New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Tue, 12 September 2006 06:49 |
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tgellan | | Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 75
Registered: May 2006 Location: Luxembourg | |
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Hello,
A few friends of mine, and myself will start a new game. As this will be the second game for most, I rate this as a beginners game. Last time we included 2 AI's for more competition, well rather someone you may hit on and who doesn't care Well depending on the number of interested people this will stay similar...
*EDIT* Well, with the number of player in, no need for AIs any longer
I'd like to encourage diversity, therefor each player should use a different PRT. The order of applying to the game decides on who gets served first.
Exceptions to this rule may be granted for:
- "whacky" designs
- a defined value of leftover points
- uncommon PRT
PRT already reserved: (in order of entering the game)
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- CA (Centrolino)
- IS (Harjj, READY)
- IT (lord_of_chaos, READY)
- JoaT (svent, racefile corrupt)
- SS (Xardre, READY)
- AR (yartrebo, submitted, need email)
- SD (c64k, READY)
- WM (Gilles)
- HE (ADG_Wraith, submitted, need email)
- "whacky" (Shadow Whist)
- "whacky" (yoey)
Fixed settings will be
- AccBBs
- Normal Tec advance
- Normal size, density
- Distant player position
Hosting:
- Starting as Pbem, eventually moving to AH
- Host will be playing
Players:
- any level of beginner and newbies
Turn generation:
- 24 hours
- Monday - Friday
- slowing down on requests
Victory/Alliances:
- votes are always considered as of all active players
- Last man standing
- unanimous vote
- Alliances are allowed
- Alliances can only win on unanimous vote
- Alliances may only be consisted of half of the number of active players, round down
- No pre-game alliances
Cheats:
- Chaff and split fleet are allowed.
- Anything else is forbidden
Restrictions:
- Joat may not take NAS
Comments are welcome
Ps:
Thanks to Timo for the layout
edit:
- JoaT restricted (lord_of_chaos)
- player position (Steve)
[Updated on: Tue, 26 September 2006 03:03] Report message to a moderator
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Re: New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Tue, 12 September 2006 10:49 |
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tgellan | | Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 75
Registered: May 2006 Location: Luxembourg | |
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Quote: | I cant play during weekends so i wish to see weekends gen off.
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I guess there shouldn't be a problem, but this won't depend on me but on majority
Quote: | If i will be signed then im taking Interstellar Traveler for myself
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For what has been taken, check the first mail, I'll keep track of PRT there...
Quote: | Im reccomending :
Public Scores Off ( no more PPS tactic advantage)
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Well, our last game was like that, but as beginners, it was quite hard for most of them to position themselfs, due to that, I thought it could be a good idea to leave it on, or to postpone it to another year of publicating the scores.
Comments?
Quote: | CA banned or lot of restrictions with leftover points
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Yes, thought about that too, but as theirs already someone interested in it (actually two) I guess I'll take the option of restriction with leftover points or impose a "whaky" design (like mine efficiency 25/2/25 )
Comments?
Quote: | JOAT with NAS banned.
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Didn't I put that in the original post? ... um no, ok, I'll grant you that one
Quote: | Victory can be gain by single player ( not alliance)
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Why not allowing alliance victory on vote?
Or let's say, allow alliance victory on vote, but even reducing the number of players per alliance even more...
MaxNbr = (Nbr of active players - 1) / 2
So if there are only 4 players left, no alliances left...
Comments?
Quote: | Starting with AH from beggining ( especcialy when host is playing)
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Well, some friends of mine are not so fond of that idea at all but I'm trying to convince them, as this would reduce the work for myself alot .
On the other hand, our last game was pure PbeM, with me as host and playing, and there weren't any passwords on the race files either. Nobody did have a problem with it, it was rather the other way round. From time to time, there have been issues with corrupted files, once I realized the problem, before sending the turn files, I checked for problems and fixed them. That way, the players didn't miss any turns due to that. I didn't peek at their turns, nor did they have a problem with it.
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Re: New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Wed, 13 September 2006 10:15 |
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tgellan | | Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 75
Registered: May 2006 Location: Luxembourg | |
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yartrebo wrote on Wed, 13 September 2006 15:21 | I'm interested in joining this game and have never played a multiplayer game of STARS! before, but I was hoping to get either JoaT, IS, IT, or CA.
I guess if all of those are taken, I would like AR.
Any ideas on when the game will start or what I have to do to register?
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Hello and welcome,
Seems that we've got the AR PRT then
About the start date of this game, I hope to have it up and running in about 2 weeks.
About registering, if you mean by that how to get into the game, well, consider it done. Next step would be to send me your racefile...
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Re: New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Wed, 13 September 2006 21:23 |
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c64k | | Petty Officer 3rd Class | Messages: 42
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Hmm. I'll sign up for SD... this will be my 3rd game here at SAH.
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Re: New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Thu, 14 September 2006 03:31 |
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lord_of_chaos | | Senior Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 92
Registered: February 2005 Location: Warsaw,Poland | |
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What kind of galaxy we will take ?
There is 7 players right now and may be more.
Im suggesting medium (normal?)
[Updated on: Thu, 14 September 2006 03:32]
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Re: New Game for Beginners - The Galactic Traders |
Thu, 14 September 2006 08:31 |
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lord_of_chaos | | Senior Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 92
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Tiny is totally off cause some of PRT like IT,AR,maybe SS are almost unplayable in this size.
Small is ok when there is no more than 5-6 players, and still IT/AR/SS races have disadvantage with this size of galaxy,
Medium is the best for 5-10 players and imho this is well balanced size for most races.
Large and Huge are galaxies designed for more than 12-14 players and games in big worlds takes too much time like year of more.
So imho medium is the best for this game. Definition of density should be well created, im recommending normal for 5-6 players, dense for 7-9 and packed for 10 (any maniac with HE ? dont think so ....)
Sparse is similiar to Small/normal so still unbalanced for few races.
But of course i may be wrong
[Updated on: Thu, 14 September 2006 09:26]
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