Re: Team A nations
 

looks good to me

team B also has dominance of blood and clams but hopefully our team has better synergy

Re: Voting so far
 

urmmm... i sent you an email already... i sent one awhile ago requesting my nation preferences. I'll send it in PM now.

Re: Voting so far
 

Okay, that leaves Yvelina.
I got your PM, but no Email... I'll go and check again =O

Re: Voting so far
 

If you need a sub or replacement, I'd be willing to join. My semester-break starts next week, so I should have plenty of time for Dom2. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Players
 

I just PMed Yvelina giving her 24 hours. I suspect she is gone for good but she may just be less of an obsessive than the rest of us. In case she does return you could include reverend in the nation selection provided he drops back out if Yvelina does reappear within a day.

Pickles

Re: Players
 

All he has to do is Email\PM me his nations of preference and if he has one, a multi-national strategy and he's good in case Yvelina doesnt show up [which I guess is going to happen (her/him not showing up)]

Re: Players
 

PM sent. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Players
 

we should really make a decision on our Team (B) as to what races we're gonna play. even if there's one variable, i'm sure we have enough to assign the races.

Re: Voting so far
 

i would like to play ctis and give ulm to somebody else http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Players
 

The 24 Hour Time limit has expired.
Now I'm off to read all the PMs and Emails and give out our nations =P

Re: Players
 

OKAY.
I have made up my mind, now Im going to PM everyone with out strategy (developed by alexti) as well as with their nations.
I'll tell you this much - almost no one got what they wanted, but I think no one got less than their third choice =P

EDIT (BLEH) : The Pantheon name is "Equilibirum", reverend's suggestion (also, the ONLY suggestion)

Re: Players
 

Time to go practice... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Players
 

Indeed, not my nation of choice, but it could've been much much worse. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Are we going to have a rule or pattern to name our pretenders? E.g. name must start with a B (for Team B) or an E (for Equilibrium) ?

Re: Players
 

Give your pretender a name and then Just put as much of Equilibrium as you can after it, as far as Im concerened.
But I didn't start this game, so its not my final choice =P
Doesn't matter meanwhile anyway =P
*Off to practice*

Re: Players
 

Adding equilib.. sounds fine - we just want to be able to
quickly id the team.

I have no inspiration for a team name but how about all team A names start with "A"?

(Arachnophilia for me)

Pickles

Re: Players
 

Aku for me lol

damn you guys made it hard for me to think of a name that starts with "a" lol

Re: Players
 

I believe its now time to go practice! Or as the Duke would say, 'it's time to kickass and chew bubble gum.. and i'm all out of bubble gum'

Re: Players
 

Agrajag, did you get everyone's emails? cos we're gonna need a better method of communication then PM (which is only one-to-one) or ingame.

Re: Players
 

Nope!
Still Cheezeninja and Reverend to go (all I have so far are the two alexs =P)
*cough* Cheezeninja and Reverend *cough* Please send your Email to me through the Email I gave *cough* Once I have everyone's Emails I'll Email everyone everyone elses Emails *cough* That sounds stupid *cough*

*cough*s are just so nice, they do so much to conceal the true meaning of what I intended to say
yas ot dednetni I tahw fo gninaem eurt eht laecnoc ot hcum os od yeht ,ecin os tsuj era s*hguoc*
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You'll never believe how fast I typed that Last line |

Re: Players
 

Don't drink and play Dominions. At least, not in Multiplayer.

Trust me, I know what I am talking about. ("Umm... why was my province X hit by a murderous winter when I casted it at province... uh... nevermind.") http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Players
 

Nope, no drinks involved.
Just severe boordination...

Re: Players
 

OK team A is ready to go, well give a couple of days for practice, so give us a holler when you are team B.

I will post the positons we are playing here when you are ready so Zen can distribute us on the map. I would post them now but that would give you valuable intelligence (like I care)

Pickles

Re: Players
 

OK... weve all had plenty of time to make a pretender and practice it. can we get started now???

Re: Players
 

I echo the Tauren - any action from the B team?

Pickles

Re: Players
 

and what about the map? did a third party ( zen? sheap? ) give us set starting spots on inland?

Re: Players
 

yeah one is suppose to be made up for us...the wrap around inland map with starting locations

Re: Players
 

we also have the new problem of agrajag going poof...so we need someone new for team b to replace him

Re: Players
 

you might want to change the title again, to let everyone know we have an opening.

Re: Players
 

or does anyone from team b have a friend they want in the game possibly so your teamwork isnt affected as much from the sudden player change?

Re: Players
 

Might also want to repost the team / nations, so a prospective player doesn't have to go through all the Posts trying to figure out what they'd be stepping into.

Edit: Especially since the team assignments were never posted for team B. I don't think you should expect someone to leap in when they don't know which of the nations are being played, and which of them would be open (or if the person _has_ to take the nation Agrajag theoretically assigned to himself).

Re: Players
 

Team B:
Caelum
Abysia
Vanheim
Mictlan
Pythium
Jotunheim
Man

i dont know which ones people have already claimed, but those are the nations to choose from

at this rate we'll be lucky to start this game by 2006 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Re: Players
 

how did this happen!? is it a confirmed poof or an assumed poof?

as for starting this game quickly, agrajag was playing Jotunheim, it would be easier if someone would like to play that race.

Re: Players
 

the thing is we need another player for team b to play jotum or whatever team b is doing

Re: Players
 

Team B is being very secretive and communicating through coded emails and third party reandevous. Our strategy is so good we have to keep it very hush-hush.

Be afraid... wooOOoOOooOoOoo

Re: Players
 

just a reminder: we're looking for an extra player to play in a team game. we're all playing new races, so it doesn't matter if you've never played Jotum, and if you have that's terrific.

(oh, and Team B has killer strategy too, so you'd be on the winning side http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif)

Re: Players
 

Zen after disappearing has still asked us how we want the map set up. Since we are stuck I suggested he did not bother & we look for someone else to do it.
We could still send him the teams as they are but that locks the team B replacement into Jotunheim. If team B wants to do this then send me a PM (with your choices) & I will send the team lists to him.

Cheers
Pickles

Re: Players
 

I guess this ought to be my job, since I'm hosting. But I would rather you let Zen do it.

If not, how do you want the map laid out? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Players
 

OK, in order to get things going, and because Pickles deserves a good arse-kicking, I'll take Jotunheim for team B.

So what's the plan?

Mark

Re: Players
 

Bah! that would be my strategy "in newb game 2"

Pickles

Re: Players
 

nice! thanks for joining the team Mark!

Re: Players
 

Send me a pm mark and we can get you the emails of all the players on our team, then maybe talk a little strategy.

Ok so now its time to work out the map, do we still have anybody to do this?

Re: Players
 

i guess sheap can do this for us now that zen bounced out?

Re: Players
 

Yes I am willing to do it, but I stopped paying any attention to that aspect of things after Zen said he would do it. So tell me exactly what is required and I will take care of it.

Re: Players
 

Sheap, we wanted someone (you?) to put 10 fixed starting spots on Inland grouped in the five on five teams. While I have yet to mess with the editor, I assume that this means you must know the ten races and which race is which team to make this happen.

Also, I thought that Mark the Merciful lived in the same house as Aku, which means they cannot be on different teams unless they have two computers AND two copies of the game.

Somehow, I think we have thus taken one step forward and two steps back.

Re: Players
 

Hmmmm.

So you want all the players on a team to be grouped together? If so, should they be relatively close, or all spread out, but just in the same general area with no enemies between?

Secondly, whatever situation Mark and Aku have, is not really relevant to the game, as they will have the same problem with any game they play in together. The team aspect doesn't really enter into it as the CD-checking has no concept of teams. And as long as everyone uses passwords they won't be able to look at each other's turns, even if they are on the same computer. So I will assume that they know what they are doing on this point.

Re: Players
 

mark and i dont live together...and i dont even know who he is

does he live with someone else in this game?

Re: Players
 

Sheap the teams should be evenly spread out with no enemies between team members. I think this may mean there is a "hole player" on each team with no adjacent enemies as there are 5, but we should be able to work round that
& thanks for the help.

Mark lives in my house (well at the moment) so I did not really want him on the other team as it has proved awkward in the past - there is a grey area between chatting about games we are playing & discussing in game plans. However we have stopped talking(!) so that should be OK. We have seperate PCs & seperate copies of the game.

Pickles

Re: Players
 

Hmm.

I think the only awkwardness comes when one of the two players is trying to maintain a deliberate air of ambiguity so he can time his backstab properly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

But that was a different game. It'll be straightforward enough when we know from the start we're in opposing teams.

Re: Players
 

it would be great if you could not have anyone start surrounded by allies so they cant even reach the opposition. i for one would rather start surrounded by the other team than my own.

edit: not to say that you should have someone start out surrounded...

Re: Players
 

Hmmm... I could have sworn you said early on that you were trying to recruit Mark on your team since you lived with him. But I could find no such reference in this thread.

Maybe it was a different Mark. Maybe even a different Aku. Could even be a different universe.

*sheesh* It's hell to get old...