Musical Chairs |
Wed, 03 June 2020 10:58 |
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Ludi Magister | | Master Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 103
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Looking for a game with no restrictions on the PRT you use? CA with TT? JoaT with NAS? -f HE?
You've found it!
Looking for a game without time-consuming diplomacy? All races set to enemy at all times? Absolutely no communications in the game or outside?
You've found it!
Looking for a game with very normal settings? AccBBs - yes, No Random Events - yes, all else - no? Size so that each race has about 30 planets?
You've found it!
Looking for the catch?
There is one...
You will not be playing the race you designed. After all races are submitted, XAPBob will randomly reassign the races to the players. This process is described below. Basically, there is a small chance that you will be assigned the race you have submitted. But the odds are against it.
This would normally lead to a contest who can design the most flawed or completely broken race. Hoping that someone else will have to play it. This is not what we want. Your race should be the best you can do. To ensure this, XAPBob will check the races for obvious flaws. I don't have to detail them here, you know them... If he finds such a race, the player who submitted it will be taken out of the random assignation. Instead he will play exactly the race he designed. Flaws and all. What constitutes a flawed or broken race is left to XAPBob's discretion. I trust you know that he is competent to judge this and that he is a fair arbitrator. I am not involved in this as I want to play in the game myself.
The random assignation will be as follows: XAPBob receives the race files. He will then allocate the races and players each a random number and sort each list - so the top of each list are paired, down to the bottom of each list.
If the players are in favour of it, there will be a second stage: a check whether reversing one of the lists reduces the number of players allocated their own race and if it does XAPBob will sort that list in reverse.
The race you actually play will have the name you use for the race you submit. The race names should have exactly 6 letters. (This makes changing the race names easier) Please do not use a race name that you always use. Other players should not know who they are facing.
You are welcome to discuss the game idea here. But I don't think there will be many changes...
Please do not publicly state if you want to play. Instead send a PM to XAPBob (or a mail, if you know his address).
[Updated on: Wed, 03 June 2020 11:00] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Musical Chairs |
Fri, 05 June 2020 10:19 |
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Hi,
the gameidea is nice but there are a lot of problems with it. Here are some of the Problems in such kind of games:
1. Skill-level of players should be "even" , playing a race or even PRT you don't know change here a lot
2. Players who have time to play a game without diplomacy, because they have low time , but then forced to play SD or -f HE can not handle the MM what is needed and will drop soon or later
3. Check the desine of races from one player is not good as he only could check for "big mistakes"
4. before you desine a Race you have to know how big the univers is and what dense
5. Nice game idea , but the 2 games i saw like that never played to an end. It is real hard work for the Host and the one who checks races.
6. You should restriced some races for some players, for this you should show who is playing and give the players a handicap on skillevel, maybe skillevel voted by the other players.
ccmaster
PS : there is much more to think about, but dont want to spam you
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Re: Musical Chairs |
Sat, 06 June 2020 11:22 |
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Ludi Magister | | Master Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 103
Registered: April 2019 | |
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magic9mushroom wrote on Sat, 06 June 2020 08:05
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Also, to slightly let the cat out of the bag, the trick here appears to be "design a race that's powerful but extremely irritating to play". CE and -f HE are obvious candidates for this.
I guess that was meant to be "CA" instead of CE... (If you did mean Cheap Engines, I would regard that as a flawed race...)
But anyway, there are some other choices not quite as obvious.
And there's always the possibility of just designing a good race and hoping chance drops it in your own lap to play.
[Updated on: Sat, 06 June 2020 11:42] Report message to a moderator
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