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Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds

Fri, 31 March 2006 18:35

GreyMatter

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I totally agree with Kotk above:

It is not the big number of planets that makes this game fun - larger/denser universes only add more MM.

For example we just played NoImpact in Small/Dense with 10 players - it was more than enough for a fun rollercoaster type game !

More interesting options that change game dynamics and require for a non-typical race designs are :(IMHO)

1) PRT cost balance
(CA-150..200pt, JoaT-no NAS + no OBRM, IT-50pt, SD/IS-25pt) we have this partially in this game.

2) Force Alliance restriction:
even when the game advertized as 1 race winner only, but alliances are not restricted formally - the game just slides into allinace A vs Aliance B game anyway (or worse into allince of strong players gang-banging smaller guys)

so possible choices are...
- restrict allinance size to 2 max, set rest to enemy all the time and no any tech trading between alliances at all.
- rank 1 player may not have allies at all or only with last ranked player,
rank 2,3 players may only have 1 ally and not each other or #1,
rank 4-6 players may have 2 allies,
rest - no restrictions.

3) Slower Tech Advances - this does make games more interesting !
e.g. in NoImpact with the STA we still managed to get e18/w24/p12/c16/L14 by 2496... but the early Jhad battles were so much fun.

4) OBRM and mine settings restrictions:
This one is tricky but may be well suited for Larger universes (like in this game) to make RM option more attractive than basic mining and therefore lead to a race design with narrower habs... Thus reducing MM for a large empire, yet making that same large empire more exposed at its various mining sites to even the weakest players' attack.

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		New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Tue, 28 March 2006 20:19
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: yoey on Tue, 28 March 2006 20:59
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Tue, 28 March 2006 21:38
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: wizard on Wed, 29 March 2006 06:23
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Wed, 29 March 2006 09:01
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: wizard on Wed, 29 March 2006 10:14
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: crr65536 on Wed, 29 March 2006 18:31
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: miklem on Thu, 30 March 2006 15:39
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Thu, 30 March 2006 18:56
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: mchudy on Fri, 31 March 2006 02:12
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Fri, 31 March 2006 09:14
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Kotk on Fri, 31 March 2006 11:44
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: c64k on Fri, 31 March 2006 12:26
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Fri, 31 March 2006 13:35
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Kotk on Fri, 31 March 2006 15:26
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: NingunOtro on Fri, 31 March 2006 12:09
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: fisk on Fri, 31 March 2006 11:28
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: miklem on Fri, 31 March 2006 14:55
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: fisk on Fri, 31 March 2006 16:13
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: GreyMatter on Fri, 31 March 2006 18:35
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Madman on Fri, 31 March 2006 19:04
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: mchudy on Sat, 01 April 2006 02:36
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: eneasa on Sat, 01 April 2006 03:47
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Envoy on Sat, 01 April 2006 10:47
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: crr65536 on Sun, 02 April 2006 15:42
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Sun, 02 April 2006 18:47
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: mchudy on Mon, 03 April 2006 15:24
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: crr65536 on Mon, 03 April 2006 18:43
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: Mark on Thu, 06 April 2006 15:48
		Re: New Basic Game: War of the Worlds By: ccmaster on Mon, 10 April 2006 16:38
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