Hey all!
I'm wondering about the possibility for setting up such a game again, following the standard RB rules instead of what we did in the last one I participated in with full diplo and so forth so forth. There are several aspects of the game I would really like to learn, that is hard to learn without hands on experience - and you can only learn so much by reading the game threads for the Pitbosses that are currently running, or have been archived, before you need to test things out yourself.
For this to work I envision we need at least 6-7 Green players (me being one of them, and I guess an upper limit of 12 players/teams or something like that?), and a similar amount of Mentors who would be team mates for the Greens. The Greens should be the ones doing the actual playing, while the Mentors take on a ded-lurk role where they can also log in to the game on the Civ they are mentoring whenever they want to look at things to make suggestions etc. Screenshots and turn reporting can be lacking, and also it's not so great to have turn reports that are flooded with way too many screenshots (as other lurkers will find that annoying) so it's important that the Mentors have the option to log in and take a look around for themselves.
One question is whether to use a mod, or to just use the base game. The latest version of RtR has a lot of neat features that is helpful in case of game crashes (particularly the extra generated autosaves are extremely nice, and observer mode is fun for the lurkers) - but perhaps it is possible to remove the RtR modifications and run with these features on the base BTS setting too, if that's the best. However, since I feel quite at home here on RB, and most RBers seem to be a bit tired of the base BTS game, I suspect either the RtR or the Tides of War mod would be a good idea to use since most games these days seem to use one of these anyways?
I will of course host the game if we get enough interest
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Confirmed teams who would like to play so far:
Caledorn (green) & Plako (mentor)
Interested Mentors who have not been paired yet:
Ichabod
Old Harry
Interested Greens who have not been paired yet:
agent427
ipecac (not sure if this is the correct category, but we also need to figure out if there is a fix for the Mac version, so he can join at all)
Hashoosh
I'm wondering about the possibility for setting up such a game again, following the standard RB rules instead of what we did in the last one I participated in with full diplo and so forth so forth. There are several aspects of the game I would really like to learn, that is hard to learn without hands on experience - and you can only learn so much by reading the game threads for the Pitbosses that are currently running, or have been archived, before you need to test things out yourself.
For this to work I envision we need at least 6-7 Green players (me being one of them, and I guess an upper limit of 12 players/teams or something like that?), and a similar amount of Mentors who would be team mates for the Greens. The Greens should be the ones doing the actual playing, while the Mentors take on a ded-lurk role where they can also log in to the game on the Civ they are mentoring whenever they want to look at things to make suggestions etc. Screenshots and turn reporting can be lacking, and also it's not so great to have turn reports that are flooded with way too many screenshots (as other lurkers will find that annoying) so it's important that the Mentors have the option to log in and take a look around for themselves.
One question is whether to use a mod, or to just use the base game. The latest version of RtR has a lot of neat features that is helpful in case of game crashes (particularly the extra generated autosaves are extremely nice, and observer mode is fun for the lurkers) - but perhaps it is possible to remove the RtR modifications and run with these features on the base BTS setting too, if that's the best. However, since I feel quite at home here on RB, and most RBers seem to be a bit tired of the base BTS game, I suspect either the RtR or the Tides of War mod would be a good idea to use since most games these days seem to use one of these anyways?
I will of course host the game if we get enough interest
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Confirmed teams who would like to play so far:
Caledorn (green) & Plako (mentor)
Interested Mentors who have not been paired yet:
Ichabod
Old Harry
Interested Greens who have not been paired yet:
agent427
ipecac (not sure if this is the correct category, but we also need to figure out if there is a fix for the Mac version, so he can join at all)
Hashoosh
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