[MULT] Pitboss Worldbuilding Challenge REBOOT: Discussion Thread

[dot80]

All is well with the pitboss server. I have successfully set it up for a test game with myself and some AI. We are ready to start whenever we finish things here on the organizational end. So far:

Game Settings:

Spoiler :

Map: Terra
Speed: Standard
Difficulty: King
AI: 0
City States: 1.5 per player (?)
Special Settings: Turn Timer (24hrs)

Rules:

Spoiler :

1. Inactivity: if you are losing interest just say so and let everyone know so we can get a sub!
2. War: No wars of annihilation! Valid Casus Bellis! 1-2 City Conquest Max!
3. Running Cannon: No contradicting what has been previously written by others. First come, first served geographic naming.
4. No God-Modding: No controlling other people's characters, no using knowledge gained on other civs through stories for tactical in-game advantage.
5. Majority Rules: in the event of a dispute, all other objective players vote on the acceptable solution.

All that is left to settle city state numbers in relation to players. We should also come up with a cool name for the story thread . Also what did you think about having a sort of contest each month where each person votes anonymously for the best story writer that month? (everyone gets 2 votes, can't vote for self). We could even give readers votes too.

 

[MrCasperTom]

What's the map size? I presume standard? Therefore, with 5-6 players I would have about 1.5 city states personally. As for difficulty Prince or King sounds fine. Former gives Barb bonus (don't know about the latter). King makes the city states a tiny bit less pushovery.

On a side note is pitboss able to include mods? I wouldn't suggest big ones but one or two minor ones would improve things I would think (More luxuries and fortress borders I would suggest.)

 

[dot80]

I checked to see if it did, and from what I can tell it cannot. I could have just missed the part where you load the mods however.

 

[cpm4001]

If we want to use mods we'll need to use Giant Multiplayer Robot. I wouldn't be adverse to using it, though (as we already were for the "original" one of these) and More Luxuries would be pretty great to have.

 

[Silverman6083]

Settings look good although I think we should play w/o mods just to keep the game fair & playable. Because honestly I have played with both & more luxuries have terrible spread & placement in my opinion. And I'm afraid that w/ fortress borders land will be gone ridiculously quickly & all the land will be stolen from other city-states. But again if everyone wants to I'm good with that

 

[MrCasperTom]

I thought fortress with borders didn't claim other's land? I mostly like it because I can build in choke points for my land without having to build a crap city.

However I was more curious at the possibility of mods. Perfectly fine to play without

 

[Silverman6083]

I mean I do play with a lot of mods, but I feel like it would just add instability that we REALLY don't need, I mean multiplayer hardly works as it is & mods wouldn't help.

 

[sh3baproject]

can i rejoin again? and im thinking we should have at least 8.

im also gonna commit much harder this time

edit: i really dont care for the settings but can terra be randomized? like the contitents look similiar to ours but arent the same.

 

[MrCasperTom]

I mean I do play with a lot of mods, but I feel like it would just add instability that we REALLY don't need, I mean multiplayer hardly works as it is & mods wouldn't help.

Very valid point

 

[dot80]

Yeah I'm against mods personally. Maybe we will see with this play through what could be improved.

You can definitely join sh3baproject! I don't think we should try and recruit a certain amount of players. Anyone who wants to play after we start can become a sub (which I predict we will inevitably need).

 

[Heerlo]

I think I would probably rather play without mods, too, but I'm flexible. I'm fine with whatever you guys want to do.

 

[sh3baproject]

im a mod addict, but i dont really want to play with mods in a worldbuilding game. so no.

 

[dot80]

Final call for the monthly story contest. Do we want it or no?

I'm thinking we could start this next Monday if that sounds good to everybody?

 

[MrCasperTom]

I think the monthly story thing is jumping the gun. Let's get it up and running and, if it takes off, we can do things like that to make it 'more interactive' to the readers or whatever.

Monday sounds good.

Thread wise - Keep this one for general discussion and then we can individually make threads as and when? I said individually purely to make it easier to read and people can dip in and out as they please.

 

[dot80]

I was thinking one single story thread myself. Especially early on when we have little to write about. Later it will bring a cohesiveness to the world with all the different stories. I would reserve a "Table of Contents" post at the start and break it up by Civilization, and we could agree upon a standard heading for our posts to keep things organized.

Having a single story thread would facilitate participation by us (seeing others post will motivate us to post), as well as by potential readers. And like I said earlier, it will give everything the cohesiveness of one giant story.

 

[cpm4001]

I was thinking one single story thread myself. Especially early on when we have little to write about. Later it will bring a cohesiveness to the world with all the different stories. I would reserve a "Table of Contents" post at the start and break it up by Civilization, and we could agree upon a standard heading for our posts to keep things organized.

Having a single story thread would facilitate participation by us (seeing others post will motivate us to post), as well as by potential readers. And like I said earlier, it will give everything the cohesiveness of one giant story.

I agree, a single story thread would be a better idea than having one per Civ. Also, I'm fine with starting Monday; just as a heads-up, though, my schedule is a bit weird so although I will do my best to avoid it I may end up delaying some turns.

 

[dot80]

We can wait a few days if you need. We're using a 24hr turn timer so it should (if I'm not mistaken) switch over everyday regardless of if you've played. I wouldn't want anyone to miss the first turns.

Actually, speaking of the turn timer, I suppose to avoid problems with timing for each turn I'll have to make sure it starts at 12 midnight when we play.

 

[cpm4001]

No, Monday'll be fine; it's later in the week that might get a bit hairy. But if that won't actually delay anyone, good.

 

[dot80]

In that case, I'll be opening up the game lobby tonight around midnight so that tomorrow everybody can join the game, and I'll start it at midnight Eastern Standard Time (-5 GMT). So join up tomorrow everybody! We'll be starting the game with whoever has already joined.

On the threads, out of those who have responded to the issue the majority are in favor of a single story thread. We'll be using this thread for the OOC discussion. I think in the story thread we should all try and have a header on each post with our username in parentheses after, and we should each claim a color for our posts (I'd like a dark blue). So it would look a little like this:

 

[dot80]

How does this look to everybody?