New PBEM? Anyone?

marcovalente · September 4, 2003, 15:20

Hi i wanna start a new PBEM, accelerated start, normal other rules, Anyone up for it?

marcovalente · September 4, 2003, 15:22

Oh by the way, I'd like to play the University.

jtsisyoda · September 4, 2003, 16:12

Hi. SMAC or SMAX?

TheRedmenace · September 4, 2003, 17:09

I'll play.

Red Menace
msernatinger@hotmail.com

Hive if SMAC, Angels if SMAX

(Angels with modified faction file to give +1 instead of +2 probe.)

marcovalente · September 6, 2003, 10:31

SMAC. cool, all we need is another 2 players.

jtsisyoda · September 6, 2003, 10:36

I won't be playing in this one. Have fun, though.

rothe · September 6, 2003, 13:16

ill play. drones or hive
frazier at xmission.com

marcovalente · September 6, 2003, 15:27

Oh no we have a problem, rothe ant the red menace wants the hive.

Chip_Buckner · September 6, 2003, 17:03

If you need another SMAC player, I'll join you. I have a mild preference for Gaian, but will play any role.
CHIP

marcovalente · September 7, 2003, 09:49

Yeah you can have the Gaians. so that makes four of us, I'm playing the University
Chip_Buckner is the Gaians.
Rothe and the red menace need to decide who's gonne be the hive and what faction they want.

TheRedmenace · September 7, 2003, 16:53

I called it first

marcovalente · September 7, 2003, 17:07

You got a point. Umm Rothe do u mind playing any other faction?

rothe · September 12, 2003, 20:02

ill take peacekeepers.

marcovalente · September 13, 2003, 09:11

Great, now all we need is to find a CMN

Chip_Buckner · September 15, 2003, 22:48

Although I recognize the value of a CMN, if this takes much longer, I'd be willing to have you start a game with a random map. I'm more interested in playing than in having the map adjudicated as being fair.

If we want password protection, we could send our passwords to the player who plays after us. If someone drops out, we just resend the game, skipping the absent player.

marcovalente · September 23, 2003, 08:29

Hey guys sorry i took like 45 thousand tears to reply. My internet connection has been down. I've found a CMN. But instead of playing accelerated start the CMN will add extra units to our bases. Is that ok for every1?

Rubin · September 23, 2003, 12:34

Hi guys, I'm not sure if you are interested (as marcovalente has already found a CMN), but I've made a game for you if you're interested:

*Accelerated start, M.Y. 2131
*Standard planet, average everything
*All victory conditions on
*Do or die
*No random events
*Directed research
*Transcend difficulty, SMAC v5.0, no tweaks to the AI, but I set all Secret Projects to 'not built'.

I've played it out until 2160 and it seems balanced. Everything is ready, including passwords. Let me know and you can begin as soon as you want!

Chip_Buckner · September 24, 2003, 22:22

Hi Rubin.
I--as you are well aware--had such a miserably slow start in the last game we played, that I think I'd like to start from scratch to try to learn to accelerate my game.
Thanks for the offer, though.

marcovalente · September 25, 2003, 09:17

Hey Rubin, that will be great. Erm does everybody else agree with that? If its ok then i'll need all your email addresses.

JMarshFox · September 25, 2003, 17:03

Would it be too late for me to step in?

I'm willing to play any faction, really... ^^;

Chip_Buckner · September 25, 2003, 18:22

I will (by the time you read this) have sent my email address to you via private messaging.

Many people worry that a fifth human player slows the game. I don't mind adding JMarshFox if we can put him into a position from which won't slow things down. I note that he's an hour ahead of me. If (as I think I recall) Sparta always plays last and the Gaians start the next round, that might work.

JMarshFox · September 25, 2003, 19:34

Well, I'm a High School student, and I can only go on in the afternoon on weekdays (Anywhere from 5:00-9:00 PM EST) so it would probably be best to put me next-to-last, or the closest you have to last...

On Weekends, however, most of the time I can go on whenever.

marcovalente · September 26, 2003, 12:26

Ok I don't mind. It might add some extra spice. I'll email the CMN and tell him. Jmarsh who do you want morgan or spartan? Chip you can expect the first turn soon. Um just to get things straight this is an accelerated start game. Does anyone disagree with that?

Chip_Buckner · September 26, 2003, 13:15

For the sake of completeness, JMarshFox, an American high school student in the eastern time zone COULD play a turn before 7:00 in the morning and send it on to someone in the central time zone (me), who would play at that time and forward it on to the other players.

I recognize, however, that when I was a high school student, there was precious little one could count on me to do before 7:00 am.

As a practical matter, if you play a turn between 1600 and 1900 your (Apolyton) time, I'll get the turn out between 1930 and 2000 Apolyton time.

CHIP

JMarshFox · September 26, 2003, 16:41

Morgan, if I can, please

(Ironically, that's my 2nd favorite faction, after Gaians.... o.O )

marcovalente · September 27, 2003, 09:30

Ok so does every body agree to letting JMarshFox Join. I also have concerns regarding the rate of turns being played. So if JMarsh joins His Gonna have to make some sort of plan to get the turns played so that the speed of the game isn't greatly comprimised.

marcovalente · September 27, 2003, 09:58

Rothe and Redmenace. You haven't said much lately. Are you guys still in this game??

JMarshFox · September 27, 2003, 11:49

So... when do you think we're going to start ye game? And what will be the order?

marcovalente · September 28, 2003, 09:01

Rothe and red menace have not replied. i don't know if they are still in the game. maybe just the three of us should play?

JMarshFox · September 28, 2003, 12:54

:Shrugs:

I guess so; it's up to you...