Who will be the new king of diplo? Stay tuned!

You bet I'm reusing songs from PB67. I had been saving some of them for a long time. Plus this song is GREAT!




PB67 map problems were a good example of diplomacy being important. SD and I started at dagger distance and yet we didn't war. I'll be interested to see how this develops.

I'm pulling hard for block pick method. For same reason as PB65. I don't people to get whatever busted combo they have thought up with America. I was correct that Cornflakes had a better idea probably than I did, but I like simple so eh.

If I don't get America we will see. Tarkeel said 145 / player but feels smaller, so I'm going to play picks like its 120/player. Expect me to mostly do picks based on past preferences. There is a chance depending on start I might go financial instead of org. A more balanced map and diplo MAY* mean it goes long. I'm once again torn on Ind in a diplo game. Two people chose last diplo game. If we have at least 3 neighbors though I think any early wonder may just be a trap to invite people to nibble bits off your land. But with only 5 being the only Ind leader along with a little room could be very good. Something like Ind/pro Mali has been on my list for a while. Cre/Fin Mali has also been on my list. Basically I really want to play Mali again, but will be start and feel dependent although if it is snake and I can I will pick America if I have a seafood start (or low tech requirements).

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Please Tarkeel give us all the corn and gold and stone, and may our neighbors have no horse, amen 

Well, well, well.

And there I thought PB67 is just dead and the follow up game has been ghosted. I have to say the end of PB67 did not help raise my enthusiasm for playing in an MP again, but I promised to play in this game and will try to make the best of it. After all this is still a diplo game and might turn out interesting. What are you saying the player, with whom you can have the best chat has left and turned mapmaker. Well shit, this might turn out to be the most boring diplo game looking at rest of mutes in this. Maybe I'm lucky and Mjmd is my neighbor. At least he is talkative.

Another reason why I'm still very annoyed about the ending of PB67 is that I had a lot of fun with posting those music clips. I still don't know how to continue with that after I used up a good chunk of my collection of songs. Well if I'm not mistaken we will use the same snake pick/civ/leader combo as in PB67 and the same starting screenshot, so I may just not have to report about all the early stuff as much. For those that do not know what I'm talking about with music here is what I wrote in PB67:

The reporting in PB59 was very enjoyable for me so I will keep it that way. Meaning:

• I won't report every single turn
  
• Same crazy micro managment spreadsheet
  
• (Almost) no sims: I will actually run almost no sims this game, because my spreadsheet can replace them fully. I remember back in PB52 I stopped running sims about T50 or so, but I used my spreadsheet up to T110 or so. Expect more of that.
  
• C&D: This is very tedious for me and the benefit is smaller. Even if we play with score I won't bother with this analysis.
  
• Of course this being a diplo thread I will attempt to write down the important diplo stuff down as best as possible.
  

As penance for killing the previous attempt of this diplo-game, I volunteered to make the replacement map.

https://www.polygon.com/23604146/civiliz...nouncement

Not a whole lot of info, nothing on game mechanics, no release date. Ed Beach is creative director (for whatever that means as far as actual role.)

If you could mod d2 resurrected, mainly changes to runewords, skill scaling, synergies, enemy hp / damage / resistances, what would you do, or what would a RBD consensus look like? I know it is pretentious of me, having played through a few times, and right now abusing spirit and insight on my hydra sorc girl (and on my lightning trapper too), but I'm curious none the less.

From what I gathered, there are a few playstyles, or "schools of playing" here. KingofPain's nudist and tweaked variants, T-Hawk's hardcore single pass Star Teams, Kylearan's async team with limited shopping, and of course Sirian's old-old single pass runs, and even Sullla's curious "anything goes" single pass softcore play.

To get back to the Spirit / Insight, I still remember this from Page 2 of T-Hawk's hardcore start team thread:

(December 3rd, 2019, 22:03)T-hawk Wrote: Insight for the merc and Spirit for the caster are just automatic choices with almost no chance they'll be superseded during the lifetime of a twinkless character or group.

I don't know if Bliz has any plans to incorporate these new info into an official site, in the mean time I am sick of searching for the info over and over again. I will start off with these V2.6 changes and add the others later.

Feel free to add you own info/edits here. Please Change the Title of your reply for easier search



D2R 2.6 New Runewords and Cube Recipes




    Developer’s Note:

        Bulwark, Temper, and Ground: We liked where they were at and opted for no change.

        Cure: Given Cure’s more niche use cases, we opted to strengthen it with the Cleansing Aura. Note that the base Poison Duration reduction on the item went down, but the addition of Cleansing Aura results in a net-buff to Poison Duration reduction.
       
Hearth: To build on the theme of this Rune Word, we gave it a bit more oomph to solidify it as a go-to gear option when struggling with enemies who deal Cold Damage.
       
Hustle: Most of the feedback we received was around the armor form. The bulk of our focus was to improve that form, but we also saw improvements we could make to the weapon form. For the Armor, we wanted to add more offensive utility and some defensive stats in the form of All Resistances. For the weapon, we wanted to make using it as a primary weapon a more attractive option to increase its viability beyond its pre-buff utility.
       
Metamorphosis: We moved in the direction of a slight buff to Metamorphosis. We want this Rune Word to really compete for best-in-slot for Shapeshifter Druids.
    

   Mosaic: We went all-in on increasing the strength of the Mosaic Rune Word. We wanted to add extra flexibility by increasing the chance to not consume charges from 25% percent to 50% so you can either wield one to get that 50% chance or dual wield for that 100% chance of not consuming charges. We also added an extra effect to how not consuming charges interacts with charge maintenance.