World War Zone 2 - Over. Working on "Real version"

[Foolster41]

UPDATE: Interest seems to have been lost. I'm working on a big improvemnt with lots of changes. Occult sent me lots of ideas that should make this much better. Feel free to send me more thoguhts on this game. I think these last two can be pretty much "beta tests" for a much cleaner real version coming probibly late this summer/fall.

NOTE: We are looking for a replacement for Red/Mad Jackal. PM me or post here if interested.

I promised I'd be revisiting this game idea after some tweaks, so here it is.

The original topic is here:
http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 85&start=0

This is a game I designed, heavily influenced by the games "Diplomacy" and "Alpha Centauri" and is a game of war and politics.

This new version has some game mechanic improvements, a bigger tech tree, and rules to speed the game along faster (The rules I proposed and the end of the last game to allow "rush research" and making 4 units instead of 1 at a time.). Players now must also start new units inside their starting country.

the object of the game is to simply survive. Each nation starts with 3 cities and 4 units in each of them (15 soldiers), except for black, who has 4 soldiers with 3 soldiers in each of them.

Each player on their turn may attack other units when they move adjacent orthogonally to a enemy unit. Controlling units allow you to spend more resources on making units or technologies.

players can communicate privately, or here publicly to make deals and join forces against another player. You may quote message as much as you want, but you are not allowed to use unvisited or edit your posts. (Exception is me editing the first post, since I am also the mod) Normal rules of good internet manners also apply (of course).
You may also propose and agree on global pacts (like attack anyone who tries to make nuclear weapons). However, no pact is "binding".

The full rules: www.warzonegame.bravehost.com/rules.html
The Current Map: www.warzonegame.bravehost.com/warmap.html
Detailed Statistics: www.warzonegame.bravehost.com/status.html

I am playing this time with a 20 years (turns) limit.

Post here with what color you want. I will take the last one.
Feel free to post any questions you have about the rules.

Please no editng your posts, invisitext, or messing up the page margins.
(The exception will be for me editing my "mod" posts so they can be clear and updated. )

Year 5

[mrow]Color[col]General[col]Resouces[col]Cities Held[col]Techs Green[col]Metatron[col]3[col]3[col]Sci. Advancement (9/10) Black[col]Fircoal[col]4[col]4[col](None) Cyan[col]molestargazer[col]3[col]3[col]Sci. Advancement (8/10) Brown[col]Bird111[col]3[col]3[col]Sci. Advancement (6/10) Purple[col]Avinyl[col]3[col]3[col]Engineering(4/10) Red[col]Mad Jackal[col]4[col]4[col]Adv. Weapons (12/15) White[col]Occult[col]3[col]3[col]Sci. Advancement, Mico. Discovery(2/10) Yellow[col]Foolster41[col]3[col]3[col]Sci Advancement (1/10)

[Metatron]

/In for now, for green

[Fircoal]

A lot of rules, I'll read later, but /in.

And do the colors matter, and is there a map?

[molestargazer]

I've read a few rules, I'll read them all later.

/in for cyan.

[bird1111]

/in for brown

[Avinyl]

/in for Purple.

[Fircoal]

/in for black.

[Mad Jackal]

In / red please.

[Occult]

/in white

[Foolster41]

***That leaves me with yellow. It is now year one and Metatron's turn. Please post your orders here. You may create ne units (Up to 4 per turn in each city) or study technologies.

Everyone feel free to post here, or PM others to make deals, plans and alliances!

The link to the map is on the first post. I forgot to restore it when I fixed it. Sorry. I don't think it will matter too much though, they are all fairly similar.

There is an error in the technology chart. "Microscopic discovery" is required for "Nuclear Isotope",Not Rover. The position of Rover and microscopic discovery should be switched. Sorry.

Though I am playing, I am also being a mod somewhat. To keep things less confusing, when I am posting in my capacities as mod (explaining rules, posting game status info) my posts will be in all bold like this one and encased in astrisks***

[Metatron]

I'll build 4 units at my city at Y32,

lay down this trap card

, and end my turn.

[Occult]

He laid a trap down, we better be carefull.

[Metatron]

Oh, Occult, now that we're out of the game, what exactly is your role?

[Foolster41]

***You only have 3 resources, it costs 1 resource each and you only have 3. I'll assume you mean to build the 3 unless told otherwise.

Also, some changes have been made to the tech tree, specificly pertaining to the technologies that were about the "rovers". I changed to to be a little more easy to manage.***

[Metatron]

Oh. I thought it was one resource to biuld 4. My mistake. Yes, then, biuld three.

[Fircoal]

I build 4 units and lay 4 down at P7

[Foolster41]

***I suspect you already know this, but a reminder that you don't have to put all your new units in to one city. Also, A link to a more detailed statistics page was added to the top post.**

[Foolster41]

Also I would like to propose a resolution.

(Resolution 1)
No nation shall study nuclear weapons, if they do so they will face sanctions (everyone agrees to not make pacts/trades with them) or possible milltary action. No resolution shall be made to restrict the study of nuclear isotope, except for those nations that have wantonly attacked others.

[Fircoal]

now, I'm not sure about the resolution, but why shouldn't we use nukes?

[Foolster41]

Well, the use of bio and nuclear weapons makes this a whole different battle. I realize I forgot to include bio weapons in to that resolution.

[Foolster41]

Oh, and I forgot to ask how resolutions want to be voted (there's no real set way of doing it in the rules). Do we want a simple majority (5/8), 3/4 majority (6/8), or something else?

[Foolster41]

Grr. That's 5/8 and 6/8. Stupid smillies got in my way. Sorry.

My revised Resolution:
(Resolution 1b)
No nation shall study nuclear weapons, if they do so they will face sanctions (everyone agrees to not make pacts/trades with them) or possible milltary action. No resolution shall be made to restrict the study of nuclear isotope, except for those nations that have wantonly attacked others. No nation shall study biological warefare.

[molestargazer]

I'll build 2 units at J7, and 1 at G23.

(Resolution 1b)
No nation shall study nuclear weapons, if they do so they will face sanctions (everyone agrees to not make pacts/trades with them) or possible milltary action. No resolution shall be made to restrict the study of nuclear isotope, except for those nations that have wantonly attacked others. No nation shall study biological warefare.

I am unsure about this resolution, as we all know that people can communicate outside of the game - what's to stop someone from not sanctioning and letting another nation blow us off the map?

[bird1111]

Build 3 unilts, one for each of my cities.

[Occult]

Oh, Occult, now that we're out of the game, what exactly is your role?

If I told you your brain would explode and every inch of the space and time would be warped into a perverted dream world torn apart by the war between cyborgs, the undead and talking animals.