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Game ideas for Newbies / returning Oldtimers Sun, 31 December 2006 09:09 Go to previous message
Skaffen is currently offline Skaffen

 
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 Hi everyone,
having returned to Stars after a 5+ year or so break I´d like to get going again in one or two PBEMs.

With a collegue at work who also used to play we want to set up a game for us and some new recruits. I doubt we´ll find enough new players in our circles to make it worthwhile alone, so we´ll probably make it public here. Some friends are already interested though and have started practicing against the AI.

We both have problems rating ourselves as we didn´t play in many PBEMs back then but we have a good grasp of game mechanics, race designs, tricks etc. and I dominated the only serious large beginners PBEM played. I guess advanced beginner or intermediate.

Anyway, that´s the circle we´re aiming for: returning oldtimers (anyone who kept playing regularly the last 5 years will be way too good... Wink ) and the few relatively new players that might be interested but should at least be able to run decent economies in testbeds and beat the AI easily.

Now to the actual question: What game parameters should be used to get an "interesting" game going, especially for the newbies as not to frighten them off? I don´t think people will stick around if they get wiped out in turn 30 by some -f WM or CA monster while they were still getting to learn the ropes in a real game. It also shouldn´t be a game of 7 variants of JOAT battling it out because people were following Jason´s old Monster articles...

I´m thinking along the following lines but am open to suggestions (and please chime in especially if you´re one of the target group or know someone who might be):

-Some room to expand to discourage immediate wars but not too much as not to overwhelm people. Maybe something like medium normal universe for 8-10 players?

-No CA. JOAT maybe banned too or with limitations. Maybe can´t take NAS?

-Expensive tech? The idea being that this will encourage some earlier tech warfighting to learn the basics better and prevent the game from turning into a race for armageddons only. Then again this might encourage a -f WM basically attacking from turn one...

-Maybe penalties during race creation for returning oldtimers / intermediate players?

Any other ideas? Anyone interested / knows someone interested in such a game?

Andreas

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