[Updated on: Sun, 28 June 2015 19:53]

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Me too, life got a bit busy towards the end of Sophisticated and still is, but I can deal with the start of a new one

Ha, the only good part of working at the office for a while instead of from home, I can logon to HWF and crank up my paltry number of posts...

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[Updated on: Mon, 29 June 2015 20:39]

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I haven't played a comm game for a while, so I think you can twist my arm

Once upon a time, I played in a game with full comm, but a 3 player limit on any alliance (never at any time more than 3 other races as friend, all others enemy) and in several with a 2 player team winner limit. All to help the all against a few potential problem with comm games. Just tossing out some ideas.

Cheers, Rolf.

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I can do the universe generation

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How about something like this?

If 5 players or less:
Single player victory. At any given time no player may have more than 1 other player set to friend, and all other players must be set to enemy. Also, (A)Setting another player to friend requires an email notification to the host (no action required by host, this is only for record keeping for point B), and (B) setting another player to friend initiates a 10 year cool-down period before another player may be set to friend. Point B does not impose any restriction on changing player relation from friend to enemy, only the adding of friend status to a new partner.

If 6 players or more:
Single player victory, or team victory comprising no more than two players. At any given time no player may have more than 1 other player set to friend, and no more than 1 player set to neutral. Also, (A)Setting another player to friend requires an email notification to the host (no action required by host, this is only for record keeping for point B), and (B) setting another player to friend initiates a 10 year cool-down period before another player may be set to friend. Point B does not impose any restriction on changing player relation from friend to enemy (or neutral, so long as no more than 1 player is set to neutral at any time).

An example:
Player 1 comes to agreement with player 2 in the year 2422, and gives the order to change player relation from enemy to friend that year. That backstabbing player 1 is free to switch player 2 back to enemy at any time, but has to wait until playing the 2432 turn to set hidden ally player 3 to friend and allowing those sweet sweet gates to disgorge much needed reinforcements (which is just fine since player three is planning to backstab player 1 at her earliest convenience anyhow ).

[Updated on: Wed, 01 July 2015 20:44]

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