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Started by Tamas, June 11, 2009, 04:21:38 AM

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Tamas

#60
June 12, 2009, 03:31:14 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 12, 2009, 03:29:10 PM


I am giving serious thought to TaT4 if this doesn't work out.  The summer looks boring right now, and we have FB as the perfect Serbia, and a delightful mix of people for the various parties in the majors.


:mmm:

Indeed. Putting Jaron, FB, and Martinus in the Balkans could actually work out pretty historically.  :D

Tamas

#61
June 12, 2009, 03:32:30 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 12, 2009, 03:30:37 PM
Quote from: Tamas on June 12, 2009, 03:23:56 PM
GRUMBLER ARE YOU STILL GAME?

Damn you guys don't let me put down the whip even for a moment.
Whow!  I just got home from my high school's graduation,and you are yelling at me?  :lol:

As I said, I am game.


It was more like in the general direction of all the players :P

garbon

#62
June 12, 2009, 03:35:21 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 12, 2009, 03:29:10 PM
I am still In Like Flynn.

I just used the same expression chatting with jaronious! :o
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

grumbler

#63
June 12, 2009, 03:36:53 PM
Quote from: Tamas on June 12, 2009, 03:31:14 PM
Indeed. Putting Jaron, FB, and Martinus in the Balkans could actually work out pretty historically.  :D
Yep.  They would agree for about 4 seconds, and then rip each others' lungs out.

Think of all the near-ideal conservatives, liberals, and socialists on the forum.  Then you will understand why I think TaT could be a whole shitload of fun here.

Of course, the idea that Languishites would keep up with the game is the major turnoff.  :( 
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

grumbler

#64
June 12, 2009, 03:38:20 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 12, 2009, 03:35:21 PM
I just used the same expression chatting with jaronious! :o
Well, we can just pretend I didn't say that, then!  :D
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Tamas

#65
June 12, 2009, 03:41:15 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 12, 2009, 03:36:53 PM

Of course, the idea that Languishites would keep up with the game is the major turnoff.  :(


I know. :(
TaT would work wonderfully with the Languish community, but people here have serious commitment issues.

garbon

#66
June 12, 2009, 03:43:45 PM
What is TaT?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Tamas

#67
June 12, 2009, 03:52:50 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 12, 2009, 03:43:45 PM
What is TaT?

Its a PBEM game about the same period like Pax Britannica, it was made by Grumbler, and is quite excellent. The only drawback that it needs like what, 16 players to make it really work, as the major powers have 3 political parties each (the players share roles, one is PM, other runs the military, third is foreign minister).

grumbler

#68
June 12, 2009, 03:53:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 12, 2009, 03:43:45 PM
What is TaT?
Thunder at Twilight.  It was a colonial/Victorian PBEM game I and some others ran back in the 1998 through 2000 (three different iterations) that was purely web/PBEM based.  Excel spreadsheets for budgets, and that sort of thing.

Nominally 26 players, with 3 players (Conservative, Liberal, and Nationalist) per major country, with goals that were both competitive and cooperative, two players (Coneservative and nationalist) for the mid-powers, and single players for the minor powers.

Heavily driven towards goal-achievement, as opposed to national power achievement, and lots of rndom events to spice things up.  Newspapers would be published, budgets passed, colonies established, wars fought, the whole shebang.  It was suposed to be role-playing, and was.

I was amazed to find that Tamas had actually played in it, given the odds that a member of such a small group as the TaT players (and he was one of the key ones) would ever find themselves part of such a small community as this one.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Habbaku

#69
June 12, 2009, 03:55:52 PM
Don't suppose you still have the rules (if there are such) lying around, grumbler?  Or is it a purely role-played game?

I know I'm at least curious to find out more, from the basics you've given.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

grumbler

#70
June 12, 2009, 04:11:25 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 12, 2009, 03:55:52 PM
Don't suppose you still have the rules (if there are such) lying around, grumbler?  Or is it a purely role-played game?

I know I'm at least curious to find out more, from the basics you've given.
PM me an email address, and I will send you the rules.  I would be thinking of you more as a GM than a player, if it came down to it.

The game is pretty GM-heavy.  The last three iterations had 3 GMs for 26 players.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

garbon

#71
June 12, 2009, 04:14:36 PM
Oh sounds cool and very intense!
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Habbaku

#72
June 12, 2009, 04:15:38 PM
PM sent.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Habbaku

#73
June 12, 2009, 04:29:15 PM
Quote from: Tamas on June 12, 2009, 03:41:15 PM
TaT would work wonderfully with the Languish community, but people here have serious commitment issues.

I've said this before, but I think you're underestimating the reliability of several people on here.  My short-list of reliable players (IE, people that would not bail inexplicably) :

Habbaku (I count!)
Beeb
Martinus
Berkut
Tamas
Delirium
grumbler
Katmai
CountdeMoney (Just kidding)
garbon
Kleves
Ulmont
Ehrie
Viking

That's a fairly large list of players available, assuming the interest is there.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Ed Anger

#74
June 12, 2009, 05:01:51 PM
Thank god you didn't put my name on there.
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