The beaver song ,CBM1.94+LA Assimilation mod 1.1 6/7 remaining

[Minor Kitty]

This game is intended to be a entry level game. To give some guidance I would say fewer than 10 MP games is a good cutoff point. I don't mind experts but keep in mind that this has assimilation mod and I'd hate for the noobies to be rolled over by turn 20.

Players 10, Hosted on Llamaserver
Map: Cradle of Dominion

CBM 1.94
Assimilation 1.1 (needs patching for EA but otherwise fine)
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=46696&highlight=assimilation

Proposed Rules:
Research: Standard
Gold: 400
Starting provinces: 1
Sites: 75
Hosting: Every 24 hours for 21 turns, then votes can be called for a change
All others' standard.
Graphs: off

Diplomacy: Trades binding, treaties binding provided that they are announced to everyone.

Assimilation mod allows the recruitment of some flavor units (but never elite) from the capitals of conquered nations. No fire mages? Visit Absyia.

All standard exploits banned: Bogarus orders, autospawn locking forts, filling labs, pining armies with retreating scouts.

Players: 7/10
Acro: Minor Kitty
Marrigon: Skymoon
Gath: Cux47
C'tis: Darkwind
Man: Angelsong
Ermor: redmage
Bogarus: Psycho Chick

[skymoon]

la mari, please.

[YellowCactus]

EA Kailusa Please!

[ghoul31]

EA Kailusa Please!

you aren't a new player. You have been playing since 2004

[YellowCactus]

Hey Kitty, did you always have the information about 'entry level play' up? I didn't see that. Sorry!

And I do have less than 10 Dominions3 MP games. My time was spent in Dom2! It's fine if you want me to sit this one out, but I'll also play if you like!

[Minor Kitty]

Hey Kitty, did you always have the information about 'entry level play' up? I didn't see that. Sorry!

And I do have less than 10 Dominions3 MP games. My time was spent in Dom2! It's fine if you want me to sit this one out, but I'll also play if you like!

It's fine just keep in mind who you are playing against if you decide to rush early.

[YellowCactus]

Oh, I get it...Thought Assimilation put all the ages together. Lets see how many new players you get, and if you need more players, I'm happy to hop in. Large, High-Magic games take a LONG time to play, and tend to be lots of fun!

[cux47]

LA Gath, please

[Darkwind]

Sign me up for C'tis, please. I started playing a while ago, but also stopped a while ago, and haven't had much MP experience (especially with this fancy new CBM that gives paths other than Astral, Death and Blood a decent endgame).

As a side note, I'm not sure I've heard of most of those exploits (or maybe I just forgot them). The retreating scouts trick (if you can call it that) I understand, but what about the others?

[AngelSong]

LA MAN.
Must Witch latent in the damn song.
Kill them all！

[Evilhomer]

I am not a new player, but if you have problem getting players I would like to give Abysia a try.

[redmage]

LA Ermor. Welcome to join us!

[Psycho chick]

Can I join? I have played this with some friends several times but it's my first MP. I want chose LA bogarus.

[skymoon]

Waiting a long time. Kitty, should we start with 8 players?

[Minor Kitty]

Well I don't mind but for that to happen,

In pretenders send you must.

[Psycho chick]

something wrong with the llamaserver? I send twice, but no reply.

[Minor Kitty]

game started & evilhomer requested drop

[cux47]

You may have the game tolds you that you need to install the ***...Late.dm, if this happened, just delete the two blanks between the"-", hoping this just happened on me only...

[Darkwind]

Marignon and C'tis have signed an NAP-3.

[skymoon]

Longlive of the friendship!

[Darkwind]

Gath and C'tis have signed an NAP-3. Long live friendship! :)

[cux47]

Chelms and Gath have signed an NAP-3.

[Darkwind]

You might want to update the thread title, Minor Kitty. It looks like only six remain, and a week and a half after game start too! Arcoscephale has gone AI.

[Minor Kitty]

Ah yes writing research papers: had to cut back. I'll update the thread title, BTW is anyone interested in admining? PM me for the password, I won't be able to check on this thread as much

[Darkwind]

Well, since neither I nor Minor Kitty have mentioned this yet, I'm the new admin. Take any gripes about the speed of the game or requests for extensions to me. On that note, considering half the players staled last turn (and both Chelms and Gath have staled at least the last four turns) I think I'll postpone the next turn 24 hours for now while I investigate, perhaps longer if a need for subs arises.

I apologize for the delay to everyone! Unfortunately, a game with 2-3 staling players would get rather boring quickly, especially with only six players total left. :(

[Darkwind]

I have posted a new thread searching for subs for Chelms and Gath, as those nations appear to have abandoned the game (though I am still attempting to contact the players to determine this for certain). In the meantime, I have postponed the turn another 24 hours. I sincerely apologize, Psycho Chick and skymoon (and anyone else reading this), for extending the turn so long. Simply letting these nations perma-stale or setting them to AI would make the game substantially less fun, as it would become more about who conquers more of those nations' territory than anyone else.

[Psycho chick]

So many stale people made this game boring.

[Darkwind]

Well, as I see it, we have a couple options right now.

Man and Gath have both staled significant portions of the game. Ermor may only have staled twice, but they've had this long after me emailing and PMing them. They're gone too. Right now we could deal with this in a few ways:


Wait for subs. Decide how long we want to postpone the game, say, a week (or postpone it indefinitely until at least one person is found). Honestly, I don't think anyone's willing to take over these positions. They've staled too long. You never know, though.
Get on with the game and let the cards fall where they may. The three of us are still left. The three-nation dynamic would certainly be interesting.
Carve up the staling nations somehow (this is weird, but there are three of us and three stalers, it might work.)
We could give up, of course. Sad, but sometimes there's just no interest.

What do you guys think?

By the way, if we do continue, I've been thinking about setting the turns to 48 hours (still quickhost of course). The turns will only get longer as the game goes on and finals are coming up.

[skymoon]

3 active.
3 stale.

I agree to close the game. It's more easy to launch new game than find 3 subs.

[Psycho chick]

We could give up, of course. Sad, but sometimes there's just no interest.



I agree this.

[Darkwind]

Alright. Since there's no interest, I guess the game is over. I don't think a winner can really be declared this early on, but so it goes. Well, it was fun playing! Thanks, you two.

No thanks to the people who bailed without notice before turn thirty. Who does that? Lame people, that's who. :)