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Fledgling Admirals IX (FA9) has ended.
Announcement of the game with setting, rules and special handicaps.
After a surprisingly democratic election the rulers of the remaining empires of the universe voted unanimously that the alliance of
the Cops, played by talkingbologna
and
the Cubes, played by mrvan
has won the game.
Persistent rumours that the election was heavily influenced by the presence of battleships equipped with armageddon missiles and mega disruptors are probably no exaggeration.
Congrats to mrvan and talkingbologna !!!
They started the game as advanced beginners (mrvan) and intermediate (talkingbologna). I reckon now we rather have to assess them somewhere in the to be feared category of higher intermediate/advanced Stars players.
Special handicaps for the advanced players dlrichert and platon79
First off I want to really thank dlrichert and platon79 who were willing to play in this beginner to lower intermediate game as advanced players to give us a suitable player number. I gave them ridiculous handicaps making it near impossible for them to win and reducing them to the role of a kind of annoying pirates... at least so I thought until I discovered that they, however, managed to build over 100 dreadnoughts (dlrichert playing WM) and the supposed to be 1-worldwonder of platon79 got to 13k resources. Thanks for this kind of shown sportsmanship against all odds.
In the announcement I said I'd reveal the special handicaps of dlrichert and platon79 after the game. Both players sent in race files with 120 leftover pts and of which I had the impression were either already tuned down or gave me 2 race files for my choosing. As a next step I added further handicaps and then sending back the race files wether they would be willing to play with "this":
platon79, S-S, 1WW: Wonderboys (157 leftover pts)
# generalized research (to severly slow down especially the start)
# hab minimized and shifted to left (as host knowing that all other players had right shifted HW... that was really mean because it destroyed all hope of taking over HWs of other players)
# factories from 15/8/24 down to 15/9/24 (additionally slowing him down)
dlrichert, -f WM: Broken (207 leftover pts)
# generalized research (to severly slow down especially the start and absolutely devasting for a -f)
# no RS (which is really ugly for a -f WM)
# 1200 colonists generate 1 res (instead 1000): crippling an already weak -f economy even further
The host's perspective and some questions
From my (always limited) host's perspective it was a smooth game with very nice, friendly and responsive players and no drop outs. Thanks also to Little Eddie to keep me updated with some emails from time to time.
I do encourage all players of FA9 to write down their perspective of the game to share it with the others.
It would be also helpful for perhaps future games I host if you could write some lines about your impression:
1) Did the announcement prepare you properly for the game?
2) Were my comments on your sent in race files in any way helpful or did I overdo it? Less, more, no need at all... or did I even give wrong advice because the game developed completly different/suited not at all your game style?
3) During the first 20 turns I occasionally sent around some emails with introductions and infos to certain aspects of Stars. Was it actually helpful for you? Did you read it? Did you follow some of the "further reading"-links? Are there any specific topics which, especially in retroperspective, were missing and you could had needed?
4) Did the turn schedule suit you? First 30 turns: 5 turns/week, afterwards 3 turns/week. Or should it had been slower, let's say 2 turns/week after turn 50?
The game
m1 Twi'Leks: AngeLwitcH. beginner, SD
m2 Broken: dlrichert, h.int/adv, WM
m3 Joroovians, TheJorrus, rusty, CA
m4 Varki, Novice052, beginner, IT
m5 Cops, talkingbologna, intermediate, IT
m6 Sabeans, LittleEddie, rusty, CA
m7 Cubes, mrvan, adv.beg, CA
m8 Wonderboys, platon79, advanced, S-S
Start of the game, 2400:
End of the game, 2468:
[Updated on: Mon, 08 October 2018 20:31] Report message to a moderator
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