Alien Waterworld turn reporting thread II

FlameFlash · May 7, 2003, 12:30

Quote:

Originally posted by Googlie in Alien Waterworld turn reporting thread
This is a SMAX game

Difficulty level is Transcend, tweaked (see below)

Players, in turn order, are:

Mermaids (Gaians) - FlameFlash ( flameflash@mac.com )
Seamen (Drones) - Mongoose ( jlnader@mindspring.com )
Gunrunners (Sparta) - GeneralTacitus ( anguniven@hotmail.com )
Disciples (Cult) - herc
Merchants (Morgan) - Archaic

AI are the Aliens, untweaked for this somewhat experimental game (in my test runs they played reasonably well as aquatic factions)

Aquatics (Caretakers)
Nautilists (Usurpers)

World is 70% to 90% water, huge planet, average everything else

Game conditions are:

all winning conditions on
do or die on
look first on
tech stagnation - no
spoils of war - yes
directed research
intense rivalry - no
no unity survey
random scattering of Unity pods
No random events
all other custom conditions - no

Suggested play rules (the Forum Wars set)

? Communications - none till contact, obtain commlink, or build EG
? Total freedom in Design Workshop (upgrades anytime, during turn or on-field,
? Retro-engineering - OK, except for using the probe rover chassis before discovering Doc. Mobility
? SE switches "quickies" forbidden - (obviously you can experiment to see what effect various SE choices have, but cannot change, play moves, then change back in the same turn)
? Council notification - immediate broadcast to all players (Post in the thread and e-mail to all immediately by player who has called elections, citing candidates and votes. After each player's turn, post in the thread the running totals)
? Stockpiling in Qs anytime - OK
? Crawlers Upgrade anytime - OK
? Probe actions: Must choose vendetta option when probing other players, rebuke if a pactmate (OK to probe teammate at any time)
? Using the AI - Cannot use the AI to bribe on council votes nor to demand withdrawal of units
? Cannot use the right click feature for multiple drop moves to extend range (ie limited to 8 tiles unless owning the Space Elevator SP)
? Cannot use the 'set waypoint' feature for automatic worm hunting/lifecycle enhancements
? Must 'Accept' or 'Decline' an offered Pact or Treaty that the other player has indicated 'Accepted' before exiting the diplo box and playing the turn (i.e. no accepting pending treaties/pacts *after* declaring vendetta in the same turn )
? Cannot use the F4 feature (or the bases feature of the F2 screen) to change an infiltrated faction's workers to specialists

Passwords have been sent to all, and 2111 has gone to FlameFlash

Good luck all,

Googlie

Nothing above has been updated...

Mongoose · May 7, 2003, 12:59

Maybe Shadowlord2 would be interested. I know several (if not all) of his games have stalled. Same with Darsnan.

FlameFlash · May 7, 2003, 13:09

/me nods

I've posted a recruitment thread.

Archaic · May 9, 2003, 11:14

Looks like they weren't quick enough off the mark if they wanted the games. I'll be taking over for Plan9 Mong.

Googlie · May 9, 2003, 20:18

Password has been sent to Archaic

Aquatic factions can be found at:

http://googlie2.tripod.com/rynnsgallery/id10.html

G.

Hercules · May 10, 2003, 05:56

I have asked Googlie for password for Knowhow2 faction.

Googlie · May 10, 2003, 21:50

Password sent

FlameFlash · May 12, 2003, 11:34

Archaic · May 13, 2003, 06:50

Okay, now obviously this isn't right, so I'm not sure what's gone wrong. I just finally opened the save, and it's knowhow2's turn. I'm passing that onto Herc now.

GeneralTacticus · May 13, 2003, 06:53

Hmmm... sounds like I got mixed up somewhere about who was getting what turn. Mongoose emailed me and asked me to send Archaic the turn, and not having Plan9's turn, I thought he meant knowhow's turn (partly through not tinking things through, as well...).