FreshMeat - EA Newbie - (RUNNING)

effeDom · #1 June 20th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Game Name: FreshMeat
Server: LLamaServer
Players: 8 to 12, newbies
Map: Cradle (or Paraganos)

Settings --
Indies: 7
Special Sites: 50
Randoms: Common
Graphs: Enabled
HoF: 15
Research: Standard
Victory: VP (NON-Cumulative)=7 points (need to capture 6 capitals and hold them, which is half the nations+1 if we get full game)
Renaming: On

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PLAYER LIST--

Abysia: effeDom
Sauromatia: Executor
Pangaea: Ubercat
Yomi: Darkstone
Tir'Na Nog: Bwaha
T'ien Ch'i: majuva68
Arcoscephale: Piggles
Fomoria: Calahan
Niefelheim: meister_miagi
Helheim: Ossa
Lanka: anticipatient
Marverni: GrudgeBringer

players: 12
GAME CLOSED, UPLOAD PRETENDERS (when game is hosted)
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Rules (I hoped I'd not have to add any but I've already gotten some PMs about some stuff we should probably state at the beginning, so, here goes...)
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1) No known exploiting of battle spells. I dont even know the exploits but I've heard of Mists and Fog something or other used in some combo with the mage retreating and then the battle never ends so defender always wins, or something along those lines. Conclusion? You cannot retreat a mage casting any battle enchantment. Period.

2) Anyone staling will be given notice after 1 turn, I think this is automatic by the llamaserver anyway. Staling after 2 turns, a sub will be sought. If no sub by 4 turns, your nation goes to AI. There will be no waiting for anyone, turns will go forward every 24h. This is a newbie game and losing one turn isnt the end of the world. Keep this in mind when fighting a war as well, please, and if you know you are fighting a grueling 1v1 on someone, and they are stale, give them room to breath. Just play nice. Newbie game.

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*I changed magic sites down to 50 from 55.

Discuss changes and give reasons why if you propose any change.

This game is for newbies. No mods. Keeping it simple. First time I've hosted, and, for that matter, my first MP as well.
Hopefully will work without flaw but, please be patient should that not happen

llamabeast · #2 June 20th, 2008, 08:32 AM

Good stuff, yep, I'm very happy to host. Let me know when you have enough players and I will set the game up to accept pretenders.

Executor · #3 June 20th, 2008, 01:15 PM

I'm in as Sauromatia.

Ubercat · #4 June 20th, 2008, 04:52 PM

I'll take Pangaea, if it's ok.

Some of you may recall that I played a number of MP games last year and so might not consider me a newbie. I think that this game is so diverse that skill and ability vary widely based on how familiar you are with the faction you're playing. I consider myself a newbie equivalent because I'm out of practice and have never mastered the Pangaeans. I played 1-2 games with them but didn't do very well.

Now, what I really want to play is Mictlan, but I have a solid Mictlan build and enough of a handle on them that it would be patently unfair to use them in this game. I want to try out some things with the moosemen, though, and think I'm a reasonable fit here, as long as no one objects.

In fact just to make it easier, if anyone doesn't want me to take part, maybe you could PM effeDom. That way it's all anonymous. Thank you for your consideration.