Ruff07 - Poor Marvin, but really ... who cares?

[Rex rgis of Ter]

I want the leaders to be Churchill (us) and Ragnar (ally). Mapscript would be fine as random, and I wouold like a high difficulty level. Let me know when to roll the game.

Also, I would like our unit to be a worker. We'd need to be careful about losing him, but as our only unit it wouldn't be too hard.

 

[ZPV]

Maybe we could be our ally's vassal (or the other way around), if you know what I mean (and WB their attitude to +100). I can't test this right now, but this would get around the research penalty, but it might limit our options as to how much we can control our ally.
Maybe we can be PA and vassal at the same time .

edit: I agree with a high difficulty level

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

So I'll roll if I get three people's acceptance.

Leader: Peter
AI leader: Hannibal
Mapscript: Random
Difficulty Level: Diety
Unit: Worker

 

[ruff_hi]

yes [req 10 chars] - actually, make it a fast worker as Marvin is an android and works fast. Sure, he grumbles, but he does get the tasks allocated to him done. We might want to slave a chopper to him for protection.

 

[ZPV]

Good enough for me - IIRC Hannibal is financial, but isn't a total wimp like Mansa. The only other option I would consider is a Rexxer, but I am happy with these settings.
Any mapscript is fine by me.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

I'll just roll tonight with the settings, game will be up in about an hour.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Here's the Start-

Spoiler :

We can't disucc where to settle, but I'll play tomorrow.

 

[Ozbenno]

We can't discuss where to settle, but I'll play tomorrow.

You're obviously playing at Deity (Hannibal has two settlers). I'll follow this with interest.

 

[GreyFox]

Putting on my lurking hat as well .... ....

 

[Eddie_SBC]

Hi There! This is Eddie, your ship board computer bringing you an update on the progress of this SG. Currently Rex rgis of Ter has the save and is (or is suppose to be) playing and preparing his report. He posted his got it on Apr 28, 2008, 09:21 PM so he is within the 48 hour window. I would hate to think what would happen if he didn't report within this window.

All other players and lurkers are currently wasting their time doing what ever it is that they do. I'm sure that this is going to be a fun time so lets all sit back and relax.

Eddie is the name of the shipboard computer on the starship Heart of Gold. Like every other system on the spaceship, it has a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Genuine People Personality. Thus, Eddie is over-excitable, quite talkative, over-enthused and extremely ingratiating, or alternatively a coddling, school matron-type after a particularly morose conversation with Marvin the paranoid android. Shipboard networking interconnects Eddie with everything from the air conditioning upwards on the Heart of Gold, with the downside the whole ship is effectively crippled by Arthur Dent's request for tea from Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser, the computation of which nearly crashed Eddie and everything connected to him.

On one occasion when certain destruction seems quite imminent, Eddie sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" in a particularly cheesy and upbeat tone.

 

[Ozbenno]

Hi There! This is Eddie, your ship board computer bringing you an update on the progress of this SG.

Nice one Eddie, if that's your real name

 

[ruff_hi]

I invited Eddie (a very nice fellow if a bit talkative) to take over the running of this SG as it ties nicely in with the theme.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

What's our tech route? We start with fishing, hunting, and mining. I'm in favour of exploration to get the two cities together soon.

 

[ruff_hi]

BW and then the wheel or just a straight shoot for alphabet

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

BW it is. I'll start now, and will report in about an hour.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

The worst land I've ever seen. It's just so hard isn't it? Hannibal's a great big brute, always blathering about amphibuous invasions on boats. I tell him it would have to be amphibuous because we are alone. We also have a lot of elephants.

Spoiler :

There doesn't seem to be any spiritual civs in the game. Buddhism is founded late, after Marvin helped construct two camps to mindlessly slaughter stupid animals.

Hannibal's terrible land-

Spoiler :

Finally the tech- The teams 1.5 modifier is tough, and BW is taking forever.

Spoiler :

*Snaps out of Marvin's depression*

 

[tycoonist]

don't we start with archery?

EDIT: cross-post, nevermind

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

The AI starts with archers, not archery. They must research archery to build more on Diety.

 

[tycoonist]

maybe we should do a dot-map???

 

[TheLastOne36]

lurkers comment: Is that desert tile above the floodplains another set of Floodplains? Cause the map generator sometimes don't give diagonal tile a floodplain graphic even though it is.

If it isn't and is just a regular desert tile, then that seems a good spot for a second city.