MP Noobs vs. Vets III: Revolution, MA, CBM. Game Over. Noobs Triumph! - Page 9

Septimius Severus · #81 May 30th, 2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by namad

wouldn't it make the most sense to let the 24th nation just be an EA/LA nation???

On the other hand it would open up a lot of nation choice possibilities if we get the full 24. Hmm, what do the rest of you think?

rdonj · #82 May 30th, 2009, 03:49 PM

It wouldn't necessarily have to be an all-nations game, though using that mod would make it simpler. Anyway, if you end up needing an extra nation I suggest giving it to the noobs and ruling out LA ermor.

llamabeast · #83 May 30th, 2009, 04:16 PM

Actually it would have to be an all-eras game because of the way the LlamaServer works (unless someone made a mod nation that just reproduced one of the vanilla nations). Not that playing it as an all-era game is a big overhead.

Skaven are good though.

namad · #84 May 30th, 2009, 07:33 PM

so what? use the all nations mod its like a 15kb download and then just let the admin choose which one and only one nation from the other eras is appropriate to include

viola problems solved. 24nations one era (for the most part)

making something include all the eras doesn't mean you can't just use nothing but one era... in single player i just usually leave that mod on even if i am only testing nations from one era... its just convenient

but i doubt we'll get 24players anyway....

rdonj · #85 May 30th, 2009, 10:02 PM

I didn't quite mean what I said the way you all are reading it, but it doesn't matter, basically I agree with you :P.

Septimius Severus · #86 May 31st, 2009, 02:08 AM

Certainly a possibility if we end up needing an extra nation or two. But I'm also ok with a single well crafted mod nation. No big deal really imo. Hypothetical till we see the recruitment totals anyway.

Here's how I plan to implement nation selection when we are ready. Lavaere, and anyone else feel free to comment if it differs from your ideas.

Say we reach the 18 player threshold (we could do so without the need for any water nations) and decide to begin nation selection.

My idea is to let returning alternates from NvVII (if any) weigh in and grab their nations first. If say there are 3 (2 Noobs and 1 Vet) and they take 3 nations, that leaves us with 17 land nations to choose from.

Both teams then draw up their ordered lists for the remaining nations that must be distributed (in this case 17) in their order of preference. The lists are compared. Noobs get their first choice. Vets then get their first choice (unless it is the same as the Noobs, in which case they get their second) we then go back to the Noobs and continue till all nations are distributed.

One caveat, even though the Vet team may have only say 5 players to pick for, they would still need to produce that ranked list of 17 nations to account for any identical nation choices with the Noobs and to insure that all nations are distributed.

Edit: The nations thus distributed between teams would then need to be assigned to individual team members.

Sounds like it will work. Nice idea guys.

Septimius Severus · #87 June 1st, 2009, 01:23 AM

Hmm, as first Vet to sign up Lingchih, your sorta defacto captain again. If you say TheDemon is in, well I guess I'll just move him into a starting position.

Here's my vet dream team:

Executor
Baalz
Archaeolept
EvilHomer or Gandalf Parker
Jazzepi
Llamabeast
Quantum_Mechani
Lingchih
Ironhawk

Lingchih · #88 June 1st, 2009, 01:58 AM

I don't actually think the Vet team will ever fill up, Sept. I joined because I had been a player in all the games. But I don't think there is much interest in this one.

And, you ignore Micah, who is the best Dom3 player in the world.

Lingchih · #89 June 1st, 2009, 02:05 AM

I think the ultimate dream team, for the Vets, would be:

Micah
QM
Baalz
Zeldor
Evilhomer

I often lose to all those guys. Not to discount Ironhawk, or theDemon. They are good too. Ye gods, I could go on.... Lolomo is great and there are so many others.

Arch and Lllama, and Gandalf, are kind of bit players though. No offense.

Zeldor · #90 June 1st, 2009, 09:16 AM

Huh, I surely wouldn't call myslef top tier player. Micah is top1 for me too. You also missed Jurri there.

Septimius:
I think you want to do it too big and too fast. I can play if one of my games ends. Or if I get a sub in Faerun. But please, please, do not put Gandalf in vet team.