* I have no idea if Civic Swap Missions are possible in this mod, but if they are & they work the same was as in BTS, don't do them.
* Diplomacy allowed, but only in a Public Diplomacy Thread
* Monarch Difficulty
* Quick Speed
* Random Events- ON
Initial gathering interest post:
Any interest in a 4-5 player game using the SMAC-inspired Planetfall Mod?
I personally have never played it before. I haven't even downloaded it yet, since I think I'd have the most fun throwing myself into any game blind. But it looks kind of cool, so what the heck, why not give it a shot?
oledavy Wrote:Good evening everyone, and welcome to the public reporting thread for Realms Beyond's epic quest to win the third Multi-Team Democracy Game!
We're going to get straight down to brass tacks and discuss today's breaking news:
[SIZE="7"]Spanish Team Loses MTDG III[/SIZE]
In a move that has baffled pundits the world over, the Spanish Apolyton Team has chosen Boudica as their leader with the fourth choice of the snake pick. While there have been some weedy decisions so far, our analysts are confident none will measure up to the sheer awfulness of this pick. Where to begin? Well, our senior field correspondant managed to track down reclusive RB personality Locke, and interview him for his take on the Spanish Team's choice.
Locke Wrote:OK hi. Davey ask me to talk about Spanish leader pick, so I do that now. Well Spanish team decide to pick Boudica. This is terrible pick! Worst pick so far. I explain why now. We are playing with no tech trading, so economy is best choice in traits, and rushing is bad idea. Also, we will play Emperor and Toroidal, so that mean high costs. So Spanish team pick leader with no economy traits in game where economy most important! It's OK, stupid pick make better choices for us.
Think of all choices Spanish team could have pick. Pacal and Huayna were there, and they are much better than Spanish pick. FIN, EXP, SPI, IND, and even CRE all much better traits than AGG and CHM. Also, nobody else going to pick Boudica, so why not pick civ now and get Boudica later? They could of pick India instead! India is very good, fast worker very powerful and last forever. Hopefully Spanish team does not start next to us and they rush somebody else, that way stupid pick hurt two teams and not just one . With picks like this, no wonder we play on dumb mod.
I wonder if Spanish version of Civ4 make Boudica different. That the only good reason I can think for picking Boudica. They in for bad surprise when game start and they see they have AGG and CHM! Or maybe they role-play Boudica and send flirty message to everyone while trying to kill them. That maybe fun. OK that is all.
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The choice of a leader with no economic traits in a fundamentally economic game is truly a baffling move on the part of Spanish Apolyton. Some of our senior analysts have suggested they may want to be the attack dog for a larger nation that supports their economy. However, doing the dirty work for another power is hardly a winning move, and will likely just end up with them being the weaker partner in a one-sided alliance that benefits Spanish Apolyton little. Other's have suggested they intend to take Rome when they come up to pick again. If they do intend to Praet rush, with the insane maintenance costs any captured cities will incur, they'll just put themselves farther behind.
Most bafflingly however, why pick a leader with the fourth choice of the snake pick when Boudica was sure to be available when their turn came up again? If they do want to be the military attack dog, why not pick Montezuma for anarchy free bursts of NH to draft AGG muskets and rifles? And if they do want to rush, why not pick Byzantium or Rome? It's far more likely that one of them will be selected between now and their next pick than Boudica.
Needless to say, in a single, stunning move, the Spanish Team has a reduced their chances of winning MTDG III to a snowflake's chance in hell; leaving just seven remaining teams between RB and the victory.
Ending turn for today, this has been Realms Beyond Network News.
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Opinions on it welcome.
What form should the public reporting thread take? Go.
I have three concepts I'm about equally interested in running so I'll let you guys decide so I have some time to design the game. Since I think everyone wants a break from wolf vs wolf scheming, all of the possible games will be based around having one main scum faction. There may be third-party roles, but you can expect them to be solo players (as in the FFH WW game I ran.)
The game concepts are:
Weird Roles - This game is intended to be pretty lighthearted and will feature a bunch of unusual roles and post restrictions. Some of the roles are intended to be for entertainment value rather than being particularly powerful.
A Game of Thrones - This is intended to be a more traditional WW/Mafia game with plenty of flavour. Knowledge of the source material may help (mainly for playing the "guess what role this character plausibly be" game) but not required.
Diablo - This is intended to be a high-power game loosely based around the Diablo series with some experimental features such as items. You don't really need to know anything about Diablo to play this one.
If you're intending to play, let me know if you have a preference and I'll go with whatever seems to make the most people happy.
PB7 just finished up. Others have recently too. Perhaps there's interest in more games! I thought it would be worth trying having a thread where we can discuss what kinds of games we would like to see the most.
I'm still interested in a renaissance team sequential pitboss, or something similar. I would like to see another Civ V pbem, though I would want to lurk, not play. And any kind of pitboss or pbem has a chance of catching my interest, especially since I'm only playing one game right now and the turns take only a minute. Maybe another big pitboss with, er, clearer rules would be in order? Or, perhaps a game reusing one of the better old PBEM maps would be cool. You tell me!
About 6 months ago, I rebuilt my computer and have been having problems connecting to certain things since then. I upgraded to windows 7 and replaced 90% of the hardware, but kept the old HD in addition to a new one. A friend (who knows a lot more than I do about this) helped me with all of this, but he's not sure what could be causing the connectivity problems.
Since the upgrade, I have been unable to connect to many online services. Internet Explorer works fine, but firefox does not. Steam can connect, dropbox cannot. Before the upgrade, I used dropbox and firefox frequently and had no trouble connecting to either one. (Both programs will still run, but are now unable to connect.) So far, NobleHelium and Mardoc have attempted to help me solve the problem through chat and screenshots.
I wasn't sure whether I would be able to connect properly to the new EITB pitboss, but the same (probably) connectivity problem interferes with Civ as well.
If anybody knows anything about how to solve this, I would greatly appreciate it. I don't know exactly which information is relevant, so feel free to ask and I will post screenshots.
Better start this now, even if I don't have much to say. I've read cursively some of the threads, but it all feels pretty lame so I'm not sure I will bother going through them with much more thoroughly. All in all this ended up as failed experiment. I still had lot of fun with this game, but my current feeling is a big disappointment.
I blame myself for a vague rules. I thought they would be appropriate for relaxed game, but apparently they just caused us to have different rulesets for different players. I've also learnt a lesson and double moves fully allowed just isn't the way to play long term civ. It is just too unfair, if your opponent gets best of it every turn.
I also blame Lord Parkin, but I've nothing to new to add to discussion so better just mention it and move on .
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Worst pick so far. I explain why now. We are playing with no tech trading, so economy is best choice in traits, and rushing is bad idea. Also, we will play Emperor and Toroidal, so that mean high costs. So Spanish team pick leader with no economy traits in game where economy most important! It's OK, stupid pick make better choices for us.
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And any kind of pitboss or pbem has a chance of catching my interest, especially since I'm only playing one game right now and the turns take only a minute. Maybe another big pitboss with, er, clearer rules would be in order? Or, perhaps a game reusing one of the better old PBEM maps would be cool. You tell me!
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