| Possible Game: Clown Car |
Tue, 11 February 2014 18:33  |
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 skoormit |
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Eight players. Tiny. Packed. No comms.
"Distant" starting positions (in name only).
Acc BBS. Public player scores. Galaxy Clumping.
Victory condition: own 33% of the planets. At least 20 years must pass.
Here are the race design rules: there are no race design rules. (AR need not apply.)
Yes, eight players in a tiny. Why not? It will be fast, and it will be fun.
Some numbers:
Tiny is 400ly x 400ly.
If we define an acre as 10k square light years, this setup has one player for every two acres.
Two acres = 20k light years = the area of a circle with a radius just under 80ly.
In other words, you will start right next to someone. Or maybe two someones. Better come out swinging.
Thoughts?
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| Re: Possible Game: Clown Car |
Sat, 08 March 2014 18:25  |
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| magic9mushroom |
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skoormit wrote on Wed, 12 February 2014 10:33(AR need not apply.)
Thoughts?
3i AR isn't terribly bad in this setup.
-f HE allowed?
EDIT: Those victory conditions seem a mite lax. You can achieve that without actual dominant power; is this intentional?
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| Re: Possible Game: Clown Car |
Sun, 09 March 2014 11:33 |
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magic9mushroom wrote on Sun, 09 March 2014 00:25skoormit wrote on Wed, 12 February 2014 10:33(AR need not apply.)
Thoughts?
3i AR isn't terribly bad in this setup.
*grin
Are you sure you have read the game description?
skoormit wrote on Wed, 12 February 2014 00:33Eight players. Tiny. Packed. No comms.
"Distant" starting positions (in name only).
Acc BBS. Public player scores. Galaxy Clumping.
Victory condition: own 33% of the planets. At least 20 years must pass.
Tiny... 8 players.
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| Re: Possible Game: Clown Car |
Sun, 09 March 2014 18:39 |
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| skoormit |
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magic9mushroom wrote on Sat, 08 March 2014 17:25skoormit wrote on Wed, 12 February 2014 10:33(AR need not apply.)
Thoughts?
3i AR isn't terribly bad in this setup.
-f HE allowed?
EDIT: Those victory conditions seem a mite lax. You can achieve that without actual dominant power; is this intentional?
Here are the race design rules: there are no race design rules.
If you think 3i AR has a chance, bring it.
The victory conditions intend to promote instant full-scale warfare. All you have to do to win is take the territory of your two closest neighbors. If you turtle, expect to lose; someone else will achieve the victory condition by the time you are ready to come out of your shell.
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| Re: Possible Game: Clown Car |
Sun, 09 March 2014 19:44 |
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| magic9mushroom |
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XAPBob wrote on Mon, 10 March 2014 10:282i silly% -f HE with 25/15/5 mines, ISB and Con@3 might well hit that 30% without even fighting...
Bombers/packets that early are pretty costly. Fire off enough colonisers and armed scouts such that if half of them make it you win -> victory.
Right, except that the other seven -fs will be doing exactly the same thing, leading to laser scout skirmishes and popdrop wars blanketing the whole map.
Also, I think the 800+ pts for 25 mine eff are more than your average -f HE has to spare.
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| Re: Possible Game: Clown Car |
Mon, 10 March 2014 23:37 |
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| skoormit |
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magic9mushroom wrote on Sun, 09 March 2014 18:44XAPBob wrote on Mon, 10 March 2014 10:282i silly% -f HE with 25/15/5 mines, ISB and Con@3 might well hit that 30% without even fighting...
Bombers/packets that early are pretty costly. Fire off enough colonisers and armed scouts such that if half of them make it you win -> victory.
Right, except that the other seven -fs will be doing exactly the same thing...
Precisely.
There are 8 players, all trying to race to 33%. There aren't enough planets to go around, you see.
It's a race, and you aren't the only one running.
There is a chance that someone on the far side of the map has two weak neighbors who did not understand the implications of the victory condition when they designed their races, and you end up losing despite not being able to do anything about it.
So make sure in the game thread that everyone is aware of the implications of the victory conditions.
If you turtle, you will lose.
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