4281

Try Rlyeh early instead… they are absolute crap with landtroops and the mages are aquatic only OO

4282

Any nation with access to decent astral mages is not crap. While I lost Lanka, I have a new appreciation for the powers of astral magic. Forget the Abominations and use some of the killer spells that are available to the astral folks.

BTW, Nick: Your big demons come with autodarkness right? I kept trying to figure out how you had it but didn’t see an item or an ability. hopefully it’s documented now that they come with it. Makes your undead/demons much, much more scary.

4283

Yes, Mandahas come with it free. Which is flippin sweet. And they have the darkpower ability that means they get boosted combat abilities in the dark, so their base combat stats are actually higher than they look. Mandaha’s are absolutely scary, I love them to death. They are costly though requiring a 5b2d mage and 130+ blood slaves per. Otherwise I’d have like 10 of them running around right now.

But don’t say too much, I don’t want to ruin any surprises for Tien Chi. They get to see this stuff next.

4284

Yeah i hear you, but killerspells wont conquer land… and you will never be able to catch all enemy spellcasters… because the real spellcasters are domeprotected…

4285

Alright, I have everyone’s pretender except Adam, who doesn’t have his game yet, and may not for an undeterminable amount of time. I’m going to send everything off to Marcin Friday. Last chance to state your opinion on settings or change your pretender or nation pick. Also, if anyone else wants to join, send me a pretender by Friday.

4286

Im ok with the settings… i have no opinion about charts, either way would be ok with me… i would like to try the vp conditions…

4287

Oh yeah, I should probably mention what I was thinking behind Victory Points (VP). 1 per capital, plus a couple random to bring the total to 10, whoever gets 7 or 8 VPs wins.

4288

If it’s 2 for Off, it should be Off, right? :)

Just curious, why does the 3.10 patch require a higher gem site frequency?

4289

Yeah, the “On” was my original suggestion, which along with all the other settings are sort of a default unless anyone expressed an opion otherwise. Obviously, this is a situation where some people did. Speaking of which, I just got an email from Rolly voting for score charts on, so its 2 to 2, I think. I’m going to have to go back and count. If its still tied, I’ll flip a coin or something.

Just curious, why does the 3.10 patch require a higher gem site frequency?

Basically, the latest patch added a lot more site types, and these sites were much more likely to be 1 gem as oppose to two gem sites. I’m not sure of the exact math, but it does have a noticeable effect on income. So, playing with the default (40) would probably be like playing 35 pre-patch. Personally, I like more magically inclined games.

4290

Hoplite should be back online and on a 96h timer.

4291

Magister and Banefire might be offline; I just tried hitting my site and get nothing.

I should be home in about an hour and will check out what’s what. Definitely an unexpected outage.

4292

Great. I hope the Texas zombie infestation has been cured?

4293

Huh. I guess the router barfed. Magister and Banefire should be reachable again.

4294

Ready. Set. GO!

4295

Got the last pretender in. Will try to set up the game and hand it off this weekend so get ready for a notification the game will start by Monday night at the latest!

good luck everyone but LSB who i hope dies quickly.

4296

Order 2 and Prod 2 scales: 160 creation points
Level 50 PD on a shoreline province: 1275 gold
Killing an annoying enemy pretender who tries to invade it alone: priceless.

There are some things money can’t buy (like a victory in this game, damnit). For everything else, there’s Tower Guard.

Cliches aside, while the King In Yellow is waiting for His priests to call Him back from his dwelling place beyond imagining that man should not know, he may wish to reconsider His choice of targets.

It is likely, to be fair, already too late to stop Xykon’s ascension (bastard. And lazy and shiftless, at that!), so it may well not make a difference, but what else is He going to be doing with the time?

4297

Sent the email to Marcin with all the pertinent information. I CC everyone. If you don’t recieve my email, then chances are I typed your address wrong, so please let me know. That is all. We’ll start playing whenever Marcin gets it up. Be sure to thank him for hosting.

4298

Here’s a hint, you have astral mages, next time you think you have the King in Yellow in site, script Horror Mark. That way, you don’t need to worry about him being resurrected. Or at least force your opponent into a compromised position.

Anyways, I guess I should set myself to AI in this game. The fact that Hetzer can’t beat Man tells me he is in no position to challenge Ermor, whose resources are through the roof now.

4299

Crom:

Keep your fingers crossed. I have attempted to hand the game off to Nick so we’ll see if I set it up right. all pretenders are in. We’re using Paraganos designed by our own Jason Lutes (take a bow). Graphs are off. Indies at 5 and everything else is normal. go fight and win.

4300

Magister and Banefire shall be down for a brief outage. Shouldn’t be more than a couple of hours. I’ll update this post when they’re back.

Edit: should be back and a bit snappier. I’m not sure if the email script will work until the next time a turn happens :P

Edit Edit: I tested the email script and it seems to work. Be aware that it will undoubtedly be sent to your spam mail since it’s an unverified host. Please add mistspell@fastmail.fm to your allowed list to ensure delivery :)

From past history, users on Verizon or Yahoo accounts will most likely not get the mails at all.