Colonialism II - Pbem game #2

[Dario]

regarding the fighting sail age thing, should we use the rules.txt posted by sephiroth?

added the fortress rule!

[Rebelious]

sephi-rules? what you like

the Bosporus has been used since ancient times

yeah but it is under Ottoman control and you are controlling a Christian civ

so...what are we waiting for to start playing?

[Dario]

a) Ok, make sure everyone download and use sephi's rules...

b) as said rebelious, the bosphorus is under turk control, your ships may not cross it...

c) Well, cupcoffee i think you can start,
oh i was forgetting, net or hot mode?

[Rebelious]

net or hot mode

what was the difference? I can not remember anymore...

I remember I played mostly in .net mode...

[Dario]

@rebelious: con hot mode debes esperar un turno para fortificar las unidades, ya que primero le das la orden y despues en la proxima ronda se fortifican, entre tantos....

btw, i vote for NET mode.!!!

[cupcoffee]

I'm sort of used to .hot, but we can take .net if that's what everyone else wants.

By the way, what exactly are the changes in the new rules?

[Dario]

just a minor thing...

sepphi stated the problem:

The Fighting Sail Age technology, which is a key technology completely within the heart of the tech tree is the vanilla "Navigation" tech, which reduces trade outcome by 50 percent!!!
Not just that it imho doesn't make much sense to lower trade outcome at a very early state of game it - gets even more bizarre:
England as well as Habsburg are researching that tech from turn 1 on. So there is not even a chance to circumnavigate the malus. Consequently that brings a huge disadvantage for both civs.

and the solution was:

For our game my proposal would be to play on from a fixed rules file I created, which changes Fighting Sail Age and Military Engineering (which was originally a useless tech at the end of the tree), so researching Fighting Sail Age won't destroy gameplay anymore.

[cupcoffee]

So what is the vote on the hot vs net?

[Rebelious]

I go for net

[Radyserb]

I am for hot

@Dario: It should be allowed to build fortresses without limit on on continental Europe and in England

[Dario]

votes:

net ( dario, rebelious) = 2
hot ( radyserb) = 1

cupcoffe( don't mind)

and the snake has to vote

added rule of fortresses in homeland without any limit

[Cobra]

I prefer .hot

[Dario]

so,

2 net (dario. rebelious)
2 hot (cobra, radyserb)

1 abstention (cupcoffee)

lol, , what we do? cupcoffe, do you want to decide?

[cupcoffee]

Like I said, I'm used to .hot, so I'm more inclined towards that.
So I'll start at governor (King level), unless there are any objections.

[cupcoffee]

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