So as my real life has stabilized, I've been itching to get back up to playing 2/pb at a time... any takers? I don't think I'm looking for anything very far off a bog-standard RtR game, but if I had to pick ideal settings:
Map: Normal bound of lushness, preferably cylindrical (have a bit of commodore in me), at about the level of map-balance as PB27, maybe a bit less.
For context, what I mean by that is PB27 had not literally mirrored starts, but pretty symmetrically accessible "types" of things, ie something like your metal-happy was 3 cities away, 1 calendar happy in capital, copper in 2nd city next to X food, etc. By the geometry of the map was pretty much not mirrored at all. Putting aside whether or not PB27 astro-islands only was balanced (for my part, I don't really care, it was still cool).
Player Count: 10+ is my hope 25
Mod: RtR 2.X.X.X.whatever the newest one in that line is 2.0.8.3 2.0.8.4
Picktype: 2 leader, 1 civ, 2 mulligans
Stuff we never change:
Difficulty/Size/Barb/Villages/Speed: Monarch/Standard Huge/On/Off/Normal
Anyone interested? To start as soon as plausible, but guessing might mean not until after holidays given there is no mapmaker lined up and where we are in the calendar.
And if we wanted to christen this the next in the "big-PBs" line and round up as much of the standard crowd as possible... well that would be the cherry on top. Once we did every civ... how about every leader this time ?
Mapmaker: BRick, Mardoc, many others
Final Playerlist, presented in TaoTao Tier (TTT) order
1) The Black Sword
2) Mackoti
3) Old Harry + Fintourist + shallow_thought + TheHumanHydra
4) Dtay
5) GermanJoey
6) Commodore
7) Gavagai
8) OT4E + chumchu
9) plako
10) Mr. Cairo
11) Dark Savant
12) 2metraninja
13) AdrienIer + TruthBehindTheLies
14) WilliamLP
15) Boldly Going Nowhere
16) Pindicator
17) Dreylin
18) spacetyrantxenu
19) Donovan Zoi
20) Rusten
21) elkad
22) B4ndit
23) superdeath (1st time player)
24) naufrager (1st time player)
25) Aretas (1st time player)
More info stuff:
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Map: Normal bound of lushness, preferably cylindrical (have a bit of commodore in me), at about the level of map-balance as PB27, maybe a bit less.
For context, what I mean by that is PB27 had not literally mirrored starts, but pretty symmetrically accessible "types" of things, ie something like your metal-happy was 3 cities away, 1 calendar happy in capital, copper in 2nd city next to X food, etc. By the geometry of the map was pretty much not mirrored at all. Putting aside whether or not PB27 astro-islands only was balanced (for my part, I don't really care, it was still cool).
Player Count: 10+ is my hope 25
Mod: RtR 2.X.X.X.whatever the newest one in that line is 2.0.8.3 2.0.8.4
Picktype: 2 leader, 1 civ, 2 mulligans
Stuff we never change:
Difficulty/Size/Barb/Villages/Speed: Monarch/Standard Huge/On/Off/Normal
Anyone interested? To start as soon as plausible, but guessing might mean not until after holidays given there is no mapmaker lined up and where we are in the calendar.
And if we wanted to christen this the next in the "big-PBs" line and round up as much of the standard crowd as possible... well that would be the cherry on top. Once we did every civ... how about every leader this time ?
Mapmaker: BRick, Mardoc, many others
Final Playerlist, presented in TaoTao Tier (TTT) order
1) The Black Sword
2) Mackoti
3) Old Harry + Fintourist + shallow_thought + TheHumanHydra
4) Dtay
5) GermanJoey
6) Commodore
7) Gavagai
8) OT4E + chumchu
9) plako
10) Mr. Cairo
11) Dark Savant
12) 2metraninja
13) AdrienIer + TruthBehindTheLies
14) WilliamLP
15) Boldly Going Nowhere
16) Pindicator
17) Dreylin
18) spacetyrantxenu
19) Donovan Zoi
20) Rusten
21) elkad
22) B4ndit
23) superdeath (1st time player)
24) naufrager (1st time player)
25) Aretas (1st time player)
More info stuff:
(January 7th, 2018, 17:12)The Black Sword Wrote: Regarding how everything works, there is a pitboss etiquette thread which might be useful: http://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showt...p?tid=7311.
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