Armageddon game?

[plako]

Obvivously I'm totally fine with Perpeantach. However if no one objects, I'm ok with tossing the coin too.

[Bobchillingworth]

No objections.

[Selrahc]

I'm fine with it too.

[plako]

Concerning time slots I'm very flexible. My prime time is europe evening time, but especially early game I can also play in the morning. I think optimal spot for me would be after last US evening player, unless we've someone from Australia-china region.

[Mist]

Flipped the coin. HK plays kurios.

[HidingKneel]

My preferred timeslot is 2:00 - 6:00 GMT (an hour earlier than what I said in FFH XX).

Sorry the flip didn't work out for you, Plako . But the Balseraphs are also awesome.

Oh, and what exactly did we decide regarding diplomacy? AI diplo with a public "trash talking" thread? If the latter, what exactly are we allowed to say in said thread?

[Bobchillingworth]

Yeah, I think I trash-talking thread was agreed upon. No diplomacy may be conducted within it, so nothing as permissive as the PB7 thread.



I'm EST time zone, generally free from afternoons to the late evenings. Since it sounds like everyone else in this game is in Europe-land, I should probably be last in turn order.

[HidingKneel]

So, two things I noticed when playing around with the advanced start feature:

1) The number of points you get is adjusted by difficulty. So if you select the default number of points (402) and set the difficulty to emperor, it actually gives 341 points. So first question: are we starting with 402, or with 341?

2) There seems to be an undocumented feature of advanced start which allows expansive leaders to select a settler (half price), select another unit, delete the second unit, and then delete the settler for a refund of a full priced settler. Since starting with every tech, tier 4 units, and cities everywhere on the map is probably too big an advantage to give to the three expansive leaders , let's be careful not to make use of this feature.

[Mist]

1) The number of points you get is adjusted by difficulty. So if you select the default number of points (402) and set the difficulty to emperor, it actually gives 341 points. So first question: are we starting with 402, or with 341?

You're starting with actual 402. I can and will make an appropriate offset for the difficulty. For testing/sandboxing purposes set the starting points at 474. As for point two, not using exploits is par of the course on RB, so I'd expect everyone will be sensible here.

[plako]

Any idea about turn order? I found these playing windows and gmails (in parenthesis) from some other games:
HidingKneel: 2:00 - 6:00 GMT (hidingkneel)
Bob: 1200 - 0300 GMT (Bobchillingworth)
Selrahc: 9:00-24:00 GMT (selrahctheeternal)
plako: 5:00-7:00 + 19:00 - 22:00 GMT (plako.plako)
Ilios: 20-22 GMT (ilios.civ googlemail)

Are these correct? Assuming they're playing order could be this:
Bob -> HidingKneel -> Plako -> Selrahc -> Ilios

Is the map so ready that you could put starting pictures on display? With advanced start 1st turn will take a way more time than usual so this could make game start up faster.