Pitboss 20 signup/setup thread (Tides of War game organization)

[Kuro]

I think that is perfectly fine with me.

[Gavagai]

I am not a fan of the random map with minimal tweaks on capitals thing.

I talked with Krill and he said he'd be willing to roll some toruslands and make sensible edits. This sounds great to me. He has time on Monday so we'll need to finalize the settings and player count by then. I'll post tentative settings for discussion later today.

Fine with this.

[GermanJoey]

I am not a fan of the random map with minimal tweaks on capitals thing.

I talked with Krill and he said he'd be willing to roll some toruslands and make sensible edits. This sounds great to me. He has time on Monday so we'll need to finalize the settings and player count by then. I'll post tentative settings for discussion later today.

sounds good to me too.

[SevenSpirits]

Settings discussion. Keep in mind the following:

* Pitboss, normal speed.
* Interaction rules: no city trading/gifting of any sort, and no talking.
* Anyone who does annoying things with the turn timer will be taken outside and shot, then made to wear a dunce cap, then brought back inside and shot again.
* The goal of the game is not just to strive for sole victory but also simply to improve your civilization, explore how the game works, and survive. Not every nation will be America, but they are still worth something! ()
* We will try to maintain a brisk turn pace.
* We will play a fantastic map made by a mapmaker!
* No smurfs, please! Does this really need to be said? Well it's said.
* We will do our best to have fun and help our fellow players have fun.

We also decided to see starts and then do a snake pick.

Let's vote on these:

Barbarians? YES/NO
Scattered Improvements? YES/NO
Tech Cost Scaling? YES/NO

(We could also vote on map settings but I think we can just leave that to our mapmaker. Something like Standard/Monarch + medium distance maintenance would be pretty typical and just fine. Or maybe Prince, and/or maybe Large, for example.)

Also if you want some other setting different from standard you can bring that up of course.

[SevenSpirits]

My votes:

Barbarians? NO (But prefer YES if Scattered Improvements ends up as NO.)
Scattered Improvements? YES
Tech Cost Scaling? YES

[Kuro]

Barbarians? NO (Though I will admit I do like barbies on too, so I could be convinced.)
Scattered Improvements? NO (I don't really like this as an option.)
Tech Cost Scaling? NO (I'm pretty neutral on this, but assuming we want to test it compared to normal BTS it seems best to keep Tech Cost Scaling at BTS?)

I'm not especially for it, but since you modified Sid's Sushi, do you want Corps on? I think it's still pretty borked, but...

[SevenSpirits]

Corps on, yeah. I mean I could be wrong but the mod is supposed to work without bans.

[Lord Parkin]

Barbarians - YES
Scattered Improvements - I'm not familiar with this, can someone explain what it is? YES
Tech Cost Scaling - YES

I assume Unrestricted Leaders + No Tech Trading + No Vassals + No Events.

Fine to have Medium Distance Maintenance on (if that'd make a difference).

[Kuro]

Corps on, yeah. I mean I could be wrong but the mod is supposed to work without bans.

Alright then. Wasn't sure since they're standards settings.

[SevenSpirits]

@Lord Parkin -

Scattered improvements is a map option in Torusland which puts some improvements on the map. These end up being kind of like goody huts in that you might want to build warriors to go pillage them, but of course they have less variance. Sometimes they are also worth keeping around (e.g. a cottage can spawn on a forest, or a windmill or mine on flatland, so it's something special). So to some extent you also want to pillage ones near your opponent and guard ones near you. I like this map option to reward exploration and give early units something productive to do. The reason I voted for barbs if this option is declined is that barbs also give early units something to do.

I assume Unrestricted Leaders + No Tech Trading + No Vassals + No Events.

Yes. I should perhaps be more precise about this. I meant typical game and map settings -

Alright then. Wasn't sure since they're standards settings.

but I didn't mean typical BTS bans, whatever those are. FWIW I wouldn't put corps in that category anyway. In any case, yeah, I meant what I said + what Lord Parkin said.