Invitation to a huge world map PB

[Charriu]

Oh hey Mehmed, ORG/EXP in base BtS is pretty nice, as is starting with Wheel/Agri

Wanna trade?

The organizers mentioned that is ok to trade.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Wonder if Ramk will let me be a admin for this game too so i can help with RB's pause requests.. ?

I will, but will also note that pause requests must handled more strict for 52 players. With 2days/turn, predefined moves, and some help by lurkers the game should run without long pauses.
A common problem for (in game) pauses are diplomatic screens: Some player de-pauses to leave the screen and to play the turn, other players join in and want also move.
At the end, the pause will not set again.

Exceptions are Christmas and Easter holidays. We will increase the timer on such a high value that no turn will be missed. If everyone moves, it is also ok…
Summer vacations are problematic because they are spread too wide for an useful pause of the game. Here, we prefer the search of a substitute for the vacation.

In the last game, we created a list and each player added his absent times. This made it easier for admins and potential substitutes to track who needs help.
Maybe the RB users create such a list here and the other users at civforum.

[Cornflakes]

Ouch. The mod is essentially base BtS. I fell sorry for DZ and Superdeath.

When I saw your post, my first thought before checking the update was "Hmmm....Japan?" Damn you, instinct, why doth thou mock me?!  

Looking forward to seeing the start, and how I'm gonna play this out.  Cornflakes, you still on board?

Let's do this!

[Ramkhamhaeng]

The map is ready and they started randomizing positions. Last thing to be done are changes to their mod (the weakened corporations).

After thinking about weakening corporations, I will implement this variant:

• The corporation income in each city will not(!) sink if it is spread in a few owned cities.
• If you spread it in more cities, the income sinks (linear) down to 20% of its original value.
  The decrease factor depends on the map size.
• You could defend again the decreasing if you spread the corporation to other players (the amount of players counts). This mechanism just reduce the income loss, but you could never reach 100% again.

The decrement factors will shown on the corporation screen (Shift+F7), to allow you a judgement if it is still a good option to spread your corporation, trade resources, etc.


Well, I think this is a good solution, but we also had some time to test it out.

After some feedback, the change wasn't made and I cut off the corporation bonus/unit. Well, not the final word but I will not stop the game start any longer because of this.

[superdeath]

Wonder if Ramk will let me be a admin for this game too so i can help with RB's pause requests.. ?

I will, but will also note that pause requests must handled more strict for 52 players. With 2days/turn, predefined moves, and some help by lurkers the should run without long pauses.
A common problem for (in game) pauses are diplomatic screens: Some player de-pauses to leave the screen and to play the turn, other players join in and want also move.
At the end, the pause will not set again.

Exceptions are Christmas and Easter holidays. We will increase the timer on such a high value that no turn will be missed. If everyone moves, it is also ok…
Summer vacations are problematic because they are spread too wide for an useful pause of the game. Here, we prefer the search of a substitute for the vacation.

In the last game, we created a list and each player added his absent times. This made it easier for admins and potential substitutes to track who needs help.
Maybe the RB users create such a list here and the other users at civforum.

Sounds fair enough. I assume someone can post the new mod here when the game is getting going?

[Tasunke]

Wonder if Ramk will let me be a admin for this game too so i can help with RB's pause requests.. ?

I will, but will also note that pause requests must handled more strict for 52 players. With 2days/turn, predefined moves, and some help by lurkers the should run without long pauses.
A common problem for (in game) pauses are diplomatic screens: Some player de-pauses to leave the screen and to play the turn, other players join in and want also move.
At the end, the pause will not set again.

Exceptions are Christmas and Easter holidays. We will increase the timer on such a high value that no turn will be missed. If everyone moves, it is also ok…
Summer vacations are problematic because they are spread too wide for an useful pause of the game. Here, we prefer the search of a substitute for the vacation.

In the last game, we created a list and each player added his absent times. This made it easier for admins and potential substitutes to track who needs help.
Maybe the RB users create such a list here and the other users at civforum.

Sounds fair enough. I assume someone can post the new mod here when the game is getting going?

[Elkad]

Looks like the game is online?

http://civ.zulan.net/pbspy/game/84/

[superjm]

Dunno if I missed it, is there a list of everything this particular mod changes from base BtS?

[Charriu]

There will be an announcement thread/post with all necessary infos as soon as we have a sub-forum

[superdeath]

Dunno if I missed it, is there a list of everything this particular mod changes from base BtS?

As far as im aware, this mod changes only quality of life things from BTS. Such as un-pause from diplo screens, and other things that make it easier to host for Ramk.

There will be an announcement thread/post with all necessary infos as soon as we have a sub-forum