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I was thinking of joining earlier, but being an intermediate player, I took myself out of the reckoning... However seeing goober join, I wonder if I can join in as well.

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nmid wrote on Fri, 16 December 2011 12:45

I was thinking of joining earlier, but being an intermediate player, I took myself out of the reckoning... However seeing goober join, I wonder if I can join in as well.

Brief summary of events:

Beanspoon asks about new games in the Bar.

Goober points out not likely to occur right now. Offers duel for "training" purposes.

Sprocket contacts Beanspoon and gets invited to join in (which goober agreed to cheerfully).

Sprocket and Beanspoon have rusty/newbie friends who would like to join and Beanspoon advertises it as a new game with Goober "hosting" so that they can all see the details.

Goober bows () to the inevitable and is willing to let them all join in a training game, but run via dropbox as they are informal game(s) for educational purposes. It is not expected that these games will necessarily finish.

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Ah ! I remember reading you and bean discussing games in the bar. Didn't know the rest

Well, I was thinking of trying out one of my experimental race ideas.
My OWW IS race that planned on taking out enemy HWs with pop-bombers got pretty badly pwned in KF1 :s.

I won't play my -f SS race xD.

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nmid wrote on Fri, 16 December 2011 13:51

Ah ! I remember reading you and bean discussing games in the bar. Didn't know the rest Well, I was thinking of trying out one of my experimental race ideas. My OWW IS race that planned on taking out enemy HWs with pop-bombers got pretty badly pwned in KF1 :s. I won't play my -f SS race xD.

A OWW IS vs a OWW IT. I'd say that the IS is always going to be at a signbificant disadvantage. So if you are going the OWW route, unless in a tiny, why not IT? PP also suggests itself in preference.

Once played -f SS against a WM in a duel. It won handily. Tried it against an IT and got whupped ignominiously. Nice thing about SS's in a duel is you know quite accurately what is going in to research. Once played a "double jeapardy" game where you play your own and the other players race and they do the same. Since one of the races was SS it was a simple matter to create a spreadsheet that worked out the approximate resource spend on tech. Since you know what both races have on both sides you could work out what the tech levels were. IIRC at one point, since I kept a record year on year, watching these numbers left me wondering where the research had gone and what had been done with the resources I couldn't see anymore. I looked at my outlying worlds and beefed up their defenses where I could see planet hopping lines of attack. When I got hit the next turn I realized I'd been d### lucky to notice it, because it hadn't actually occurred to me to look specifically for that. Now I would. So perhaps a duelling SS has that extra bit of merit - you can estimate when you might be attacked - but if you haven't got the juice to repel borders, it won't matter you know its coming.

As to you joining with an "experimental" race, I have no objection as it means there is another on hand to offer advice. Just bear in mind, we wouldn't necessarily being playing out the game to a finish.

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The OWW IS race I had planned to use was a 20% GR which would set out in 2420 with an IS-frigate horde, 20 odd bombers but primarily depend on pop-drops.
As I said, experimental race design

"double jeapardy" sounds interesting.... but I was a bit confused how you both were playing each other's races. Was there some limitation to time per turn or how many times you could upload the x files?

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goober wrote on Fri, 16 December 2011 03:44

nmid wrote on Fri, 16 December 2011 12:45 I was thinking of joining earlier, but being an intermediate player, I took myself out of the reckoning... However seeing goober join, I wonder if I can join in as well. Brief summary of events: Beanspoon asks about new games in the Bar. Goober points out not likely to occur right now. Offers duel for "training" purposes. Sprocket contacts Beanspoon and gets invited to join in (which goober agreed to cheerfully). Sprocket and Beanspoon have rusty/newbie friends who would like to join and Beanspoon advertises it as a new game with Goober "hosting" so that they can all see the details. Goober bows () to the inevitable and is willing to let them all join in a training game, but run via dropbox as they are informal game(s) for educational purposes. It is not expected that these games will necessarily finish.

And I would like to point out how grateful I am Goober

I think we should get this game on the go - I've been thinking that seeing as this is a learning experience, we shouldn't put restrictions on race design, so we all have a chance to try out what we want to and learn from out potential mistakes.

With that said, everyone design your race files, make sure you put a password on them, and install dropbox. Then e-mail me with your address (if I don't already have it) and I'll share a dropbox file with you. In here we will put all the game files, and get this thing going!

[Updated on: Fri, 16 December 2011 06:12]

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Mogs wrote on Fri, 16 December 2011 17:41

it looks like I'm the only player this side of the Atlantic

Which side is that?

Also, looks like we have one more late entry - I was telling my brother about this and he wants to join in too. I'll add him to the roster as soon as he's signed up to the forum. This means we now total 6 players, so if you want to re-jig your race file that's perfectly fine

Goober, should I make any change to universe size/density? (I know this hasn't been a very organised game but this is my first hosting so bear with me!)

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[Updated on: Sat, 17 December 2011 09:06]

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sprocket wrote on Sat, 17 December 2011 00:45

Are we not using autohost? What is dropbox?

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIwNzk5MjcwOQ

We both get an additional 250 mb if you use the link

For more info:
http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/index.php?t=msg&th=466 6&rid=1464&S=da864f1e3bd5306a6a9d464dae02c0dd&pl _view=&start=0#msg_48001

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