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You're on the Unity. What escape pod door do you walk through?
This poll is closed. |
| Morgan Industries |
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1 |
4.00% |
| Gaia's Stepdaughters |
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1 |
4.00% |
| Nautilus Pirates |
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3 |
12.00% |
| Data Angels |
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2 |
8.00% |
| Human Hive |
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7 |
28.00% |
| University of Planet |
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6 |
24.00% |
| Peacekeeping Forces |
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0 |
0% |
| Cybernetic Consciousness |
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4 |
16.00% |
| Xenobanana!: I'll stay on the ship! |
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1 |
4.00% |
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25 voters |
100% |
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johndmuller
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Capitol Hill, Colony of DC
Feb 2001
time: 00:27
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Personally, I like the idea of 4 Human factions rather than 3 - and I even have a couple of reasons.
- Even if the CMN beefs up the AI players (and I think that should be done too), they are generally hopeless against decent players, let alone teams of probably better than decent players. They (the AI factions) end up just providing free bases and other goodies to the lucky humans who happen to be in the right locations. While there are some fun things that can be done with them diplomatically, they are generally boring and not "fair" with their largesse. Therefore, the fewer the better.
- Since we are talking about a PBEM, there will be various alliances between the factions; if there are only 3 factions, it will of necessity be 2 against 1, which isn't very much fun. 4 or more factions make for more reasonable alliances.
- The four factions that have been bandied about (Hive, University, Cyborgs and Pirates) sound like a good, balanced set of factions; just 3 of them would seem sort of incomplete.
- While I would favor the Hive over the Pirates, I'd rather play on the Pirates than see the game with only the other 3.
I hope you are planning to play on transcend.
I saw turnaround times mentioned of 24 hours (per individual team turn) and 1 turn per week (everybody taking their turn in each week). It may take longer - even the second version is only 2 days to take the turn - if we are to have fun with the internal faction dynamics, it might require more time. Also whenever any important negotiations are going on, they would not only need to be discussed between factions, but likely also within factions too. In the beginning things might go quickly (at least once everyone settled into the mechanics and/or delegated single individuals to take the turns without consultation), but it won't be long before things slow down (once everyone meets everyone else).
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Main_Brain
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Economic World Center
Jul 2002
time: 06:27
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I dunno. Why dont you tell me?
And how is really active defined? Playing the Turn or Debating or Rp'ing?
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/me goes to France
Feb 2001
time: 00:27
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i dont think so, but we can wait a while. we first need a sign up thread for each faction, and for that number of players poll to end
EDIT: that poll has ended. what do we need now, just a rules and difficulty poll?
Last edited by Method on 01-05-2003 at 00:18
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28-04-2003 18:45
Arrrr!
MWIA 
So sue me... do you realize how difficult it is to not hit reply with quote when at work and lacking the time to type all the extra code?
johndmuller 
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