Shared AAR Experience (pre-thread) (game initiated- see game thread)

[Immaculate]

sounds good and don't worry too much about it.

[Roland Jones]

Okay, just to be sure, Excist is playing Abysia and submitted his pretender, right? Game seems to have started but I don't see a post here from him, nor one in the game thread announcing the game starting, and the first post hasn't been edited either. Wondering if he submitted his god or some random person submitted a god and that started the game automatically or something.

Edit: Also, is there an IRC network or something for diplomacy here? The in-game message system is just so bad, and it'd be convenient to talk to you guys another way.

[Immaculate]

i use the goons one and there is a chat function for this board but usually only BBZ is on there (link in the top menu- far left)

Also- i got this message from Excist:

*bats pretty eyelashes*

I've settled on Abysia and have a rough draft of pretender.

I just got home, finished cooking and I saw Dojango came back into the picture today so I need to send in my Good Bad Ugly turn in before 12:30, double check my New Years turn and send it in and then finalize my AAR pretender and submit :b

It would have been better if Dojango had fixed his PC tomorrow since I am SO tired tonight haha

so its probably him.

[Warhammer]

Where I can get one of those nifty national banners?

[Immaculate]

I don't know where to get a caelum one from. I stole mine from the "Let's Play" image host (its actually Lilli's upload). If i were you i would check out old something awful AARs.


EDIT: maybe use this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail...intro_creation

[Excist]

Originally Posted by Immaculate

i use the goons one and there is a chat function for this board but usually only BBZ is on there (link in the top menu- far left)

Also- i got this message from Excist:

so its probably him.

'Twas I!

I did my turn and promptly went into sleep mode.

[Excist]

Ok.

I took a look at the AAR thread and I see this is quickly going to become a useless mess of unorganized AAR snippets that will make it impossible to

A) follow a race that you're planning on playing in your next game

and

B) cross reference a turn from 2 or more viewpoints.

Does anybody have the ability to customize a blog website or something so that we can have a blog thread for each nation and label each blog post by the corresponding turn number?

Ie Abysia - National troops and Pretender Design

Abysia -Turn 1

Abysia -Turn 2

That way people can see the flow of the game from a nations viewpoint and then cross reference the applicable viewpoints from the nations that they are at war with during the turns they're at war without having to sort through hundreds of forum posts in a single thread.


The current format will quickly become useless to future generations of Dominions fans that are yet to be born and for whom I suppose this is being done for.

[Immaculate]

What if i just put a table of contents with links in it in the first post?

[Warhammer]

That would probably be best.

[Excist]

That would make it functional, but it would also be a lot of manual labor.

If nobody is eliminated in the first 3 game years that's over 400 links to catalog.

You may run into the upper limit on characters/post with all those links and descriptions of what they're linking to.

I think a blog website would be much easier with 1 link in the AAR thread to each nation.