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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 13:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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chuckle... whatever...

anyway, if this beastio gets off the ground you can either pm your race to me, or send it via email to donjon at btl dot net.

I will be happy to set up a universe with a northern party (call that EA) and a southern party (call that AH) in sectors comprising 25% of the planets, and a neutral territory comprising 50% of the planets (call that no-man's land)

Do I have the picture?

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 13:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The no-mans-land is a 300 lightyear strip centered vertically across the middle. You might want to read the Wednesday 11th of January posts for details.

Very Happy

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 13:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ettane wrote on Tue, 17 February 2004 13:37

The no-mans-land is a 300 lightyear strip centered vertically across the middle. You might want to read the Wednesday 11th of January posts for details.

Very Happy


Vertically? That implies :: | ::

Sort of hard to shift HWs across the line then.

Don't you mean horizontially?

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 13:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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A strip across the middle implies it is a horizontal strip, and the 'centered vertically' implies it is positioned half way up the universe (half way down for all the 'glass-is-half-empty' people out there Smile You can't specifiy the position of a horizontal line horizontally, only vertically (as translating an infinitely long line along itself doesn't do anything).

Or in math terms, a horizontal line is defined by the formula y = k for some constant k. Given that the universe is from y = 1000 to y = 3000 (for a huge universe), to center the strip you must center its y value (a vertical movement) to y = 2000.

Or in short, I stand by my original statement. Smile

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 14:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Stars, fess a neutral zone of the first 300 light years in width. Chief eight homeworlds of the EA. Base eight homeworlds of the Other.
Laughing

- Kurt

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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djeez guys! what do you think I am? a mathemagician or sumthin?

I know two things, there is an easy wasy to do this and a hard way and the end result is ultimately the same.

N/S divisions are easily done, and E/W divisions involve massive regens to get the proper placement.

I assume you wish N/S divisions because the other would be horrorzontal.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Tue, 17 February 2004 15:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi
Ettane does wish a N/S divide.
A N/S divide is a Horizontal divide, much as the sea and the sky are divided by the Horizon.
Long live Pedants

(Oh and I do know that due to the curvature of the Earth the line separating the sea and sky isnt in fact a horizontal line despite being called the Horizon Laughing )




Joseph
"Can burn the land and boil the sea. You cant take the Stars from me"

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 05:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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If you all need somebody to do the setup for you, I'll do it. a couple questions though, do you want a strip of planetless area in the middle where the no-man's land is? Or perhaps a no-man's land that is more sparsly populated populated with planets than the team areas? Both are easily possible in addition to the vertical moving of the HW & secondary planets.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 12:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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My understanding is that only the HWs and secondaries move. All other worlds stay put. Perhaps moving one or two to allow the HWs to go where they needs to.


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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 12:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I wouldn't bother to move all planets around - just create a simple .gif file with different color densities for the 2 teams with light color in the middle then use it as a seed to the universe creater causing most planets to end up in the 'team' zones with fewer in the 'no mans' land. Any HW's and secondarys in the wrong place then get moved to a location on the correct side.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 12:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hmmm,

I thought I was going to do the creation. Oh, well... perhaps I have enough on my plate Rolling Eyes

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 12:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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No seeded generation. You may only move the homeworlds and secondary worlds.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 12:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I don't know for sure who's going to do the geneartion for them - I just offered in case I'm needed. Smile

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 13:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Last I heard, donjon was going to do the generate and picture taking/planet moving/handling. Ashlyn recommended him, and LEit said he was fine with that so it's up to him. I'm easy so long as the person is trustworthy.

PS: LEit, how many weeks/months will it be before you are ready?

: D

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 16:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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We should be ready in 2 weeks.


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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 16:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Alright, I'll see how long the rest of my team will be in their current game and we'll try to work out a start date.

: D

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 23 February 2004 17:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's fine either way - you guys just know I'm here if needed. I've been around a long time and hosted one of the beta tests for JRC3. I'm not going anywhere so give me a jingle if you need me. Cheers.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Sun, 29 February 2004 07:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What's up with this? When are you going to call for races? Or do I call??

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Sun, 29 February 2004 10:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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My team is just finishing up a game. We just doubled the turn frequency to get it done faster. Right now the game will end as soon as one side makes a mistake - its a tense game, year 110, with two big teams arguably at a standoff. I'm only hosting so I get to watch everything. Smile

We've probably got at least a couple of weeks left...

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Ettane wrote on Sun, 29 February 2004 10:55

My team is just finishing up a game. We just doubled the turn frequency to get it done faster. Right now the game will end as soon as one side makes a mistake - its a tense game, year 110, with two big teams arguably at a standoff. I'm only hosting so I get to watch everything. Smile

We've probably got at least a couple of weeks left...

: D


I think we're about in the same boat date wise. I think one game I'm hosting will finish up by then (RWIAB IIa) and that should free up some of my time and at least one of our other players. Also gives me some time to finish up a promised review of a recently completed game.

Donjon, contact Leit or me when it is time to get all the race files for our team. We'll take care of getting them from all the other players.

- Kurt

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Sun, 29 February 2004 18:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Groovy. I'll send a message here when our team has its races all setup. I think we have most of the details worked out (race-wise), we are just waiting for this game to finish so we have the time to play.

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 08 March 2004 09:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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OK. I think we're set with our race design.

How much longer do you think you will be?

We've had a change in players, Gakl has replaced XDude. So our team is now:
Alien, overworked(AKA OWK), Alric, Heinz, Sotek, Gakl, Orca, and me.



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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 08 March 2004 12:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Remember guys,

If Donjon can't set up the game for you, let me know. I'll be happy to set it up and get it started.

Cheers,
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I really would like to see this game in action. I wonder if there's some way this game could be chronicled (each team makes year-by-year notes of everything important, significant, or interesting).
Of course if that were to happen, either you'd have to wait until the game is done to reveal what happened, or you'd have to send the news somewhere where the public can see but the other players can't. (Which would be very difficult)

Any ideas?

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Re: Clan [EA] vs ? Mon, 08 March 2004 13:25 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Your other option is to have the neutral host spend a little time to receive info from players and browse turns every now and then. The host ccould then chronical the game. At the 50 year point, a first 20 year report could be generated describing various items of news carefully chosen so as not to provide military intelligence. Later, at the 100 year mark, a more detailed description of events could be published of the first 25 years and again additional cronicals for the 25-50 year era (carfully worked so as not to provide military 'secrets').

This type of news broadcast would be interesting and kind of fun for the players.

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