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Re: Medium Game for intermediates that are busy in real life Thu, 12 January 2006 09:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 If I'd just said intermediate/advanced in the game advertisement, life would have been a lot easier.

I'm going to now make an arbitrary ruling on this, based on:
* the difference between beginners and intermedate is larger than the difference between intermediate and advanced, but there is a real difference.
* I've heard no violent objections to advanced people playing, and the poll suggested that advanced people should be allowed to play (the poll suggested without penalty).
* we are relying on honesty as to who is and isn't an advanced player anyway.

Rule for advanced players:
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* Advanced players are welcome, provided you take some sort of penalty that you regard as suitable and won't be too disadvantageous to a less experienced neighbour (-f or QS is _not_ a suitable penalty!), whether it be points left over in the RW in addition to any JoaT or CA points), no diplomacy, or some suboptimal race design, or even just a PRT you've never played before. I'll let you choose the penalty according to how advanced they think that are (please don't cripple yourself, just something you consider would make you fit in an intermediate game), but if it is a penalty affecting behaviour during the game (such as no diplomacy), everyone knows what it is.
* Everyone will be told which players consider themselves a higher level than intermediate, but not necessarily what the penalty is (unless it is a 'behaviour during game' one).

For my part, I regard myself at the high end of intermediate (I'm very good at econ, and an inveterate MM player), so if I play (I would still intend not to if possible because I'm hosting my first game), I'll either spend 50 RW points on defences, or take one of the non-econ PRTs (I've never played a non-econ PRT).

Game start:
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We seem to have the following 6 players (I was hoping for more):

Strannik
* FurFuznel
Wayne
multilis
* Kado (from the rgcs newsgroup)
* Roman Khananov (from the rgcs newsgroup)

(* = have race files)

but I think it is time to move towards actually starting a game.

I think medium normal is too large for this, so I propose that the universe be changed to medium sparse. If player number climbs to 8, I'll suggest changing it back to normal and let everyone know, so if your race depends critically on star density, please be ready to handle this (by submitting a changed race if necessary). I would be prepared to remap the universe to get the density right if anyone insists, but that's a hassle to sort out if people aren't worried about it.

Universe settings and how do deal with advanced players are of course negotiable if the alternative is losing all the players, but I'd rather get the game started than spend more time in here.

So for my brother has three race files, so the rest of you (and anyone else that wants to play) please submit race files, preferably within the next 3-4 days. I aim to start approximately one week from today with whatever races I have, and when my brother has another two files, I'll request the slot on autohost (don't want to run afoul of the 8 day limit).

PM me or email me: roy_dunedin@hotmail.com and I'll give you the email of my brother who I'm using to co-ordinate this. NOTE: if you are an advanced player taking some sort of race penalty, tell him what it the penalty is, because I've asked him to keep an eye out for 'broken' races.

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