We all know the drill. Don't post or read (or do, I honestly don't care that much about this game ).

Edit: For those viewing this later, the lack of images is because dropbox changed their functionality. This is a common problem across the fora.

I am collecting data for our development of the next generation of MOO (new game).

Imagine an MOO1 combat, where each player has up to 7 ship stacks and up to 7 (possibly human) players playing the same battle. Assume that battlefield size, speed, etc. are all "optimal".

Consider the following 3 design ideas for such battle:
a) Round robin (one player plays at a time, other players wait, pass control in a circle)
b) Simultaneous turn based (All players give order to all of their stacks in the same time. All press "done". When all orders are in, all ships, weapons, specials act (specifics are up to your imagination, I keep this point broad for this survey)
c) Real time strategy

Rate the ideas:
1. Round robin (answer: 1 = awful, 2 = bad, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
2. Simultaneous turn based (1 = awful, 2 = bad, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
3. Real time strategy (1 = awful, 2 = bad, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
4. A different idea from the above three. State it. (1 = awful, 2 = bad, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
5. Write comments about how you would design multiplayer battle for up to 7 players in MOO.

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I read several enthusiastic reviews of this game during the last few days and suddenly realized it is already #1 on the Steam charts, even though it is still in early access.
So I would like to know if anybody here has played this yet? It seems to be all the rage, but 20 Euros for early access is not a steal either.

If you haven't heard about it:

Genre: Hybrid roguelike/dungeon crawler/turn based RPG

Steam page & trailer:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/262060/

Let's play by Northernlion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhVA17lgb0M

So, a FFH duel league is going to be ... interesting. Honestly, the game isn't really balanced for duels, you can already see 1 power pairing in the Mahala vs Auric match. I'm sure we'll see at least 1 game with an early Wild Hunt knockout. I figure most the games will be reasonably short for this reason, and there will probably be lots of times you need to find a creative solution to a problem. So it sounded fun to participate.

That said, I went and chose Beeri Bawl(Ind/Fin) of the Luchuirp for my game with Tasunke. He chose the size to be small, which actually means really freaking big for a duel. So I thought it was an opportunity to play something a bit different. With mud golems and the early worldspell, I should be able to snowball well.

I think I'd probably be the favourite for this thing, so I sort of expect all my opponents to pick power combinations against me. Hopefully me not picking a power-combo will discourage this a bit and leave my hand a bit more open for the future games. I'm thinking my other choices might be;

Kandros of the Khazad - seems like the Khazad should be pretty good in a duel.
Auric of the Illians - PoW rush
Alexis of the Calabim - Rivers of Blood, Aggressive Moroi, Governors Manors.
Cassiel of the Grigori - again, seems well suited for a duel. Also, I can name my Adventurers after Supernatural characters!

They all sound fun. I don't want to pick the Doviello or Kurios, since I've already played them. That does mean I'll always have them in my back pocket as a counter-pick if necessary though. Clan, Hippus or Averax all seem like powerful choices for the final game. But they don't excite me much for some reason. Maybe, Volanna, playing around the with Sidar worldspell or a a March of the Trees rush Ljos could also be considered.

Northstar1989: bfw28 [AT] cornell.edu
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Black Sword: ben(dot)quigley2(at)mail(dot)dcu(dot)ie
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Tasunke : tasunke89 [AT] gmail.com
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Kragroth : billbisco [AT] gmail.com
Old Lion : leo_eleba at yahoo dot fr

Um. So it's basically just me watching right now, isn't it?

So Miguelito made a thread for it, so I guess I will too.

So, since we ar ejust working too well as a team in 65, we decided to create a bit of bad feelings.
No experience with duels from my side, so he may very well eat me with his first warrior.

I would appreciate all good advic and comments on my, expectedly, horrendous errors.

Setting is all random, RtR, mirrorland, normal barbs, don't know about huts
Adrien got Zara of Carthage, and I've got Boudica of Portugal. So two water civs, that's funny. Strat is to build many super-XP melee units and crush him before he gets the inevitable economic advantage. If that doesn't work, build many super-XP gunpowder units - which might hop off from carracks if the opportunity arises - and crush him despite his economic advantage.
Playstyle will be casual, no sims.

This is the start:




Decided to scout that coast because, well, I've got a fisher civ. Found this.:




I decided to settle where the scout is.

Pros:
- gets crabs early
- connects the two seas, improving my boating abilities
- I'm CHM, so don't really need furs early on
- grassland incense for sure is a good commerce tile once we get it hooked (will take a while ofc)

Cons:
- I lose an assumed plains hill NW of the stone and whatever resources were hidden in the fog. Maybe even copper.
- is accessible from both seas, improving my chances of getting boated

Adrien hadn't settled either, so I'm not behind yet


Is there interest in continued reports on this? I already feel I'm writing the PBEM65 thread mostly just for Adrien, and he can't read here, so...

I am collecting data for our development of the next generation of MOO (new game, not patch).
1. What is your opinion on MOO's limit of having 6 ship designs available at any time? (answer: 1 = awful, 2 = bad, 3 = neutral/no opinion, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
2. What number would work best in MOO for available ship designs, assuming nothing else changed (apart from making space for them in battle by growing battlefield and fleet selection view)?
3. How do you rate your knowledge of MOO? (1 = very poor, 2 = poor, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = excellent)
4. How do you rate the likelihood that you beat MOO with random race on impossible small or medium map with Kyrub's MOO v1.40m patch? [no cheating, but exploits OK] (nearly impossible = 1, unlikely = 2, tossup = 3, likely = 4, almost certainly = 5)
5. Write comments around the issue of the number of ship designs in MOO.

Thank you,