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[Il Palazzo]

So, for the entire game I did not generate a single 'plea of friendship' stratagem (hence couldn't bump up the relations with those minors I tried to unify). Something I always have in relative abundance when playing SP. Do you happen to know what are the requirements?

[E. Albright]

That's a faction stratagem, so you need happy factions, plus the Accomplished Envoys feat to unlock that particular card. Look on page 246 of the manual for the rest of those.

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, but I had meritocracy focus from the start, gaining those feats, and my factions were happy. The main one had +++ meritocracy focus. Not a single plea of friendship over the entire game.

[E. Albright]

RNG hates you then. That's all I can figure.

[Il Palazzo]

Maybe. Wouldn't be the first time.

Anyway, I suspect we'll both need some time to rest after this round. But do let me know if you're ever in the mood for starting another. Maybe with more players.

[E. Albright]

Honestly, I enjoyed it and would be ready and willing to start up another round any time.

[Il Palazzo]

I'll need at least another week or two.

How's your attitude towards more players?

[E. Albright]

It'd make things more interesting. I'm not sure about how planet size would work best with it - this planet was a decent size but with more players I'd want more minors too - it was kinda barren for expansion if we were gonna hit a major sooner than we did, certainly on my side. Less water might be safer, too - the lake right by my capital hurt me a lot more than your lake did. In that respect, I'm kinda eager to see what Vic does with naval factions/forces.

OTOH, more minors make logistics less important and speed up tech development a lot. I'm really not sure what a happy medium is.

I might screw around with some different planet types. In principle, the oasis-type planet seems like it's made with MP in mind, but I've never done much with it. It would be nice if we could recycle planet seeds - I really think the god-awful SP planet I sent you would be a sort that'd work well for MP even if I spent the first 40 turns doing nothing but fighting off dragons, basilisks, and other kaiju-scale abominations. That's like an accidental version of an oasis planet where you've got valleys with 1-2 cities and mountain ranges between them.

[Il Palazzo]

It would be nice if we could recycle planet seeds

Tell me about it. I rolled a really fun planet, with lots of SP role-playing potential. But forgot to check the airforce box and now I'm too miffed about it to keep playing.

[EuchreJack]

Small Planet Type Small Moon No Minors MP Deathmatch!

[Il Palazzo]

Lol. I actually wonder how it'd play out if there were, say, 10 players and no other cities on the map.

[Salmeuk]

I play this game (poorly) and would be down to roleplay a blundering major with yall. .

I vote kaiju planet because then I have something to fight before inevitable annihilation via bombardment and light armor

though, I must ask what the flow of play by email is for a game like this? were you trading saves multiple times a day?

[Karlito]

I'd play though it's kind of a lot with Dominions ongoing. Maybe if there was a weekend focus to get turns done and a more relaxed pace otherwise.

[EuchreJack]

I'd play though it's kind of a lot with Dominions ongoing. Maybe if there was a weekend focus to get turns done and a more relaxed pace otherwise.

+1

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, so from my side of things, if we were to start sometime this side of November, the pace would likely have to be extra leisurely.

though, I must ask what the flow of play by email is for a game like this? were you trading saves multiple times a day?

There's been some talk about this on the previous page. But tl;dr yes. A few per day, initially. But it's easy to keep up such pace with two players only, especially where there's some overlap in gaming-permitting waking hours despite different time zones. With 4+ players I would go in expecting one per day or less.