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A good while back I did a Forum version of a boardgame I'm working on. I finally dusted it off recently and starting working on it again, and I'd like to try out another Forum game. The last two runs were quite helpful!

Game 1
Game 2

I've done a bit more tweaking and streamlining to the game which I think will help a good bit. Especially since I've removed the rather clunky Turn Order mechanics so everything is just Phase Based now and people don't have to wait on each other to decide stuff as much.

I'm still working on tweaking the write-ups a bit for forum play, but I figured I'd at least get the ball rolling and see how many people would be interested.

The game can hold up to six people.

Players

• hector13
• S34N1C
• Kashyyk
• Tiruin
• Gwolfski
• Felissan - Dropped for inactivity
• Roboson - Dropped for inactivity

Reserve:
VoidSlayer

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Space Station
Colonist Pool: 54
VP Pool: 81
(Dropped pools down to 6 player levels)

Trade Environment: War
  Food              Costs 3 and Buys for 2     
  Basic Raw         Costs 4 and Buys for 3     
  Rare Raw          Costs 6 and Buys for 5     
  Basic Goods       Costs 6 and Buys for 5     
  Rare Goods        Costs 8 and Buys for 7     
  Machinery          Costs 8 and Buys for 7     
  Soldier                               Buys for 4VP
  Officer           Costs 6VP and Buys for 5VP

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hector13
VPs: 1
Temporary Housing: 2 Unskilled, 1 Expert
Military Housing: 0/2
Wealth: 0
Resources: 7 food, 2 basic goods, 2 rare goods, 2 machinery
Colony Cards: 0
Warehouse: 13/15
Size: 8/15
Colonial Center - 1 Unskilled
Farm Complex  - 2 Unskilled
Farm Complex - 2 unskilled
Rare Harvester - 1 Skilled
Warehouse Complex


S34N1C
VPs: 0
Temporary Housing: 3 Unskilled
Military Housing: 0/2
Wealth: 5
Resources: 3 Machinery, 1 Basic Good
Colony Cards: 1
Warehouse: 4/5
Size: 7/15
Colonial Center - 1 Skilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Harvester - 1 Unskilled
Basic Goods Factory - 1 Unskilled
Warehouse Complex


Kashyyk
VPs: 0
Temporary Housing: 2 Unskilled
Military Housing: 0/2
Wealth: 11
Resources: 4 Basic Goods, 1 Rare Goods
Colony Cards: 1
Warehouse: 4/5
Size: 7/15
Colonial Center - 1 Unskilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Rare Harvester - 1 Skilled
Market - 1 Unskilled
Market - 1 Unskilled
Rare Goods Factory - 1 Skilled


Tiruin
VPs: 2
Temporary Housing: 2 Experts
Military Housing: 0/2
Wealth: 4
Resources: 1 Machinery, 1 Food
Colony Cards: 3
Warehouse: 7/10
Size: 9/15
Colonial Center - 1 Skilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Farm Complex - 2 Unskilled
University - None
Goods Factory - 1 Unskilled
Warehouse
Laboratory Complex - None


Gwolfski
VPs: 2
Temporary Housing: 3 Unskilled
Military Housing: 0/2
Wealth: 10
Resources: 1 Basic Raw Resource, 3 Basic Goods
Colony Cards: 1
Warehouse: 4/5
Size: 5/15
Colonial Center - 1 Expert
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Farm - 1 Unskilled
Harvester - 1 Unskilled
Basic Goods Factory - 1 Unskilled

The Mindscape, haven of those who seek enlightenment atop the high mountains and secluded valleys of the world. For centuries those steeped in its mysteries have been able to communicate with one another through the Mindscape, exchanging ideas and knowledge to further their shared goal of attaining enlightenment.

But now, now something sinister has found the mindscape. Dangerous ideas are spreading, infecting the minds of the Seekers and poisoning them to the very nature of the Mindscape. It is an insidious Corruption of thought, one not easily spotted or easily resisted. And a mind too corrupted will be unable to maintain their connection to the Mindscape.

Why this Corruption has come, and what anyone would gain from it you do not know. But you must find the source of the Corruption and root it out before all hope of attaining Enlightenment is gone.



Corruption Mafia is a special twist on the normal mafia game, where it is the spread of Corruption between posts that forms the core of the scum gameplay rather than night kills. The ‘town’ players must, as always, work together to find and vote the Scum out of the mindscape before the Scum drives them all out instead.

Signups are now Open. The game needs at least 9 players and can go up to 13.

Players

• Jack A T
• notquitethere - Town Disciple of Iron Will
• TheDarkStar
• O.Wilde - Town Disciple of the Mindscape
• fillipk - Town Disciple of the Open Mind
• flabort - Corrupter Gnawer of Roots
• Deus Asmoth
• Persus13 - Town Disciple of the Third Eye
• BlackHeartKabal

Replacements
    FallacyofUrist

notquitethere replaced in for origamiscienceguy

Anyone else tried out Cryptark yet?

Saw One F Jef playing it on his stream the other day and decided to pick it up. It's brutal, but fun.

Kind of a progressive bullet-hell rogue-like sort of thing? Not sure how to categorize it, but you're basically running Salvage missions going deeper into a derelict alien fleet. Money is both how you equip yourself and the loss condition. You start out with $500k to outfit yourself and you make money when you successfully take out the Core defense systems on a derelict so it can be salvaged. If you die, you get hit with a $100k loss fee and you make nothing from that ship. But unless you go below $0 you can just keep going and trying more ships.

As you go along you unlock a slew of various weapons and whatnot to use. Random, too, so you never know what each run it going to make available.

Time for another Supernatural!

Game has started!

Players

• Jack AT - Town Vampire Hunter
• origamiscienceguy - Cult Guard
• flabort - Town Sexton
• Persus13 - Townsperson
• Peradon - Town Illusionist
• Deus Asmoth - Town Dreamwalker
• Teneb - Necromancer
• TheDarkStar - Guardian Angel (Town Ally)
• ToonyMan - Town Fortune Teller
• 4maskwolf - Cult Leader
• notquitethere - Cult Sage
• birdy51 - Town Priest
• Cheeetar - Town Werebear
• Tiruin - Town Sexton

Replacements
Cheetar replaced in for Cheesecake (Lack of Time)
notquitethere replaced in for spruce (Lack of Time)
Tiruin replaced in for EPenguin (Lack of Time)
H4zardZ1 is replacing roo (Vanished)
4maskwolf is replacing H4zardZ1 (Lack of Time)

Beta 15 is out and our old campaign won't be able to be upgraded in a non-buggy fashion, so...new game! My general plan is to try and replicate the soldiers we had from last time as best I can, but you can decide to make changes or go for new options as you wish.




Like last time, we'll be going Classic for this, which should be tough but quite doable. I'm going to be doing Pseudo Ironman, which is to say I'm going to allow myself the option of rolling back to a previous save if I hit a point where I'm playing horribly and really should have quit a while ago. Happens when I get too hungry or tired to think. I'll try not to use it too often and we won't be doing that within a mission, so if I have to back out it'll force me to redo everything as a disincentive to use the option much.

Long War itself is...extensive. So extensive I'm not even going to bother trying to write up all the changes. Pretty much everything has been tweaked, expanded upon, etc. Just...go look at the wiki for it. Suffice to say that the LP is going to be rather different from a normal game of XCOM, even if the core of the game is the same.

As usual, you're welcome to sign up for soldiers, give me recommendations on what to do at a strategic level, and hopefully enjoy watching our troops splatter alien gore across the globe.

You may wish to work together to try and get a cohesive squad put together, but I'll work with whatever you guys give me. Due note that your squad will eventually need an officer, so one of you should plan on taking on that responsibility at some point (and therefore will not be MEC or Psionic). Squads start at 6 troops and can go up to 8.


Long War Links
Soldier Classes
Weapons
Equipment

Base Stats
Credits: §244
Income: §344
Meld: 105
Engineers: 14
Scientists: 17

Hanger
F.O. - "Swordsman" Kruger - Stingrays - 0 Kills - Crazysheep
F.O. "Dasher" Al-Ayesh - 0 Kills - Tiruin





Memorial

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I'm collecting the customization options here so people can more easily decide how they want their people to look. This will probably grow slowly. Note that in Long War there is also the sleeveless version of each armor for the lighter versions. We can also give any class all of the options, so there is even more customization options.

Well, my last LP for XCOM died a while back, as so many do. But I'm going to try again. This time with the Long War mod.




We'll be going Classic for this, which should be suitably horrific for our mortality rate. I'm going to be doing Pseudo Ironman, which is to say I'm going to allow myself the option of rolling back to a previous save if I hit a point where I'm playing horribly and really should have quit a while ago. Happens when I get too hungry or tired to think. I'll try not to use it too often and we won't be doing that within a mission, so if I have to back out it'll force me to redo everything as a disincentive to use the option much.

Long War itself is...extensive. So extensive I'm not even going to bother trying to write up all the changes. Pretty much everything has been tweaked, expanded upon, etc. Just...go look at the wiki for it. Suffice to say that the LP is going to be rather different from a normal game of XCOM, even if the core of the game is the same.

As usual, you're welcome to sign up for soldiers, give me recommendations on what to do at a strategic level, and bemoan our horrible fates as I try to play X-Com with a head cold.

A few differences from last time, since this is long war. First off, we're going to be using many, many more soldiers in this due to the fatigue system. We're also going to be going on many, many more missions. So I'm only going to be doing screencap stuff for missions your squad is on. And the soldiers you guys claim will, as much as I can manage, be a single cohesive squad. Ideally you'll be the Hero squad and I'll send you guys off on the big important missions, but we'll see how it goes. I'll have NPC squads doing other stuff and you'll hear reports about how they're doing. I'll also use NPCs as filler in your squad if people are in sick bay (which can be for a month or so for really bad injuries).

You may wish to work together to try and get a cohesive squad put together, but I'll work with whatever you guys give me. Due note that your squad will eventually need an officer, so one of you should plan on taking on that responsibility at some point (and therefore will not be MEC or Psionic). Squads start at 6 troops and can go up to 8.


Long War Links
Soldier Classes
Weapons
Equipment

Base Stats
Credits: §231
Income: §444
Meld: 176
Engineers: 43
Scientists: 28

Hanger
crazysheep - F.O. "Flash" Kasura - 2 Kill - Avalanche Interceptor


Barracks




Memorial

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I'm collecting the customization options here so people can more easily decide how they want their people to look. This will probably grow slowly. Note that in Long War there is also the sleeveless version of each armor for the lighter versions. We can also give any class all of the options, so there is even more customization options.

Has anyone tackled the new plant files to make all of the new aboveground crops actually have reasonable values for growth Seasons and duration? Right now they're pretty much all set to super-growth ability in all seasons, which is silly.

I feel like being generous, so I'm going to donate $20 worth of games from the Steam Summer Sale to the fine folks of this forum.

Contest Rules:

• You must be active on the forums: No Escaped Lunatics and no one with a registered date after June 10th
• You must list what game you'd like. It has to be on sale
• You must tell us why you should get the game from me instead of buying it yourself (It's ok to be broke, that's a perfectly valid reason)
• You must nominate another person in the thread who should get the game they want, and why
• You must be on steam (otherwise this won't work too well)

When the $20 is gone, it is gone. We'll see how much we get out of it. I'll try to buy things during flash sales and the like, but in the end I care more about people getting games they want.

If anyone else wants to donate $ or games, we can add them to the pool.