My goodness this thread went wild while I slept.
12341234 picking order seems designed for PBEM, where turn order matters, so that the player with last choice for leader/civ then gets the advantage of being first. For a Pitboss, snake pick is what I'd vote for. I'd also advocate that we allow players to pick civ OR leader freely with their first pick, rather than say that "you pick civ first, leader second" or the reverse. This adds an extra layer of strategy. However, this seems at odds with the "experienced players roll a bunch of combos, skim off the best and the worst, assign randomly" plan - should we vote on which we'd rather have?
As for who's allowed to play: This community is founded on principles of honor and trust. If people feel that their skills are sufficiently not-leet to play in a Greens game, and other members of the site don't jump in to say "dude what are you doing you're going to wreck these newbies' faces," I'm fine with them playing even if they have experience. The more the merrier! Let's not impose arbitrary cutoffs.
teleh, wrt additional options for AI diplo: I'm not following that game (I pretty much just follow PB8 at the moment), but I'm really in favor of simplifying matters as much as possible. I will, however, take a quick look at that game (I assume it's whichever one isn't the teamers AW) and see how those additional diplo options pan out.
12341234 picking order seems designed for PBEM, where turn order matters, so that the player with last choice for leader/civ then gets the advantage of being first. For a Pitboss, snake pick is what I'd vote for. I'd also advocate that we allow players to pick civ OR leader freely with their first pick, rather than say that "you pick civ first, leader second" or the reverse. This adds an extra layer of strategy. However, this seems at odds with the "experienced players roll a bunch of combos, skim off the best and the worst, assign randomly" plan - should we vote on which we'd rather have?
As for who's allowed to play: This community is founded on principles of honor and trust. If people feel that their skills are sufficiently not-leet to play in a Greens game, and other members of the site don't jump in to say "dude what are you doing you're going to wreck these newbies' faces," I'm fine with them playing even if they have experience. The more the merrier! Let's not impose arbitrary cutoffs.
teleh, wrt additional options for AI diplo: I'm not following that game (I pretty much just follow PB8 at the moment), but I'm really in favor of simplifying matters as much as possible. I will, however, take a quick look at that game (I assume it's whichever one isn't the teamers AW) and see how those additional diplo options pan out.
Playing: PB11
(March 3rd, 2012, 21:07)antisocialmunky Wrote: Civilization Economics: You have 1 Cow. You build some pastures around it to feed your people. The population grows uncontrollably. You enslave everybody and work half of them to death.