Strategic Vote

[Provolution]

Events = OFF (4/6 votes)
Vassals = OFF (4/6 votes)

Plus these options are the defaults in a normal game, so even with a tie will go through:

Tech Trading = NORMAL (3/6 votes)
Barbarians = NORMAL (3/6 votes)
Game Speed = NORMAL (3/6 votes)

So five votes have been decided already. All that remains is for huts and the difficulty level to be decided.

The option for huts being off has 3 votes, but has NOT been decided yet because it is a non-default option. If huts OFF gets 1 more vote, then huts will be off. If huts ON gets the 2 remaining votes (total 3 votes), then huts will be on (default).

Since there are quite a lot of different difficulty levels, once all the votes come in there likely won't be 4 votes for one. In this event, should we go for the difficulty that has the most votes, or weight the difficulties voted for and take the "average" one? I propose the former, because otherwise teams might deliberately vote at one extreme or the other to weight their opinion more (e.g. Deity or Settler).

I suggest we weigh in and conclude the voting to speed the process like the following:


Tech Trading = NORMAL (3/6 votes)
Barbarians = NORMAL (3/6 votes)
Game Speed = NORMAL (3/6 votes)

We vote normal too, for future diplomacy.

I think we should vote for huts, for the surprise effect.
Difficulty, since we are few, we should go for prince or monarch, as we do not have enough players to weigh in with advise.

 

[Bowsling]

I 'gree

 

[Earthling]

I'm happy with monarch/emperor. I would very much like huts still ON, especially with both barbarians, and tech trading on (realize I got outvoted and that's fine. We'll find a good alliance to tt with)

Normal on the rest of the remaining settings is good by me; I'm ready for us to announce our decisions if the team is ready, so we're not keeping the general forum waiting.

 

[Provolution]

Everyone happy we publish huts on, tech trade on (but not brokering), we should also go for monarch, as this seems to be the median here.

 

[Earthling]

Sure, happy to publish all of that. A vote for huts on doesn't matter now though but just out of principle.