MP game - "Pantheons" Started

[Agrajag]

Cheezeninja said:
Hmm, i think i tend to agree with using 3 str indeps over high str indeps, as it will allow for quicker and better teamwork. I also favour the idea of randomly pooling all nations between the two sides and allowing people to pick from their teams pool, this will allow people to avoid nations they dont like, hopefully get a nation they do like, and possibly allow team 'themes'.

Quite a bit is possible under teams that might not seem fair otherwise, thats the whole point of teams, acting like a team instead of 5/6 individuals. For instance if your team has multiple air nations you can have 1 team member rush conjuration and then pool gems/items for a truly beefier Air Queen far earlier than otherwise. Quite a few nasty strategies become available.... imagine a whole team of clamhorders, pool gems for wish, wish for gems and distribute the flavours to whoever uses them best. Or you could have mictlan in the back providing a blood economy for EVERYONE... the possibilities for exploitation of teamplay are dependant only on how clever you are.

Only, its not exploitation, its just smart teamwork!
Alliances are very powerful, but thats the whole idea!

[Pickles]

Ok the votes are in enough to determine so here is the rules set.

Game summary
Rules standard except:-
Indep 5
Site frequency 50
HoF 10
Map – Inland
Score graphs - on
Staling – let your team mates know your password to avoid staling
Nations – No Water nations. No Ermor. No Ulm Master Alchemist .
Each team will chose a short Pantheon name
Your pretender name should include your Pantheon name
(or some other code to show teamness readily – same initial letter etc)

Team A
Pickles
Aku
Boron
The Panther
Tauren13

Perhaps:- AN Other

Team B
Agrajag
Alexti
Cheezeninja
Yvelina
Lex

Perhaps - Tuidjy

Mr Sheap volunteered to host & to pick random nations so please Sheap pick 2 sets of 6 nations & allocate them to team A & team B. You can post them here.

If we have 5 players there will be a spare.
We can then allocate nations to team members.

Once this is done Zen can put them on the inland map in a suitable manner 7 we can start hopefully in the middle of the week.

Thanks again to Zen & Sheap for your offers.

If anyone has strong objections please let me know.
Indeps follow the Panther's very fine suggestion based on the close vote & thus will probably satisfy nooone!

Pickles

[Agrajag]

We need to leave our Emails for easier team communication!
Imagine what would happen after the random teams are "released":
"I claim Abysia!"
"No! You can't!"
"I said so first"
"When two people fight, the thrid gets to keep the prize"
"BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! QRRBIRRBRREL!!!?!!?!!"

So we need to write our Emails down for inter-team communication, see what everyone wants and make a decision (also regarding the pantheon name)

I'll go first guy3pwood (et) hotmail (dot) com.

[Pickles]

Agrajag said:
We need to leave our Emails for easier team communication!
Imagine what would happen after the random teams are "released":
"I claim Abysia!"
"No! You can't!"
"I said so first"
"When two people fight, the thrid gets to keep the prize"
"BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! QRRBIRRBRREL!!!?!!?!!"

So we need to write our Emails down for inter-team communication, see what everyone wants and make a decision (also regarding the pantheon name)

I'll go first guy3pwood (et) hotmail (dot) com.

I agree with the principle but sort it out via PM or something not here. I hereby appoint you team captain of Team B so you should sort out your team's communications & have final say on nation distribution. (Can I do that - well I just did)

Our team is already in pretty good communication BTW.

I am trying to remember where you name comes from - is it Pyrates or Monkey Island or something else?

Pickles

[Agrajag]

Pickles said:

I agree with the principle but sort it out via PM or something not here. I hereby appoint you team captain of Team B so you should sort out your team's communications & have final say on nation distribution. (Can I do that - well I just did)

Our team is already in pretty good communication BTW.

I am trying to remember where you name comes from - is it Pyrates or Monkey Island or something else?

Pickles

PMs are not a very comfortable means of communication, but if everyone else on my team thinks PMs are better, we'll communicate via PMs (So send your votes, ppl!).

Agrajag is from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" series, he is a nasty creature that has reincarnated many times and every single time Arthur Dent accidentaly killed him.
He is made up of every animal he reincarnated to and is quite nasty and seeks revenge on Arthur.
Although... Monkey Island rules! =P
I finished every MI besides 2, and Im working on that now (I'll finish 3 and 4 again later).

[Cheezeninja]

I have my PM's set to email me directly when i recieve them, so unless the forum changeover has changed that reaching me should not be a problem. I'm going to email you anyway Agrajag so you have my email if pms dont work.

[Pickles]

Sorry argajag
I meant:
a) send out your email address other than in a public
forum eg via PM - though I see you code yours
b) guybrush threepwood

Pickles

[The_Tauren13]

perhaps we could get an IRC chatroom or something for easy inter-team communications.

and we still need a 3rd party to randomly allocate nations, so we can go ahead and pick and test them

[alexti]

It's hard to make it work through IRC chatroom unless all the players are in compatible timezones and on compatible schedules. I think that team-group-emailing is the easiest way to communicate.

[The Panther]

Without the two water nations and ermor, there are 14 nations. So we might as well randomly allocate the full 7 nations between each two teams. This gives each team an additional choice for choosing races. It will also help to try and get complementary races among team members on the two sides.

We should do this right away so we can practice with our selected race to try to get a decent pretender.