Water World

[t_ras]

Sir, we can't find no firm ground to land on
You digest the phrase a moment but it indigestible
What??!!
There is almost no land on this plannet. It will be very hard to point to some specific iseland for the landing
OK then , prepare the marine scape pods
Yes sir
This is going to be hard. Humans are no fishes, we're made for ground, and so are our tools. How can you stractmaterials from the water?
Well, not much choise right now. You just wish you had gone to the swmming classes in high school...

Wellcome to the water world
set up thread

rules
game: SMAX
map size: standard
map type: balanced
All average
difficulty: transcend
victory conditions: all on
Cooperative victory: off
do or die: on
look first: yes
techstagnation: off
spoils of war: off
blind research: off
intense rivalry: off
no unity survey: on
no unity scattering: on
bell curve: on
random faction leaders: off

No stockpile energy
Choppers may only be equipped only with A1 or A2.
Inactive turn gets pushed after 3 days. 3 pushes in a rwo= player is turned ot AI.

reverse engineering captured units and crawler-upgrading are okay, but make sure to take your upgraded crawler for a few laps around the block before donating it to your local Secret Project fundraiser

Player	Faction	Mail
Dolgorukov	Uni	alex DOT dolgorukov AT gmail DOT com
funbot	Miriam	fun_bot # @ # suomi24 # . # fi
Kirov	Morgan	hlaskover # AT # gmail # . # com

Prepare your rubber ducks!!!

[Kirov]

Gentlemen, I wish you all the best on this alien Planet. I hope we will soon meet and coordinate our efforts to exploit the Planet's resources and establish commerce in harmony. If you need any cash, you know where to find me.

Enjoy yourselves!

[Dolgorukov]

turned!

So I'm assuming that contact is not allowed until faction has been encountered on the map.

[Kirov]

So I'm assuming that contact is not allowed until faction has been encountered on the map.

True.

crawler-upgrading are okay, but make sure to take your upgraded crawler for a few laps around the block before donating it to your local Secret Project fundraiser.

Well, this rule doesn't make much sense as it is. So we either allow crawler upgrading always or ban it altogether. I can concede to fully allow it.

[funbot]

man, this setup really putted my gray cells in my head to work! I just love and love and love how im in a totally new situation in this game and needing to adapt all mah game knowledge . Big thumbs up and salute for t_ras for making this game

 ;miriam;turn done

[t_ras]

Thanks :b

[funbot]

btw, i started to wonder that are there any rules on probeteam annoucements? Like if morgans get finally overcomed from their greed, decided to get some extra credits beside the usual tradeagreements/solars and they start to suck energys from poor miriams monasterys, is Kirov bound to make annoucment from that to me?

[t_ras]

Announcment should be made (unless you agree otherwise) and any rule not specificaly ruled out must comply to this.

[Kirov]

btw, i started to wonder that are there any rules on probeteam annoucements? Like if morgans get finally overcomed from their greed, decided to get some extra credits beside the usual tradeagreements/solars and they start to suck energys from poor miriams monasterys, is Kirov bound to make annoucment from that to me?

What sort of announcements do you mean? Obviously when the prober tries to frame someone or otherwise triggers that dialogue window which asks about vendetta, he must ask the probee about the choice. I've never heard of any other rules concerning announcing probe team actions and I believe it kind of misses the entire point of using probes, which really are just spies. They even got those gray flags so that "you didn't see who's coming", haha. Still, unless I'm provided with a really good rationale, I'm afraid I can't agree to such a rule.

Not that it would ever matter, because the Morganite faction is very committed to fair and responsible trade and would never undertake actions which could tarnish their reputation as traders and thus dampen the sales. So you don't have anything to worry about on this front. I'm your friend!

[sisko]

in MP there's a problem with the dialogue window which asks the wrong person whether he wants to declare vendetta or not..

[t_ras]

From fiaxis site:

When engaging in a probe team operation against another human faction, a window appears asking whether the victim wants to "declare vendetta" or "let off with a stern warning." This window is appearing during the wrong player's turn since the victim should decide and not the prober. Etiquette dictates that the prober should choose "declare vendetta" unless prior approval has been received from the victim to choose something else.

This is the problem.
I'm checking now if it was solved in the patch, but if not then you need to notice the probed player.

[Kirov]

Yep, that's the issue, it goes without saying that the victim should be asked about his/her decisions.

[Kirov]

Kirov to Dolgorukov - turn 2103 is ready.

What a strange world we live in. Has everyone set up a base? I need to find a piece of land...

[Dolgorukov]

turned,

Take it away bro Funbot!

By the way, I agree with allowing crawler upgrading

[t_ras]

THen it seems Crowler upgrading is Ok.