| Game Idea: Broadcast News |
Wed, 07 January 2009 17:49  |
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What happens if you can have no secrets?
Host runs a non-competing 1WW WM race.
Host creates game and does the following before players get to make orders:
1) Open all player .m files and give orders for endless alchemy.
2) Generate enough years for his WM race to get lots of tech.
3) Create strong penscan fleets and distribute them around the universe so that every single planet is in range of a pen scan at a range of at most 50%.
4) Reset all the player HWs: take off all pop and minerals that have accrued.
5) Take the password off of his host race.
Then the players get to play. They have essentially the same starting position as a normal game, plus the presence of the host race and the free access to the host .m file, with which you can see orbits of all planets and designs of all ships in play.
I would think it would work better as a small/fast game. Think: 8-player brawl where everyone knows what everyone else is up to at all times.
What say you? Too dull to play a game with complete information available at all times?
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| Re: Game Idea: Broadcast News |
Wed, 07 January 2009 18:19  |
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Can a player set to dead/banned download thier (current) .m file from AH? Would be useful for the host race if they can.
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| Re: Game Idea: Broadcast News |
Thu, 08 January 2009 07:49 |
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| wizard |
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| Xardre wrote on Thu, 08 January 2009 13:28 |
Considering everyone knows what each other is up to and where HW's are perhaps a ban on mass accelerators would be needed. A -f PP could walk away with this game by the 30's if they knew where all the HW's are.
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I don't think so. They won't have enough minerals. And by the 30's, you should know the locations of your neighbours' HWs anyways. This doesn't make it that different from a game with normal scouting.
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| Re: Game Idea: Broadcast News |
Tue, 13 January 2009 12:25 |
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| skoormit |
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Regarding diplo/alliances, I didn't have any restrictions in mind, but I think single victor goes without saying. I'd prefer to have one victory condition: exceed second place score by 20%, with minimum 50 years.
I'm not interested in getting into another game right now, since I'm in three at the moment and they are all good. I just wanted to get this idea out there, see if it sounded like fun. If enough people are into it, I'm happy to host (or let someone else host, if someone has the itch).
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