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Pure Vanilla Mayhem?
Tiny, Packed, Distant, ACC BBS, 12-16 Players
Rules: Don't cheat (standard disclaimers, split fleet, min dmg, repair after gating, chaff excepted)
I was thinking of calling it "Knife Fight in a Phone Box".
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Re: Who wants a new game?

Sun, 23 January 2011 06:38

m.a@stars

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hmmmm... I read "tiny" and "mayhem" and I think "oil and water"... Twisted Evil

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Re: Who wants a new game?

Sun, 23 January 2011 10:30

craebild

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Tiny, packed, 12-16 players...

I wonder what type of race would do best there, 1WW or relatively wide hab?

That would of course depend on what the other players choose, but I don't think a HP would have time to build up resources on colonies.

I am starting in another game pretty soon, so I won't be playing in this one, I don't have time for two games at the same time, at least not late in the game.

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Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 24 January 2011 04:15

Commander

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m.a@stars wrote on Sun, 23 January 2011 03:38

hmmmm... I read "tiny" and "mayhem" and I think "oil and water"... Twisted Evil

Oil can burn on water, and strangle sea gulls, and poison fish. Cheers

I like the analogy.

I wont be playing, just want to host another game. Toof

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that there haven't been any vanilla games since Waterloo, and I see too many games based on "it's the economy..." sit and spin shenanigans. Lurking

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if I gave a room full of six year olds a dodgy copy of Excel from the 90s, and a bunch of rusty box knives. Thumbsup 2

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Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 24 January 2011 05:05

Eagle of Fire

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What do you mean exactly by "pure vanilla"?

From what I know, the game is not playable on Autohost short of using 2.6 or 2.7. Because of this, the game cannot be played in another way than with the tools we already have...

On the other hand, I understand that you may simply mean "normal game without racial restriction"... But I've seen plenty of those games so far. In fact, that is the kind of game I like to play.

So that leads me to asking, maybe the problem rely on the fact that there is simply not many new games starting, period?

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Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 24 January 2011 15:37

Dogthinkers

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craebild wrote on Mon, 24 January 2011 02:30

Tiny, packed, 12-16 players...

I wonder what type of race would do best there, 1WW or relatively wide hab?

I think 1WW would be almost mandatory. For sure, there will be quite a few - which means 1WW habs suddenly aren't quite as limiting as usual (nice green homeworlds to conquer.)

I suppose a more conventional race with left shifted habs might do alright as a 'metagame' play - making the presumption most races will be right shifted 1WW races, thus your worlds would be deep red to most players. But I think you'd just be delaying your defeat (by the 1WW that conquers the most other 1WW races.)

This is presuming no diplomacy... A game this small would hinge dramatically on diplomacy, if it's available.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 24 January 2011 23:57

Commander

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Location: Wellington, New Zealand

I could go another round of this.

Hopefully this time I won't get my ass handed to me on a plate.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Tue, 25 January 2011 01:42

Commander

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Cool, I will look at that gible.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Tue, 25 January 2011 19:37

rolfverberg

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gible's suggestion sounds fun to me. It's winter here and I can use some heated games to play in and keep me warm Smile

Cheers, Rolf.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Wed, 26 January 2011 13:35

Lieutenant

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Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

I'm interested in playing, though the experience rule in Gibles 2003 game link would make me take AR and I don't think I'd do that in a tiny dense galaxy.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Thu, 27 January 2011 02:51

Commander

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vonKreedon wrote on Thu, 27 January 2011 07:35

I'm interested in playing, though the experience rule in Gibles 2003 game link would make me take AR and I don't think I'd do that in a tiny dense galaxy.

Yeah... the link was just to point out that tiny+many players is a viable (and fun!) game.

I wouldn't take AR is this either. IIRC the last game was one by an SD... it was played during an SD fad, and they're far from weak.

The only specific rules I'd really like to see from QAR are no AccBBS & no PP.

Some PRT levelling wouldn't go astray either. (-200 for SD Wink

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Come to think of it, primitive races could be amusing... Very Happy

Re: Who wants a new game?

Thu, 27 January 2011 17:21

Coyote

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Location: Pacific NW

I might be interested, a tiny game wouldn't take too much MM time and Glacier 4 is MM-light so far anyway.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 04:15

iztok

Commander

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Location: Slovenia, Europe

Hi!

I too am interested.

I'd also vote for some limitations for SD (e.g. 80 leftover points to defenses) and JoaT (70 leftover points to defenses, no NAS) and for a limited diplomacy: all enemies, no NAPs, no alliances and no ship and tech trade.

BR, Iztok

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 10:46

Lieutenant

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Location: Seattle, WA USA

I'd very much like to avoid diplomacy limits other than single race victory.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 16:00

Commander

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Location: SW3 & 10023

I am happy to host the kind of game people want to play (non-playing host).

Please answer:
What is your timezone?
Play weekends?
Single player victory or no diplomacy at all?
Race restrictions/Balancing or Natural?

I was thinking the fewer rules the better, but I will leave it to you.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 16:50

dexy

Crewman 1st Class

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Registered: July 2005
Location: Sweden

I am interested to play in a new single victory game, specially a fast playing, no diplomacy one.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 17:53

rolfverberg

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neilhoward wrote on Fri, 28 January 2011 16:00

Eastern US (GMT -5)
Weekends OK
Single player victory, no diplomacy
No real preference for balancing

Cheers, Rolf.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 28 January 2011 20:26

Coyote

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Location: Pacific NW

Pacific time (gmt-8)
Weekends ok
Single victory, diplomacy fine
Penalty 100pts or so for JoaT and SD, no NAS for JoaT
Possibly ban IFE to keep people from just zipping around as they please

[Updated on: Fri, 28 January 2011 20:27]

Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 31 January 2011 03:14

iztok

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Location: Slovenia, Europe

Hi!
GMT+1 (what's that for?)
Weekends off after going gets tough (after about turn 30)
Single player victory
Comm on
Diplo off (even if you "signed" e.g. a NAP, it's not valid!) - all enemies
Trade off
Race restrictions on.

BR, Iztok

[Updated on: Mon, 31 January 2011 03:16]

Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 31 January 2011 03:36

Commander

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Wellington, New Zealand

'llo

GMT+13
Weekends off
Single player victory
Comm on
Diplomacy off - all enemies
Trade on
Race restrictions on.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Mon, 31 January 2011 10:40

Lieutenant

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Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

Pacific Time (GMT +8?)
Weekends: Off
Single Player Victory by acclamation
Comm: On
Diplomacy: On (this is important to me, I'll likely not play if diplomacy is off - Mind you in my mind NAPs etc. are always breakable at the discretion of the players that are willing to take the heat for doing so.)
Trade restrictions: Off
Race restrictions: No PP

Re: Who wants a new game?

Thu, 10 February 2011 10:04

Lieutenant

Messages: 610
Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

Hey all - Any more thoughts/movement on this game?

Re: Who wants a new game?

Thu, 10 February 2011 17:19

mazda

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Location: Reading, UK

I could join to beef up the numbers.
GMT +0
Single race win preferred.
Weekends definitely.
I like to chat.
No IT races.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 11 February 2011 09:48

Commander

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Balls. Well there will have to be some compromise here. I will post something tentative in a few hours.

Re: Who wants a new game?

Fri, 11 February 2011 20:05

Commander

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Registered: November 2002
Location: Wellington, New Zealand

neilhoward wrote on Sat, 12 February 2011 03:48

Balls. Well there will have to be some compromise here. I will post something tentative in a few hours.

lol...what did you expect?

My advice...review the requests then pick whatever you feel like and stick to it. Very Happy

(ie don't be tentative) Most of the stuff requested won't be a deal breaker...just a preference.

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