We are looking for a player to take over Germany.

http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#19238

[FILLED] We are looking for a player to take over Carthage.

http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#7484

EDIT: Vacant position now filled, thanks for joining Mr.Markovich.

GMR developers tweeted about the reson of the problem, glad all is well now :)

https://twitter.com/GMRobot/status/676817733103714305

[FILLED] We are looking for a player to take over Denmark. Last 5 turns has been played by AI so far. Denmark maybe the last in score, but it is #1 in Polulation and Approval and NOT last in any of the demographics.

Also the game speed is Standard and we are at turn 123, so I think we are at early stages of the game (Polynesia, Shoshone and England are in Classical Era; Denmark, Carthage and Ottomans recently made it to Medieval Era).

Scores:
341 Carthage (Vanlaerpieter)
340 Ottomans (Ayubalugu)
331 Polynesia (king.2".richard)
298 Shoshone (SgtHulka)
290 England (robbperston)
226 Denmark (filled by Zetnus)


http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#7484

Up again! :-)

Is it just me or is the site down?

If you allow war with CSs, but not allow war among Civs; then the first Civ to conquer a CS will be permanent owner.

Also, similar to the usage of military might scenarios I described in my initial post, a Civ with a significant military can go on a conquest of all or most of CSs and no one would be allowed to intervene. I am not sure conquering all or most of CSs would mean that that Civ will win the Space race, but can be significant in same ways (denying happiness and resources to other civs for example).

Would this be OK?

BTW, with the current settings, Theme 12 is a Classic Era start, which eliminates the free Great Writer bonus for Babylon. I was surprised and upset when this happened to me. Babylon was losing part of its UA due to a later era start, but Poland was actually benefiting from this and was starting the game with 1 more social policy than everyone else, unfair.

@Woadax Thanks :)

@AugusTIN Some players in the T12 games I played said that they were not expecting military assault on them. So, even if we leave the T12 as is, I thıink we should add more explanation in the Theme Rules. However, if most players want the changes, then it would probably be better to ban T12.

@AugusTIN, Skifans, Hoagie looks like there is some interest in a no war Theme. Then we should decide on:

a) barbarians or no barbarians (no barbs will make it a pure no war game)

b) allow just Science Victory or also allow others (Culture, Diplomatic)

c) which era to start? In my personal opinion, an Anceient Era start no-war game might be too uneventful for a very long time. However, later era starts should be thought through carefully (ex: Theme 4 Modern Era no war game for Cultural Victory got banned as it was possible to win the game in 10-15 turn by getting a Great Person and use Futurism Autocracy tenet, which gives +250 Tourism with every other civ and at that point no one has enough Culture to defend against that much Tourism).

Thoughts about Theme 12:

This Theme is a Science Victory only game, but as the rules allow for war, you can win by eliminating or seriously crippling your opponents with military. Either win the game as remaining payers concede or win the space race due to being in a much better position in terms of science and production. (I admit I personally won 2 Theme 12 games, 1 by each method I described, but I had not planned this from the beginning, the games just evolved in a way that I ended up using a lot of military).

I am actually proposing to ban Theme 12 (not change it, so as to keep the previous games separate from the new games that will be played with new rules), but create a new Theme with same rules & settings PLUS some rules about war.

Completely banning war would not be good in my opinion, that would make it a totally different game than Civilization V.

I am thinking of a rule of not being able to capture an opponent Civ's city, maybe exclude the cities captured from City States.

Killing military units, capturing / killing civilian units should be fair game.

Maybe even ban pillaging enemy improvements (if you are significantly ahead in military might, you can cripple enemy cities by pillaging everything around them without capturing the city).

This may allow for some interesting "proxy-war" type of game. You might march along your allied CS and destroy enemy units then, maybe your CS ally will capture the enemy city. On second thought, I guess bombarding enemy cities should also be banned, otherwise you can bomb it down to 0 HP and the CS ally can capture it easily.

Anyway, please share your opinions.

Thanks

Ayubalugu from the League Admin Team