Troubling Times: Game over, Marverni wins

[Verjigorm]

There are now, officially, too many people on Arco for my tastes, so I'll bow out in favor of a better chance on Ulm....

Shift me to this:

1. Ulm
2. Vanheim
3. Marverni

[Amhazair]

Well, we now have a 21st signup, (Welcome Camobeercan) but signups seem to have slowed to a trickle, and I fear if we keep waiting more people will bow out than sign on. Seems people are too sensible for a game like this one.

Additionally, the water nations are horribly unpopular, with 0 out of 63 nation picks being a water nations.

I believe we now have a couple of choises on how to proceed:

1) Forget about the glorious madness that's the Faerun map, choose a different map that's suitable for ~20 people, and play a regular largish game. (Preferably a map with not too many water provinces I suppose.)

2) Play the game as planned on the Faerun map, but utilise the dead seas map, which makes water provinces essentially worhtless. The 21 signups exactly match the number of land nations in the EA, so this could be a decent solution. I/we will have to check how the dead seas mod interacts with the fixed special provinces though, and whether all mods are compatible. (If someone could kindly point me to that mod that would be fantastic by the way, as I never downloaded it before, and couldn't find it with a quick search.)

3) The most proactive option: we wait a while longer, and see who turns up.

I'll run a quick vote untill tomorrow, and we can kick things of from there. I don't think it would be a good idea to let things drag on much longer. (Feel free to suggest good maps in case we go for option number 1 btw.)

[Herode]

IMHO :
- keep the map, no matter it is full or not
- wait for new candidates until sunday evening
- if no water nation declared, either set 3 IA for the water nations (mighty or so) or just ignore. I don't like dead seas

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by Herode

I don't like dead seas

Neither do I, there's a reason it's not on my disc.

Originally Posted by Zeldor

With UWGIM included, you can convince some people to play water nation. Didn't Maerlande want to join as R'lyeh?

Changes to gameplay from UWGIM seem quite extensive. (Just went looking for the mod.) and there's almost no comments in the thread. Has it been used extensively in MP? What do people (Apart from you ) think about it? Also, is it compatible with EDM? (Which it looks like we will end up using.) If it works fine I'm not opposed to the principle of using it though.

Even if it makes people want to play water nations, it still leaves us short a few spots though. I haven't heard anything from Maerlande myself, (Perhaps a comment in IRC or something?) but she'd most definitely be welcome, never played a game with her before. (She's a she, right? Or do I have her confused with someone else?)

Edit:

Originally Posted by Eximius Sus

I'll play. I'd really like to try that Underwater mod.

Well, Zeldor's magic plan seems to be working.

[yandav]

Count me in with:
mictlan
c'tis
kalaisa

No agartha for me, please.

[pyg]

Originally Posted by Amhazair

Changes to gameplay from UWGIM seem quite extensive. (Just went looking for the mod.) and there's almost no comments in the thread. Has it been used extensively in MP? What do people (Apart from you ) think about it? Also, is it compatible with EDM? (Which it looks like we will end up using.) If it works fine I'm not opposed to the principle of using it though.

Inversions III is playing with CBM 1.6 + UWGIM .93 and EDM 1.1 all rolled into one. If you want to test it you can find it here.

Even if it makes people want to play water nations, it still lives us short a few spots though. I haven't heard anything from Maerlande myself, (Perhaps a comment in IRC or something?) but she'd most definitely be welcome, never played a game with her before. (She's a she, right? Or do I have her confused with someone else?)

Edit:

Well, Zeldor's magic plan seems to be working.

She's a banned user and it looks like someone else beat her to the punch.