Role Play Challenge: "Will the Real Suryavarman Please Stand Up?"

[ANewGuy]

I think I found a new favorite RPC. But we'll have to wait to see how it turns out.

 

[TurboDave]

This RPC reminds a little of when I first played the Shivering Isles.

Let's hope Mad keeps his sanity.

 

[fisherpb]

I have a similar idea. How about we rack a game up full of several Montys, and call it "The Full Monty"?

 

[NintendoTogepi]

Awesome, glad to see (part of) my idea get turned into a RPC!

Best of luck! (shame you didn't get a corn, on a grassland floodplains like I did once )

 

[Bostock]

There was a great Civ III game of just this sort, only with Shaka instead of Sury. Danged if I can find it, though. Because of some quirk I can't remember, they kept culture-flipping each other like mad... ahh, Civ III. :-D

 

[Dresden]

This topic makes my day; you are an evil genius. 7 different Khmer Surys; diplomacy is gonna be awesome. I'll definitely be following this one, assuming I can understand what's going on.

Interesting mix of personalities too.

Spoiler :

Yeah, I looked under the hood; but my lips are sealed until its over.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Yay! A nice simple one to shadow .

It's basically "play like normal except that you're on a weird map and have to stay in OR". I can swing it . No slider micro for me!

 

[IPEX-731BA5DD06]

Sorry Mad, I don't want to spoil things...but to really state the Obvious...But

Spoiler :

wouldn't the colours of the Players give away the personalities

 

[oyzar]

Sorry Mad, I don't want to spoil things...but to really state the Obvious...But

Spoiler :

wouldn't the colours of the Players give away the personalities

Not really.. Only civ determine color...

 

[Quotey]

Only 6 Sury's? 17 other Sury's would have been much better, Mad

 

[dutchfire]

Is this 3.13 or 3.17?

 

[madscientist]

Is this 3.13 or 3.17?

3.17, and I am not using the unofficial path to it.

 

[Kev]

This has the feel of the movie TRON. You should get some light cycles ASAP.

 

[Hereditary Rule]

looking forward to this one. Still haven't tried fantasy myself.

Also, will they be differentiated in someway for purposes of diplomacy, culture borders, etc.?

 

[Gooblah]

Let's say they pick some "worst enemies". How the hell are you supposed to figure out which Khmer they mean when they say "We demand you stop trading with the Khmer!"...it boggles my mind.

IMO the better map for this would be Team Battleground. Each Khmer in its own little area..

 

[RLesink]

Hm, in America, a donut is often shaped like this:

Although that would be a very interesting map.

Well, my 3D rendering units have determined that it doesn't matter if the donut in question is a sphere or not. They both achieve the Torodial aspect.

The toroidal map IS a donut, just like your picture. It isn't a sphere- imagine you start at a certain point on a sphere. The North Pole is directly above you. Now move east half way across the world. The North pole is still directly above you. On toroidal, you're on the complete other side of the donut. You'd have to go back to your starting point and then go north to hit the pole. (Not that donuts have poles, but whatever. Or do they?)



Disappointed in the lack of ice bananas in the BFC. I hope there are some nearby!

 

[Ultimocrat]

Well, the normal civ map is actually cylindrical, rather than spherical, because E-W distances do not shorten as you go north or south from the equator, and you can never actually get to the poles. And it's impossible to have a real donut in 3-dimensional-space that demonstrates the area-equal property of the "toroidal" civ map (donuts don't have poles, RLesink, btw). The best way to think of the toroidal map is simply that the world will wrap N-S as well as E-W.

Mad, Fantasy is a great choice for a toroidal map because the climatic justification for the normal map's distribution of jungles, deserts, temperate areas, and cold areas goes out the window with a torus (and indeed, it's pretty unlikely that gravity would create a toroidal planet).

 

[madscientist]

All I can say from the posts is "OMG, what have I done to myself" :suicide:

 

[Julian Delphiki]

We have faith in you, mein Fu^H^H Madscientist.

It should be interesting game.

 

[Ultimocrat]

Also, I suggest you turn on CTRL-Y, since normal intuition about what what F/P/C values different terrain types have may fool you.