I want to play moar

[funbot]

As it turned out, my last game ended up already and it left me feel like beside being a utterly and totally victorious, but also eager to play more ^_^.

So, anyone up for taking rounds with me? Here would be my prefferred game settings, which most of are surely negotiable:

Standard map size with 7 factions, Ai filling the spots.

I would like to play with atleast 2 players addition to me, since i already have bit of experience on 1vs1 games. Though it seems that other players favors here 3 players setting anyway so that good healthy pace of the turns is morelikely to happen. Soooo i gues we aim for that then, though i wouldnt mind more players, could fun ^_^, even if bit slower yes... But fun! ^_^.

Difficulty Trancend

All victories enabled

Do or Die enabled

Tech stagnation enabled (totally negotiable)

Spoils of war Off (too op imo)

No unity survey and no unity scattering (i would like to hold on to these but ofc majority decides in the end )

Random events: Dont have any strong opinions on this one, though when i play as builder, that energy reserves killing-event gives me grey hairs.

And faction of mine would be Believers, momentum or builder depending all on which stradegy would be fitting in my situation.

And suggested houserules: No stockpiling, atrocies enabled

[Kirov]

Most people here play 4 player games, so now I'm a bit in two minds, as 1) 4 player game will be more interesting diplomatically 2) they are much longer in real time. In my other game 'We'll Meet Soon', we do one turn per week (!), whereas our 'Water World' was on average one turn per day.

Anyway, I want to join. My expectations:

- a planet covered with land in at least 50% 
- no tech stagnation, please

Some house rules concerning choppers would be in order, but I don't insist.

I want to encourage everyone to switch to the kyrub's patch. It includes everything scient's but is said to greatly enhance AI. I want to try it out and possibly make it standard for my games. It also solves stockpiling bug, so there's no need to adopt any house rule. It's downloadable here: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=108

I'll probably take Morgan again, I want to tap his full potential.

[funbot]

Most people here play 4 player games, so now I'm a bit in two minds, as 1) 4 player game will be more interesting diplomatically 2) they are much longer in real time. In my other game 'We'll Meet Soon', we do one turn per week (!), whereas our 'Water World' was on average one turn per day.

One week!? Thats like.. NOOOooooooo! I would expect peeps to push button regularly atleast once a day. But yeh, hopefully we get good set of people with miniuam "life-factor", like me ^_^

Anyway, I want to join. My expectations:

- a planet covered with land in at least 50% 

I was actually having wild thoughts on 100% land coverage , but i gues that too would give sort of edge for momentum players.

- no tech stagnation, please

Oooohkayyyy

Some house rules concerning choppers would be in order, but I don't insist.

I'm cool with this

I want to encourage everyone to switch to the kyrub's patch. It includes everything scient's but is said to greatly enhance AI. I want to try it out and possibly make it standard for my games. It also solves stockpiling bug, so there's no need to adopt any house rule. It's downloadable here: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=108

Well i will do that once forum has officially stated that being must-have-patch. Atm i'm having game with my friend, and patching it would prob mess my game.. Soo i should have 2 alphas on my pc aaaaand hassle and effort and meh

[roninscg]

I want to join if is ok for you guys  :-)

[funbot]

I want to join if is ok for you guys  :-)

Ofc ofc, come in come in ^_^. Might take a sometime before we can get game up since our good CMN is on his paternity leave atm . But, while we wait, pls tell us your preferred game type and faction

[Bodissey]

I'd be happy to join. If there's an opening.

[Kirov]

I'd be happy to join. If there's an opening.

Before we finished Water World I PMed Dolgorukov and know he wanted in. So it's quite likely we have a team for 2 games right now. 

[Kirov]

Well i will do that once forum has officially stated that being must-have-patch. Atm i'm having game with my friend, and patching it would prob mess my game.. Soo i should have 2 alphas on my pc aaaaand hassle and effort and meh

funbot, I doubt the staff will ever force us to use any specific patch or else. But I really want to use kyrub, stupid AI is one of the biggest issues in SMAC and kyrub tried to solve it at least partially. There is no hassle in making another copy - AFAIK, you just make a new folder and copy your SMAX into it and apply the patch, it should work. 1 GB of space and 10 minuts of work. I can agree to tech stagnation if you want... 

[funbot]

Before we finished Water World I PMed Dolgorukov and know he wanted in. So it's quite likely we have a team for 2 games right now. 

Well if thats the case, im all game for 2 games as well ^_^

funbot, I doubt the staff will ever force us to use any specific patch or else. But I really want to use kyrub, stupid AI is one of the biggest issues in SMAC and kyrub tried to solve it at least partially. There is no hassle in making another copy - AFAIK, you just make a new folder and copy your SMAX into it and apply the patch, it should work. 1 GB of space and 10 minuts of work. I can agree to tech stagnation if you want... 

Ohkay, since you are so incisting about it, i'll try to make it work then X)

[roninscg]

@ funbot

I prefer  small map,
 factions- all random, If I have to choose than UNI or HIV
for me kyrub's patch is ok to play with,

[funbot]

All factions random? Thats hardcore , though i doubt not too many would like to play that way . Small map would be ok to me, but i think it will again give bit edge for momentum players.

But, your votes are being received, and we just wait the outcome ^_^

[funbot]

I'd be happy to join. If there's an opening.

Sweet, do you have any preferred settings on mind or do u just want go with the flow?

[Yitzi]

All factions random? Thats hardcore , though i doubt not too many would like to play that way .

I'd be fine with "all random"...but I don't like playing with
-no Unity scattering
-Easy atrocities, at least in terms of base-obliteration
-Copters that can get more than 8 movement per turn (not counting CBA and Fuel Nanocells)
-Ecodamage-free boreholes before the late game
-Cheap crawlers
-The ability to build a project within a turn or two of getting the prerequisite tech (by storing up crawlers or having the whole empire work on the project via crawlers)
-Various features that favor ICS
-An ecodamage system that makes your PLANET rating fairly worthless for a builder game
-Hurrying that's as cheap (after considering the fact that there are far more energy-boosters than mineral-boosters until the late game) as building things normally
-Unit upgrading that's even cheaper than that

[Dolgorukov]

Whoah, anything more than 3 is a crowd in my opinion when it comes to PBEMs. However I do want the diplomatic depth that comes with many human-controlled factions and at the same time the luxury of not having necessary to play a turn every day while maintaining a fast game pace. So I'm advocating to try a team game approach in another thread:

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=2862.0

[funbot]

I'd be fine with "all random"...but I don't like playing with
-no Unity scattering
-Easy atrocities, at least in terms of base-obliteration
-Copters that can get more than 8 movement per turn (not counting CBA and Fuel Nanocells)
-Ecodamage-free boreholes before the late game
-Cheap crawlers
-The ability to build a project within a turn or two of getting the prerequisite tech (by storing up crawlers or having the whole empire work on the project via crawlers)
-Various features that favor ICS

You seem bit absolute with your terms, do you mean that if any of those things are approved by majority, you wont join the game? And couple of changes you request seems to require tweaking on core mechanics on game like:

-An ecodamage system that makes your PLANET rating fairly worthless for a builder game
-Hurrying that's as cheap (after considering the fact that there are far more energy-boosters than mineral-boosters until the late game) as building things normally
-Unit upgrading that's even cheaper than that

I think making such drastic changes on game takes me too far away from my comfort zone. Or are those terms already applied on default games?