SGOTM3 Rome - Maintenance Thread
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Mistfit
Deity
scoutsout said:
Keep in mind I'm spamming my butt off trying to loose this moniker.
For example this post
Mauer
Pompous Noble
Just wondering, what is the official submission date?
SesnOfWthr
True Believer
tao said:
My contribution to the discussion: The no pillage is annoying with the armies, especially as they're weak compared to what we're used to from C3C.
I can state unequivocally that the ai had no problem attacking a healthy legion army of ours with knights and LB's. (yes we finally got a leader)
@Mistfit - I think you've spammed beyond that perticular moniker, you can slow down now.
@Mauer - I have seen MB mention two timeframes to try and get everything completed in: eight weeks and ten weeks. Though I have also seen him post that there is technically no problem with two games going at once.
mad-bax said:
What if one or several team don't finish game in 10 weeks and keep dragging it for months. Shouldn't be there a hard limit like in chess game on how much time you give from start until finish??
Apologize in advance if i asked something stupid, this is my 1st SGOTM.
AlanH said:
Agreed, it is not right to come up with new rules in the middle of the game and for the current game we just have to keep going the way it is.
But i was Mad-Bax, I would set up some time restrictions for the next SGOTM. When team knows they have time limit it will have more discipline and play it faster. It obviously does not apply to X-Team. But some teams (and particularly staff team
) are still in BCs.
samildanach
Necrophile
I don't see that it matters. Even us lot have played 120 turns, another 120 turns and we may have a domination or conquest victory (although I doubt it 
).
One team has already finished in around 1300 AD. Thats only 140 turns from where we are. I don't think it is our intention to milk it for all 540 turns
). One team has already finished in around 1300 AD. Thats only 140 turns from where we are. I don't think it is our intention to milk it for all 540 turns
Lat time around it was the same. Players are on vacations and have other real life commitments. The biggest incentive last time was that the next game was appearing on the horizon. It concentrates minds wonderfully when they realise they either have to abandon the current game, or try to play two at once, or get this one finished 
Oh, ye of little faith! Your only question is which AI civ will have the conquest victorysamildanach said:I don't see that it matters. Even us lot have played 120 turns, another 120 turns and we may have a domination or conquest victory (although I doubt it
Since you're playing the variant I don't think a milk run is an option. A fastest victory prize is rarely won in 2050 ADOne team has already finished in around 1300 AD. Thats only 140 turns from where we are. I don't think it is our intention to milk it for all 540 turns
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There is an option open to me, which is to use a guillotine. In effect I will advertise a date at which all the results will be set in stone. Teams that have not finished by this date would have their latest save recorded as a conquest loss.
In GOTM1 I advertised such a date since the game was trivial, and it may have been tempting for some to milk the game which would have been excruciating.
I have decided, that in general I will not advertise such a date, since I do not want to put teams under pressure, and because I simply don't know how long each game (and particularly the variant) will play. I try to fiddle with the variant until I *think* that most teams will finish within 10 weeks, but I cannot be sure. I'd look pretty silly if I set a date that no team could meet wouldn't I?
So... no dates unless I feel it's necessary.
BTW: The staff have only 3 players, and a fairly heavy schedule, but we are trying to pick up the pace a bit. Space is back
so things are looking up.
In GOTM1 I advertised such a date since the game was trivial, and it may have been tempting for some to milk the game which would have been excruciating.
I have decided, that in general I will not advertise such a date, since I do not want to put teams under pressure, and because I simply don't know how long each game (and particularly the variant) will play. I try to fiddle with the variant until I *think* that most teams will finish within 10 weeks, but I cannot be sure. I'd look pretty silly if I set a date that no team could meet wouldn't I?
So... no dates unless I feel it's necessary.
BTW: The staff have only 3 players, and a fairly heavy schedule, but we are trying to pick up the pace a bit. Space is back
so things are looking up.
samildanach
Necrophile
mad-bax said:
We are only 4 weeks into it. Even the slowest team, that would be us
, are getting through 30 turns per week. That would take us up to 1500 AD one way or the other the game should be over by then. If it begins to look like we are going too slow, then I suppose we could up the turns that each member has to play to 15.
scoutsout
Minstrel Boy
In SGOTM2, when we (team scout) started lagging, we went to 12-turn sets.samildanach said:
akots
Poet
So armies cannot pillage at all? I'm not talking about free pillaging but about non-free pillaging.
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Armies cannot pillage in the GOTM mod at all. If you want to pillage you will have to stack another unit with the army. Because the solution is so trivial it seems to me (without really thinking about it) that it is pointless to make this change to armies. It is likely therefore that I will change this back to standard in future game.
Sir Bugsy
Civ.D.
Great. We haven't even qualified for the first onemad-bax said:
