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[BFEL]

*Walks into thread. Is immediately press-ganged*

[E. Albright]

So in the interest of creating a glorious world where hoburgs alone have the wherewithal to grasp the reins of destiny, I'm going to propose the following additional changes to the hoburg.txt file.

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#secondaryracetroopmod -0.4
#secondaryracesacredmod -0.9
#secondaryracemagemod -0.9
This will limit secondary race troops to a (rough) maximum of 10% of a nation's roster, and typically means there will be 0 (usually) to 1 (occasionally) "big people" per nation (cavemen being a pointed exception because there's a theme that adds them directly).

This will further set the chance of a secondary race sacred to 0.005 - half of a percent. It could happen, but it's pretty unlikely.

This will lastly set the chance of a secondary race primary/secondary mage to 0.005 - half of a percent. It could happen, but it's pretty unlikely. Tall mages can still happen, but it'll almost certainly be in the "wild card" tertiary mage slot (you know, the weird Tier-2 ones whose paths don't match up with everyone else), and w/o modification is a measly 0.05 as-is.

[Mini]

This sounds hilarious, I'm in.

[bulborbish]

Do the changes. Maximize the short.

[EuchreJack]

Oh why do you tempt me so, evil E. Albright

Still...Since I don't like hoburgs, that means I don't have to care about how a game with them evolves, and can put the bare minimum effort (if that) into my turns.

(Resigns to inevitable)

Do the hoburgs have it in their heart to accept a hoburg racist into their fold, with the vain hope of rehabilitation?

[E. Albright]

Hmph. There's no place for the likes of you amongst the forthright folks of Hoburg.

(However, by contrast, Hobmark has absolutely no standards, so of course you're still welcome.)

That puts us at nine. Do we wanna keep recruitment open for another day or go with this?

[BFEL]

In case it wasn't obvious, I'm in.

[Jilladilla]

*Raises hand?*

Seriously, this sounds fun, if you have an extra slot count me in!

[Elfeater]

Ill join

[BFEL]

I like how the hoburg game is turning out to be the most popular of them all.

INB4 40 players

[EuchreJack]

Hmph. There's no place for the likes of you amongst the forthright folks of Hoburg.

(However, by contrast, Hobmark has absolutely no standards, so of course you're still welcome.)

That puts us at nine. Do we wanna keep recruitment open for another day or go with this?

In the event that the player count gets too high, I'd be willing to accept a downgrade to "First Replacement Player".

-Start Evil Rant-
...But that would prevent me from completely and utterly circumventing the flavor of Hobmark with an Overcharged Supercombatant and strong Magic scales, trashing my poor hoburg nation in all other ways.
"You want a land of milk and honey?  Too bad, guess you shouldn't have been born a Hoburg!"
And blood.  Lots and lots of blood.  And if my nation doesn't start with blood?  Then the poor Hoburg commanders will find me some.  Their patrols will kill enough folks so they can be reanimated as Far Superior Soulless Humans.

...you didn't fix it so they'd come back from the dead as Hoburgs, did you?  DID YOU?!
-End Evil Rant-

(I think you now have to accept me: Every fantasy world needs a villain!)

[AlStar]

I'd be up for this, if there's still room.

[E. Albright]

...closing recruitment at 12. I'll seed us up EA/MA/LA nationsets with our hashed seeds, and you lot can squabble over which looks best (though again, it'll get manually set to EA to reduce the creativity of tall folk). In the mean time, start thinking about maps - I dictated suggested the map for, I dunno, like the last three games I played here, so I'm standing down this round.

[BFEL]

GLORY OF THE GODS HOBURGS

[E. Albright]

The candidate seed list, in a very particular order, but I'm not tellin':

1859286,8375880,55983460,144416986,149946866,158460025,201158716,243800872,269693071,324897552,413937592,415634585

You can generate the nations yourself if you make the changes discussed above to hoburg.txt. Or you can download them here. Or you can look at the advanced descriptions or raws:

EA: desc / raw
MA: desc / raw
LA: desc / raw

I'll probably post the preview images later today, but feel free to start bickering over which nationset we should use right now.

(This is also a perfectly acceptable moment to argue that the settings were too inclusive, and we should make them more restrictive to exclude head-in-the-clouds interlopers.)