Any "newer" players out there want to play "Noobz in space"

[primitive]

Just a tip: Leave out the AI’s.

The AI’s tend to screw up any attempts of meaningful diplomacy and opens for some nasty exploits from the more devious players. Fun enough if that’s your thing, but not a good tool for learning to play humans

[psimancer]

fyron looks good to me
and yes i like the ai's in there makes for some confusion in your dealings sometimes the chaos factor can be very helpful -evil grin-

think i intel attack an A.I. on another player
he has no idea who did it whereas i intel attack the player onto thwe A.I. hmm he might get a message if my sucess is not perfect (darn spies are never precise hehe)

[kerensky]

Okay,I signed up for the game. How do I upload my empire file?

EDIT: Realized I typed in my empires name instead of the shipset needed. Fixed that.

[ June 15, 2004, 17:29: Message edited by: kerensky ]

[Fyron]

Once approved by the game host (which I did just now), an "upload empire" button will be available to use. Make your empire file as if you were starting a game normally, with the correct racial points setting. But instead of hitting "Begin Game," click on "Save To File."

[brandonp911]

If playing with AI players, I would strongly recommend that the host disable the Applied Intelligence tech tree and remove Intelligence projects from the game. The AI's have a way of wrecking any meaningful attempt at diplomacy.

Barring that, all the human players should agree beforehand that unless a certain wording is used in the declaration, any declaration of war is invalid (the AI frequently fakes Messages issuing a declaration of war between two other players. Makes a fine mess of diplomacy and is far too powerful an attack to be in balance with the game)

[kerensky]

The shipset that I use for my empire (the Dra'kol Empire) is not on the PBW site. Also, due to memory card problems, I won't be able to upload my empire till tommorrow

[psimancer]

ahh there's my inexperience with the ai comeing in to play
so the ai causes us to declare on each other
an interesting facet of the game

however prefacing your Messages to other players in the same style as a chat board easily solves that however like in real life they can still messup the turn(game month) your on before you correct the situation

imagine russia sends a declaration of war and several vessels attack it would take a few months before it was all straightened out and russia apologized for the faked Messages getting through and we might never know that it was china who set the whole thing up in the first place

hows that for a real life example

so preface your human Messages as follows

psi:hi i see you wanna trade ?

as i really suspect that no ai will ever use/duplicate the colon in a mesage especially with a short Version of the name

ps: i like the added realism and challenge forces me to have anti intelligence to combat theres and gives the ai a way to influence us humans that makes up for their lack of tactical ability

[ June 16, 2004, 21:28: Message edited by: psimancer ]