deadline.

[Falkor]

Well, as the game is running I see the research is at normal difficulty.
Am I right?

[qio]

Well, as the game is running I see the research is at normal difficulty.
Am I right?

Would seem to be so.

[Reverend Zombie]

Are we going to restart?

[Dragar]

we definitely need to.. with income where it is research will be ridiculous at normal levels, exactly the opposite of the original intent

[Falkor]

I've got great starting position, but I agree with Dragar. We need to restart. :(

[Ossa]

Sorry, this mistake was not intended (huh!)

I'll restart with the correct settings right away, no need to resend anything.

[Dragar]

do you need us to resend pretenders? the game has been sitting open for a fair few hours, assume the restart didn't work properly?

[Ossa]

No need to resend anything - I just had to write Llamabeast about my admin password. :( I seem to have forgotten it after I reset the game... that was kind of stupid, sorry:/

[qio]

If you do not receive a reply within the next 2 days, how bout just making Doomsday3 and everyone resends their pretenders.

If you want to do this the smart way. You could make the new game now and tell everyone to resubmit. That way if plan A, contacting the admin, does not work we might be able to restart faster. You can always ask for the other game to be removed when we manage to start the other.

[Ossa]

Yep, that should be the smartest idea.

So, everyone *bows his head in shame* please resend your pretenders to doomsday3 :/

[Juffos]

You probably should send a private message to every player so they will know of the current situation.

[Ossa]

Problem solved - Doomsday2 is starting;)

Have a nice game!

[qio]

Please post links to ALL relevant components (mods, maps), if they do not come with the base game, on the first page of this thread. Can't be bothered to hunt for these, if I don't have them. I am tempted to rename CBM v1.3 simply to v1.4.

[Quitti]

Ah, may we live in interesting times...

[Dragar]

eh?

[Quitti]

"May you live in interesting times" is allegedly an old chinese proverb/curse (wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times)). Lot seems to happen now in the game - just see the score graphs ;)

[Dragar]

Had a quick look on llamaserver before (afg), saw a bit of change. Ah yes, looks like quite a few provinces may have changed hands, some quite lucrative ones too. It will be interesting to see if army sizes start dropping as some serious conflict begins. Should be a fun game!

[Falkor]

Can we switch to 48h timer?
We have 35th turn. I think it's a good time to do so.

[LoloMo]

It's amazing that we've gone on 24 hour quickhost for 35 turns. This is the fastest moving MP game I've ever played in. I second the switch to 48 hour hosting interval though, as armies are getting huge, and the summer beach season is coming up here in the Philippines :D

[Ossa]

That's what I intended with a "fast track" game;)

I'll switch to 48 hours with the next tick.

[Quitti]

48 hours is fine, though I've enjoyed the fast pace a lot :)

[LoloMo]

Can I request a 24 hour extension for this turn? I'm going to have a busy weekend

[Falkor]

Ossa, I hope you will give LoloMo the time he requested.
It's not that much of a delay and we've had a good pace.

[Ossa]

Set;)

[Falkor]

Thanks. :)
The war between Hinom and Lanka goes into deciding phase. Would be a shame to take advantage of a stale turn.

[LoloMo]

Thanks, we're nearing the deciding battles indeed! :)

[LoloMo]

Hellheim this turn opened their attacks on Hinnom with an opening blitz taking 7 provinces. I expect them to take 10 more provinces in the next two turns, and build a fort in each one of them. Hellheim is twice the size of the second biggest nation Vanheim, and have a fort in every single province they own that our scouts can see. They also have the forge up for dozens of turns already. Hinnom have been fighting Lanka for years and war against them is not expected to be resolved anytime soon, although I'm agreeable to a ceasefire with current borders.

Since no one is willing to fight Hellheim, I move to declare Hellheim the winner.

[Falkor]

There is no such word as 'ceasefire' in Lankan language. :evil:
We will die fighting and we will do it soon. Both Hinom and Sauromatia increased the pressure and our fall is only a matter of time.

[Juffos]

My might cannot be matched. Submit or die, foolish hunams.

I have approximately 10000 gems in store, endless supply of clams and stones and I gather over one thousand blood slaves each turn. I have a blood bonus site, which has allowed me to mass vampires and vampire lords who will be undefeatable with my blood sacrifice padded dominion. I have also fortificated every single province I have, making raiding even more difficult.

I have had the forge of the ancients, mother oak and the well of misery since the early game. I have found a construction bonus site. Needless to say, my tartarian supercombatant force is without par.

I also have an alteration bonus site. I have been wishing for additional gems for quite some time. My gem supply is infinite.


Could we please end this game?

[Ossa]

Well... ok. Your arguments sound convincing enough for me;)

I'll open the next round soon - I enjoyed this game settings enourmesly.

[Falkor]

I have no objection to this ending. I would wait for other players opinion though.

[LoloMo]

I concur. Helheim won this game 30 turns ago :)

[Quitti]

Indeed. I've been trying to hang on but I simply couldn't keep up to Helheim's forces. Well played. I was getting only around 400 slaves a turn which all were going into vampire lords and blood sacrificing, yet still that blood site Helheim had made me unable to catch on. And I was getting only maybe 5-10 tarts per turn, which would've been plenty in any other game, but not this :)

So, I also vote Helheim to be the winner.

[Falkor]

Congratulations Juffos!

Thanks everyone for a nice game! :)

[Falkor]

Well, I suggest declaring the game as finished.
No need to overload llamaserver. ;)

[Quitti]

Indeed, I pm'ed Ossa a while back, but haven't recieved a reply yet. Or neither a mail from llamaserver.

I also made a pretty image about the situation at turn 74, when we pretty much voted the whole game to end. I don't think anyone has any objections to me posting it - so here it goes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/Svorly/dd2.jpg

[vfb]

Quitti, that map is awesome. You must tell me where I can download that font! I'm guessing it's either "War Room Sans Serif" or "Kilroy Gothic".

[Quitti]

It's called "QJTHA-BBB" - an abbreviation from "Quitti just got to holidays and - BEER BEER BEER" ;)