Laurus : Game On!
 

Era: LA
Players: 14
Map: Map has been generated. I stole urrapand, and turned some of the water provinces into ice covered wastelands. This should reduce the problem with R'yleh being the only water nation, and give some interesting ice-land bridges for land nations to cross over. Map link is below.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...807#post672807

R'yleh still has access to many more water territories than a land nation will, but they tend to be in straight lines, instead of one big pool, so I think it balances out by slowing expansion and creating dominion issues.

Host: Llamaserver, PBEM
Mods: CBM 1.4 (Just straight 1.4. There is no air 8 bug.) >>NOT 1.41<< Make sure CBM 1.4 is enabled during pretender creation so that you have the correct point costs for your gods
Hall of fame: 15
Graphs: OFF
Renaming: ON
Victory Conditions: Conquer every territory, or earn concession from remaining players
Everything else default

Hosting Intervals: 24 hours until turn 20. After turn 20, when 2-3 people request it we'll move to 48 hours. Upon request progressively more time will be added as the game moves into later turns.

Game has been started on llamaserver, please upload your pretenders.

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

Jazzepi - Man, Tower of Awesome
fungalreason - Bogarus
Hadrian_II - agartha
otthegreat - Abysia
Incabulos - Ry'leh
Alpine Joe - Arco
Isokron - Ermor
Zapmeister - Mictlan
Toran - Pythium
Phalent - C'tis
Redeyes - Ulm
DonCorazon - Gath
Apsophos - Pangaea
cupido2 - Jomon

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (1/15-20)
 

I'd guess you want to have this prefixed as MP, rather than Map. Unless the color was to draw attention to it, in which you have succeeded. :)

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (1/15-20)
 

I'll join... Bogarus

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (1/15-20)
 

I will join as agartha

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (1/15-20)
 

I'll join as Abysia.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (4/15-20)
 

if LA Riyleh is allowed I would like to give them a whirl.
Then I will be at my game limit until one of the others concludes or dies.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (5/15-20)
 

I'd like to get in this as arco

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (5/15-20)
 

I feel the need to get stomped on by a huge alliance early and would thus like to try Ermor.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (5/15-20)
 

Sign me up for Mictlan

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (5/15-20)
 

I'd love to get my unfortunate hands on Pythium this time, thanks :)

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (9/15-20)
 

Buzump.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (9/15-20)
 

I'll join as C'tis

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

Wraparound map?

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

I'll gladly join as Ulm, seeing that I just got knocked out of Madness

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

I'd love to do a wrap around map. I'm not good at map editing, though :( Actually I asked for help on the basics of map editing a long time ago, and no one seemed to have any idea.

If you know someone that would like to spend the time connecting a map like that, and editing the graphics that it would at least be palatable, we could totally play on a wrap around map.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

Haha. I'm in the process of having that happen to me as well. Hopefully I can cripple Kissblade before I'm finally eliminated D:

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

I am in the same boat - I just posted a request for a basic overview. Anyway, I'd like to play if we use a wrap around map. I'll take any nation that I haven't played before - maybe Gath.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (11/15-20)
 

Hah, let us hope LA man is less of a letdown for you then.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (11/15-20)
 

I played LA man in the other game. It was just a problem of the fact that the preset starting positions meant that Kissblade could land his dragon on my capital on something like turn 3. I was building a 3 turn build fortress since turn 2 (or three I can't remember), but then he moved his dragon there which was pretty unlucky for me since it tore down the castle. So I spent my money on the castle, and he recruited mercenaries.

Personally I think it was a stupid game, you're stuck in this valley with another person and you HAVE to rush each other. Oh, and you know exactly where each other's capitals are.

I really prefer just more generic setups, with less crazy rules and distortions to the main game.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (10/15-20)
 

I'll put you down tentatively for Gath so that you have them reserved, and I'll try to get us a wrap around map. I'm really okay with anything as long as it doesn't make my eyes bleed.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (11/15-20)
 

Okay, the player list had you as MA Man,
I too felt I wanted to try my setup in a more standard game.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (12/15-20)
 

Bump

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (12/15-20)
 

I'll play as Pangaea.

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (13/15)
 

Since we're having a slow down in signups, we'll go once we hit 15.

I'll try to work on some maps tonight. I can't promise anything pretty ;)

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (13/15)
 

I think 15 is plenty enough with these victory conditions.
More and we have a higher risk of a forever game...

Re: Laurus : LA Game, Recruiting (13/15)
 

This time, I'd like to lose as Jomon.

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Bump.

Time to upload.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Woops. Made an error. Please go to the map link, and redownload it if you downloaded it before this post. The one I had there originally had the wrap-around part turned off. Just redownload it, and extract the zip file to your maps folders to over-write the old map.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

why are we not using 1.41, i had such a nice strategy involving blindlords spamming thunderstrike :D

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

I WONDER WHY.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Thanks for setting the game up - I'll have pretender in shortly. Decisions, decisions...!!! :)

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Isn't 25 sea provinces too many when there is one water nation and 12~ provinces per land nation?

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

I know it's a bit much, but R'yleh is going to have territories stretching in straight lines.

If there's still a big ruckus about it after you look at the map itself, I can look at consolidating some of the water territories.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Lets just domkill Rlyeh, and everything will be good.

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

*waves tentacles*

Sorry will get my pretender up shortly, hectic morning.

Uploaded

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

odd the map isn't displaying as wraparound (the wraparound link ar in though) when I played a few test games the map did display as wraparound.

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Yeah, but if you didn't see it still behaves like it is wraparound with edge provinces linking to other edge provinces at the other side of the map...

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

Ugh.

I PM Llamabeast asking him to change the map stored for the game to the proper version of Icyurraparand. Unfortunately he never answered that PM, so it never happened.

I'm going to take the game back to waiting for pretenders, upload the new map, then change the map for the game hosting to the new map, and restart the game. Hopefully people won't have to resubmit pretenders.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

OKAY! The new map is uploaded and the game has been restarted using it. I just took my first turn. Starting position got worse :( But otherwise the map seems to be working fine. Download the new map below. icyurraparandv2

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...807#post672807

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

How could I receive the same exceptionally poor start twice in a row? :shock:
Bad luck?
I thought starts were random...

Re: Laurus : UPLOAD PRETENDERS!
 

They are random.

My start only has two ajoining provinces!

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

what's the hosting time on this - feels pretty slow for, uh, turn 1.

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

Hm, seems our Arcoscephalian neighbour needs an extra dose of whipping....

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

It seems like it doesn't matter how many players there are in a game, there always seems to be one that holds up hosting every turn. That's not a criticism - people have real lives to attend to - just a wry observation.

But the one thing that can make the game proceed almost twice the speed that it otherwise would is if the last player to submit orders waits a few minutes for the turn to host and then takes their next turn immediately.

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

It's 24 hours, but I think llamabeast extended it by 24 hours when he did some fixing with the map on the server side.

I might try looking for a sub if Arco doesn't get his stuff together.

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

At turn 1, it might just be easier to restart without him (?)

Re: Laurus : Game on!
 

That would lower the number of land nations on the map...

Thoughts?

Jazzepi

Re: Laurus : Looking for a replacment! Turn 0!
 

did you find a sub yet? if not i can take it.

Re: Laurus : Looking for a replacment! Turn 0!
 

Well, if my opinion is relevant in any way - I'm all for delaying the first host run until a sub is in place.

Re: Laurus : Looking for a replacment! Turn 0!
 

Damn guys sorry, after the reset I got confused and thought i had correctly resubmitted my turn. Sorry for the holdup, my turn is submitted now and I won't delay the game again.