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Author Topic: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (Done)  (Read 39159 times)

E. Albright

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Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (Done)
« on: January 10, 2017, 03:21:49 pm »

Link to NationGen: https://github.com/elmokki/nationgen/releases/

Proposed rules: Nothing special - forum name hashes, basically.

Settings:

Game name: Bay12GamesRound426a
Map: Ragnarok Comes (with some extra nostarts)
Mods: NationGen 0.6.21c, NationGen: Black Academy
Era: MA
Disciples: No
Time allowance: 30 hours at start, presumably
Special site frequency: Default
Random event frequency: Common
Story events: Off
Score graphs: Off
Hall of Fame: 15
Artifact forging limit : Limited
Thrones: 18/6/0, with 16/30 to win
Renaming: Allowed
Research: Normal


Masochists & Guinea Pigs:
E. Albright
RexMundi
Empty
ThtblovesDF
Mini
Shadowgandor
AlStar


The Departed:
a1s
chaoticag
kingkev
USEC_OFFICER

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Spoiler: How does PBEM work? (click to show/hide)

Useful links:
Dom4Mods
Dom4 forums on Steam
An archived snapshot of the Dom3 wiki: Yes, it's still relevant, and it hasn't been replaced yet, so... It has loads of useful information, including strategy guides. Keep in mind that while a lot of this information is still very useful and valid, a lot of it is entirely out-of-date.

Llama Server: the automatic hosting server for our game.
Llama Server's map and mod browser (Yes, it's not really a browser, but you can browse the maps and mods here)
Dom4 Mod Inspector Very useful. You can browse all the nations, items, spells and sites in the game with it. You can also browse custom mod nations, though it doesn't really support nations using negative montag firstshapes for random recruitment (e.g., NationGen Foulspawn).
« Last Edit: August 11, 2017, 12:39:29 pm by E. Albright »
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E. Albright

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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2017, 03:26:47 pm »

The first thing that needs discussed is getting more suckers brave souls to join us.

The second thing is what - if any - conceit we want to use in limiting nation selections. Past ones have included random seeds hashed from our names or variants thereof, all hoburgs, all foulspawn, more than one of the above, or at a minimum, some sort of draft from a fixed pool. This is open to discussion, but I'm opposed to "find a seed you like" games, because that just rewards the most patient and/or the most skilled at efficiently mining .dm files.

The third thing is everything else.
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2017, 03:33:24 pm »

I'm interested.
Have no favorite nation so just give me what's left :P
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E. Albright

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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2017, 03:37:08 pm »

Well. This mess will be some variety of NationGen, so it's still To Be Determined what nations there will be, to say nothing of what will be "left"...

If you're still interested, I'll count ya in, though.
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 03:37:51 pm »

Well. This mess will be some variety of NationGen, so it's still To Be Determined what nations there will be, to say nothing of what will be "left"...

If you're still interested, I'll count ya in, though.

That was why I was interested.
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2017, 03:52:56 pm »

Rando nations seems fine, maybe "every player has a different race, no shared specials" or something like that...

I'm just to lazy to gen and gen until I find something cool, but I'm intrested +1
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E. Albright

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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2017, 04:07:45 pm »

Gotcha. Your phrasing just kinda sounded like you might have thought we were doing something sane and vanilla.

For my own preference, I'd vote some sort of hashed seeds. I've enjoyed the wailing and gnashing of teeth accompanying the last few such games, and NG does a moderately decent job of giving nations that are balanced, for a very loose definition of balanced. Well, okay, it's more like with random seeds everyone is hurting, but that's the same as everyone having something decent, yeah?
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2017, 04:43:05 pm »

Unsure how or what to do for nation genning but consider this my confirmation that I am in(brother still need to check on)
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2017, 11:13:48 pm »

Yay, more nationgen. I'm in.
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2017, 03:45:03 am »

With the slower updates on round 25 I think I'll do something silly and join in on this one I guess? What's the worstest that can happen.
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2017, 05:30:35 am »

PCP (Posting to Confirm Participation)
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2017, 06:14:38 am »

I'd like to join as well. Had some fun using NationGen single player and I'd like to give multiplayer a shot :)
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2017, 10:23:49 am »

I'm probably going to hate myself for this, but sign me up as well (unless there's a massive number of players and you can't handle another, of course).

I have no real preference on how we generate the different nations. Drafting one out of a list of 100~ appeals to me. Picking one out of a small selection of hashed ones appeals to me. Being given a hashed nation and forced to deal with it also appeals to me, though not as strongly as the other options. I like my cheap battle mages. What can I say?
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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2017, 01:44:36 pm »

What level for sacred power are we thinking to use? My guess and suggestion is normal, but I wonder how 'batshit insane' would go
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E. Albright

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Re: Dominions 4 Round 26: Very Worstestest Things (TBD NationGen game)
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2017, 04:33:51 pm »

BSI sacreds make things A LOT more random, and I'd be inclined to shy away from it unless we're doing a draft because it makes it more likely for some people to lose before the game starts (and assigns starting positions and decides some people lose before turn two).

We're at ten-ish right now; I'd say we can go as high as twelve before I go from "unduly optimistic" to "sensibly skeptical".
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