MP: Tarrax2 (running) - MA 7 Players on Small Map

[Tarrax]

After a long hiatus, this is the second game I am organizing. Since the hassle of big and long games is something I can't stand, this will be a short and small game. My goal is to have this finished in a couple of months. Here are the game settings (additions/clarifications will be made as needed):

* LlamaServer
* CBM 1.84
* Middle Age
* 7 players
* Map: Spine of the World (http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Spine_of_the_World)
* Mercs are OK
* No diplomacy
* No score graphs
* Last pretender standing
* Turns every 24 hours first 10 turns adjusted as necessary afterwards

The rest of the settings will be standard or will be clarified if needed.

I will update this post with the nations as people sign up. We will start once we have all slots filled.

Players signed up:
* Tarrax - Bandar Log
* Bjaarn - Marignon
* Zachariah - Ermor
* Tratorix - Pangaea
* Raiel - Vanheim
* Valerius - Eriu
* LongBrodie - Shinuyama

If you're interested, show your interest by posting here.

Thanks.

Tarrax

[Bjaarn]

I'll join as Marignon

[Zachariah]

I'll join as Ermor, plz

[tratorix]

I'll take pangaea.

[Valerius]

About 8 provinces/player? Should be quite the knife fight. :p Please sign me up as Eriu.

[Tarrax]

... and that makes 7 ladies and gentlemen. Prepare your pretenders. I'll make the game in llamaserver within a day.

[Tarrax]

Game is up. Please upload your pretenders.

[Zachariah]

Sorry, maybe I missed something, but what's the hostname and port #?

[Zachariah]

My bad, didn't RTFM... :)

[Tarrax]

It looks like we are just waiting for borongo (who had told me he wanted to join in the IRC channel). I told him to join the forum and post here but he didn't. Maybe he forgot about it. I will give him one more day and if he still doesn't show up, I will look for one more player.

[tratorix]

I'd say pythium ain't showing up...

[Tarrax]

I agree. I changed the thread to recruiting again. Hopefully, we will get our final player in no time and we can start.

[LongBrodie]

I don't have a ton of experience, but I'm not a terrible player. I'd like to play as Shinuyama if you'll have me. :)

[Tarrax]

Sure, welcome. Go ahead and upload your pretender and let's get this thing started!

[tratorix]

The game has started.

[Tarrax]

So, I hope everyone is having a good game so far. Since we are getting close to turn 10, I thought I'd ask: Would you like to keep the 24h turn schedule or would you want to increase it to 36 or 48 hours? Let me know your opinions.

If I don't hear a lot of responses, I won't make any changes.

[Valerius]

I vote for sticking with 24 hour hosting for now.

I really find these game settings interesting. I dislike micro but I've never played in a game with so few provinces/player. Even a final showdown between two players would only involve each controlling a couple dozen provinces, which sounds very promising.

[Tarrax]

I vote for sticking with 24 hour hosting for now.

I really find these game settings interesting. I dislike micro but I've never played in a game with so few provinces/player. Even a final showdown between two players would only involve each controlling a couple dozen provinces, which sounds very promising.

That was my goal. I really dislike games where you end up with so many things to keep track of, you just don't care anymore or you end up playing a very inefficient game. Personally, I think even an end game with 20-25 provinces under your control is plenty to keep track of.

[tratorix]

I like having a lot of stuff to deal with, but this is fun too. At least I won't have to worry about my endgame strategy.

[Valerius]

I really dislike games where you end up with so many things to keep track of, you just don't care anymore or you end up playing a very inefficient game.

Same here. These settings result in the kind of limited gold/gems you'd have in a "poor" game (though I haven't played one of those). The difference is the low province count means you'll encounter neighbors very fast and, I would expect, have a greater chance of early conflict. That's ok, though: just have to factor that into your planning.

At least I won't have to worry about my endgame strategy.

You're probably right about that (unless there's a lengthy stalemate/turtling phase). I'll be curious to see how high a research level the final players achieve. And to me this is another bonus as I don't like endgame magic/SCs as much as I do early/midgame stuff.

[Tarrax]

Tratorix, I noticed you staled a couple of times. Do you need more time for your turns?

[tratorix]

It's been hectic for the last couple weeks, but I should be fine. Besides, I'm not really competitive, I'm just trying to be a pain before someone finishes me off.

[Tarrax]

It's cool. Just checking... We're all in it for fun after all. Let me know if you (or any others) need more time.

[Zachariah]

Anybody know what's up with the llamaserver? It hasn't hosted since Sunday.

[tratorix]

It froze up and llamabeast is busy with some personal stuff. It'll probably be at least a few days before it's fixed.

[Zachariah]

cool, thanks for the update.

[Zachariah]

Y'all may want to go to the game status page, and re-request your turn 39. I didn't receive mine automatically:

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Tarrax2

[tratorix]

Well, this has been an interesting game, but I haven't been competitive for about 20 turns and playing has become a pain. So I'm setting myself AI, as it can probably control my horde of maenads just as well as I can.

[Tarrax]

Thanks for playing tratorix. Hope to see you in another game.

[Valerius]

Sorry to see you go, tratorix. I was curious just how long the two of us could last in the middle of the map. :)

[Valerius]

I just noticed Van has staled two of the last three turns.

[Tarrax]

Yes, I just talked to him on IRC. He said he missed it barely in both instances. He indicated he might need some more time for his turns. I asked him how much he needs. We might increase the turn time a bit once we hear from him (and if nobody objects).

[Raiel]

If there are no objections, switching to a 48 hour clock would be appreciated... we made it to turn 78 on 24 hours, but things are about to get... interesting.

[Tarrax]

That's fine with me. I postponed the current turn 12 hrs and changed the hosting to every 48 hrs. If anyone objects, let me know and we can discuss it.

[Tarrax]

Just as an FYI, I will be traveling this weekend so I am going to postpone the next turn (#85) 48 hours. Hopefully, it shouldn't take me that long but just in case...

[Valerius]

FWIW I'm willing to concede to Van. Generally speaking I have no problem fighting it out to the end but if the game is already decided and we are just going through the motions it seems a waste of time to keep playing.

[Raiel]

FWIW I'm willing to concede to Van. Generally speaking I have no problem fighting it out to the end but if the game is already decided and we are just going through the motions it seems a waste of time to keep playing.

Well, I don't mind giving BL a chance at a big brawl if he wants, but I am rather certain I have this game in hand - and I've just about run out of sandbox ideas, so all that's left is alchemizing my 155 F to build 8 more temples and blood sac. Even if everything I have in the field could be defeated, I think I'd still pull off a domkill.

[Tarrax]

So I wanted to fight at least one big fight before I call this and I did. It didn't go well. :) Realistically, I think there is no way Vanheim would lose this. Since Valerius already said he would concede, I will declare this game finished.

Congratulations Raiel!

Thanks everyone for playing. Hope to see you again in Tarrax3!

[Raiel]

It was a fun game! Thanks, much, for letting me join!