MP Game, CB Mod, Tripled Income
 

I'm feeling an urge to start up another multiplayer game with non-standard conditions. I am personally of the opinion that one of the major reasons that national troops aren't used is that their gold cost is too high to justify their use compared to mages. Thus, to experiment with this, I'm hoping to set up a game where the income of each nation is closer to what was obtainable through tax and patrol micromanagement in Dom:PPP. Thus, I will be reducing the population required to produce gold to a third of its current value. This should make national troops and the more expensive castles required to produce them a much better investment.

We will be using the latest version of the Conceptual Balance mod, and there are no house rules. We will be playing on a map with no more than 15 provinces per player. Turns will be on a 48 hour quickhost.

The game conditions will be:
Map: 10-15 provinces per player.
Magic Sites: 50%
Independents: 6
Renaming on
Standard Research
No house rules
48 hr quickhost
The winning condition will be to control a number of victory points equal to the number of players. Each capital will count as a victory point. There will be a number of other victory points spread around the map. The amount of these victory points that are spread around the map will be one less than the total number of players.

I will be playing Mictlan.

The players are:
Graeme: Mictlan
Animal: Machaka
Cainehill: Jotunheim
Shovah: Pangaea
Reverend Zombie: Marignon
Tyrant: Vanheim
Folket: R'Yleh
Izzyz: Arco
Shmonk: Ulm
Oversway: C'Tis

68.148.13.231, port 11111

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to counter their money problem of expensive mages and hunting tax loss? good idea http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif. sign me up to pangaea.

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You can count me in as Vanheim.

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I see it says "No house rules" but I just wanted to check, are pop killing themes ok? What about underwater nations?

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There's absolutely no limitations on themes or nations.

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Anybody else interested in this game?

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I'll play, but i want to think about what nation a little.

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I'll take Marignon. It's been awhile.

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May take a nation and slot, sounds interesting, but won't know for sure until the weekend.

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I am sorry. I won't be able to play this game.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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I'll take Vanheim please.

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I would like to play Rye'lgh

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they were the other nation i considered (massed mages+illithids)

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So, any news on when this might start, or do we need more players first?

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i hope soon, i want to reach the point of more games than i can handle=nervous breakdown=getting off school.

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I'll start the game up tonight and provide the contact information.

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Oh - thinking of Jotunheim myself, or perhaps Machaka.

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Are there still places left for the game?
If there are I'd like to play Machaka if Cainehill takes Jotun
but if he doesn't I'll go with Abysia.

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Animal, go ahead and take Machaka - I'll take Jotun or one of the other open ones.

Graeme : Are you handling the triple income via the map file, or will we be needing a mod that triples it? (And will resources likewise be tripled?)

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I'll post the mod for income tonight. I'm not planning to triple resources, unless people think that would also be a good idea.

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The current players are:
Graeme: Mictlan
Animal: Machaka
Cainehill: Jotunheim
Shovah: Pangaea
Reverend Zombie: Marignon
Tyrant: Vanheim
Folket: R'Yleh
Izzyz: Arco
Shmonk: Ulm
Oversway: C'Tis

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Seems like a good idea to me, similar to rich world doubling both resources and gold. Otherwise nations that can crank out low-resource high value troops (Vanheim for instance) have an edge over those with resource intensive troops.

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i would triple resources too, could be fun (drools over posibility of producing 10 black knights/knights of the chalice/KNIGHTS TEMPLAR per turn)

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I'll triple the resources as well then.

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good, otherwise no nation with high resource troops

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If you need 1 more player for whatever map you wanted to use, I'll join. Because 8 is a more rounded number of players to have, right? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

If you've got room, I'll choose a nation later this afternoon, after I get home from work, but I'm thinking Ulm, Arco or Abysia.

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to spam heavy infantry and mages? just pick something no-one likes like caelum RotR and die a happy, silent death.

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hehehe I have yet to play Caelum, even in SP. I tested it once and thought it would be a different play style than I would like, so I stopped.

But if you really need someone to beat up easily, I may choose Caelum just for "fun". Because you never know, I could deliver a thorough trouncing... to my neighboring indy provinces. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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that why i suggested return of the raptors http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif most of their stuff sucks.

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Woot! Just waiting on the mod, and announcement of the map. Gotta field test things just a little bit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'll choose Ulm, if you still don't mind an extra person.

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Count mein for Arco if still open.

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C'tis, please.

Unless of course the game is too full.

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Here's the mod for tripled income and resources.

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Coolness. Have you picked the map and setup a host yet?

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Hmm.... This could be an "interesting" game. We won't hit the unit limit, will we? I love the extra gold/resources, but I can see BIG armies forming right away.

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When creating Pretenders, should only the MegaMoney mod be enabled, or does the "vanilla" cbcomplete (vers. 5.4) also need to be enabled?

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Just MegaMoney - he added the changes for money to the existing 5.4.

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Where are we to send pretenders?

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The server is running now at:
ip:68.148.13.231
port:11111

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What map do we need, or is that known yet?

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i cant connect...

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Announcing the map would be good - otherwise someone without the map is sure to be on dialup. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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You should all be able to connect to the server now. With 10 people we can play on the Kingdom of Karan map if nobody has a problem with it.

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where would i find this?

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You could try googling "Karan Dominions" or some such.

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The Karan map is available on Illwinter's site under their maps section.

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Karan is fine with me

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I'm fine with this map. Almost ready to upload my pretender, just let me know when.

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I'm good with Karan, and had been playing my practice game on it for this matchup! Ready to go.