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Re: What kind of game do people want to play

Sun, 01 March 2009 05:11

gible

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Its not crazy, merely insane Wink

Some people actually prefer playing huge games. They just don't hang around here too often.

[Edit: this is turning into a wall-o-text]

For a beginner game(which is what you really need to be playing in) medium is the biggest I'd recommend simply because you won't learn anything more from a larger universe, and with the number of mistakes you'll be making, you'll have to live with them for a long, long time. Most Stars games eventually slow down to 3 turns a week, huge ones can get down to 1 or 2, and take more turns anyway making for a game that can last over a year, even a normal (small or medium) game lasts for months.

The other settings are up to you, but I do recommend choosing them before you start, if your players *really* want a particular setting, they'll ask for it.

What to choose from?
Number of players: 2 is a duel, which you *can* negotiate settings for but for most games 6 is a good minimum, 8-10 is common. The number of players impacts heavily on the universe size, 30-40 planets per player is usually a good amount = small/packed or medium/sparse for 6 players, medium/normal for 8 players. If you pick a player number then you can pick a universe size, which helps race design - sparse uni = bigger distance between fuel stops, less planet hopping opportunities. dense or packed = more fuel stops & more planet hopping.

Teams? alliances? before? during? Again better to choose. A plain alliances-allowed no-pregame-teams (vanilla) game is still the most common - and popular. Next most popular is probably pregame (permanent-alliance) teams, but then you'll probably want to get someone to move the HWs otherwise you'll likely get one team together(a huge advantage) - which of course you can't do as you're playing (fortunately we're all pretty helpful around here Smile

). Followed by the your-neighbour-are-your-team games and finally the backstabbing-allowed (people really hate that for some reason Very Happy

).

PRT bans? Handicaps? Traditionally CA is plain banned. Lately theres been a trend to handicap it severely, also JOAT, IT and HE to lesser extents. Due to lack of experience I suppose, but the CA ban is not so common in beginner games. If you look around, you'll find various RW point-cost handicaps for some or all PRTS designed to balance them out. If you put any restrictions on races(and most games do), you'll need someone to check races for you.

Normal for the other game settings is distant start positions, no max mins, normal tech speed, no AIs(so who cares if they ally), yes accelerated bbs play, no no random events and clumping is up to your taste. The most important ones here are bbs play, tech speed and max mins as they dramatically affect gameplay.

I also suggest you 'formally' restrict the game to beginners or near beginners - just to keep things even.

Finally, once you decide, if you need a third party host, just ask for one. Somone always volunteers to help Wink

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		What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Sun, 01 March 2009 03:03
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Coyote on Sun, 01 March 2009 04:07
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: craebild on Sun, 01 March 2009 04:31
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Ashlyn on Sun, 01 March 2009 10:45
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: gible on Sun, 01 March 2009 05:11
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Sun, 01 March 2009 11:57
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: craebild on Sun, 01 March 2009 13:51
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Sun, 01 March 2009 15:12
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: swp1 on Sun, 01 March 2009 18:18
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Xardre on Sun, 01 March 2009 21:27
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 02 March 2009 03:27
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Einherjock on Mon, 02 March 2009 15:42
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: craebild on Mon, 02 March 2009 16:00
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Mon, 02 March 2009 17:04
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 03 March 2009 13:49
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Einherjock on Tue, 03 March 2009 19:33
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Coyote on Tue, 03 March 2009 20:15
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Sun, 01 March 2009 19:39
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: DaYng1 on Mon, 02 March 2009 10:49
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Coyote on Tue, 03 March 2009 18:12
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Coyote on Tue, 03 March 2009 20:31
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: neilhoward on Tue, 03 March 2009 22:07
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 04 March 2009 01:53
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: Coyote on Wed, 04 March 2009 02:00
		Re: What kind of game do people want to play By: magic9mushroom on Wed, 04 March 2009 09:29

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