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My votes:
* Game speed? Quick
* Starting era? Ancient
* Orthus: No
* Acheron: No
* Human take-over allowed for Basium and/or Hyborem? Don't mind either
* Difficulty level? Emperor/Immortal
* Barb activity level? Normal
* Wildlands? No
* Last Days? No
* Living World? Don't mind either
* Lairs? No
* All Unique Features? No unique features
* Map type? Mostly land - highlands, pangea, lakes, inland sea, Tectonics lakes. Standard size. No crazy barbs that can be converted by the clan world spell.
* Huts? No
* Tech trading? No
* City gifting/trading? No
* Restricted leaders? Depends on the way we are going to select the leaders. If it's player choice, I think I prefer restricted. If it's lurker choice or the crazy snakepick mode, I'd rather play unrestricted.
* Impersonate leader? It doesn't work in multi anyway.
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Actually, i'm out. Can't really stomach no lairs anymore =( Somemore looks like player choice civs, so yeah. Take my spot.
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Mist Wrote:If you don't have a mapmaker in mind, and are not set against a themed map ( like pbem X, creativity levels depend on how much leeway will you leave me ) I can draw one for you. I'd appreciate a yes or no vote soonish though, hand drawn maps require time and if I'm to do one, I need to start as soon as possible.
I'd rather you take an Erebus Continents or Pangea map, and modify it, as opposed to create something handmade from scratch.
Still, I am not opposed to you making a map, although I would appreciate if you kept balance foremost in your decision making, as the priority (instead of creativity). Not to say you can't be creative, but try to not be so creative that it becomes unbalanced (like that PBEM game where Orcs and Illians killed all XD)
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Amelia Wrote:Actually, i'm out. Can't really stomach no lairs anymore =( Somemore looks like player choice civs, so yeah. Take my spot.
Why is your heart set on the map having lairs? Plan to be Orcs to have peace with the lizardmen? Plan to be Grigori and explore those lairs with a high level adventurer? Plan to rush-pop a lair near another player to try and kill him via Ogre?
What is your connection to lairs that makes you not wish to play without them? They are a piece of annoyance worse than random events ... much worse than the Unique features imho ...
Well how about this. What IF ... we ban exploration of lairs until turn ~75. (or 100 if on normal speed, I guess). That way, we can keep lairs on, you get to keep the skeletons and lizardmen you seem to have a crush on, and you will eventualy be able to explore said lairs.
Does this seem fair to you? And other players, does this seem fair to you as well?
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Tasunke: Read: FFH PBEM 8, where all lairs are out. I've been there and done that.
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Obviously I haven't seen all of Mist's map in X yet, but it seems quite balanced despite (or maybe even because) it was hand-drawn. On the other hand, I think we've proven that Erebus Continents is significantly unbalanced.
But I'm not playing in this, so this is only advice. If I were in your shoes, I'd leap at the chance for a Mist-made map .
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Very well, I'd agree to a Mist Made map, completely hand drawn if it must be.
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Still completely confused by Amelia's response to no lairs ... I looked at FFH2 PBEM VIII and I see no hardship from lack of lairs.
If its about Unique Features, I "Like" unique features, especailly if there is some limit like no exploring UFs till turn 150 or something. I just don't like the extra clutter of lesser lairs, plus the lizardman spam.
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My prefered map would be similar to FFH PBEM 2. FFH PBEM 1 and 3 were nice too. They were very natural looking and reasonably balanced.
About leader and civs, I'll vote with Ilios -> Let the lurkers pick the combinations they want us to play with. if that's a game breaker for some of the other players, though, I don't mind other ways of choosing.
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I don't care who picks the list ... we just need to vote on it soon!! :P
my vote - players pick the list
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Tholal Wrote:I'm an FFH multiplayer virgin, so I might need an explanation of how the technical side of things works, but I'm up for a game!
Hello Tholal ... great to have you for this PBEM!
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