Halls of Valhalla: Forseti Middle Era Open

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

As Llamabeast said, Atla is ready and awaiting pretenders. I'll start up a thread for it a bit later, and select a 'b' mythological norse name for the next game.

[davegg]

If atla is open I would like to play ulm

[llamabeast]

I do believe it is open - go ahead and send in your pretender.

(Hope that is correct LP)

[davegg]

ok what age is it?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Fine by me. Might have to pick out another map though, since Silent Seas is getting a bit cramped. I'll take a peek at that once I get back. Anyways, four is fine.

Edit: Middle Age

Edit: I'm going to leave this game open for roughly another twenty-four hours, then spin it off into its own thread, and stop taking new players for Atla. Once that new thread is up, we'll set up a separate deadline for pretender submission. But sometime late Wednesday evening, east coast of USA, we'll focus on getting it started.

Anyone else want to join? Last call.

[llamabeast]

You could use a random map. 60 provinces maybe. Nothing wrong with a random map. I've had a lot of fun with 4-player games on Gandalf's server, on 50 province random maps. You can also place the starting positions by hand to make it a bit less, er, random.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Nothing wrong with a random map??? I disagree... I could work on one a bit - they're not that bad, but no actual mountain provinces is a big issue.

That said, I'm interested in customizing maps, but there are two problems. One, you're setting up the game (I might be able to generate a fatherland for you, though, or send a good map your way). Two, I haven't found a tutorial for it yet, and I don't have enough time to fumble in the dark- just enough to fumble in the metaphorical poorly lit room.

[FAJ]

The front page isnt updated with the status of this game. Is it still open? What nations are whose?

My other games appear to be ending and a PBEM wont be too much of a hassle.

[Gandalf Parker]

llamabeast said:
You could use a random map. 60 provinces maybe. Nothing wrong with a random map. I've had a lot of fun with 4-player games on Gandalf's server, on 50 province random maps. You can also place the starting positions by hand to make it a bit less, er, random.

I have been summoned by the use of my real name

I read thru the thread. Thank you for doing this. It should help fill a need. Some bits and pieces I can add...

On my server: for my "blitz" games (2 to 4 players on 50 prov) Early age games fill up fastest, then middle age. Late age seems the slowest to fill up and start. I sometimes put off starting new low age games just to push players into the late age that has been waiting for players. The games average around 60 turns so beware of starting too many at once or you might fill the server and not be able to start new ones for a month or so

The mid-range games Ive done are very popular (8-15 players on a 200 prov). They fill up fast but they tend to last longer. Im limited on how many of those I can run as direct-connect games but PbEM should avoid that problem. I might recommend that you do not use quickhost on large games. Set it for a specific time that it will host so you can make sure that they do not try to host at the same time and crash the server.

Wrap-maps are a need. We do have a map generator now that can create wrappable maps. If you want to keep games always available then you might want to generate a bunch of those ahead of time to make sure they are playable.

[llamabeast]

Happily my server is immune to blowing up from simultaneous hostings, and also has effectively unlimited capacity (100 games?), so there shouldn't be any problems on either of those counts. Thanks for the info Gandalf.

I need to look into this wraparound map generator. Is that paradoxharbinger's one? I haven't followed that closely.

LP - maybe you should split off a separate thread for the upcoming game (especially as I think you now have 5 players), since this one is getting a bit unwieldy.