Newbiegame3 , evil error

[Boron]

Thufir said:
I'm in agreement with Panther and Cainehill - sounds a little dodgy, to me. I'm no longer the newest of newbies myself, so I'm not too worried to play against Cohen as Abysia (and I'm always willing to trust to the principle of piling on the leader ), but I would like to see a game that's friendly to any true newbies who might care to join.

yeah perhaps i should include if this is your first mp game ever and have never seen a sc in action then this might not be the right game too .

but most of us have i think a few games (1-5) running now and 0-2 finished . so most of us are exactly in between newbie and intermediate i think .


since randomness is such a big factor i think too high fear from cohen as probably the most experienced player in so far is not justified .
if cohen gets e.g. a row of bad events in the first turns like a labblow , unrest , indy attacks etc. i think even an expert player can't do too much against this .

and cohen was so kind of putting a small handicap at himself by taking abysia since they have a bit difficult starting position .


so i would say just go completely unbiased in the game and if anyone seems to be too strong there is then always diplomacy as you pointed out

[Huzurdaddi]

What the heck I'll try out Caelum. It seems like quit a powerful nation.

Oh and FM_Surrigon, I'm currently in one other MP game and I am playing Vanehiem and I have to tell you not being able to get your pretender off of the main island is a real pain. I was quite set back by it.

I was also set back by not knowing the starting locations of everyone on the map which you can learn by just starting a game with all of the players set to human.

I went into the crowded mainland and was quickly turned back and it cost me a good 4 turns. I then went south and took it from matchaka which was easier than getting involved with all of the nations of the mainland. I don't think I'll win that game ( faerun_folly ) but I learnt where to go and where not to go with Vanehiem that is for sure!

The starting conditions on this map are wildly differnet. You *really* should make a game with all of the players played by your to figure out the lay of the land. It will help stop you from making small ( perhaps not so small ) errors like I did!

[Stossel]

Ok, uploaded correctly this time.

[Lex]

uh, I already called Caelum, Huzurdaddi, very sorry.

It looks like we might get this game started quickly, so I'll drop my work this evening and put together a new pretender (what was I thinking, getting work done on a saturday night!)

[Soapyfrog]

I'd like to play Mictlan, I'll upload tonight sometime...

[Boron]

Lex said:
uh, I already called Caelum, Huzurdaddi, very sorry.

It looks like we might get this game started quickly, so I'll drop my work this evening and put together a new pretender (what was I thinking, getting work done on a saturday night!)

yeah i go to bed now (3 a.m. here) if we have tomorrow morning already 14 players i will start immediately and if not then i will start hopefully at least later tomorrow

just everybody who is in so far try to upload your pretender tomorrow or today

[Boron]

most recent players list :

- Thufir : T'ien Chi
- DragonFire11 alias Melkor : Jotunheim
- Boron : Ermor
- Cohen : Abysia
- Msew : Ryleh
- Puffyn : Pangenea
- Lex : Caelum
- Panther : Man
- FM_Surrigon : Vanheim
- Soapyfrog : Mictlan
- Huzurdaddi ???

probably also in from newbiegame 2 :

- Aku
- Klatu
- PashaDawg



wow already 10 players for sure .
looks good with 14 until tomorrow

i wonder that nobody has claimed arco so far

[Thufir]

Boron said:
most recent players list :

- Thufir : T'ien Chi
- DragonFire11 alias Melkor : Jotunheim
- Boron : Ermor
- Cohen : Abysia
- Msew : Ryleh
- Puffyn : Pangenea
- Lex : Caelum
- Panther : Man
- FM_Surrigon : Vanheim
- Soapyfrog : Mictlan
- Huzurdaddi ???

Boron,

In order for Lex to be able to upload Caelum two things need to happen:

1) Huzurdaddi needs to set his current Caelum position to anonymous
2) You must kick off all anonymous players.

[Cohen]

So on I reupload Abysya?

However I play Abysya not because I think it's powewerful (IMO it's very weak compared to every air nation - caelum, vanheim, pythium), but because I like the demon taste and (ipothetically) good army (that lacks in Mictlan).

[Thufir]

Cohen said:
So on I reupload Abysya?

However I play Abysya not because I think it's powewerful (IMO it's very weak compared to every air nation - caelum, vanheim, pythium), but because I like the demon taste and (ipothetically) good army (that lacks in Mictlan).

I think Panther's original point, amplified by Cainehill, is that you are clearly the most experienced player in this group. As such, the sporting thing to do, would be to play a nation that you are uncomfortable with (e.g. Mictlan). Rapidly picking one of the most popular nations, that most people regard as one of most powerful nations, is sort of, well, "unsporting".