Aurora 4x

Community Games => 7 Dictators => Topic started by: 3_14159 on April 09, 2013, 07:40:25 AM

Title: Replacement game
Post by: 3_14159 on April 09, 2013, 07:40:25 AM
As it seems, Maharava is MIA. Since I know that many of us would like to continue or at least play a similar game, I've been in contact with Nightstar. And, while I'm handling the votes and signup, it it him that will play SM and play the game. So, basically:

The game will go on!

Currently, it looks like one turn of about a year per week, with combat done through chat and the game distributed through dropbox. The question is, which start should be taken? There are several options both for starting situation and player distribution. Those are the following:

Start:

Players:
Players signed up:
- me (3_14159)
- coco146
- kks
- Cripes almighty
- Panopticon
- Gidoran
- Admiral666 (Gidoran's subordinate)
- icecoldblood (not intercontinental ballistic missile)
- oldark
- Sublight

Voting closed now. Result: Destroyed Earth, 4-6 factions
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: coco146 on April 09, 2013, 09:11:11 AM
Sure, I'd like to take part, sign me up.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: kks on April 09, 2013, 10:05:33 AM
Sign me up, too, please.

I like the Sleeper Ships scenario style if we do one/two players per faction(really different factions),
but the earth-colony start with one race would be suited best for an officier-RP game.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: Cripes Amighty on April 09, 2013, 10:05:57 AM
I'm still in this as well.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: Panopticon on April 09, 2013, 12:28:16 PM
I'm in
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: Gidoran on April 09, 2013, 12:31:04 PM
Consider me in as well, good sir. Hope Admiral666 is up for it too, I need me my subordinate. Who else will get me fresh cokes?
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: dgibso29 on April 09, 2013, 04:13:58 PM
Consider me in as well, good sir. Hope Admiral666 is up for it too, I need me my subordinate. Who else will get me fresh cokes?

Consider me on board, Misha.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: icecoldblood on April 09, 2013, 08:08:29 PM
Consider me signed up.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: oldark on April 09, 2013, 09:03:51 PM
I'm new here and don't know exactly how this works so posting to watch :)
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: Nightstar on April 10, 2013, 02:38:59 AM
Righty.  :)

A quick overview of how things are going to go:

1) You'll have ~3 days to get your orders in. That'll be a year's worth of orders at a time, queue them up. Anything that can't be done months ahead of time gets PMed to me, I'll handle that for you.
2) If any orders are not in, I'll get your seconds to do it, or do it myself. The game will go on!
3) I PM anyone that will be involved in a battle. We'll set up a time to get in chat and play it out.
4) I'll finish the turn, and we move on.

I'm leaving a week per turn because you may need to give orders twice a turn. With any luck, we'll be moving faster than that most of the time.

Most stuff will be done by you, with a dropboxed stevefire.mdb. You'll need a dropbox account. I'll need its email in order to share the file with you.

This should play something like a normal aurora game. However. You'll have vastly smarter opponents/allies. You'll have to do more preparation. You can't deal with stuff as it comes up so easily. Depending on how you play aurora, it'll also probably be slower.

I strongly recommend pairing up and controlling a faction together. That way you'll have a backup if you can't make a turn, have someone to bounce ideas off of, and best of all, have somebody to brag to.

I'll be fairly hands off. If you kill each other off, that's fine by me. Anyone that wants to keep playing can merge into the survivor's faction, or maybe take over a new race somewhere else in the galaxy.

The game will run until I get bored, or can't continue running turns. After that, I'll throw up the SM password for anyone that wants to take over.

I'm going to start setting up now, 6 factions around a dead sol. More details later.
Title: Re: Replacement game
Post by: sublight on April 10, 2013, 08:24:33 AM
Six factions. Two players per faction. Only nine players signed up.

Add me to the list! Since I'm late to the party I'll probably be a deputy, but I'm cool either way.