Tech Thread - EitB XXVI

[spellman]

My recommendation on map/settings (I'm still not playing, justt rying to get a default setting up for people to discuss):
* Random Barb spawns if you're auto generating the map. Otherwise place smartly and somewhat randomly. Roaming Goblins are fun! And Sareln isn't here to get choked!
* Summonable Civ, a new player should join the game. But the summoner still gets the choice at summoning to take control. Not sure how this works in MP.
* For a Green game I'd still block Keeyln and Stasis since it can devolve to very unfun states rather quickly.


Qgqqqqq: want to make a post collecting all the finalized settings somewhere?

[Sian]

as soon as someone collect the settings i'll c/p them into the first post

[Qgqqqqq]

I don't have the time (read: inclination) to gather settings (I pretty much always post from phone, and formatting/copy and pasting is a bitch).

I will be randomly rolling the map.
As preferences have steered away from mirrorland, it'll be a full_of_resources customized one (like a lakes map with more water/hills or something of that sort), with hand editing for the sorts of things that happen in erebuscontinent.
As mentioned before this will NOT be balanced, I will attempt to boost immediate starts and stop any place from sucking to bad, but I'm not a balanced so come prepared.
I will not be pre placing barbs. :'(
What map size do you want?
How much water? (Is about 20-25% ok?)

[Qgqqqqq]

You should get someone to volunteer to either play hyborem or his abandoned civ.
Do you want the double events BTW?

[Whosit]

I'm okay with an unbalanced map, since I'm expecting to play an unbalanced game. :P

We have, what, 5-6 players? I lost track. That's Standard size at least, right? I don't really want to be terribly cramped in my first EitB MP game. I've gathered that expansion is slow, yes, but it'd be nice to have a little more breathing room to allow everyone to make some mistakes.

I don't know what you mean by double events.

Also, and I apologize for bringing this up again, but I don't think any consensus was ever reached: Are we allowed e-mail diplomacy or not?

I for one think it would be a great deal of fun.
Being my stance is, sadly, all or none.
It is my hope to bring all much joy and mirth
By spreading the word of the Clown across this great earth.

[Qgqqqqq]

Yeah its traditionaly standard, there's just a trend of using big maps for ffh pbem

[Primepolar]

Haven't checked in a few days. Looks like there is a lot of interest. Awesome. I would like to do a game where there is diplomacy, but no city gifting or tech trading. Other than that, double events and animals could be fun.

[Molach]

Like I said, full diplo okay by me.
I probably agree about the no tech trading - heard about these 'trading block' things and how they can be unfun. Probably even more with how FFH makes you to specialize in the tech tree. If I suck at my tech and get outplayed by my opponent, I should get overrun for it and learn to play for next game.

[gtAngel]

I recommend going for double events (doubles all random events like free gold, mutations, minor terraforming, population loss/growth events, etc.)

The reason is that normal events unbalance the game too much in my opinion - a couple random events in your favor and a couple against an opponent can really shift the game. When only a few events occur it's really common for them to shift the game quite a bit. Making them more frequent evens them out - everyone will get a little good and a little bad fairly reliably, so it all trends closer towards probability and reliability.

My $0.02

[Primepolar]

Should we vote for settings I'm all for double events no tech trading full diplo. Random barbs no stasis and no Keyln