(06-30-2017, 04:01 AM)Ry Vor Wrote: Netstrider, this got changed to Silent yesterday and it seems to have worked to get the game going.
I have a message into Mike about 9 players, we had it on the old game creation utility. If we don't hear, yeah probably Gray Mouser will take a 10th spot tomorrow by noon unless someone else wants to - post here.
If you're up on the draft board, let's go. Chop, chop.
Guys you're killing me here
We have nearly 3,000 different game possibilities with the game queue and that's not enough for everyone? Anyhoo, I may be able to manually adjust a 10-player game in the queue and reset it to only 9 players but I don't know if that will have an effect on something else when the game is actually created. We could give it a try but I'll have to create the entry in the game queue, make the manual adjustment in the database, and notify everyone on the forum that you can join up.
But does everyone realize that by selecting a dispersed kingdom (so far the RD and UN), you cannot guarantee a region? On the forum, the RD has region 8 and UN region 10 but that may not happen at all. Wouldn't it be better to guarantee a single kingdom per region with the Draft F option (but no dispersed)?
Earlier in this thread, I think it mentioned having random cities. Is this still the case? If so, I could join up as the 10th player if we do Draft F as well (to ensure the even distribution of kingdoms on the map). I know this is a late change to the group of players for this game but I could round out the 10th position if needed. Though, I haven't played in a while so don't laugh if I make a lot of mistakes (since this game is silent and not anonymous).
So let me know what to do:
A) Setup a 10-player game and manually adjust to 9 players while crossing fingers that it won't crash the server
B) Setup a 10-player, Draft F, random city, silent game that guarantees a single kingdom per region. Everyone will need to specify their kingdom selections again in the queue which may be different than your forum choice (Draft F will randomize everything). Also this option will allow the game to be truly anonymous where no one knows who's playing what kingdom until the game is over (to lookup the stats in Valhalla). So having a truly anonymous game is possible again rather than posting on the forum.
BTW, there was a question to support on how random cities work so I'll try to answer them here: (a) each region will have only 1 city so regions 5 and 8 will both only have a single city, (b) a random city may be located anywhere within the region including water, © a town, village, or artifact may be located where predefined cities were marked on the map, (d) random cities have the same characteristics as a normal city (not hidden with a glyph of concealment).
So decide which option above A or B to do for this game. If option B is chosen, the game could be automatically created within minutes after everyone joins the game (24/7).
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