New Kinda Noob game Starting

[Groundworm]

Requesting 48 hour extension. Busy week + work all weekend = may need until Sunday eve to take my turn. Will attempt to be more expeditious as my schedule allows.

[Finalgenesis]

Done, thanks for hanging there while we're still looking for sub! Tried once in irc will try again

[Finalgenesis]

Gonna need input here, so far no sub has shown but in my experience one eventually does, I don't think we can be choosers here and go for newish players.

In the meantime, Arco can't really be allowed to AI or left in any length of limbo without messing up the game balance.

I suggest that once Groundworm can't hand in temp turns anymore, we put the game on hold until a sub is available, I haven't been able to hit irc on peak hours so if we're lucky we should find a sub soon.

Ideas?

[mockingbird]

You do realize that casting Arcane Nexus is generally considered a declaration of war against the world, right?

[Finalgenesis]

Nope we are not declaring war on the world, my global does not cause any direct aggressive action to others, it's no different then a gem income global like pyre or soul well, it's nature is exactly the same.

You are of course free to declare war on us.

[Xanatos]

Hes right of course, Arcane nexus is basically starting to produce nukes, everyone is now going to come after you=/ It's considered a breaker of naps, truces, and a war dec on the world.

[Finalgenesis]

Again, you're free to declare war on me, declaring on game leader or someone getting very strong is very understandable.

but calling gem income increase itself an aggressive action is a stretch, we are not committing aggressive actions anywhere, we're simply increasing our gem income, does this make us get stronger by the turn faster? Yes. Is increasing gem income itself aggressive action? No.

Otherwise all gem generating globals would be the same, as their nature are exactly the same if different in degrees.

I believe the confusion stems from that it's considered a breaker in that you can't leave the guy with nexus up for long without him running away with it, hence it's almost mandatory you declare war on the guy.

I will note though it's considered strongest on bigger maps , and it's effect while powerful, is certainly scaled down by corresponding degrees depending on map size.

[Finalgenesis]

please welcome our Arco sub Allium, Groundworm should already have caught him up to speed.

Welcome Allium!

[mockingbird]

As I understand it, the Dominions community standard is that the spells Arcane Nexus, Utterdark, Burden of Time, and Forge of the Ancients are implicit violations of NAPs.

This standard prevents lots of nitpicking and tedium when negotiating NAPs, because then not every violation of the NAP needs to be spelled out.

[mockingbird]

Also, welcome Allium!