civ 6 "little league" game?

[yuris125]

So...

BBG
Random pangaea generated with BBM
Random civs (Maori excluded if it causes map generation weirdness)
2 city states per player, so 10 city states with 5 players
Prince difficlty (or do you guys want higher?)
Standard speed
Standard barbs
No tribal villages
Natural disasters 0? Or should we have some?
Anything else important to discuss?

[Japper007]

Looks good to me. I like random settings, and if it turns out lopsided we can just concede and renew.

Just one thing though, I saw you guys made a rule against pillaging city state tiles (I presume after I stopped playing here), saw it trip up a player in the last game, how exactly does that work? For new (and returning) players, could we get a recap of the "house rules" as they've developed here?

Bit of housekeeping: I have a vacation planned late July so by then I'd need either a sub or we hiatus a few days.

[greenline]

The rule was specifically against 'pillage farming' moving units in to pillage the tiles for yields, retreating, letting the CS repair them, and repeating the process indefinitely. One time pillages as part of conquest are allowed.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Well greenline has already talked about pillage farming. I’ve kicked off tactical DoW off the banned list because that was for Australia which has been nerfed. This leaves:

-Resource hiding ban. Upgrading is much more efficient than building units. You can make this artificially happen by hiding resources by using production queues. Very annoying to do, too. I was also concerned about faith purchases.

-Tactical blockades using DoFs. DoFs are unbreakable so you can block units if you have one and someone got mad. I supported them as it is obvious but no-one else did.

-Someone got mad for scouts providing support (+5 strength IIRC) because they are not military units. No one else did…

-After proposal DoF is offered forever. This is a problem so a rule was added that you have to accept or reject the DoF at once.

-Maori doesn’t have a spawn location for it. So people near that civ would have less space for cities. This might be okay for civ4/5 where there is a city-cap but civ6 doesn’t have one. People getting more cities than others is very bad, obviously.

-City gifting got banned because of losing teams dumping their cities to spite others. This more liberal rule (lurker approval) feels better. This was suggested by the German BBGM Quick speed game player.

-DoF DoW rule. You can declare as soon as the turn rolls over. This gives Player1 an edge for no reason and this rule corrects that.

-Desyncs caused by mods. Crashing the game is bad. . People forget to unload mods all the time so I don’t see a good solution to this. Pretty sure that reverting and reloading would fix. Woden didn’t try this when it didn’t load properly for him as he was losing anyway.

[Japper007]

-Desyncs caused by mods. Crashing the game is bad. . People forget to unload mods all the time so I don’t see a good solution to this. Pretty sure that reverting and reloading would fix. Woden didn’t try this when it didn’t load properly for him as he was losing anyway.

Ah yes, I played a lot of PYDT and that is quite annoying, but so far it has indeed been fixed by just reverting the save to the person who forgot to uncheck their mods. Also annoying that civ 6 mods get unchecked and checked seemingly at random (I like fishing for Steam achievements and then I play an entire game with some minor UI tweak and don't get it)

[TheArchduke]

Sounds good.

[yuris125]

So I guess we're waiting for Pindicator to confirm, and then sort out playing order and roll the civs?

I expect to be swamped with work this week, but ready to start after that

[TheArchduke]

We can start with 4 and go from there. Just so we get going.

[pindicator]

I can play but I'm away the last week of July for a backpacking trip.

[yuris125]

Well we might as well get started and play the first 20-30 turns before taking a break

So, play windows? Mine is reliably 9pm-2am UK time (GMT+1 during summer time), although I can usually get the turn from noon onwards