Hello. We are looking for 1 more for new diplo game if anyone is interested.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...edit#gid=0

SD note:

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I plan to add a game option called "Quests for Everybody". This essentially triggers the quests for each player, when the fulfill all the quests requirements. For example the War Chariot quest will trigger the turn you have The Wheel and a state religion. I've looked at all the quests and this should work with each quest except for one: The Greed Quest. This triggers when you have Bronze Working and you lack either Oil, Copper or Iron. Of course everybody won't have those resources when they just researched BW, which feels a bit pointless triggering it then. But after that there won't be any fix point in time when to trigger this. I see the following options:

a) Remove the quest
b) Replace the trigger with something else
c) Leave it triggered at random

At the same time the other question is what to do about the excluded quests:

13. Blessed sea
121. Harbomaster
125. Sports league
149. Guns Butter
151. Overwhelm
152. Corporate expansion
153. Hostile takeover

All the changes to events were done back in RtR by Krill and I just took them like that for CtH. Now with this new game option I would like to look at these specific quests again and hopefully balance them. Krill removed them because they were too good. So let's look at each of them:

Quote:Blessed Sea

PreReq: GALLEY or CARAVEL or GALLEON AND State Religion BUDDHISM or CONFUCIANISM or TAOISM AND Minimum number of Landmasses is 2*default number of players for this map size (12 for standard) AND Maximum number of Landmasses you have cities on is 0.5*default number of players for this map size (3 for standard)

Goal: Have cities on 1.5*default number of players for this map size (10 for standard) landmasses while never switching State Religion

Result:
1. Convert 20 own cities to your state religion
2. Gain a temple in every city size 5 or more
3. Get a great prophet unit

Quote:Harbormaster

Prereq: COMPASS AND Map has at least 40% water tiles

Goal: Build default number of players for this world size harbors (7 for standard) AND half that number +1 caravels (4 for standard)

Result:
1. All Naval Units gain the Combat 1 promotion
2. All harbors gain +1 gold
3. All Naval Units gain the Navigation 1 promotion

Quote:Sports league

Prereq: CONSTRUCTION

Goal: Build default number of players for this world size Colosseums (7 for standard)

Result:
1. +1 happy face for every Colosseum
2.+4 culture for every collosseum
3. IF you control the Statue of Zeus wonder trigger a golden age

Quote:Guns Butter

Prereq: GUNPOWDER

Goal: Build default number of players for this world size +1 Musketmen (8 for standard)

Result:
1. All Musketman units gain the Pinch promotion
2. IF Vassalage civic gain 400 gold
3. IF you control the Taj Mahal wonder trigger a golden age

Quote:Overwhelm

Prereq: FLIGHT and INDUSTRIALISM AND Map has at least 55% water tiles

Goal: Build 4 destroyers, 2 battleships, 3 carriers and 9 fighters

Result:
1. All DESTROYER, BATTLESHIP, CARRIER, FIGHTER and JET_FIGHTER units gain the Combat 1 promotion
2. All harbors gain +5 commerce
3. IF the Manhattan Project has been build pass the Nuke Ban resolution

Quote:Corporate expansion

Prereq: own a corporate HQ

Goal: spread the corporation to default number of players for this world size +1 cities (that did not have it when the quest was triggered) (8 for standard)

Result: 1.+10 gold for the corporate HQ

Quote:Hostile takeover

Prereq: own a corporate HQ and do not control at least 1 instance of all resources the corporation uses

Goal: own all resource types the corporation uses

Result: 1.+20 gold for the corporate HQ

With PB64, the Hyper-Random-Game, finished, there was talk of starting a new one.

Random map, only balancing most important resources
Events and huts on
Random combos


Roster:
Commodore
Superdeath
Magic Science
naufragar
Gavagai
Pindicator
Ginger
Bing

According to Steam the new Master of Magic is due from MuHa/Slitherine in an hour:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/16230..._of_Magic/

Anyone buying it? Anyone tried the beta version? I'm surprised there's not a thread on it here about it already.

Had this idea while chatting in the diplo discord. Who would be interested in playing on a Team Battleground 4corners map, with a barb city on a hill in the center. Goal/to win is to control that city for X turns (to be decided by the players) I plan on making the map if people are interested. 3players minimum, can have any over that with players over 4 having their neighbor be their first obstacles in the race to the barb city who id give probably a longbow or two with a city garrison promotion/ect.


Thoughts? Any interest at all?

Diablo 4 will launch on June 6, 2023

Pre-order:
Ultimate Edition - CAD 129.99
Digital Deluxe Edition - CAD 119.99
Standard Edition - CAD 89.99

Seems pretty stiff for special editions?

Packages

Seasonal Battle Pass Unlock in Diablo® IV (including a Premium Seasonal Battle Pass Unlock plus 20 Tier Skips and cosmetic)

I have no idea what this mean. Can someone explain about Seasonal Battle Pass, and Tier Skips, please.
Does the Ultimate Edition come with a special box or packaging. (since they call the other edition Digital Deluxe)

CLANS!?

I personally have not been keeping up with the development with DI and D4. What are your likes and dislikes?


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Hello. I am searching for a long-term replacement for my civ in PB64. I will have to go away multiple times in the second half of December, and I thought I would either have a dedlurker to play the turns then, or that the game would be over. You would be in a competitive position, and can see my thread (linked in my signature) for more information. I was initially just going to request a short-term sub, but I am also interested in stepping away from the game entirely. Recent drama in a different game has stirred up a lot of negative feelings for me regarding this one, and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time ruminating on it the last few days, writing and deleting half-finished posts. It's not good for me. 

If no one is interested, I will finish the game, but there will be at least two multi-day pauses from 15-31 December, and I cannot dedicate as much time/energy as the turns probably require (and have not, really, for a while).

I hadn't played Klackons in years, and have long considered them pretty terrible. I will usually keep a single Klackon town if I conquer them to make Stag Battles and that's about it. But recently I've been playing a lot of setups with Life and Nature and figured I would give Klackons a try. They've been pretty darn powerful. Stag Beetles are probably the fastest "Super Unit" you can produce, so if you just shoot for those ASAP its very effective.

The "traditional" way to play Klackons is to try and build a bunch of Klackon Settlements with them, but that's garbage. I just played them like any typical race and pretty much ignored the Unrest penalty. Well at first you can crank the taxes, but once you conquer a town you have to set them back down. But having Just Cause helps a lot.

So basically I just plan on having my capital be the only Klackon town, unless it happens to be that there simply isn't much to conquer. Make Stag Beetles as soon as you can and then start sending them out to conquer. Keep making them and put a Stag Beetle in every town you have. 

As far as setup, I tried two similar ways. Both are good:
1:
Warlord, Alchemy
4 Life books
4 Nature books

Just Cause 
Heroism
Endurance

Earth Lore
Water Walking
Resist Elements

2:
Warlord, Alchemy
5 Life books
3 Nature books

Just Cause 
Heroism
Endurance
Bless

Earth Lore
Water Walking

I think the second option is a little better, but its situational. Certainly if you end up going against Death wizards the second option is better, but you never know when you start. Generally, the Beetles can withstand Sprites and Shamen, so I think the second option is generally more valuable.


The other good thing with this is that you have a chance to get Move Fortress later, though it often won't matter much by that time. 

But basically its all about Stag Beetles and roads. Pump tons of Stag Beetles, make engineers fairly early and start connecting everything with roads, flood everything with Stag Beetles. Ultra Elite Stag Beetles with Alchemy can take just about anything. Bless will keep them safe from Black Sleep and allows them to take on Wraiths handily. With Water Walking, Endurance and Pathfinding they guys will be zooming all over the map taking everything, and they are even fairly disposable. Just keep producing them, if they die its fine, there will be more to replace them. 

Yes, there are some unrest issues, but its not the end of the world, you just have to deal with a little unrest. The good thing is that it is at least consistent. Its 20% across the board, so you can deal with it and get your taxes set right for all races.

I mentioned this in the discussion thread, but I figured it's better to do in a separate thread. I want to rewrite and restructure the changelog, so that it is better readable, more concise and overall shorter too. I will post rewrites from time to time here. They will not include actual changes except for the two that I already will remove (fort change and forest preserve change.

Hello, been doing automatic combat mode for a while. The label for the modifier says "you lose your chance to use combat spells or take advantage of several unit special abilities"

In the interest of making good in-game decisions while in auto-combat mode, which unit special abilities are not used in auto combat?