Planning: Alien Invasion MP Game?

[Chaingun]

Well, perhaps BB will be the only thing that will slow down alien expansion, so we should test the effects of it before deciding what to do.
I thought about annexing China soon to check how strong alien armies really are and to see the effect of BB over the limit...

That would be nice. It seems the aliens are even more effective than I thought (though I admit I did not test it with navies).

If you're making a mod, why not create an event file for aliens that lowers BB by say -10 every 5/10 years? Or maybe -30 every 15/20 years.

I will consider to, but I need to know exactly how much BB Barnius managed to achieve and how quickly he did it.

Wyvern: Yes, I already planned to include a maxed out eternal monarch for the aliens. I don't think they will need leaders however, not like it looks now.

FAL: If we do not manage to cut BB by in-game methods that it always an option.

Now I have started to worry about how to restrict the alien invasion instead of worrying about how to extend it...

 

[Chaingun]

I might be able to work on it tomorrow, but I've been rather busy this week, and I do not expect this round of stress to stop until the end until next week.

 

[Chaingun]

Ok, so I will be able to play from the end of next week. Now, with some rebalancing I intend to start a game of based on the current scenario.

The question is: What days could people play this on? This autumn basically every weekday will be fine for me (minus Friday plus Sunday).

As for balancing, it's mostly of a question of how much manpower we want the aliens to have I guess and/or tech. Going to try to find that scenario on my hard drive now. :wacko:

EDIT: Found, updating text and country .CVS to latest Beta type.

EDIT2: Going to spend some of evening balancing.

 

[Chaingun]

I just decreased both their economic techs to 5 each. I don't think this will influence their decisions early on but it may help to bring down economic progress a little. Also, later on it may actually present them with the question: Do I have to research?

 

[Chaingun]

Don't make all of the players in Europe. China & perhaps an Indian civilization would have more relevance if the entire world is going to be attack, then you have the Ottomans & Russia. That would only leave 3-4 nations in Western Europe so it spreads out any chance for conflict between the other player nations & allows for a more centralized opposition by giving more places to rape the AI before the Aliens arrive.

Well, yeah. I was thinking to allow all human players to decide for themselves by discussing it. It's the really smartest if all strong nations are picked first.

 

[Chaingun]

im really interested in playing this game.

I'm planning on setting up a thread or so very soon to ask what days people can play. I guess it will be some kind of vote on the day, and day with most people available wins...