TL4 player count: 11.

Are we still planning on doing teams of three? If so, one more person would be great; if we get a non-multiple of three, we can have unequal terms and think up some balancing (either by player experience or something else).

I will let the players vote on era; once an era's decided and players have decided on their nations, we can set up teams.

To aid in this, can everyone who's playing tell me (either with a post here or a Liquid PM):

--Your era preferences
--One or two nations you'd like to play in each era
--Your experience level

I'll edit-update this post with results.

Skirmjan

Italy190 Posts

July 22 2014 16:10 GMT

#1164

I vote for MA Era, i'd play for these nations in each era

(kinda in order of preference)
EA: Tir Nan'Og,Machaka,Atlantis
MA: Eriu, Ulm
LA:Ulm,Mictlan

exp level: TL3 was/is my first MP,this would be the second

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

July 22 2014 16:10 GMT

#1165

I think we should stick to some sort of nations draft, actually

ShloobeR

Korea (South)3809 Posts

July 22 2014 16:19 GMT

#1166

EA > MA > LA

Experience level : Shloober

Sunaj

Canada2041 Posts

July 22 2014 16:26 GMT

#1167

I think MA would be cool to do too, since the 3 TL games have been 2 EA, and 1 LA.

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

July 22 2014 16:29 GMT

#1168

I vote for MA as well :D

entropius

United States1046 Posts

July 22 2014 16:43 GMT

#1169

How do you envision the nations draft working? Each team choosing one of its three nations at a time?

That sounds excellent for experienced players, but I worry that it won't be newbie-friendly: I am playing Ulm in TL2 because Ulm was one of two nations I knew, and I'd like to give the newest folks the opportunity to play whatever nations they want.

I figure we'd do it in reverse: players would choose their nations, and then we'd sort out teams so compatible nations would wind up together (i.e. no Abysia + Caelum).

KissBlade

United States5718 Posts

July 22 2014 16:59 GMT

#1170

In disciples you'll definitely want to make sure the teams are even in player count. It's a significant disadvantage to be short one player because it's not uncommon for disciple games have one player as the designated "banker" where the sole purpose is to pump researchers and trade excess income away.

entropius

United States1046 Posts

July 22 2014 17:10 GMT

#1171

That sort of thing is the trouble with disciples games -- you wind up with "degenerate" strategies (where people specialize like that and take advantage of the vagaries of the way discipleship works) rather than just "a couple of pretenders on a team".

I'm curious why that game mode wasn't implemented; the only difficulty would be to figure out how temple checks interact with allied dominion, although I can think of several ways to solve that.

KissBlade

United States5718 Posts

July 22 2014 18:22 GMT

#1172

Well you can literally have just a bunch of players teamed for mutual victory for that. I think the whole disciples idea is more of a flavor mode with the game. There has been MP games of mutual victory before especially when it gets to so late that it's impossible to really play out because you just have giant supernation blobs.

jaybrundage

United States3921 Posts

July 22 2014 18:40 GMT

#1173

On July 22 2014 15:44 scFoX wrote:

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Gah; I still can't get over that pretender name.

Also, you have farmland? You lucky bastard.

I had farm land. And I shall have it again when we rid the land of the scourge that is Man and his annoying dragon.

entropius

United States1046 Posts

July 22 2014 18:49 GMT

#1174

Said dragon has never eaten anybody that didn't poke him with a sharp stick first. He would much rather live out his years researching and summoning moose and sheep with Man's national N gem income that's otherwise useless.

Icapica

Finland206 Posts

July 22 2014 19:41 GMT

#1175

I don't care what era the Disciple game is. I suck at this game regardless of the era.

What I'd perhaps like to play in order of preference:
EA: Berytos, Ulm, Abysia
MA: Ashdod, Pythium, Machaka
LA: Atlantis, Bogarus

entropius

United States1046 Posts

July 23 2014 01:40 GMT

#1176

Brave PD is bravest PD. Neither awe nor fear matters to Bob the Heavy Infantryman from Bleecoth. His sacrifice will be remembered.

scFoX

France454 Posts

July 23 2014 03:14 GMT

#1177

Preference for EA, but MA is fine, I guess. I'm already in a LA game.

EA: Caelum, Vanheim, Arcoscephale
MA: Vanheim, Arcoscephale, Caelum
LA: Ragha (Ha! Fat chance x)), T'ien Ch'i, Man

I'm also open to suggestions for nations to play.

TL3 is my only MP experience, and it's not turning out very well.

Edit: Kissblade doesn't recommend MA T'ien Ch'i as they are difficult to manage, so I have replaced the choice with Caelum.

entropius

United States1046 Posts

July 23 2014 04:41 GMT

#1178

TL3 Agartha: I noticed you didn't move your stack at me. Do you intend to call off this foolish squabble? You're too late to stop me reinforcing faster than you can, and we both could profitably use our armies elsewhere.

jaybrundage

United States3921 Posts

July 23 2014 06:46 GMT

#1179

On July 23 2014 13:41 entropius wrote:
TL3 Agartha: I noticed you didn't move your stack at me. Do you intend to call off this foolish squabble? You're too late to stop me reinforcing faster than you can, and we both could profitably use our armies elsewhere.

See I would love to stop fighting the only issue is you took farmland, MY farm land. If you got off of my farm land i would drop retaliation as I have stated.

So I have two options as i see it.

A. Focus all my efforts on eradicating Man and getting others to help me.

B. Let you have the farmland and move on.

The problem being that B sets a bad precedent. I am not a big player in this game. I'm new to it and made alot of mistakes early. However I could still be a thorn in your side if I so chose too.

To be perfectly honest I have not entirely decided yet.

However IF you agree to not attack any more of my provinces, and move the majority of your army elsewhere. Then I would be more inclined to call off the attack.