TucoTuco - MA game for new/newish players (upload)

[llamabeast]

Since Peccary filled up fast, I thought I'd do another newbie game, this one MA.

Details:
Server: LlamaServer (automated play-by-email)
Hosting interval: Initially 24 hours
Age: Middle
Graphs: On
Settings: Default except for renaming on, HoF 15
Mods: Worthy Heroes 1.8
Map: Modified Parganos (I have a version which has a somewhat fairer spread of terrains than the default, so you don't get one person with all the farmland). This will be a dead seas version, meaning the seas will give no income and contain no magic sites
Players: 8

Please sign up and say what nation you'd like!

Also, I will need someone to admin the game for me. That just means if someone asks for an extension, or later on if players agree to change the hosting interval to 48 hours, the admin does that via the LlamaServer website. It's a very small job if you read the forums reasonably often, and it prevents me from going mad, so if someone would like to volunteer for that I would greatly appreciate it.

The players are:

Pangaea - fakeymcfake
Arcoscephale - Skirmisher
Gath - Cerlin
Caelum - JimMorrison
Abysia - don_Pablo
Bandar Log - Natpy
T'ien Ch'i - Wrana
Vanheim - Darkstone

To upload your pretenders:

- Make sure you don't have any mods enabled, although only mods affecting pretender design, such as Conceptual Balance, actually matter
- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions. Don't set a password, since for PBEM games they're not helpful and occasionally annoying (e.g. if you need a sub)
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. mid_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name 'TucoTuco' in the subject line of your e-mail

A few minutes later you should get a confirmation e-mail, and if you check the website you should find your nation added to the list of nations which have joined the game.

If later you think of an improvement to your pretender, you can send it in again. Provided the game hasn't actually started the server will accept your revised pretender, and send you an e-mail to say so.

[llamabeast]

I'll reserve a spot for Skirmisher, since he missed out on the last game.

[Piggles]

Bah, on second thought, I don't want to overextend myself. (I have three other games going.) I'll back out, sorry.

[llamabeast]

Probably wise, to be honest. Three games can get a bit much once the turns begin to take longer.

[Fakeymcfake]

Put me down for Pangaea

[Skirmisher]

Arcoscephale for me please, thanks for saving a spot.

I've just played EA so far,is MA higher tech or something?

[JimMorrison]

How many stales has Vanheim suffered? I was being nice and not attacking while he was gone - sort of lost track of how many turns have passed.

I'd agree, we may need a sub - though if it's been 5+ stales, their overall situation may have badly eroded at this point.

[Fakeymcfake]

Yeah, it's probably been at least 4 or 5 turns now which is why I want to move fast finding a sub. Even with a fairly long string a stales, Van is still in fairly strong position and given a couple turns could probably get back into the game with ease.

[Saxon]

I think we are up to at least a week of stales.

Who ever takes over is going to have a huge stash of gems and gold to play with, but will be behind in recruiting.

I am now aprofessional sub, but do not feel I am suitable. When Wrana takes TC over, I would be free, but I just know too much about TC to fairly take over Van. That said, if it doesn't bother the rest of you, it doesn't bother me. I just can not pretend that my knowledge would not infulence things.

[Psycho]

He's had 10-11 stales. You can see that in the admin options on the llamaserver. But I don't think he's in a bad position, since nobody attacked him for the whole time. He even became the leader in research and stashed quite a lot of cash for whoever will be taking over.