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Tue, 15 October 2013 14:48

skoormit

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In my experience, a lot of games are won or lost during race design. Players with more experience tailoring a race for particular game parameters have an advantage against players with less experience, starting in year 2400. By restricting the race design options, we can make the game outcome more of a reflection of actual game play skills. One way to do this would be to have everyone play the same race. But that sounds bland to me.

So, earlier this year I hosted a game with the following race restrictions:

1--No immunities
2--No more than two clicks on any single setting on the production/factories/mines page.
3--CA Banned
4--AR Banned (since rule #2 doesn't really apply in the same way)
5--JoaT can't take NAS or OBRM

One nice side effect of these rules is that players have an opportunity to make race design decisions that would otherwise be underpowered in a normal game.

As I expressed in the game thread, "if you don't have to worry about facing a monster, you don't have to worry about building your own monster."

I'm curious what others think of the race design restrictions. Would you add/remove/change anything? Would you be interested in a game like this?

What we need's a few good taters.

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		"Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Tue, 15 October 2013 14:48
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Wed, 16 October 2013 06:36
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Wed, 16 October 2013 09:03
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:46
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:48
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Fri, 18 October 2013 08:19
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Fri, 18 October 2013 11:19
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Sun, 20 October 2013 09:54
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Tue, 29 October 2013 16:19
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Tue, 29 October 2013 17:07
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Tue, 29 October 2013 17:24
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Tue, 29 October 2013 17:21
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:51
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:58
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Wed, 16 October 2013 12:57
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Fri, 18 October 2013 08:13
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Fri, 18 October 2013 09:08
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Bystander on Fri, 18 October 2013 10:20
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 10:29
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Anonymous Coward on Wed, 16 October 2013 14:46
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 16:11
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Anonymous Coward on Wed, 16 October 2013 16:58
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 17:14
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 17:16
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Fri, 18 October 2013 17:57
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:27
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 October 2013 04:51
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 17 October 2013 12:04
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 October 2013 13:48
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 17 October 2013 14:12
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Fri, 18 October 2013 03:46
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Fri, 18 October 2013 04:35
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 21 October 2013 23:48
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:38
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Wed, 16 October 2013 11:43
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: magic9mushroom on Thu, 17 October 2013 01:27
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 17 October 2013 11:58
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 October 2013 13:39
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 October 2013 05:18
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 17 October 2013 12:09
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 17 October 2013 13:44
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 17 October 2013 14:15
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Thu, 17 October 2013 08:07
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Sun, 20 October 2013 17:42
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Mon, 21 October 2013 02:36
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Mon, 21 October 2013 09:59
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Mon, 21 October 2013 10:01
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Mon, 21 October 2013 14:56
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Bystander on Mon, 21 October 2013 15:08
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Tue, 22 October 2013 03:24
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Thu, 24 October 2013 04:31
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: m.a@stars on Thu, 24 October 2013 11:20
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Thu, 24 October 2013 12:32
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 26 October 2013 04:07
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: XAPBob on Sat, 26 October 2013 04:23
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Sun, 27 October 2013 19:51
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Thu, 24 October 2013 14:51
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Asmodai on Fri, 25 October 2013 05:56
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Bystander on Fri, 25 October 2013 18:25
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: Tomasoid on Tue, 29 October 2013 04:22
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 29 October 2013 06:38
		Re: "Anti-Monster" game settings By: skoormit on Tue, 29 October 2013 15:22

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