A new test game for LT36 has started

Post by **wieder** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:47 pm

There are some new players added to the game. The game also has all the latest changes including more start units and settlers costing 3 population.

As usual, please comment if there are something that's not right.

Post by **Corbeau** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:33 pm

wieder wrote:settlers costing 3 population.

What size are new cities?

Post by **wieder** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:22 pm

The new cities are size 1. Yeah, you will actually lose a working tile when you build a new city. It should be worth building new cities but I have no idea of when is the optimal time for that.

Post by **Corbeau** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:59 am

Aren't you taking this a bit too far?

Post by **wieder** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:13 pm

What do you mean by that?

el_perdedor · Post by **el_perdedor** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:51 am

is the test game still online?

and when is the start of the actual game gonna be?

Post by **wieder** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:17 pm

Yeah, the test game is still online.

If everything goes well we might start in the end of the next week. There needs to be at least week between announcing the start date and starting the game wi you should know soon.

We could use some more players. I'm sending some mails soon. If you know old players who might want to play please let them know. We will also need to decide if the few remaining warnings the server gives are nothing that serious really.

More info will follow and as always, please comment and let us know what you think.

The warnings:

1) Trying to put 98926 into 16 bits; it will result 33390 at receiving side.
2) in player_balance_treasury_units_and_buildings() [cityturn.c::2058]: assertion 'FALSE' failed.

The number 2 may have been fixed but not yet tested.

Post by **Corbeau** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:12 pm

So nobody else has a problem with settlers costing 3 population?

Post by **wieder** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:19 pm

I guess no since people have not been really complaining about it.

To compensate you get 6 settlers instead of 4 you got in the previous games. There are also 7 workers and no explorer.

The reason for making settlers to cost 3 population comes from good experiences with LW3 using a method basically preventing the players form building more cities by making it impossible to build settlers. LT36 doesn't take it that far but just makes settlers more expensive. Building more cities should still be a good idea but it's no longer that easy to say when to do it.

Haken · Post by **Haken** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:46 am

Is there annother test game?

Post by **wieder** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:23 pm

Sorry about the delayed reply.

A new test game will probably start in 24 hours. +- some hours. I will make another post about it when it does. It doesn't matter if you miss the start since test games have just minutes / turn and it's not a competition.