Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 19:38]Not convinced by BET, for a beginner game I'd rather have the simplicity of knowing when things will be available, rather than having to go in and check that I've gone tech+1 on everything...

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Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 19:38]Not convinced by BET, for a beginner game I'd rather have the simplicity of knowing when things will be available, rather than having to go in and check that I've gone tech+1 on everything...

In the tech browser, it does note if something is Bleeding Edge. It's written in huge overlay letters over the description.

Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 19:47]magic9mushroom wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 04:42

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Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 19:38]Not convinced by BET, for a beginner game I'd rather have the simplicity of knowing when things will be available, rather than having to go in and check that I've gone tech+1 on everything...

In the tech browser, it does note if something is Bleeding Edge. It's written in huge overlay letters over the description.

And in ship design?
Production queues?
What about Planetary scanners / defenses - are they double price if you've "just upgraded"

But yes, it's a hassle.

Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 20:08]magic9mushroom wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 04:53

But yes, it's a hassle.

And on that basis I vote against it for a beginner game.

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Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 20:08]magic9mushroom wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 04:53

But yes, it's a hassle.

And on that basis I vote against it for a beginner game.

One less hassle for me!

Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 21:00]magic9mushroom wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 05:48

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Bob wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 20:08]magic9mushroom wrote on Wed, 10 October 2012 04:53

But yes, it's a hassle.

And on that basis I vote against it for a beginner game.

One less hassle for me!

Maybe BET for those who have played 4 games against humans ( http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/index.php?t=msg&th=51 45)

PS - This is not a serious suggestion, unless we think that one or more of the players are significantly more/less experienced...

Unless you think my factories are going to sprout rocket engines and ram your ships to death, I don't think anyone has a great deal to fear from poor incompetent me.

What a beautiful exercise in one of the Murphy's Military Laws:

"Don't look conspicuous; it draws fire."

Gents... watch out for this guy

Indeed, watch out for silver-tongued diplomats who attempt to turn your wrath against harmless autistic theorycrafters.

Bob wrote on Tue, 09 October 2012 12:27]What do I understand the game to be at the moment:

Host:
sprocket (Who I'll PM in a moment)

Players (8):
Asmodai, TRSMMaiden, magic9mushroom, franknorman, [XAP]Bob, loucifer, Little Eddie, kicks

Game setup:
- Medium Normal
- No AccBBS
- Random events
- Slow tech
- Distant starting positions

Racial restrictions:
- JoAT (100) and CA (200) take (points) penalties - to be set to defences (unless penalty exceeded by 50 points)
- Weapons tech must be expensive
- BET/GR/trading restrictions for discussion <- None applied?

Playing rules:
- "Kill Starbase" battle order is banned
- Standard cheat disclaimer:
- - Split fleet/chaff/heal after gate all allowed
- - Min damage not allowed (no strict regulations to enforce?)

Communications:
- Should we require that people meet in the game first - and exchange email details via in game message, or just PM each other here?

If you want to send me race files my email is sprocket262@sbcglobal.net please don't password anything, its not necessary with autohost upload code.

How long do we have? I need to finish testbedding my race to make sure it doesn't spontaneously combust or something. Having to deal with habitability again after playing 3i HE is... weird.

Bob wrote on Thu, 11 October 2012 09:37]Only hints I could think of as useful would be a list of scores in numerical order each decade (except the first???)

Kind of a 'very poor' mans PPS.

Not having anything is probably easiest to define, and a known schedule makes spoofing easier....

Bob wrote on Thu, 11 October 2012 17:51]Off then
I'd never realty considered how easily they were spoofed, but of course that can affect rank as well...

Bob wrote on Thu, 11 October 2012 20:02]If I can drop myself in rank then that promotes others.

If you're in a "non spoofed" 2nd, and I'm a "spoofed" 4th then you might be ill advised to attack - 'cos I would be 1st without spoofing and you'd be third. Potentially it's even worse if others are spoofing as well.

May I suggest a gentleman's agreement to not spoof, there are plenty of reasons to have pop in space (maximising planet growth, IS orgies, general transport). If I'm reading it correctly then you need to drop at WP0 for this to work, so that's fairly easy *not* to do. With backed up turns sprocket could retro-check any suspected abuses.