posted 05-04-99 12:23 PM ET        

Large
Dense (Cloud Cover )
-----(the following are still adjustable)
Thinker
Blind Research OFF
Intense Rivalry ON (Aggressive AI)

anything else average or default.

Applicants are asked to make clear their:

factions preference order
TimeZone AND
OnLine / PBEM time window
preference for number of human players

Many challenges based on the same scenario may well be started at the same time (or subsequent as well!).
Of course one player can not take part in more than one Newhon challenge: even if he takes a different faction, he would be aware of some opponents position from his other game!

I think the scenario is suitable for play with any number of human players: the participants will indicate what fits best for them.

I have to try if the "Eliminate Faction" item in scenario editor menu will allow you to START a PBEM with less than 7 overall faction playing, it could be an idea.

MariOne
aka
CMN Ace

posted 05-04-99 12:44 PM ET            

I can not hope to be competing in so many PBEM games that my mind explodes do to the sheer number of times I call my ISP...

happy to play

posted 05-04-99 12:54 PM ET            

Sorry I jumped the gun and posted in the other thread. I'll post here in order to be complete.

Faction preferences: Open, I will play any. So, feel free to suggest one if it helps to optimize turn around time due to time zone optimization.

Time Zone: I live in California, USoA. So, PST.

Online/pbem window: 8:00am-midnight PST. I could go a little later if I KNEW a turn was forthcoming.

Preferred # of human players: 4, particularly if AI is set to aggressive.

Other options: I am generally flexible on the rules and preferences used. My main preference though seems to fly in the face of common practice. That is, I prefer the "Wild and Wooly" approach to in-game communications. I will gladly play with no-contact, no talk, but would much rather prefer to to have diplomacy/trade/threats/etc be available options from the beginning of the game. I think that it adds so much to the game. This really should be a consideration (again, especially if AI is set to aggressive.) Another thing that it will help is in preventing the game degenerating into a Impact Rover rush game, if the builders can use diplomacy and alliances to slowdown the warlike players.

posted 05-04-99 01:24 PM ET            

Or is it just a twist on your "nowhere" plot ???

posted 05-05-99 01:07 PM ET            

So far we have Goob's and JAM's subscriptions.
JGMagnus applied for too in Erewhon thread.
I received an e-mail from a Hendrik S. Tubingen guy showing interest (are you still around here, Hendy?).
I didn't get if cousLee really wanted to participate in this one too, or if he was just available to fill in a vacant spot.

So if we get a confirmation from magnus and/or the cousin, we could start a new one

swift swiss: Fritz Leiber? which novel? maybe some buried old memory from me? actually it was a twist on the Erewhon "plot"

btw, no news from Erewhon, did Chairman Flomeise receive his turn?

CMN Ace

posted 05-05-99 01:30 PM ET            

MoSe,

What if they created a CMN game and nobody showed up? I don't *have* to play WaW, just prefer to. So, don't let any perceived pickiness on my part stop you from getting another version of this creation going. One thing though, if Goob's in a game with me he has to be any faction other than the one immediately following mine. He's doing that already in two other games and, frankly, I'm getting paranoid from him always following me. Of course I wouldn't want to restrict Goob's choice of factions. So let him pick first. Maybe I'll follow him around for a change. That is, of course if he isn't already up to his eyebrows in SMAC pbems by now.

posted 05-05-99 02:00 PM ET            

My personal preferences are for an average to dry planet with weak erosion (mountains) and strong/active native life. I want the players trying to kick planets ass but being weak enough that it can kick back pretty hard.

I will play any game and just about any faction

posted 05-05-99 03:22 PM ET            

No it doesn't, because then I'll be following you...won't I?

posted 05-05-99 04:01 PM ET            

About Newhon and Leiber, I can't remember the novel's title (I read them over 10-15 years ago...)

Maybe Lankhmar ? Anyway... It does not matter.

posted 05-05-99 04:15 PM ET            

You guys kept waiting to hear me say...prostitute, didn't ya? Ya know you did. But I wouldn't do that because I'm a good boy, just like that Bible-toting, two-gun son of a gun, Couslee.

Well, if you guys don't mind the same players in a different world (and maybe different factions), I'm game. WaW or not.

posted 05-05-99 08:06 PM ET            

What do you say? zeebo wants to play. He's an aussie and a forum newbie but I don't think that we should hold it against him as he seems properly desperate and is currently showing a pulse.

posted 05-05-99 08:59 PM ET            

General "two guns" cousLee

posted 05-05-99 11:09 PM ET            

We just need to know if:

A) You're still up for another.
B) You want an international line-up of heinies to kick.

Please respond to this thread or I'll hunt you down with my AOL arsenal.

cousLee,

Pick your faction. Post here.

zeebo,

Pick your faction. Post here.

I'll pick from the leftovers. My favorite part of the meal.

posted 05-06-99 12:48 AM ET            

You should take the UoP. First come, first served, first choice. That'll leave zeebo his two options available (which will afford you no excuses, zeebo), Goob to pick from 5 remaining, and me, from the last 4. As soon as we know who's on first, we'll lay a sacrificial lamb at the great God MoSe's altar to secure his blessings and be rolling.

Sound like a plan? If any objections, please feel free to speak up, and post them here.

posted 05-06-99 02:49 AM ET            

JAMuR, do not pick Morgan

posted 05-06-99 04:38 AM ET            

Too bad you left out Hendy, who was actually positive in his e-mail: he wanted to play.

Let's do it this way:
Since our PBEM games are organized in the Forums, sooner or later a SMACer will have to post something here or in Apolyton. Furthermore, to know about it in the first place, he had to be lurking at least, so he could as well be posting.

So, while I definitely consider Hendy available for one of these Newhon challenges, I won't actually enlist him in a starting roster until he shows up in _THIS_ thread.
Same for JGMagnus and for every future interested challengers.

Now, let's see how did you dispose the cutlery on the table (hey, we'd need a fifth philosopher! ):

1. (or 4.) Zeebo, Gaia or PK (in THIS order of pick?)
prob. 2. cousLee, UoP
prob. 3. Goob, Sparta
whatever. JAMiAM, whatelse (I had to use your 1st person ID in the list, JAMuR)

I'd need Zeebo to clarify his online/PBEM window, and Sidney is GMT+10, right? (of course, I checked it in the Control Panel )

As soon as I get JAM's pickles, we can start.

Although only two of you expressed in favour of Wild and Woolly commlikns, I'll split the tie and grant free and unlimited interfaction interactions.
btw, wouldn't W&W or W'n'W be better than WaW?

CMN Ace

posted 05-06-99 04:46 AM ET            

The Lamb lies down on Broadway

posted 05-06-99 11:26 AM ET            

You are truly omniscient! Yes, that's one of my favorite albums. The last "real" Genesis album and one of the five I'd take to the proverbial desert island. You're off by a year though, 1974. Even gods make mistakes, sometimes.

I'll pick the Hive. That'll put some seperation between me and Goob. Also, it should allow for some time zone optimization as I could play my turn at work early in the day, cousLee before Goob gets home, then Goob by the time zeebo wakes up. We should be able to knock of a turn a day if nobody slips up.

If Goob bows out and someone else steps in, that's fine, but I was trying to give him a chance to beat me. Since he's only in two games with me right now that doesn't make his odds very favorable. I figured if I gave him a chance in three games his odds would be a little better. Like 15% instead of only 10%.

posted 05-06-99 11:51 AM ET            

Now, I stated the Forum PBEM rule:
you have to post in the call to challenge thread to be in.

thus:

1. Lord Zeebo, Gaia
2. Chairman "Rael" JAM, Hive
3. Provost cousLee, UoP
4. Coronel Goob, Sparta

I think I can kick it off right away.
Remember, I used the scenario, but only slightly edited a suitable random map, and only slightly biased the normal development of the game, played from inside the scenario.

I just come from DLing Slartibartfast maps and scenarios, I'll take inspiration from there for my future demiurgical efforts.

I had some of your test meals (er... yum! damn diet) come through, but none yet with attachments. I'm at my company's MailMaster's mercy.

CMN Ace

posted 05-06-99 12:12 PM ET            

It'll be 110 degrees in Phoenix long before you even have a chance of beating me. I will have drunk at least 2 Mocha's before you even get in the vicinity of being able to beat me.

I will have successfully clipped my toenails before you come up with a strategy that will make my troops tremble in anything other than barely controlled laughter.

posted 05-06-99 01:04 PM ET            

So, does all of that bantering mean that you're not gonna chicken out? Bring it on you rover wrecking son of a sea biscuit. Let's see what ya got. Do it. Just say "go". Let us all know you're up for the challenge.

posted 05-06-99 01:33 PM ET            

And then there is the one and only JAMiAM, a whiskey drinking, No Cal living, AOL using, Hive playing smart arse if there ever was one. I guess I will tremble in my boots for a while, ..... oops I'm done, and that is about how long your forces will last against The Spartan war machine.

Goob

posted 05-06-99 04:21 PM ET            

Sheeeeeesh! I thought I was long winded. A simple "yes" would have sufficed. We'll see how much hot air that borehole blows when I've overrun those pathetic palisades and poopshacks you have the gall to call bases. I only hope we leave enough splinters and mangled bodies to compost the turnip gardens we'll plant across your former lands.

posted 05-06-99 05:05 PM ET            

Yes and they will be probeing the **** out of the University Datalinks.

JAM, once you get your Hive encased head out of the ground, oh I forgot you live there, you will see that the Spartan children will be rounding up your elite troops and leading them to your "feeding tanks".

posted 05-06-99 05:18 PM ET            

Your snotty nosed, orphaned brats will bring our stormtroopers flowers and beg to be adopted into a safe and nurturing society. We will educate them as to their true place in society and purge from them this rabid individualism that you have so selfishly implanted into their feeble minds. If they are unwilling... Well, what do I care for their pain and suffering?