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It was a good run! Fun, too.

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I WON!!!

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Total Members Voted: 7

[USEC_OFFICER]

Would we want more thrones than players, or one per player? I'm rather fond of the idea of having each player have a throne for themselves.

Slightly more thrones per player is probably the best idea. One-throne per player makes sense until you realize that the throne/player distribution and diplomacy could throw that straight out of the window. So slightly more thrones per player is probably best, or at least I think so.

[lijacote]

I've been manually placing the throne and player starting positions, so there shouldn't be a gigantic problem there. Of course, I'll have to be frank and confess that it's probably not perfect :p

[USEC_OFFICER]

I've been manually placing the throne and player starting positions, so there shouldn't be a gigantic problem there. Of course, I'll have to be frank and confess that it's probably not perfect :p

Oh, alright. Awesome. I rather like this map too. Should be interesting to play in.

[Shadowlord]

I'd like to join. I haven't played any MP, and have chiefly played the middle era in SP (though I'm sure I could find someone to play in the early era).

What are these mods of which you speak?

[Mindmaker]

@Mindmaker:
PBEM = Play By EMail. You receive and send turns via your email.

I know what it means, I just inquired if we would be using it.
Didn't read the OP carefully enough.

As for settings:
I'd go for standard rules, but I'd like to know what age we'll be playing in advance, so I can read up on nations and the like.

[lijacote]

I'd like to join. I haven't played any MP, and have chiefly played the middle era in SP (though I'm sure I could find someone to play in the early era).

The perfect sixth, then, and advocate for the middle era!

What are these mods of which you speak?

There's a rather lively community of people creating new nations, pretenders, maps (though these aren't mods per se) and all sorts of cool adjustments for the game. For example, there's a collection of Warhammer "races" for the game, if that's your thing. Dwarfs! You can find these on either Dom4mods or Desura. I'm sure there are other places, too.

I'm adding a poll for the era.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Renaming allowed, since names are an important part of the fun and immersion

Nothing spells immersion like having your army obliterated by a pair of mages called "Chocolate Fudge" and "Cherry Coke"

[Shadowlord]

If we end up going with the middle era, I'd like to play Ulm.

I'm trying Early era Arcoscephale, but my income and resources seem to be crap in every province but my home province, whether I build forts/castles or not, so they don't seem very good. (Unless it's the map or era or something)

[E. Albright]

ETA on the 4.05 patch is supposedly "in a week or so". Alas it won't have the Caelum stuff in yet, for all you birdophiles.
Source, by dev himself

Damn it... Thankfully I'm not going to play Caelum in this game, _{Love me my Ur} but I was looking forward to the Caelum update. I am a major birdophile, after all.

Yes, well, per the other dev, it'll probably still be here fairly soon, just slightly less soon:

I think I will finish the Caelum stuff during the easter break.
It might turn into a flier mod with caelum fixes + one or two new flier nations.
I have the concepts clear, so it is mainly the spritemaking and the descriptions that need s to be done on the new nations.

[lijacote]

More flying nations! Perhaps your birdophilia will be sated in some novel form.

[USEC_OFFICER]

More flying nations! Perhaps your birdophilia will be sated in some novel form.

I'm hoping so too. And if not... EA and MA Caelum still exists. Not LA Caelum though, they're kinda terrible.

[Shadowlord]

I thought MA Caelum was terrible too? I rolled them up like a carpet in SP while playing Ulm.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I thought MA Caelum was terrible too? I rolled them up like a carpet in SP while playing Ulm.

That's cause you're playing SP. The AI is pretty terrible, and has trouble playing with nations that aren't straightforward. And the Caelums aren't straightforward. _{They're also kinda bad, but that's another story.} Still, out of all the Caelums, MA is the strongest. They get recruit-everywhere A3W2 + 100% AWSD mages, which is pretty damn awesome honestly, even if they are slow to recruit. Also guaranteed A2 mages, which is something LA Caelum lacks and is part of the reason that they're the weakest of the Caelums.

[Delta Foxtrot]

If we end up going with the middle era, I'd like to play Ulm.

I'm trying Early era Arcoscephale, but my income and resources seem to be crap in every province but my home province, whether I build forts/castles or not, so they don't seem very good. (Unless it's the map or era or something)

MA Ulm mages generate extra resources for the province they're in. I'm not sure if they have any other resource boosts that no other nation has access to.
Production/sloth scale affects how many resources you get from provinces under your dominion.
Terrain affects your resources. Mountains get a lot, wastelands, farms and possibly swamps get a lot less.
Forts draw resources from their surrounding provinces, if you have a fort and build another one right next to it loses some of the resources it had previously.

[Mindmaker]

Dibs on EA Yomi and MA Marignon.