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]

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Id like to sign up.

But : im rather no begginer : 2 games from Ah forum and few more beetwen friends.
I cant play during weekends so i wish to see weekends gen off.

If i will be signed then im taking Interstellar Traveler for myself

Im reccomending :
Public Scores Off ( no more PPS tactic advantage)
CA banned or lot of restrictions with leftover points
JOAT with NAS banned.
Victory can be gain by single player ( not alliance)
Starting with AH from beggining ( especcialy when host is playing)
Thanx
Chaos

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I cant play during weekends so i wish to see weekends gen off.

I guess there shouldn't be a problem, but this won't depend on me but on majority

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If i will be signed then im taking Interstellar Traveler for myself

For what has been taken, check the first mail, I'll keep track of PRT there...

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Im reccomending : Public Scores Off ( no more PPS tactic advantage)

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.
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CA banned or lot of restrictions with leftover points

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 )
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JOAT with NAS banned.

Didn't I put that in the original post? ... um no, ok, I'll grant you that one

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Victory can be gain by single player ( not alliance)

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...
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Starting with AH from beggining ( especcialy when host is playing)

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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svent wrote on Tue, 12 September 2006 15:49

New Newbie here -- Several games against AI, however nothing against people in a decade. I just found autohost a few weeks ago and would like to give it a try again, Can I join using a JOAT? It looks like That's the newbie standard right? Thx!

Sounds like you're the type of player we're looking for
You got your PRT...

Welcome

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Xardre wrote on Tue, 12 September 2006 23:15

Ill give this game a shot. Mark me down for SS.

Done...

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>>For what has been taken, check the first mail, I'll keep track of PRT there...<<

Ok if Ca,Joat,It, Is and SS had been taken mark me as SD ( of course if IT on your list wasnt me)

[Updated on: Wed, 13 September 2006 05:06]

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lord_of_chaos wrote on Wed, 13 September 2006 11:04

>>For what has been taken, check the first mail, I'll keep track of PRT there...<< Ok if Ca,Joat,It, Is and SS had been taken mark me as SD

Sorry, I think I should mark in that post who got what...
The reserved IT was actually for you...

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Yeap great. I love IT ( cause im lazy boy )

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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?

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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[Updated on: Thu, 14 September 2006 03:32]

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Welcome c64k, you got your PRT...

Well, I was aiming for a medium/normal size anyhow, but I'm open for any comments

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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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Btw. two weeks to start game hosted pbem is a very long time.
May i know why we should wait 2 weeks ?

Better way is to public announce deadline to recruitment process and racefiles delivery and start day after that deadline without waiting for anybody.
Imho recruitment time longer than week is a waste of time : but of course host propably have his own opinion

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lord_of_chaos wrote on Fri, 15 September 2006 14:17

May i know why we should wait 2 weeks ?

Sure you may...

Fact is that two of the four friends of mine are currently on vacation. They'll be back mid of next week, and as there was a request for leaving WE off, that's close to monday the 25th.
Another two will be back this monday, but these are not yet decided if they'll join.
Besides, I didn't think to find as many player so quickly...
And I still need racefiles of anyone, except you

Hope this answer your question.

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lord_of_chaos wrote on Fri, 15 September 2006 15:17

Btw. two weeks to start game hosted pbem is a very long time. May i know why we should wait 2 weeks ?

A month is reasonable to wait unless game is full. Stars! game usually lasts half a year or more.
People who lose their patience waiting 2 weeks ... are best to kick out immediately. Nothing spoils the game more than half galaxy of dropouts.

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Well maybe im little unpatient
Well but when in my last game all recrutitment took a one week : 14 players was in
One week ...not one month Mr. Kotk
But of course i have no experience with AH Forum recruitment
Anyway there is 8 slots locked ( and only 2 left free) so i can suppose that main reason for wait will be races testing and sending ( really ?)

[Updated on: Sat, 16 September 2006 06:00]

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lord_of_chaos wrote on Sat, 16 September 2006 04:57

One week ...not one month Mr. Kotk

There are many reasons beginner games fill up faster than any other skill level. Not many of them are flattering. Kotk was probably speaking in general for all skill levels.

-Matt

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