EpikBattel - Started

[FrozenFalcon]

The starter of the previous thread, TrajanX, disappeared, so I'm making a new one for the game.

Game will be for 6 teams, each consisting of 2 players, new players preferred. Age is MA, map will be World of Geometry and I think we agreed on using Worthy Heroes mod.



Game will be hosted on Llamabeast's PBEM-server.

Signed players:
Team 1:
Zeldor - Mictlan
moderation - R'lyeh
Team 2:
Torin - Machaca
FrozenFalcon - Bandar Log
Team 3:
Agema - Arcoscephale
Niarg - C'tis
Team 4:
Bananadine - Abysia
Gregstorm - Pythium
Team 5:
otthegreat - Marignon
DonCorazon - Eriu
Team 6:
Networkingguru - Ermor
JZ - Oceania


Correct me if I'm wrong.

Game is now full.

My gaming experience is limited to playing against computers in Dom2 and 3, and a single blitz.

9 pretenders have been sent to the server, still waiting for three. No actual deadline, just send them as soon as you can.

[Zeldor]

No chance for Conceptual Balance mod?

And what about increasing gold to 125 or 150 to make it more interesting?

[Gregstrom]

There were requests not to use CBM in the previous thread, I think.

I favour standard settings on gold/resources/research myself - mostly because I'm still very new to the game and want a chance to get used to the default behaviour of the races.

My total MP experience is:
Lost 2 MP games, 1 game ongoing but in a reasonable position.

[Zeldor]

Gregstrom:

We have agreed on WoG, that is more adventurous map and it introduces new players to new type of game - cumulative VP. I think no one played that before, even in SP.

I bring the 125-150% gold only because it would make late game more interesting, with that battles for central island.

[otthegreat]

I agree with bringing the gold up to 125-150%. I have played SP a fair amount but difficult AI still slaps me around. This would be my first multiplayer game.

[Niarg]

I'd still rather we had a game at the default settings, especially as this will be the first MP game for most of us.

My experience is dabbling in SP and not started an MP game yet (I only got the game recently).

[llamabeast]

My advice: _Really_ don't play on World of Geometry, it's far too big for 12 players. I mean, it's fine (really cool in fact), but only if you're deliberately setting out to play a huge game, which is the case for the other group of players who are just starting a game on it. I would definitely not play your first MP game on it. It will go on for ever, be micromanagement hell and put you all off. I normally aim for about 15 provinces/player or a bit less. Cradle of Dominion would be a nice map if you get a few more players. I've actually just started a game on that with 19 players, but 14 or so would be a very reasonable number.

If you stay at 8 players then I have a modified version of the Parganos map which I think is excellent for 8. The modifications are to make it a fairer map, because the default version has excessive clustering of terrain types, meaning e.g. one player ends up with all the farms, another with all the wasteland.

I have to say I would also leave things like income on default. People very rarely change those settings and I don't know why you'd want to - they're about right as they are.

[otthegreat]

Hi its me again! I'm having trouble with the Worthy Heroes mod. The computer keeps complaining about it being an RAR file or something. Help please.

[Zeldor]

Big map is a good thing I really think WoG is the best map to play on available now.

[Zeldor]

otthegreat:

Did you unpack it into /mod folder in Dominions3 folder?