[NO PLAYERS] Lurker Thread for lurkers lurking loudly

[spacetyrantxenu]

It depends on who's playing in the game and the mapmaker's ability to tune out player hysteria about how idiotic the mapmaker is. I'm not good at tuning people out and would like to be able to read the players' threads without too much annoyance. So...this was a best effort at making a fair map. To the players when the whining inevitably begins...shut up! I did my best.

[SevenSpirits]

You can make a map for an RB mod game. You just have to make sure people have a decent amount of space and strat resources and the map generator will probably do OK. Hell PB5 only had 1 tile changed, and that was a plains cow to a grass cow.

And the player whose capital got the change was eliminated by an exploring warrior. Coincidence?

[Krill]

We play with scouts now

[Krill]

I'm trying to figure out why Mongolia? I can't understand why anyone wants those starting techs?

[Ceiliazul]

Stonehenge could be done that turn then but at the cost of making the Oracle pretty awkward to nail, and slowing down expansion. I think we are going to just use it as a failgold sump and content ourselves with religion for border pops for now. With TBS/Pindicator/Dtay all wanting it too... The GLH, now...given the Oracle play is going to be made in the west with copper city, I could see maybe trying for the GLH in the eastern spot, the lighthouse certainly isn't a sunk cost.

Commodore is talking about putting hammers into 3 early wonders plus considering pyramids if he can settle stone... Montezuma has become Huyna!

[WilliamLP]

I doubt I'll actually hit anything ever, probably won't even ever be the attacker, the idea is just to throw off their micro and force them to build a few more warriors than they otherwise would.

We moved the warrior back to grass forest. This means he'll have to attack at bad odds or move to the plains hill. We crashed the warrior in Eden, which meant many bad micro decisions.

Hmm, back foot indeed?

[spacetyrantxenu]

Yeah, for dtay it seems like mission accomplished. Of course, let's see how he handles the next ten years of war after meeting the initial war objective.

[WilliamLP]

Becko's enthusiasm is outstanding, but I'm not sure that C&D done when you don't know that a Creative leader gets a border pop on turn 25 is going to be all that valuable?

[spacetyrantxenu]

You have to learn somewhere. The value will be in his effort once he gets down all the fundamentals. Effort plus experience equals success, or something like that.

Also, as is apparent from my post in Gaspar's thread today, I'm not interested in administering any disputes in this game, if any should arise. If we get to that point I'm sure volunteers would be appreciated by the players.

[Krill]

Effort plus experience minus skill equals frustration though.