Running - Of Markatas (Maraktas) and men - Late era

[Graeme Dice]

New late era game starting up. Settings are as follows:

Era: Late
Map: 15 provinces per player.
Independents: 5
Research: Standard
Sites: 50%
Hall of Fame: 15
Mods: CBM 1.6, Endgame Diversity
Diplomacy: Machiavellian
Victory Conditions: Decision of surviving alliance.
Hosting Schedule: 36 hours to start

Nations:
Midgard - Graeme
Marignon - Inindo
Gath - Zapmeister
Abysia - rmcolosimo
Jomon - Herr Heimlich
Mictlan - Juffos
Pangaea - Ghoul31
Ermor - Ossa
Utgard - Quitti
Atlantis - Peacekeeper
Ulm - Digress
Bogarus - Noobliss

[Zapmeister]

In as Marignon

[Inindo]

Ahhhhh any chance I can try Marignon Zap?

[Zapmeister]

OK, I'll take Gath.

[Inindo]

Thank you! Please sign me up for Marignon Graeme, time for me to go pretender making

[rmcolosimo]

Can I try Abysia?

Thanks.

[Zapmeister]

All players should note that the version of the Endgame Diversity mod given at the top of the thread for that mod is incompatible with CBM 1.6, which is also being used in this game.

The compatible version that you need is here:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9646&d=1268487374

[Inindo]

Google is scary... I just googled "markatas" cause i don't know what it means, top hit was this thread "MP New Game... 7 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 2 hours ago..."

[LDiCesare]

I'm tempted to play as Patala. I mean, you need markatas, don't you?
What is the proposed hosting schedule?

[Herr Heimlich]

If there is still room, I´d like to hop in as Jomon.

[Juffos]

Midgård, Marignon, Abysia and Gath... this bloody game needs Mictlan and I am willing to sacrifice myself.

[ghoul31]

pangaea

[Ossa]

Could I join with Ermor?

If you dont want that I'd like to try Ryleth. Or Mictlan, if you object Ryleth too;)

[Herr Heimlich]

Could I join with Ermor?

If you dont want that I'd like to try Ryleth. Or Mictlan, if you object Ryleth too;)

Juffos already took Mictlan.

[Quitti]

I'd like to join in as Utgård if the game is not full yet.

[Peacekeeper]

ill sign on for Atlantis if youll have me.

[Graeme Dice]

That's 11 people which is close to the right number for a game to continue to move quickly. Map suggestions?

[Quitti]

Urraparrand should be about the correct amount of provinces - I think there was a updated version of the map somewhere, (might it be this (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41374)?). There is quite a lot of water for just one aquatic and one amphibian nation though, but as we have ermor and mictlan in too, they can invade the waters easily enough.

[Peacekeeper]

Urraparrand should be about the correct amount of provinces - I think there was a updated version of the map somewhere, (might it be this (http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=41374)?). There is quite a lot of water for just one aquatic and one amphibian nation though, but as we have ermor and mictlan in too, they can invade the waters easily enough.

theres an "icy urraparrandv2" on llamaserver that has it listed as 155 land and 25 water.

Same map as Urraparrand, but with ice covered sea provinces added in as wastelands. They form ice bridges around the map, and lower the sea province count so that LA R'yleh can more reasonably be added to the map.

Map edit by Jazzepi

[LDiCesare]

Actually 11 people is a bit too much for me so I'll drop out of this one.

[Graeme Dice]

How are the starting positions on Urraparound? Decently distributed? If so, then we could use that map.

[NooBliss]

Did you start already? (am I late?)

[Digress]

If you would like an eleventh I would like to give Ulm a go if possible.

[NooBliss]

Yeh, and I'd try out Bogarus if you're not closed yet.

[Graeme Dice]

Okay. With 12 people, we are sitting at the maximum. I'm going to suggest the MP balanced Sharivar as it has 180 provinces.

[Quitti]

As long as we're using the one without preplaced sites, I'm fine with Shahrivar. The one with preplaced sites is too unbalanced, there is one blood 50 site and at least one conj30 site preset in the map.

[NooBliss]

But please, change me to Bogarus and Digress to Ulm. I have no idea how to play LA Ulm, to be honest.

[Digress]

Neither do I :)

[Graeme Dice]

The game has now been set up on Llamaserver.

[Quitti]

I presume it's the "OfMaraktasAndMen" -game, with a slight typo in the name? All the settings seem to match, so I'll submit my pretender to that.

[Inindo]

Yay, game on!

[Peacekeeper]

Good luck everyone.

[Zapmeister]

Time to edit the thread title?

[Peacekeeper]

should be maracas imo.

[Inindo]

And so the struggle for survival begins as Gath attacks the Marignon Empire with E/N blessed giants. Marignon retaliates by inciting the population in their capital in an attempt to shut down troop production while bringing up troops and his feared God to the front lines. A long and bitter war of attrition is sure to ensue where only one nation shall be left standing...

[Peacekeeper]

And so the struggle for survival begins as Gath attacks the Marignon Empire with E/N blessed giants. Marignon retaliates by inciting the population in their capital in an attempt to shut down troop production while bringing up troops and his feared God to the front lines. A long and bitter war of attrition is sure to ensue where only one nation shall be left standing...

your only just starting? hell, Midgard and me have been fighting for 3 turns now!

[Inindo]

lol guess i'm just not as blood thirsty as you guys :P

[Quitti]

I'll be gone for friday/saturday at least so I could use an extension up to sunday afternoon EU time after the current turn hosts.

[Inindo]

Tried emailing my turn twice now, never got a confirmation email from llamaserver for either and the server says my turn has not been submitted...

[Quitti]

Well, you didn't stale at least.

Anyway, I got my turn 12 in, so the next one might need postponement but not this.

[NooBliss]

Ahhahhaha :)

My God has ignored script to cast stoneskin instead of iron and died in his own frost aura :)
Having received chest wound on weak indies during turn 3 and getting stuck between Mictlan and Ermor didnt help either, so I was toast anyway. Good game, I'm going AI since there's not much left of me anyway - my armies are dispersed and God is killed, absolutely nothing I can do so I guess its ok now.

[Quitti]

Good game NooBliss. Saw that last fight, and you would've won without that stoneskin :)

[Inindo]

Seems my sent turn file had a problem, and I am not in a position to resend it. I'm dead this turn anyways so if you don't want to wait you can just host the turn.

[Zapmeister]

Let it be known that the rulership and fate of Gath now lies in the weathered hands of Graeme Dice.

[Graeme Dice]

I've upped the turn timer to 48 hours, and increased the warning emails to 12 hours. I've also added 12 hours to this turn so that I can get a handle on what is happening in the game.

[Peacekeeper]

I've upped the turn timer to 48 hours, and increased the warning emails to 12 hours. I've also added 12 hours to this turn so that I can get a handle on what is happening in the game.

welcome back.

[Quitti]

Indeed, welcome back :) Now I can rush you again! (No, just keep doing what you are doing there, you're at least keeping Ermor busy...)

[Peacekeeper]

Hello everyone, ive been leading the nation of Atlantis and its been a lot of fun, Ive been at war ever since the 2nd turn of this game and never had a break. Currently, Mictlan has an army that i wont be able to defeat in any manner on my capitals doorstep(1 of 4 provinces i own on land) and i cant contribute to the game very much anymore in my position. Im posting this because im going to be going out of town this weekend and I probably cant find a sub given the position im in in the game. Id like to just stale and let mictlan and Ermor defeat me if thats ok with everyone.

[ghoul31]

If you can't find a sub, then go AI. Don't stale

[Juffos]

Brace for drama, for there will be some soon.

I must have a rollback. My PM to the admin clearly said the game must be postponed until 20th of this month, but there weren't any postponements.

Let me submit my missing turn file and force host after that and the game will proceed in full and complete order.

Thank you.

[Graeme Dice]

I'm only reluctant to do the rollback because there may be different battle results. It's definetly possible to simply have Juffos submit his turn and use everyone else's old turns that are already present on Llamaserver.

[rmcolosimo]

<shrug> No battles here, so a rollback works for me.

[Herr Heimlich]

Turn 53 and I get the Message Ermor and/or Abysia might have cheated?!

[Graeme Dice]

If they have a province that is being sieged where a unit did not have sufficient resources to complete in one turn, and then canceled that production, you'll get that message. It also could be caused by somebody who didn't follow directions and didn't delete their old .2h file before opening the new turn.

[rmcolosimo]

I am guilty of the second. I deleted the 2h file off my main rig, but submitted from my laptop. Sorry.

[Digress]

Could I please get a 12 hour extension for the current turn ?

Life has got a little big.

[Ossa]

You need to find a sub for Ermor, I was unsuccessful in finding anyone. I'll be off from tomorrow morning on, unfortunatly:(

I enjoyed this game like no other in the last few months.

I'm sorry I cant coordinate the takeover, in the worst case the admin should put Ermor to ai.

[Quitti]

Also - we should move to 72h hosting or something like that. Turns are taking quite long to resolve, especially for those who need to script mages/troops.

[Herr Heimlich]

Since we´ve come some turns since Ermor went Sub/Ai, what has happened with them? Have you guys found a sub, has Ermor been stale these last few turns or has it gone AI?

[Quitti]

According to this (http://www.llamaserver.net/doAdminAction.cgi?game=OfMaraktasAndMen&action=showstales) he's staled last 2 turns.

[Quitti]

Ermor is still not back, and I didn't get warning about last turn hosting from llamaserver. Ermor has now staled three times in a row, and I'm not sure the admin even cares about the game. Shouldn't someone at least set him AI if finding a sub proves hard?

[Digress]

It seems a bit harsh to give the admin a kick - lets find out what happened to the Ermor player and take it from there.

On another game related note ... Arcane Nexus has been up for a while now. I assume we are just letting Mictlan field test all the EDM beasties for us :)

[Herr Heimlich]

Ermor did send out a message about this. I wonder, why the game simply wasn´t stopped at that point till a sub had been found.

[Graeme Dice]

Having been eliminated from the game back around turn 20, and having offered to turn the Admin over to one of the remaining players, I have only been reading this thread about once every other week or so. Anybody who wants to admin is welcome to.

[Juffos]

Having been eliminated from the game back around turn 20, and having offered to turn the Admin over to one of the remaining players, I have only been reading this thread about once every other week or so. Anybody who wants to admin is welcome to.

I was once in a similar situation and got slandered upon the whole scene. You are being lucky here.

[rmcolosimo]

Well got the new turn and it says I was vanquished.

Did someone do something to me? I had a ton of prov, and was doing okay I thought..

[Gregstrom]

Domkill?

[rmcolosimo]

<shrug> I guess so.. But I thought I had enough Domain.. Ah well it is what it is.

[Juffos]

I would like to apply for the position of Pantokrator.

Considering that Jomon was the only nation who didn't stale last turn, I suppose other players too want to end this game.

I have Mount Chaining, 3000 gems in supply, undispellable Nexus, Wish access and access to every single magic path in the whole game and endless hordes of w9s9 beast bats.

[Digress]

I am willing to concede - after burning lots of gems on failed dispels I have nothing but flocks of vampires - and no blood uniques or real path diversity. Plus my AI neighbour is attacking me just before it gets swallowed whole by Mictlan (presumably).

I should have attacked Abysia the moment I had Pangaea beaten.

[Herr Heimlich]

I concur, let Mictlan be Pantokreator, I was wondering where the other players went to.