So we won our first game pretty easily, but it was a good learning experience! It's time to decide what comes next; signups are now open for SG2. We should have a number of players returning from SG1 but additional players are also welcome; if we need to we can split into multiple teams, so no worries about getting too many participants. New players are still welcome!
Along with your signup, please answer the following questions:
1. Preferred race?
(Human, Hiver, Tarka, Liir, or Morrigi -- I'd prefer to reserve Zuul until some of our players have experience with at least one more race first, as the Zuul can be hard to get going with if you aren't prepared for their mentality.)
2. Preferred challenge level?
(On a scale from 0.0 to 5.9, where 0 is the game we just played, and 5.9 is insane variant action. Essentially:
-- 0 is a normal difficulty game with even starts for all positions,
-- 1 is the same with a small handicap,
-- 2 is the same with a larger handicap or variant rules
-- 3 is a game on hard difficulty with even starts
-- 4 is a game on hard difficulty with a small handicap
-- 5 is a game on hard difficulty with a larger handcap or variant rules)
3. Preferred overall pace of advancement in the game for all races?
(On a scale from 0-10, where 0 is glacial and 10 is lightning-fast. There are a lot of modifiers that can affect how quickly the game proceeds through the technology tree, from how big an empire everyone starts with, to how planets are distributed on the map, to how much planets are worth relative to the cost of settling them, to global economy and research modifiers in general. I would say that our first game was somewhere near the middle since we used default settings for most things.)
4. Do you like surprises?
(I'll use this as a tie-breaker on the challenge question. If enough people want a surprise and we pick a challenging enough difficulty overall to make effective use of one, I'll add something appropriate in. It might not be apparent from the get go what kind of surprise it is, and it could make the game considerably more challenging than anticipated, so be forewarned!
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Along with your signup, please answer the following questions:
1. Preferred race?
(Human, Hiver, Tarka, Liir, or Morrigi -- I'd prefer to reserve Zuul until some of our players have experience with at least one more race first, as the Zuul can be hard to get going with if you aren't prepared for their mentality.)
2. Preferred challenge level?
(On a scale from 0.0 to 5.9, where 0 is the game we just played, and 5.9 is insane variant action. Essentially:
-- 0 is a normal difficulty game with even starts for all positions,
-- 1 is the same with a small handicap,
-- 2 is the same with a larger handicap or variant rules
-- 3 is a game on hard difficulty with even starts
-- 4 is a game on hard difficulty with a small handicap
-- 5 is a game on hard difficulty with a larger handcap or variant rules)
3. Preferred overall pace of advancement in the game for all races?
(On a scale from 0-10, where 0 is glacial and 10 is lightning-fast. There are a lot of modifiers that can affect how quickly the game proceeds through the technology tree, from how big an empire everyone starts with, to how planets are distributed on the map, to how much planets are worth relative to the cost of settling them, to global economy and research modifiers in general. I would say that our first game was somewhere near the middle since we used default settings for most things.)
4. Do you like surprises?
(I'll use this as a tie-breaker on the challenge question. If enough people want a surprise and we pick a challenging enough difficulty overall to make effective use of one, I'll add something appropriate in. It might not be apparent from the get go what kind of surprise it is, and it could make the game considerably more challenging than anticipated, so be forewarned!
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