semi blitz

JimMorrison · #1 July 1st, 2008, 05:58 PM

Seriously, 12 turns over 2 days sounds like..... More trouble than it's worth. Unless you think you have a realistic shot at sieging someone's capital in that time, you should be able to push out 12 turns in an hour.

It's giving me an idea for a "non-rush-semi-blitz" game.

The basic idea is to get as many turns as possible in on the first evening - with direct attacks on other players prohibited for that first session. So once initial expansion is done, everyone gets some time to finalize fort building, focus their research, and plan out their army composition for really bloody mid game wars. Since massing mages would be a little easier, put the research on Hard, but increase site frequency to 60 or so, to help compensate for the lack of trading in the early game (due to the pace).

Not sure how many people would be up for this sort of a scenario. I'm looking at it not as an artificial peace, but more like the first session defines what would actually be starting empires. So you're doing something of a SP building of your nation, and then the first daily turn after that is really the actual first turn of another game altogether.

Bwaha · #2 July 1st, 2008, 06:20 PM

What I was thinking about is a game (day or night) example: sunday 10 am to 8pm. where the players gather around and have at each other. mini marathons. spaced so they could have a life. no one wants to commit to many marathons. (at least i don't) My buddys have a game night where once a week people show up and game the night away. but this thread is going the way i wanted so keep it coming.

Bwaha

JimMorrison · #3 July 1st, 2008, 09:58 PM

A 10 hour stint? :O Have you played any MMOs by any chance?

That's what we ended up doing in WoW..... it's fun now and again, but painful as well.

I definitely believe in the "gaming night" concept, with a session of 3-4 hours perhaps. But I wouldn't feel comfortable committing to, or asking others to commit to anything longer than a 4 hour stretch.

The unfortunate part being that the Dom3 community seems to be mostly made of people with families, and other obligations, so the PBEM standard works great for them. Not sure if we can get 8 people locked into a 3-4 hour time slot, but I'd love to see it happen!

Bwaha · #4 July 1st, 2008, 10:19 PM

Okay, I just was just testing the waters. 3 to 4 hour game sets is fine by me. what ever is resonable to a crew of gamers. just hard core as far as my style. its the timing thats the problem. how i would start a game is to arrange a time that we can set beforehand. as you say this has to worked out with family, ect. for example; i available 10am to 8pm on sundays. (west coast) some breaks for food and other stuff ect. if we can compile a time and day for people to play it would rock.

Bwaha

JimMorrison · #5 July 2nd, 2008, 12:33 AM

Well if it's 4 hours, we shouldn't need much in the way of "breaks" really. Maybe once an hour take 5 for biological functions?

Obviously most people would want it to occur away from dinnertime specifically, so the most logical time slots available would either be something like 12-4pm, or 7-11pm. I'm sure people can volunteer others, but just figuring something along those lines would accommodate most people with typical patterns. I wouldn't mind something that ended up running through normal dinner hours, I'm just anticipating other people objecting to it.

DonCorazon · #6 July 2nd, 2008, 02:36 AM

West coaster here. I'd be up for an occasional "semi-blitz" I'd guess Sun nights might be best as they are normally pretty dead otherwise.

Bwaha · #7 July 2nd, 2008, 02:42 AM

there's a bite, yeah keep it coming.

Bwaha