Turn Blitz #2 open for business! (12 seats left)

Suicide Junkie · #1 October 8th, 2002, 07:06 PM

Turn Blitz #2 has been created at PBW (link)!

This has the same theme as TB#1, where you and a TDM AI will join forces to take over the galaxy in under a month of play!

Reccommendations and Suggestions from TB#1
- Prioritize! Decide which ministers you will clean up after, and which area of your empire needs attention each turn. You will not have time to do everything.
- Be friends with your AI! Choose one that thinks as close to the way you do as possible. You don't want to waste your precious time countermanding every order the AI gives each turn.
- Queue things up! Build up the research queue, the intel queue and the construction queues. If you keep them reasonably full, you will have much fewer empty queues to deal with each turn.
- Don't worry about alliances. Your political minister has an iron fist, and will veto any treaties that it dosen't like. Be careful if you are in first place, since Mega Evil Empire settings will be strictly enforced by all of the other player's ministers.
- Watch out for small empires, since they will be much more efficiently run by the Human player (who will have time to optimize details).

Requirements of Joining
- Sufficient knowlegde of PBW so that you can confidently download new turns, and upload your player files. You will have only an hour to play each turn, so getting it right the first time is fairly important.
- Experience with SE4's interface and basic menus. As above, you only have an hour, so you won't be able to look things up in the user manual or Online.

[ November 09, 2002, 01:02: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

geoschmo · #2 October 8th, 2002, 07:12 PM

Is TB 1 over already?

Suicide Junkie · #3 October 8th, 2002, 07:30 PM

Nope. TB1 is on Turn # 60 as I post this.
It was only started 3 days ago, so it won't take long to get finished. That's where the "Blitz" part of "Turn Blitz #1" came from

I am opening TB2 so that players can join, and once TB1 is over (or TB2 is full and all empires uploaded), we can start right away.

Nodachi · #4 October 8th, 2002, 11:54 PM

Hi guys!

I'd like to customize my AI files to use in this game. How do I go about setting it up so I can use them with PBW or is this even possible?

geoschmo · #5 October 9th, 2002, 12:02 AM

It is possible. If SJ wants to allow it he can collect custom AI's and give them to me as a mod which I can set up as a Version on PBW. It'll be a little work for him, and a little for me. I don't mind if he doesn't.

Geoschmo

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 9th, 2002, 04:06 PM

Ok, how about this: for players who are joining TB#2, you can tweak, ZIP, and email me your AI.
Also, change the AI's folder & filenames to be unique: start with your PBW username to keep it simple.

I'll check it to make sure it is compatible, and collect them to send to Geo.

Geo:
Could you start with the TDM modpack, and add these new AIs on top?

geoschmo · #7 October 9th, 2002, 04:30 PM

Yes, TDM as a base is fine. That way players that don't want to mess with the AI will still have something decent.

Suicide Junkie · #8 October 10th, 2002, 10:57 PM

Surely there are some new players interested in this game! Come, join in!

You don't even have to have a whole lot of time free to play.
I played at least half of the first 20 turns, but my AI race has been on its own for over 70 turns in a row. (My home network went down this week.)They're still doing very well, with the biggest population in the galaxy, despite being low tech (8th of 8) and compact (6th of 8 in systems controlled).

geoschmo · #9 October 10th, 2002, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Surely there are some new players interested in this game! Come, join in!

You don't even have to have a whole lot of time free to play.
I played at least half of the first 20 turns, but my AI race has been on its own for over 70 turns in a row. (My home network went down this week.)They're still doing very well, with the biggest population in the galaxy, despite being low tech (8th of 8) and compact (6th of 8 in systems controlled).

Yeah, you just lost one fleet though.

EDIT: SJ, you are looking at the wrong stats. You are #3 in tech and number 1 in total number of systems. You were looking at CapnQ's stats.

[ October 10, 2002, 22:14: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

capnq · #10 October 11th, 2002, 03:03 AM

Quote:

You were looking at CapnQ's stats

Yeah, my race being behind everybody else in tech is fairly common, even in my solo games. My Ukra-Tal drew a rather isolated starting position; we're past turn 100 now, and I've still only encountered two other empires.