Spoiler Thread for Ad Hoc

and a bit of culture


Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Hello Realms Beyond and welcome to my first PBEM! I have a vague idea of how this works and a comparable idea of how civilization works. I'm starting up a thread for my dedicated lurkers too! Call it some early C&D, if you will .

I was a bit surprised to hit vet status...well...instantly. This is my first solo game on Realms Beyond and all of my MP experience comes with a blazing timer! Plako and warriorknight were serious factors in Pitboss 4...but it looks like my single player xp (and a video here or there ) gives me a little bit of extra credit. In this game, I'll be seeking to earn it!

Nevertheless, it is against the best here that I seek to compete. I can easily and consistently win on immortal and sometimes take a deity game. I've studied the previous pitboss games here. I know the basics of MP, most variants of attack and defense possible, and have a general (and soon to be improved) grasp of micromanagement. I even know a player tendency or two . Barring any silly errors, I expect a good showing here, but we'll see. I'll try not to die t10 or something.

i'll be updating this thread with pictures and general strategies as they come. I probably won't drop a pic every single turn but I'll keep the lurkers informed of anything important that happens and update with pics every few turns to showcase major changes. The proper balance avoids info overload while being entertaining. Let's see if I manage.

EDIT: Leaders have been chosen, so now it's time to analyze:

TMIT: Shaka of Ottomans: I had 1st pick and chose a leader with a combo of traits that act as both a deterrent and carries some offensive teeth, with enough oomph to expand. I was not overly concerned with the civilization, but obviously would have preferred Rome for their super UU if it fell to me (fat chance). Notably, I'm the ONLY guy who didn't pick a civ starting with fishing. I'm not certain why this is; possibly the others don't have a pig tile that will be 5F 1H 1C once improved (compared to 6f 2c on the fish, which is unusually good but not truly spectacular w/o the banned FIN trait). I actually think worker 1st + AH is stronger here because of the higher raw yield + head start on worker turns (edit: test saves show I'm wrong in this regard and that fishing is better, but only slightly so!). Regardless I like my starting techs and rate them just behind those of China. My UU is on the late side but dangerous as a draft unit as it really has no hard field counter until later in the game, and benefits from the trait. The UB is solid, but nothing amazing. Still, if military escalation appears in the books (and with AGG Rome around it just might!), having a nice cap booster en route to collateral + initial AGG axes should at least put me in the medium tier of "don't rush this guy". Let's hope.

Oledavy/Mackoti: Kublai Khan of Rome: I think this quote says something:

Quote:mackoti is your most dangerous opponent here

hello all,

well, master of orion is an old game - one i've played for 15 years to this day. i've used raceed.exe and oreo.exe to make the game a little funner.

with raceed.exe, i can change the opponents so i have to compete against more challenging races like the klacks, meks, and psilons.

with oreo.exe, i can change every "none" planet to a barren one. this way, there is more game combat and slightly bigger economies.

i've also used alt-p to change the personalities of the bad guys. i sometimes wait till i've contacted all the races so i don't trade a challenging technologist for a boring pacifist.

i was curious if any of you modify your games to make them more enjoyable.

what mods do you make?

thanks

ken

I can't think of anything noteworthy to put in here as filler, so you'll just have to live with no filler at all. :neenernee

I don't know how many of you have been following the development, but Friends and Family Beta for Diablo 3 has been running the last two weeks. There's lots of content up such as beta run-throughs with different characters. Only parts of Act 1 though and the level is capped to 13. It looks awesome though. And now the public Beta is live. If you have a Battle.net account you may be invited! I haven't been yet.

News Linky

Just putting up the thread now to hopefully entice some dedicated lurkers to follow me. Other players in the game, please don't continue any further.

Players go away!


















































...

And we're ready to begin signups for SG6 (or the SG6 series, if enough folks are interested!) All are welcome regardless of experience level.

You can find the signup page here:
RBSotS1 SG6 Signups

Hi!

If you want to help reMOM, please do the following:

Download and run the exe.

Whenever ingame, press C (capital C)

Add units, buildings, races and special abilities.

Save the config and send me the defaulrRUles.xml and defaultUIrules.xml files.


Notes:


multiline textboxes accept 1 item per line
graphics need an input in the format filename:imageNumber. You can look at lbx contents with the LBX_Graphicstest.exe. (do not press openall button).
dubleclick an item to edit. Press the appropriate "add" button to add.
You can test whatever you created by creating a city (add name, race(note spelling) population (dont go over 15000 or so or the graphics will screw up) and location in the format xposition,yposition (like: 2,3).

There are a lot of crash possibilities. Be careful

Ask any questions here. Post any results here. Thank you for your cooperation!

Hello to Team Reject and to Realms Beyond. Historically more active on civfanatics, I've come over to Realms Beyond to break some rust off MP skills and refine my play further. Kuro said the new blood was welcome here, and here I am! I've reviewed the threads here so far. Fortunately, we're not too deep into the game yet so we have a real chance to gel as a team and make something happen still. I have some organizational suggestions:

1. The separate threads for each player are fine. What they should do, IMO, is highlight the micro choices for each civilization. Because this is medieval, we at least don't have to fight over which worker techs to grab at first , but we probably want to plan out max output + growth curve individually in these threads, and review each other's plans.

2. Combined discussion thread is good also. I'd like to set a concrete time, or if we can't do that, find another way to get consistent communication between all players and as much lurker inclusion (for strategic suggestion or even a micro pointer ) as possible. Let's use our resources to the best of our ability. Some of the other teams have good (and fairly renowned) players, but that doesn't mean we can't beat them.

3. I suggest a NEW thread, titled "TEST SAVE" or something along those lines. Test saves are, simply put, a world-builder constructed single player save that is unrelated to the current game but simulates the current micromanagement situation of the actual MP game. This allows the team to test out openings and its ability to reach goals. Especially powerful in the early goings, test saves remain fruitful for much of the opening turns and are common practice by winning teams in succession games. You want BC astronomy from an ancient start? This is a good way to figure out how to get it.

I would also like, for the benefit of our lurkers, to set up a general overlay thread that details pictures of our empires and relevant strategic points on the map, with caption as necessary.

I know it's presumptuous of me to come on here with a thread like this, but from my understanding this game is under danger of dying, and that's no fun. I also believe with some organization and utilization of micro tools we can put some serious hurting on the opposition. I suggest a war strategy thread too, because some of the guys are known for it and will attack us in unexpected ways unless we brainstorm.

What are your thoughts team?