MP: BearTrap - Early age game. Running like a cripple in a running competition.

[anticipatient]

Wonderful! . . . now if somebody wouldn't mind just dropping dead, that'd be great, thanks.

[Quitti]

We're still waiting for two pretenders (cba to check who they are atm)

[Enoch]

As its my first multiplayer game can I ask a couple of questions.

1) Does the server host every 27 hours or when everyone gets their turn files in?

2) Are there any restrictions on who you contact diplomatically i.e. do you have to have met them in game first?

Good luck every one!

[mscfish]

Originally Posted by Enoch

As its my first multiplayer game can I ask a couple of questions.

1) Does the server host every 27 hours or when everyone gets their turn files in?

2) Are there any restrictions on who you contact diplomatically i.e. do you have to have met them in game first?

Good luck every one!

1.If the admin enable "quick host" which is regularly,the server will host at once when it receive the last one's turn file.
But if someone don't send his turn file in time(now ,it's 27h),the server will host 27h after last hosting.
2.Look at this on the first page
"Machiavellian diplomacy. Backstab whoever you want, but don't expect them to like it - though I'd like to request that whatever happens in this game, stays in this game."
So,just do anything you want.

[llamabeast]

You don't have to have met someone in the game in order to message them, no. I guess you have to imagine that all the pretenders can detect and contact each other by some kind of crystal ball system.

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by llamabeast

You don't have to have met someone in the game in order to message them, no.

Hhhhmmmm, personally I wouldn't be too quick off the mark saying this (that "making contact before meeting in-game" is ok) is the accepted norm for games.

Early on in one of the Newbie games I am currently running, one of the players wasn't too happy about two of his neighbours chatting before they had met in-game, since as the game developed, these two players were also the same two neighbours who ended up rushing him. I looked into the complaint at the time, and concluded the original contact was more-or-less harmless. But at the same time I could certainly understand the player who got rushed feeling a bit aggrieved, as it appeared to him his two neighbour agreed to rush him just a few turns after the game had started, and well before they even got close to having in-game borders, or finding out where each other was on the map. Indeed, the rushed player hadn't even met one of his would-be rushers in-game at the time, which didn't help matters, as it only aided his opinion that one of his rushers might only have known about his cap location from the other rusher he had contact with pre-meeting in-game.

So again personally, in future newbie games I run I will likely have a rule that contact between players inside the first 15 turns must be limited to those you have in-game borders with, as I want to avoid unwanted drama in my newbie games. (although this particular game isn't a newbie game of course. So you can likely expect more 'advanced' settings on all options. But just thought I'd point out that I don't think llamabeast's quote should be automatically accepted as the standard norm on the "making contact before meeting in-game" issue for all games)

[Quitti]

While Calahan has a point there, this game does not limit people from communicating with each other, no matter who the players are, have they met, and so on. Let the information flow freely!

[nozshand]

first turn blind attack failed miserably, remind me never do it again :/

[Enoch]

Thanks for the answers about diplomacy. What Calahan talked about was what I was concerned about, but glad to know I am clear.

[Warhammer]

Nozshand, don't first turn blind attack.