While We Wait: Part 2

[Disenfrancised]

The high elves should have big naval bases in the southern oceans - citadel of dawn and citadel of sunset.

 

[Luckymoose]

The warhammer people are so good at copying the world map and not making their own.

 

[erez87]

Hey people wanted to ask::

Does anyone here play Ballerium?

 

[Sheep]

I kind of like the similarity in the map, it makes it easier to explain later on in the game.

I am starting to write army lists. Eventually I plan on running this alongside the Modern NES. I am going to take advantage of the week on, week off temp I have, where each update takes a week for stats, write up and map. I then give a week for orders to come in. While orders are coming in for one nes I could update the other and vicea versa, meaning that you would have an update for one nes one week, the other the next. This would also allow a lot of players in my nes to play this one as diplo invariably slows down while the update is being compiled.

Army Lists Required

Dark Elves
High Elves
Lizardmen
Amazons
Barbaric Orcs
Araby
Undead
Orcs
Goblins
Night Goblins
Forest Goblins
Vampire Counts (Von Carstein, Lahmia, Nerach, Blood Dragon and Strigoi)
Oriental Humans
Other Old World Humans
Bretonnia
The Empire (and Marienburg)
Wood Elves
Dwarfs
Ogres
Chaos Dwarfs
Hobgoblins
Kislev
Norsca

I am also going to write three or four spells per a race that they can use during battles. This will be a nes where I would like tactical orders as there is usually only one or two big battles a year, that you can committ too, this will include spell casting.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Your explorers made it south to the the shores of the ocean. There they learned that the strange metal piece came from across the water from an unknown people who trade with the Jade Lords of the highlands who live to the southeast.

Your travelers also were given pieces of copper ore that is found along the coast and used to make tools and jewelry.

 

[Sheep]

Well my thought on this and the reason why I have decided to do it this way is that updates usually take this long to complete, especially when running a nes the size of Modern battlefields. Now it also means that so long as you keep to your deadline as a mod then players have less reason to grouse if they dont keep to their deadline.

Lastly updates do take just as long as orders and diplomacy to complete. Most players who dont actually mod dont have a real understanding of how much effort is required to run a nes. Those who do mod I am sure however would agree with me in the approach.

By simply running the two neses at the same time means that at anyone time I will be updating one nes, while the other is in the 'player' stage where diplomacy and orders are being done.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My current pace for BirdNES is to update every weekend and I am not sure I can keep up that pace. I feel very rushed and things can get sloppy. I think that more time would certainly improve the quality. I'm not sure that every other weekend is sufficiently speedy to keep the interest up though.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Agreed with Sheep. Though in my last few NES updates (update's 1/4 done, BTW) I try to update stats along with the writeup, to compact the work.

 

[Sheep]

I tried the updating stats thing while doing the update in previous neses, this is perhaps the first that I have left the stats til the end, although it makes it hard to get the motivation to do the stats at times (tediously boring are the words to describe this task) it does make the actual update get posted quicker.

Also it makes it less complicated if you leave the stats update til the end, also it makes it easier for the nesers to plan in advance if they know all they can use for the coming update is what they currently have also, and purchases wont be used until the next turn.

 

[bombshoo]

My current pace for BirdNES is to update every weekend and I am not sure I can keep up that pace. I feel very rushed and things can get sloppy. I think that more time would certainly improve the quality. I'm not sure that every other weekend is sufficiently speedy to keep the interest up though.

Maybe you could alternate between like sunday and wednesday for updates so its a week and a half.

 

[Sheep]

My current pace for BirdNES is to update every weekend and I am not sure I can keep up that pace. I feel very rushed and things can get sloppy. I think that more time would certainly improve the quality. I'm not sure that every other weekend is sufficiently speedy to keep the interest up though.

I find this is not so, its a metter of quality over quatity. As I get older (I turn 24 this year, shock!) I realise that quality does far outweigh quantity and thus most people are willing to wait the extra amount of time (which when you come down to it gives players a week and a half for diplomacy anyways after the posting of the map and write up) for a quality update instead of a half-assed rushed one to keep the nes moving forward.

But hey, its not for everyone... Does any of the players or lurkers in my Modern Battlefields nes have anything negative to say about the current timetables that I set forth?

 

[bombshoo]

I like it...A little slow I mean, but with such a massive NES what can you expect.

Unfortunatly about 75% of everything is decided with-in 2 days of the update.

I'd say my biggest problem is how you wait to put stats up after the update, when in truth I am more interested in that.

 

[Sheep]

I like it...A little slow I mean, but with such a massive NES what can you expect.

Unfortunatly about 75% of everything is decided with-in 2 days of the update.

True that could happen however if thats the case, why do I still have players missing the deadline for the orders? If everything was decided so quickly then orders should come quicker, dont you think?

 

[bombshoo]

Well thats just laziness. I mean everyone basically has their plan for the year by then, and then just wait to see if anything else comes up...After that I think alot of people get distracted or forget..Some people dont even show up enough to see the previous update though. I don't think anyone has such a hard time deciding what to do they sit on the edge of their seat wondering how much to invest in education.

 

[Nuka-sama]

I find this is not so, its a metter of quality over quatity. As I get older (I turn 24 this year, shock!) I realise that quality does far outweigh quantity and thus most people are willing to wait the extra amount of time (which when you come down to it gives players a week and a half for diplomacy anyways after the posting of the map and write up) for a quality update instead of a half-assed rushed one to keep the nes moving forward.

But hey, its not for everyone... Does any of the players or lurkers in my Modern Battlefields nes have anything negative to say about the current timetables that I set forth?

Actually, other than your cracks at my increadably crappy orders, I actually think you're running the NES pretty well.

 

[Sheep]

Actually, other than your cracks at my increadably crappy orders, I actually think you're running the NES pretty well.

Nuke I do that for a reason, I just want to see you become a little bit better so its actually more of a challenge to play against you.

 

[silver 2039]

Your pace is good, of course I leave things to the last minute...

 

[alex994]

How are the various updates coming along?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Fairly well. I've got 4 pages written for mine.

 

[Birdjaguar]

How are the various updates coming along?

Americas done
The Crusade done
Indian Ocean done
Europe, except England and France, done.
Persia in progess
Ayutthaya not started
NPC stats done
Map not started done
PC stats some done some not