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Yes, all of them!

15 (57.7%)

Yes, but only minor ones.

3 (11.5%)

Nope. Nooope.

2 (7.7%)

Will admin-sempai ever notice me?

6 (23.1%)

Total Members Voted: 23

[E. Albright]

Quality Assurance. ;p

[ThtblovesDF]

Oh we set for EA?

[Bluerobin]

Well, I've never won a game of Dominions and I haven't been active on Bay12 for over a year and a half now, but why let that stop me. I'd like to join!

[etgfrog]

Quite a few people have done some research, but the meta is still a bit young, so we will see.

[ThtblovesDF]

Honestly guys, just let the worst player play EA PAN, shit is broke, yo.

[etgfrog]

Honestly guys, just let the worst player play EA PAN, shit is broke, yo.

pan, ulm, elves, fomoria...alot of nations have very good capabilities with new bless effects. Although not all would want to grab one of those crazy bless strats.

Actually, interesting idea, cataclysm set to turn 30, everyone needs to prepare for the inevitable onslaught of doom horrors.

[Karlito]

Actually, interesting idea, cataclysm set to turn 30, everyone needs to prepare for the inevitable onslaught of doom horrors.

Sounds like a great idea for the fifth or sixth game of Dom5.

[E. Albright]

(Wasn't the new nations an even 1/1/1 split between eras?)

Come to think of it, given that the most intense national overhaul was what they did to Yomi, I'm going to be retroactively inaccurately pedantic and say it was 1.5/1/1, so EA wins as most newerest even without Il Palazzo's executive decision.

[Il Palazzo]

We are no longer accepting new players.

A random map was generated, and judged on its merits by an impartial, smart, and really rather quite handsome jury of one. To be found here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Lr7dzOPbGnqsh5NUuJjJwzhFH9FhihTZ

It's a 192+33 (7 caves) full wraparound with two lakes separated by a narrow landbridge. ~15 provinces per player. Good for 2 underwater nations.


There's a problem with llamaserver, where uploaded maps get corrupted, so I'll wait with opening the game until llama does the uploading manually. I'm not sure how often he checks his emails, but it shouldn't be too long now.

The game settings will be:
EA
20 hall of fame slots
9 global slots
renaming on
the rest on default (unless you want story events on, because why the funk not - I'll put a poll up)

Victory is by having more than half lvl3 points from the following setup:
10 lvl 3 thrones
5 lvl 1 thrones
i.e., you need half the lvl 3s and then one more of any kind to win.

[USEC_OFFICER]

'The rest on default' includes allowing renaming, right? How am I supposed to follow a stupid naming scheme without it?

Also I feel like that distribution of thrones is really weird, having twice as many level 3s as level 1s, without including any level 2s. Was there a specific reason why you did this?

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, 'cause I want the game to end before the next US elections.
A small number of thrones that you need to capture makes the it all very dynamic, as players make banzai charges mid-game.
The lvl3s are there so that nobody goes and wins too soon, and to make it even more nuts.
The additional lvl1s just make the winning come about easier. They won't win you the game by themselves, but they can break the 50% in your favour.

And no dissing my arbitrary decisions. You knew what you were getting into.

Renaming on is the default on llama, so yes. Prepare your naming scheme.

Oh, and hosting period will be 30h. With 14 players it will be enforced pretty strictly. I.e., rollbacks only in extreme cases, postponings only if the player prostrates him/herself or whines really creatively. 3 consecutive stalls, and the player gets lobotomAIzed.

[ThtblovesDF]

Good timing, I just found a new kind of broken Expansion, allowing for like 3 province/turn starting turn 3 until indi-provinces run out...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

nvm its shit.

Expect many ethernal and other annoying scared, magic weapons might very much be worth it.

[USEC_OFFICER]

And no dissing my arbitrary decisions. You knew what you were getting into.

I'm not dissing it. I just haven't seen many/any games where the thrones are so... top heavy. That's all.

Renaming on is the default on llama, so yes. Prepare your naming scheme.

Phew. It's just not a proper game of Dominions unless I have stupid names for my commanders and mages, you know?

[E. Albright]

3 consecutive stalls, and the player gets lobotomAIzed.

Do they get lobotomaized to Easy or Impossible?

[Il Palazzo]

The game is up:

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Bay12Round501

Remember to announce your choice once the server accepts your pretender.

3 consecutive stalls, and the player gets lobotomAIzed.

Do they get lobotomaized to Easy or Impossible?

I was thinking something a bit harder than middle ground, i.e. 'Mighty'.

At the time of this post, all story events seem to be winning, so that's what I've selected. The rest of you can still vote, as the settings can be altered before the game starts.


Also, anyone knows the difference between the options: 'score graphs off' and 'no info on other nations'? I'm not sure I get it. Does the latter mean you get to see your own graphs, or does it mean it prevents scrying the graphs via sites/spells?