Evermore - MegaGame - Winner: AdmiralZhao!

[Sombre]

I updated streamers and standards to include Eriu and Tirnanog flags. I can do a larger update as per Velusion's request when the next patch comes out.

[Velusion]

Sombre said:
I updated streamers and standards to include Eriu and Tirnanog flags. I can do a larger update as per Velusion's request when the next patch comes out.

Sweeeet!

[Xietor]

1. I think we should wait for the patch since many major changes coming, including battlefield enchantments ending when casting mage retreats.

2. I am fine with random nation selection that we had in perp, but i do think no one should play the same nation again. I also think people that played water races, should be forced to play a land race. In other words, i do not want to see musical chairs with same players still in the water, but with different nations.

3. I am for a mod that nerfs the hell out of gem producing items or a limit of 25 total per race.

4. I am for banning the few truly game ending spells.

5. I am not in favor of ending the game with artificial limits. At the point a clear winner emerges, most players will voluntarily step aside and crown him. But I do not think they should be forced to step down if they want to fight it out.

[Velusion]

Xietor said:
1. I think we should wait for the patch since many major changes coming, including battlefield enchantments ending when casting mage retreats.

There is no ETA for the patch. I'll give it a couple more weeks but I'm not keen on waiting indefinatly. When the patch comes out after we have started we will pause to patch up.

Xietor said:
2. I am fine with random nation selection that we had in perp, but i do think no one should play the same nation again. I also think people that played water races, should be forced to play a land race. In other words, i do not want to see musical chairs with same players still in the water, but with different nations.

People will be free to select whatever nation they desire. Wether they win it on the other hand...

Xietor said:
3. I am for a mod that nerfs the hell out of gem producing items or a limit of 25 total per race.

I am considering raising the cost of gem producing items even more than initially suggested. "Nerf the hell out" is probably not going to happen.

Xietor said:
4. I am for banning the few truly game ending spells.

Arcane Nexus will remain banned. No other game spells will be modified.

[Hadrian_II]

Velusion said:

Arcane Nexus will remain banned. No other game spells will be modified.

Wishing for Armageddon might be the only thing that is really ugly as you can drop a few of them as a parting gift and the effect is devestating.

[Xietor]

Why should a person with Lanka, LA Ermor, or LA Ryleh be free to play the same powerful races again, and the person with MA ulm perhaps be stuck with that race again?

Makes no sense to me in terms of fairness. I can honestly say I would go on ai before I would play ma ctis again.

[Evilhomer]

Perhaps the bid system I suggested earlier. That way you are going to pay heavily in terms of starting position if you want the best nations.

[Baalz]

Yeah, seems like it'd be more fun/strategic to be able to see what you have to bid for any given nation. It'd be nice if there was a way to try and get a weaker nation with a bonus rather than basically picking whoever you think is the strongest which is essentially what we did last time. Wouldn't really need to be unwieldy.

1) Lock the player list so we've got a set number of bidders.
2) Everyone post bids for the nations they'd like to play, in order of preference (ie 1st choice: LA Ermor with a 5% discount, 2nd choice: LA Mictlan no discount, etc)
3) Update the first post with the current high bidder, if one person is the high bidder for more than one nation only his highest preference bid is counted
4) Anyone not a high bidder needs to bid again, possibly dislodging a current high bidder, possibly bidding (cheaply) on a nation nobody has bid for yet. Since there is a set number of bidders which is less than or equal to the number of nations there will always be unclaimed nations to bid for and pick up cheaply.
5) You can't rebid unless you're not a current high bidder (to make sure this finishes relatively quickly)

We'll want a minimum bid (maximum bonus) so that the last couple picks don't get ridiculous bonuses.

This would prevent anybody from getting a bonus for a strong nation because nobody realized nobody was picking them.

[Salamander8]

2. I am fine with random nation selection that we had in perp, but i do think no one should play the same nation again. I also think people that played water races, should be forced to play a land race. In other words, i do not want to see musical chairs with same players still in the water, but with different nations.

Why I see some vaildity here, I think this is a bit much. While I don't have any intentions of always playing a water race (and in fact, 2 of my MP games with 'picking power' I chose Yomi and Agartha), trying to force people to not play 2 different water nations in a row doesn't really help anything. Some people don't even like water nations in the first place, others like the water or don't care. One thing my days of SFB campaigns showed me is that trying to force people to play an empire they don't like causes serious problems. I freely admit to some bias as I stated before that I would like to try my hand at EA R'Lyeh in the next megagame, but I can't see much of a reason for such an arbitrary restriction.

[Velusion]

We are now accepting sign-ups! See the first post in this thread for details.

Nation Preferences/passwords will be due Oct 1st Noon
Pretenders will then be due on Oct 4th 9pm

Reminder: Don't sign up in this tread. See the first post for how to sign-up.