PBW : Devnull4 bis

[Unknown_Enemy]

Players,

It seems the game was just deleted by binford before it even started . As he mailed to us , it seems he was caught up by RL problems pretty hard. I just hope he'll be all right, but in the mean time, lets kill each other in a good old devnull game.

Here are the rules that have been agreed between players :

V1.84 + devnulm mod v1.70
36h turns

Starting resources: 100000
Starting planets: 3
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: FQM
Quadrant size: Large
Event frequency: Low
Event severity: High
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: player votes
Maximum units: 20000
Maximum ships: 2000
Computer players: None
Computer difficulty: None
Computer player bonus: None
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings: NO INTEL, NO STELLAR MANIP

Random spiral arm map.
14 players max, priority to players previously in the devnull4 game.

Now, I would like to have this game running by the end of this week. I am ready to have this baby up and running as soon as we have 12 players. So run for it. If you were from the aborted Devnull4 game, join and upload your empire, settings are the same.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Game created.
?? What was wrong ???

[ September 08, 2003, 16:27: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

Already 10 players.



Be quick and we'll even start before the end of the week.

EDIT : did I said 10 ? Huummm let's say 12.

[ September 09, 2003, 12:31: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

[Gozra]

Dear Devnull Bis4 diary

All ready people are jockying for power. Someone accused Rollo of winning Dev2. Which he of course vehemetly denied. Pressure is up already as several players have joined in a 48 hour period. No stellar manipulation frightens and entharalls me at the same time. If war breaks out in this game It could be like a Webber book Long periods of peace puncuated by intense all consuming war. Some of the players I know from other games. Others I have never seen before. Well more later.
Gozra

[ September 17, 2003, 19:26: Message edited by: Gozra ]

[Gozra]

Dear Devnull Bis4 Diary

The game is off to a start. not a very good one turn three and I have already met another Empire. They have ignored my diplomatic pouch but I think it is a adminastrative Faux Pa. I am busy building ships and have implemented plan 36 Aloha. I hope I can establish frendly relations. This game will prove to be interesting Having 3 planets I can almost see 19% of the map.
More later

[ September 17, 2003, 19:16: Message edited by: Gozra ]

[Cirvol]

I WANTED to play - i was in the first devnull4...

this one got started too quick

damn - is there any chance i could join?

[Unknown_Enemy]

Sorry to hear that.

Geoshmo send a mail to all devnull4 players, to tell them I was setting up this game.

I am afraid we did not have anybody jumping off the cart, so the game is quite full.

I will contact you if someone leave a place with a viable position.

[Gozra]

Dear Devnull Bis4 diary

I am alone in the universe again. The alien race we spotted on the turn 2 has remained elusive. And refuses to communicate. We must prepare for war and hope for peace. I suppose we can assume he is as afraid of me as I am of him. 'Him.' I refer to him as him because a female alien would be too much to expect. And I guess I should look to see what it calls itself. Hmmm it maybe I should call it an it. And if war does come I can Demonize an 'it' easier to rouse the people to crusade against an enemy. If you just don't think of them as human then it's easier to do what is necessary. In another game I spaced 50K of population to make room for a Population exchange. I still have nightmares about that one. until next turn
Gozra

[Gozra]

Dear Devnull Bis4 diary

I finally got a reply from the only other person in the game. Caution is the watchword. I did find a nice black hole and survived to tell about it. So much for stepping out into the unknown. I don't feel comfortable about my position but then again I would not feel comfortable unless all my enemies were crushed beneath my feat. Devnull and the Fryon map mod really enhances the game IT should prove to be interesting.

[Gozra]

Dear Devnull Bis4 diary

They are coming out of the woodwork! Other races are everywhere! Interesting Messages going back and forth. Politic and more Politics. I now feel surrounded and confined. Not sure how to handle all the Diplomacy. I see diffrences in races imediatly and what is worse is I tend to place attributes on the ship sets that were noticed in other games. I hope all the other playes have this problem also. I have not noticed my shipset used before so maybe I can start with a clean slate. Well things should get interesting and it is very early in the game. Chines curse " May you live in interesting times"