Don't Starve - Multi Era - Intermediate & vets - Running

[Bullock]

All players with a track record of at least few months of play are welcome (on shrapnel or somewhere else). The game will be relatively fast paced, so don't join if you lack the time for such game.

Map: TBD
Players: 6-12
Expected Commitment: High
Age: Multi
Diplo : Everything is allowed. Trade is binding though.
Turns: 30h increase on request
Mods: CBM 1.94 / Streamers & standards / Single Age
Gamelink: http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Dontstarve

Ind:7
Gems:50
Renaming: ON
Charts: OFF
HoF: 15
All other settings: Default

all settings can be discussed.

Disallowed exploits:
*Copying Bogus' orders and overfilling enemy lab to prevent his own forge.
*Probing armies with scouts/commanders must be done in such a way so as not to block movement.


Players:

Bullock - LA Ermor
Ossa - LA Marignon
Vargr - MA Pangaea
Ghoul31 - EA Niefhelm
Evilhomer - MA Ryleh
Rytek - MA Midgard
Jolly Roger - LA Jomon
Starcryst - EA Caelum
GFsnl - LA Ulm
Colonial - EA Ulm

[Bullock]

It might turn to be a small game since a quite big one just started.
If you don't want to join because there is a LA Ermor let me know i'll pick pythium instead.

[Ossa]

LA Marignon

[vargr]

MA Pangaea, please

[ghoul31]

Nief

[Evilhomer]

EA pangea

[Bullock]

Welcome everybody.
There is going to be a lot of maneads in this game !

@EH back to the source ? ;)

another 3 players would be nice ! please come in

[Evilhomer]

Pan is always fun to play but I plan to switch to a water nation if the map permits.

[Bullock]

the map depends of the nations picks & the number of players so feel free to pick a water n.. you can even pick both, with multi era there is so many nations to choose.

[Rytek]

sign me up. So many nations to choose from. let me think about it and ill get back.

[Bullock]

It seems you haven't played the game for while. You should have a close look to the CBM Mod if you are not familiar with it. But welcome in.

For the map if we are <= than 8 players i 'm proposing parganos wrapped.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?p=819781#post819781

Game is up for pretenders

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

[vargr]

If Evilhomer wants Pan I could take LA Atlantis, I don't really have a preference. Both are interesting and fine to me.

Does this version of Parganos still have those large low income (waste, mountain etc) areas? Could be an issue. But I'm fine with the map.

[Jolly Roger]

Please count me in.

LA Jomon.

Cheers, Klaus

[starcryst]

I'll take EA Caelum.

[Evilhomer]

If Evilhomer wants Pan I could take LA Atlantis, I don't really have a preference. Both are interesting and fine to me.

Does this version of Parganos still have those large low income (waste, mountain etc) areas? Could be an issue. But I'm fine with the map.

Go ahead and pick Pan vargr. I will pick MA Rlyeh instead

[GFSnl]

Hi,

I'd like to play as LA Ulm.

[vargr]

Go ahead and pick Pan vargr. I will pick MA Rlyeh instead

MA Pan it is. I have a build almost ready, will upload tomorrow.

[Bullock]

Hi,

I'd like to play as LA Ulm.

Glad to see you in.



We have a descent number of players, i'm expecting to start the game tomorrow night, recruitment is still open until then.

Gentlemen, its Time to work on your pretenders !

[Colonial]

Can I sneak in with EA Ulm?

[Bullock]

Sure welcome in.

[Rytek]

Ok, I have decided on MA Midgard.

[Bullock]

OP updated.

I think the previous map will be too small for 10 players. (~115L+15W)
Switched to realm of roaming rhinos (~165L+15W)

A classic but well balanced map with all sea connected for our water nation player. Feel free to bring some other map ideas or your map preference between those 2 above.

Without comment we go with the rhinos' map

[Bullock]

Recruitment is still open for a couple players.

[Bullock]

After some thought i think I'll switch back to parganos. Its 12/13 lands per land players + the wation nation. Sounds fair.

[vargr]

I'm ok with both maps

[Bullock]

Come on guys, i can't wait to see my skellies running everywhere !

Still waiting for 5 pretenders !

The map sounds quite unfair for the water nation in fact...(one third of the water province are not connected) so lets go for the rhinos' map with random spawn.

[Colonial]

I'm always one for a touch more spacious maps, the endgame is going to be sprawling anyway after all...

[Ossa]

Will send in my pretender now.

[Bullock]

8/10 ! Hurry up i'm starting the game as it is tonight.

[Bullock]

OK guys, game is about to start. (Rytek if you read me !)

It's a random spawn. So you are allowed to complain about your starting location, but you have to do so turn 1. Other players will judge if it requires or not a reset.

2 caps might be (very) near each others but there is plenty of space so try to befriend and look the other way !

Good luck gentlemen.

[Bullock]

i have a cap with only 2 adjacent prov. I can play with that but that means there is no restriction (or bad one) so don't hesitate to report bad/unplayable starting loc.

[Rytek]

ugh, I missed out? I am sorry I just came home from a training seminar. I was just going to upload pretender. OH well. Luck guys.

[Bullock]

There is still a probability that we have to reset, so stay tuned !

[Bullock]

Well it seems i was the only one with a ****ty starting loc. (but i don't mind with Ermor) and we have reached turn2 without any complaint.

But keep checking the forum Rytek i might start a new game soon.

[Jolly Roger]

My capitol has only 4 adjacent provinces. Below average but definetely playable.

Cheers, Klaus

[Rytek]

ok. good luck. I took too long trying to test out the new CBM.

[Bullock]

I'll be out for a 4days trip. I'll most likely have the time to get the turns in. But in case i can't, i will switch timer to 100h so the game might run as usual and prevent me from stalling.

[Colonial]

Anyone have extra air or fire gems they fancy trading for earth or nature? PM me

[Bullock]

Trading my F/W/N gems for D or S gems 1:1

[Colonial]

May I request a 24 hour extension? I have a travel day tomorrow

[Bullock]

oh sorry dude i missed your request, prolly because of the forum issues.

[GFSnl]

I won't have access to a computer with Dom 3 until Thursday 14:00 CET. Can I postpone until then after this turn hosts?

[Bullock]

Yeah i'll do my best to no forget.

[Bullock]

Postponed

I'm now trading my F/W/N gems for D or S gems 1:1.5

[GFSnl]

I managed to take another turn in an internet cafe from my USB but I'm still not back till thursday 14:00 so please extend again.

[vargr]

Sorry about the stale. I thought I had sent my turn in, but seems I didn't. Not at home atm, but I'll play my turn tomorrow in time for the planned hosting.

[Bullock]

Just to be sure i'm still trading my F/W/N gems for D or S gems
at a ratio of 1gem of yours for 1.5 of mine.

[Colonial]

hey, can I get another 24hour extension?

[Bullock]

hey, can I get another 24hour extension?

done

[ghoul31]

can we change this to 48 hours?

[Bullock]

i switch to 36h, if some1 else ask for 48h i'll do.

[Evilhomer]

Unfortunatly RLyeh has been destroyed by ermor/caelum. Best of luck to all remaining armies.

[Bullock]

Thx for sticking to the end, always a pleasure to have you in my games.

[vargr]

I take it it's some kind of bug that with large armies, the battlefield enchantmets like mass protection and fog warriors don't affect all the troops (at least in the replay)? The squads on the edges of the battlefield seem to be left without buffs resulting in mages wasting gems casting the same buffs over and over again..

First time actually playing the freespawn nations myself so this hasn't occurred me before. Does somebody know what the actual troop limit is?

[Bullock]

Pangaea is one of the favorite nations of Evilhomer, maybe he knows something about it.

[vargr]

I've seen it happen to people I've played against before and there's some discussion about it in older threads in this forum. But I've yet to find an exact number of troops that can be covered by the spells with AoE: BF. I suppose it has something to do with battlefield size scaling up with the number of troops but the total number of squares in the AoE of BF-spells not. I guess.

[vargr]

i switch to 36h, if some1 else ask for 48h i'll do.

I'd like 48h schedule as well, I hope this is ok. While I'm usually able to do the turns faster 2 days would be better to avoid rushing.

[Bullock]

ok done

[Jolly Roger]

Hi mate.

I will be on vacation from 3rd to 10th of July.
Could continue at July 11th.
Please postpone turns until I´m back.
Sorry for delaying this thrilling game !

Thanks

Klaus aka Jolly Roger

[Bullock]

Arrrrglll nooooo :)

Have fun !

[Jolly Roger]

LOL

I know mate, it´s very hard to bear such a delay.

I´m very fancy to see what they come up with Dominions 4.

Can a game be better than Dom 3 ?

Cheers,

Klaus

[ghoul31]

can you send the current turn before you go?

[Jolly Roger]

Done, mate !

Cheers,
Klaus

[ghoul31]

what happened? The game was about to host, now it switched to Saturday hosting?

[Bullock]

Yeah since we have to wait a week for Jolly Roger, i thought i could avoid another stale of Ulm. I'm looking for a sub btw.

[Ossa]

He's almost dead anyway;)

[Bullock]

we will see that, cause we have a sub ! :)

[GFSnl]

Great!

So far this has been a real fun game.

Although Ermor is getting really, really scary.

[GFSnl]

So who is the kind person who took the helm of EA Ulm?

[Bullock]

don_Pablo did.

Btw shaaaaame on you with this purgatory, it's for the weak !
And huge misfortune for me it bumped out my only global...

i'm still trading my A/N/F for D/S gems.

[Bullock]

Come on lets resume this. Jolly's turn is in.

[GFSnl]

Greetings fellow living ones,

As you've seen my Purgatory Global has been successfully dispelled by the evil undead. Without this global I'll be overrun by undead and not much later you will be too!

So if anyone wants to have a shot at winning this game I suggest you either send me a bunch of F gems so I can recast Purgatory and keep fighting Ermor and you stop fighting your petty wars between yourselves and attack Ermor immediately!.

[Bullock]

Lies lies lies !

I have nothing to do with the dispel of purgatory. (yeah i know it's a big surprise :)). Which means i still have my huge stack of S gems. It's then pointless to send him F gems.

ALso he was part of a group of 3 nations dogpiling EA Ulm. So i took my white shiny armor of "justice" and helped him by attacking one of his foes. In that case the mean nation of LA Ulm.

[GFSnl]

I need more time.

Can I get a 24h extension. Tnx.

[don_Pablo]

Btw score graphs are revealed (as usual after llama's crash)

[GFSnl]

Can you guys please stop fighting and attack Ermor, NOW!!!!

Whatever.....

[Bullock]

... or you could help me against LA Ulm !

Anyway i'm trading my N/A for D/E/S gems.

I'm also paying a good price in gold for the staff of dark regency.

[GFSnl]

Wow, Bullock....

I rewatched the turn and I just noticed how well protected your scouts are :D

[Bullock]

Yeah lol :D
I can't believe he had to get caught on such a small PD the only turn he has to transport items ... Well at least he survived =)

[GFSnl]

Ok, it's over guys.

Ermor has the Queens of elemental Water and Air.
A million Wendigo's and a D income of more that 70 each turn.

I'm not going to defend anymore.
You're to late.

[vargr]

Now would be the first time that I have borders with Ermor and not getting attacked by someone else, so a bit shame..

But I agree that Ermor's likely been in too secure position for some time already and the Well is just icing on the cake - you must have dumped quite a lot of gems into it considering you knew it would have to overwrite a random global.

I don't mind calling the game, especially as I have two other late games still and Dom4 is coming soon :) But if we decide to continue we need everyone on the alliance, including GFSnl!

[Bullock]

Ok, it's over guys.

Ermor has the Queens of elemental Water and Air.
A million Wendigo's and a D income of more that 70 each turn.

I'm not going to defend anymore.
You're to late.

Hey GFSnl, don't lose hope ! Actually you are doing pretty good you have lost only a couple provinces in like 2 years of war and it was at the beginning ! Fortunately i get the crystal fortress before the situation started to stall :)

Also i might rename my commander in "queen of..." just to confuse enemy spies :D


Now would be the first time that I have borders with Ermor and not getting attacked by someone else, so a bit shame..

But I agree that Ermor's likely been in too secure position for some time already and the Well is just icing on the cake - you must have dumped quite a lot of gems into it considering you knew it would have to overwrite a random global.

I don't mind calling the game, especially as I have two other late games still and Dom4 is coming soon :) But if we decide to continue we need everyone on the alliance, including GFSnl!

I haven't dumped i have invested after years of deprivation my beloved D gems ! and i collect way less than 70D gems each turn.

Honestly i consider the game far to be done, i don't even feel to be in such leading position. Nief is strong (just realizing jomon is losing) Pangaea is too (he has even more shaff than me ! scary) and the duo of Ulm which i'm fighting are also worth a big nation (and both players know what they are doing ;)).

To be honest i'm a bit worried that everyone looking into my direction while there is several other nations of the same size/power or nearly.

But if we have unanimity about bowing to the modestly mighty Ermor i'm taking the easy win :)

And you are all invited in my first dom4 game ! (i cant wait)

[vargr]

Could I get a 24h extension please?

To the living people of this world: My joining the anti-Ermor alliance (aka the Axis of Good) is not going to be any fast solution to this undead menace. There is only an easily defendable land chokepoint between Pan and Ermor and a lot of coastline from which Ermor can raid with impunity. All Ermor's homeland is fortified, without food supply, covered with the mage destroying global and stacked with skeletons. Time is not on our side and soon the darkness will fall upon us all..

Also, EA Ulm stalled. Not good in this situation :(

[don_Pablo]

Also, EA Ulm stalled. Not good in this situation :(

A technical issue.:re:
Solved.

[Bullock]

extended

[vargr]

Well that was stupid. Forgot to move half of my sabbath slaves and thus no army of lead. But who needs MR anyway!

I'd again like to remind people of the obvious: it's turn 64 and LA Ermor is not getting weaker but stronger. Also, even if I eventually could breach my only access to them (not looking good atm) progress would be too slow due to the fort spamming and dominion effects.

Btw, seems that Marignon fights EA Ulm still?

[Bullock]

Yeah Vargr, it's like the impassable northern wall in game of thrones but it's my poor undead defending against the living invasion lol ;)

I'm afraid for you that you have already all the help you can have.

Marignon has pledge loyalty to me after i repelled the Ulm invasion from his land and therefore prevented a certain death for him.

And nief has a fair ruler who won't join a nasty dogpiling on my poor nation. Especially since he has so many opportunities to strengthen his nation with the land of the busy people attacking me ;)

[vargr]

Well I have to try on the diplo front, as the actual front is so depressing! :)

[vargr]

I will be travelling from 27th to 31st. I may be able to submit a turn during that but can't promise it. Could you please delay the game accodingly (back to normal schedule from Sept 1st)

I will play the current turn (68) before leaving.

[Ossa]

To tell the whole story, Marignon was the first nation to invade Ermor. Unfortunatly the previous ruler of EA Ulm backstabbed me. LA Ermor on the other hand proved a honorable foe and has agreed to help me against EA Ulm when the steel warriors were knocking on Marignon's wall.

[Bullock]

Turn extended for Vargr.

Btw who dared deny me the scepter of dark regency ??
I'm willing to pay well or trade for some other ubber items !

[vargr]

Thanks for the delay, my turn is now in (if somewhat rushed).

I don't have much time for Dominions in the near future (work related stuff) but I'll try to get the next turn finished in time for the planned hosting and hopefully can play normally after that.

7-15.9. may be a problem though. I'll try to submit at least two turns during that period but the 48h schedule won't be realistic for me then. Sorry about this!

[GFSnl]

No problem with me. Take your time.

Dominions 4 release has been delayed anyway :p

[Bullock]

No problem with me. Take your time.

Dominions 4 release has been delayed anyway :p

Nothing to add :)
Don't hesitate to ask for postpone or to switch to 72h if needed.

Cheerz

[vargr]

Nothing to add :)
Don't hesitate to ask for postpone or to switch to 72h if needed.

Cheerz

Thanks! I think I'm good with 48 h until Saturday, after that perhaps 100 h intervals for the next week and I'll try to play as often as I can. Probably only two turns that week though. Maybe we should change to 72 h after that.

Btw, the maleness of the Pans continue to impress - not even Water Queens can resist the seduction! (yeah I know, 1-2% rolls but who cares about stupid numbers..)
But I have no idea why I decided to sacrifice my precious Eagle King like that :(

[Bullock]

Alright np.

Concerning the Queen it was my mistake i have at least 400 undeads who could have supported her and i didnt send them ...

I guess i'll take your sea invasion more srsly especially with ulm bothering me in the other side of the sea.

[vargr]

My turn (73) is in, please increase the interval for the following turns (100+ hrs for a week)

Sorry for these delays, this is a fun game with all the options given by high gem settings and late game research - if a bit laborious. I'll try to catch up later on.

[vargr]

Thanks for the delay. My turn is now in and I think I could continue with 72h hosting from now on.

Haven't been able to make any progress against Ermor though. My attack options are quite limited due to the geography and raiding achieves nothing with the fort and skeleton spamming. And now I'm out of the seas once again :(

[Bullock]

And now I'm out of the seas once again :(

And i have my Queen back :D

So we are now at 72H/Trn

[GFSnl]

Yeah! And just when you think you're gaining on Ermor there appear a bunch of Grendelkin to shatter those dreams :(

[Bullock]

Yeah! And just when you think you're gaining on Ermor there appear a bunch of Grendelkin to shatter those dreams :(

A bunch ... lol :) i have got only 1 !
You are trying to make me look bigger than i am ;)

[GFSnl]

Maybe a little :P

[Bullock]

So what ? Nobody is scared by the dark anymore ?
I'm wondering if burden of time would have been better.
I thought Utterdark was cutting income & supplies (instead of ressources...) so i'm a bit disapointed :)
Do you face a lot of desertion ?

Anyway i'm trying to start a new game in case some of you are interested.
http://www.desura.com/forum/shortcut/thread/73577

[ghoul31]

my income is 406, and my upkeep is 1,800
So I'd say its pretty effective.

[GFSnl]

Sorry I missed last turn.

Can I get a extension for this one too.
I would like another 48 hours cause work is crazy.

Thx in advance.

[Bullock]

Yeah sure i was getting worried :)

[GFSnl]

Are you guys gonna do anything against Ermor?
Or are you just happy cowering in fear now that he has almost half of all provinces?

It's now or never guys!

All in or bust!

[vargr]

Like I said I have only two narrow land passes to Ermor in addition to the coast. Not surprisingly those are heavily defended. Raiding is useless as every provice within my reach has a fort and crapload of skeletons - can't breach them, Ermor keeps the gems and gold is obviously irrelevant. In fact, bringing my maenads to the sieges at this point could actually be an advantage for Ermor, making it easier to reach the HP autorout (I'll never have enough MR on them even if I can buff for physical/elemental dmg). Every turn there is some action on these borders and I bind alot of Ermor's forces but it's been a stalemate so far.

I believe Ermor has reached the critical mass long time ago and this will just be a very long grind to the inevitable. I'll keep playing if people still believe Ermor can be toppled but before I commit everything I have to the attack I need to know what Niefelheim is planning and would like to coordinate this with LA Ulm as well - I think I mentioned this before.

[Bullock]

Nief seems to be about to join if it can comforts you but EA Ulm is almost dead (but his cap is going to be a pain in the *** to capture, congratz about that !)

At this point considering you can't recruit stuff & my gems income you all seem doomed :)

Btw Vargr you can expect grudges for stealing my mascot :mean:

[vargr]

Btw Vargr you can expect grudges for stealing my mascot :mean:

You mean the wraith lord? Don’t blame me, he just saw the error in his ways and got enlightened!

Eons ago he was a human too and now the memories surfaced when confronted with Pangaea – the nation of love and happiness :angel

[Bullock]

What is the general feeling of the remaining players about the game ?

GFSnl seems to lack time, Vargr is ok to surrender so what is ur position Ghoul ?

I'm really enjoying the game and would gladly continue playing it if everybody does but actually the micro starting to get heavy so i'd rather end it now than in a couple turns. However if you feel like playing 10 or more turns i'm fine with that !

[ghoul31]

I'd like to see how my attack against you works out.

[ghoul31]

ok lets end this

[GFSnl]

Yep. I agree. I concede.

Very well played Bullock!

[vargr]

I'm ok with ending this as well. Had a lot of fun, thanks everyone!

[Bullock]

Glad to hear that, micro was getting awful.
I'm sry if I've been a bit shy on some front, i was afraid to have a breach in my defense and i've played (too?) carefully.

Thanks to everybody for sticking i know it's kinda discouraging to fight an army who seems to have no end.

Special thanks for Don pablo who subbed a crap position and managed to build a strong defense with barely nothing. Too bad you didn't own Ulm from the beginning.

See you in dom4 guys ! (Hopefully with CBM nextgen)

Cheerz