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Awesome to see you guys, Oxy and Luddite, welcome back.
If only you and me and dead people know hex, then only deaf people know hex.
I write RPG adventures, and blog about it, check it out. (June 21st, 2023, 17:26)yuris125 Wrote: Big welcome to the returners! Ancient start, sorry for the confusion. Decided to limit the number of variables we're introducing. (June 21st, 2023, 10:47)scooter Wrote: Most of the settings are pretty locked in, but there's a few things we could use final input on.Ah so we're starting simultaneous for 60 turns, then switching to sequential? sounds good. I think I'd vote for allowing full espionage, in the spirit of madness. But either is fine. (June 21st, 2023, 10:47)scooter Wrote: 2) Nukes - I'm skeptical this game will run long enough for them to heavily feature. I'd lean towards banning, but if someone feels strongly otherwise I'm happy to go with it.Same, I'd also vote for banning nukes (June 21st, 2023, 10:47)scooter Wrote: Finally, before we can generate a turn/draft order, we need to organize a play window order. If everyone could post their preferred play window, that would be great. My reliable window is 7-11pm Eastern US, which maps to 11pm-3am GMT (or 2300-300).I'll take 1PM-5PM GMT (1300-1700) if that works. Couple other questions: Just how big is this map going to be? Or is that a secret? You said "Lean towards roomy but not enormous" so is that a standard-size world? Events off, barbs off, monarch difficulty, cylindrical world map? (June 22nd, 2023, 08:50)luddite Wrote: Just how big is this map going to be? Or is that a secret? You said "Lean towards roomy but not enormous" so is that a standard-size world? There's some mapmaker leeway here, so it's up to them if they want to reveal more details. I tried to just give rough parameters that give us both "not cramped" and "not total sim city for 100+ turns" to make the widest variety of tech choices viable. (June 22nd, 2023, 08:50)luddite Wrote: Events off, barbs off, monarch difficulty, cylindrical world map? Correct on all of these if there's no strong resistance to any of them.
Oh, one more of an open question with Espionage. It sounds like we're leaning towards allowing it all. I haven't played with full Espionage in a MP game basically ever so I'm embarrassingly under-informed. Are there any missions that are going to be problems? I vaguely recall the revolt or poisoning missions being problems? Can't you force a player out of civics entirely? If we're going to allow active missions, we probably should discuss this.
With the swap to sequential I think missions are OK in terms of functionality if not balance, I can't recall about the counter espionag mission though. I think there were problems in simultaneous but don't know if the mission ends when the playyer ends turn, or when the whole turn rolls.
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Luddite: 1300-1700 Yuris: 1300-100 Scooter: 2300-300 I put Yuris after Luddite since he has a wider window. Just need ideal windows from Oxy and Cairo (and any setting preferences if needed). (June 22nd, 2023, 10:37)Krill Wrote: With the swap to sequential I think missions are OK in terms of functionality if not balance, I can't recall about the counter espionag mission though. I think there were problems in simultaneous but don't know if the mission ends when the playyer ends turn, or when the whole turn rolls. I think I’m most concerned about forced civic swap stuff, city revolt, and forced unhappiness, but I’m inexperienced enough with espionage to not know really if the cost is high enough for it to be a fair tradeoff. We've just spent so many years either modding these out or banning active/certain missions that I'm not quite sure what the "ideal" setting is. |
Hope everything is well with you both.
and some chaos!