YARG2 , 24 players EA RAND game [7/24 players left]

[WraithLord]

Yet Another RAND Game (YARG) II

To first YARG players: hope you had fun and are ready for more.
To newcomers: This is a RAND game. So no diplomacy whatsoever. No posting here your identity, your nation or giving clues as to what your ID is. Nations are assigned randomly.

I'm maintaining the game thread, I'll be creating the game on the server and starting it but all the admin. work during the game will be carried out by the esteemed and selfless rdonj.
I repeat, during the game I'm stepping back and will be just another player. Don't PM me re. admin. stuff. Only PM rdonj!

At this point the game is open for both sign-up and discussion.
Some of the settings are open for discussion, the rest are fixed and will have bold font.

Map: Glory of the gods (multilayer version)
Calahan has graciously agreed to apply some fixes based on first YARG lessons.
Hosting Pace: First 15 turns every 24h, turns 15-30 48h, turn 30-45 72h, turn 45-60 96h, turn > 61 120h.
Considerate extension giving policy.
Hosting is planned for busy ppl.
Mods: CBM1.6
Renaming: off
Research: difficult
Graphs: on
HoF: 15
Indies: 9
Disallowed exploits: copying Bogus' orders and overfilling enemy lab to prevent his own forge.
Killing own mages under Ankh or LaD to gain freebe mages and troops. It's ok in a battle but it's not ok to set it up on purpose (whoever likes to do it knows what I'm talking about)
Probing armies with scouts/commanders must be done in such a way so as not to block movement (Added after game start so does not strictly apply to this game - will apply to next YARG)

Era: EA
Nations: all, 24.
Victory condition: 10 VPs. Each capital has 1 VP.
Pretenders should be given nations name!
This is to prevent unintentional disclosure of player ID.
i.e. If you play Agartha you call your pretender Agartha. That's it, no games please.

re. nation assignment. I can ask Zeldor again (if he'll agree and if he ain't interested in participating)
repeat, rdonj will admin.


-> For those who are not familiar with the term RAND.
RAND - Random Anonymous No Diplomacy.
Nations are assigned randomly.
Player's Identity is kept hidden.
Diplomacy or any form of communication is not allowed and is considered cheating.
-> After all players sign-up we shall wait a week for pretender creation. Then we start the game.
-> Please refrain from sending any in-game messages. Also, don't post here anything that can reveal information regarding you or other nations. No diplomacy or communications of any kind is allowed between players.
If you lose your identity is revealed. This is part of the fun in the game, guessing and 2nd guessing who is who until ppl start falling. If you do lose, please also refrain from posting anything with information on the game.
-> Please honor the warrior spirit of this game. No turning AI after a few defeats please. Try to fight as best you can for as long as you can. If RL prevents you from playing please contact the admin to find a sub
-> As Calahan said: "note in the OP regarding what happens if you break the rules of a RAND game. ie. Zero tolerance. Since I remember we had one early incident in YARG1 of someone communicating, so probably a good idea to clarify what happens if anyone attempts that again here." I can't put it any better than that. You send a message, item or whatever to another player and you're out. That's a big red NO NO, please make sure to keep shut any communication channels to other players re. the game.


Players:
1. Dimaz, Leader of Yomi, defeated on turn 38
2. Clahan, Leader of Ctis, defeated on turn 73
3. WraithLord
4. WingedDog
5. Isokron, Leader of Atlantis, defeated on turn 90
6. Slobby
7. Alpine Joe, subbed by ???
8. TwoBits, Leader of Kailasa, defeated on turn 79
9. Squirrelloid, Leader of Agartha, defeated on turn 55
10. Frozen Lama/PriestyMan, Leader of Mictlan, defeated on turn 87
11. Agusti
12. Don Pablo
13. Danbo, Leader of Hinnom, defeated on turn 54
14. LumenPlacidum, with a temporary subbing by ferrosol, Leader of Pangaea, defeated on turn 58
15. Psycho
16. yandav, Leader of Lanka, defeated on turn 46
17. Graeme Dice, Leader of Oceania, defeated on turn 39
18. ghoul31, Leader of helheim, defeated on turn 66
19. Rytek, Leader of Sauromatia, defeated on turn 68
20. Lingchih, Leader of Caelumm, defeated on turn 51
21. GameExtremist, Leader of Vanheim, defeated on turn 50
22. Aethyr, Leader of Abysia, defeated on turn 84
23. Stagger Lee, Leader of Niefelheim, defeated on turn 39
24. Kheldron, Leader of Marverni, defeated on turn 35

Gentleman, once all players know their assignments the clock starts to tick. We'll give one week to play and experiment with builds. After that we're a go. The game will start on Sunday 4th of April. I'll create it on the server once Calahan is happy with his fixes to the map.
The game map, Alexander, was fixed by Calahan. If you wish you can d/l his map from the thread and test it for possible errors as well.

[Penguin Zero]

Sounds interesting. Sign me up!

[Agusti]

Me too, please.

[don_Pablo]

Interested!
Sign me up please

[WraithLord]

I'm sorry If I wasn't clear about this: the game is mainly meant for veteran players. Please understand that the major difference in competence due to lack of experience unbalances the game.

So if you have solid MP playing experience, I don't know, like played at least 15 MP games, are not in 5 other games ATM and planing to stick it out with us then that's ok. Otherwise please start by playing a few newb MP games to get some experience.

In that light, Penguin Zero, Agusti & don_Pablo, where do you stand?

[Micah]

I don't think you're gonna get 24 experienced players for a game ever, Wraith. We all know that that's way too many people for one game by this point, especially on that gigantoid map. =)

[WraithLord]

Micah, what do you suggest?

[Agusti]

Well, I've played around 10-12 MP games and right now I'm playing and hosting some games, so I think I could say that I'm an intermediate player. It's difficult to be a veteran in this game.

Don Pablo and me are having a good fight in one of them (hi Don Pablo), btw.

If you don't have 24 veteran players, then please sign me up, ok?

[WraithLord]

Micah is right. There are two directions from here, either a- go for less players, smaller map. or b- relax the requirement

There are enough small scale vet only games so I'm leaning towards option b. I still think totally green newbs shouldn't join the game but if you consider yourself an intermediate player, have a few MP games under your belt and are willing to play with us and not bail out on the first sign of trouble then that's ok, you can join.


Penguin Zero, what would you say is your experience level?

[don_Pablo]

There was smth strange with my first account so I had to create new.
I've played ~30mp games. One of the first was Qwerty where you kicked me out quickly. I hope I learnt a lot since then )