New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Thu, 06 January 2005 16:09 |
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The_Crowd | | Petty Officer 2nd Class | Messages: 55
Registered: September 2003 Location: Vancouver, WA. USA | |
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Locked In the Closet
Game Settings
J Patch
Turns will run on Autohost Tues through Sat at 0400 GMT for the first 20 turns, then drop back to 3 a week from that point forward - Sun, Wed and Fri at 0400 GMT.
Map: Small, Normal, Galaxy Clumping On
Starting Position: Distant
Beginner Max Mins: OFF
Slower Tech Advances: OFF
Acellerated BBS play: ON
No Random Events: OFF
Public Player Scores ON
Factory settings can be no worse than 10/15/5 and pop resources can be no better than 1/900
No CA or SD allowed
Chaff is allowed but the other cheats are not. If you are unsure, then please ask.
Special Rules
No player may have more than 10 planets except by conquest. CONQUEST is the capture of a planet held by a foe. Once you've colonized the tenth, from that point on you may only acquire them by taking from other players who are not allies. Trading planets between allies will not be tolerated. Public Player Scores will be turned on to help monitor the number of controlled worlds.
Last man standing victory conditions.
Passworded race files due to me at jaysmith@xprt.net no later than January 21st. Files will be sent out immediately following and the first turn will be due by the next normal gen time.
Thanks all!
[Updated on: Fri, 07 January 2005 19:17] Report message to a moderator
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Re: New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Fri, 07 January 2005 09:28 |
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What is to stop "allies" colonising worlds for you so you can pop drop them?
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Guessing when he says 10 planets that means the original 10.
If you lose one of the 10 that would mean you are stuck with 9.
In other words, if 5 players then max of 50 planets (original 50), with not allowed to leave one and switch to another. (Which would allow stealing a planet then leaving it and setting up instead in your own core).
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Re: New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Fri, 07 January 2005 19:14 |
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The_Crowd | | Petty Officer 2nd Class | Messages: 55
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Goober, I've edited the original post to cover your question.
Thanks,
The_Crowd
[Updated on: Fri, 07 January 2005 19:18] Report message to a moderator
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Re: New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Thu, 20 January 2005 00:46 |
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The_Crowd wrote on Thu, 20 January 2005 15:30 |
To Dogthinker: The restriction is on stars owned. You can colonize again if you lose worlds to attack, comets, etc. Also, worlds taken in any matter count towards the ten. So, if you take a tenth by pop dropping someone else, you are then done colonizing by more peaceful means.
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Sorry to badger, I know I can seem pedantic sometimes:
So if you lose a star because the population is wiped out (bomb / packet / comet) then you can re-colonise it if, and only if, this took you below 10 stars total. If you still had more than 10 you'd have to just find a star to take off somebody else to make up the numbers instead. I'm I undertstanding you correctly (seems good to me!) ?
I'll try to get my race in today.
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Re: New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Thu, 20 January 2005 00:52 |
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Oh and - roughly how many players are we packing in? 4, 8, 12?
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Re: New Game - Locked In The Closet |
Sat, 22 January 2005 00:11 |
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Steve1 | | Officer Cadet 2nd Year | Messages: 240
Registered: January 2003 Location: Australia | |
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Is this game open to all standards of players or did you inadvertantly leave that out?
Looks like a good game for an AR if you know how to play it well. Might be risky though, since it's a small fairly tight universe particularly if all ten players sign up.
Quote: | Once you've colonized the tenth, from that point on you may only acquire them by taking from other players who are not allies. Trading planets between allies will not be tolerated.
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Hmmm ... might make alliances rather loose and could actually be beneficial to go to war with your prior friends
Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a non-playing host (or someone) randomly checking that players aren't pop-dropping each other, using special battle orders, etc. whilst still set to friend.
[Updated on: Sat, 22 January 2005 00:25] Report message to a moderator
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