KOTF Signup Thread

[KnightnDay]

I'm in, but won't be playing right away.

[Ituralde]

Welcome back econ21!
Planning Sigfrieds death together with you is one of my fondest memories of KotR.

And of course, I'm in. Can't keep the veterans waiting. Although what is this I keep hearing of Kingdoms? Have to look into that!°

[AussieGiant]

Ah hell...given all the "man love" being thrown around...

...I'll join in as well.

[TinCow]

Looks like I'm going to have to eat my words and fit this into my schedule from the start rather than waiting until October...

[AussieGiant]

Where the hell is OverKnight??

Can will put out an APB on the guy somehow?

[woad&fangs]

Meh, if I play less mafia, I'll have time for KotF. I thinks its a pretty good tradeoff.

I'll have to wait until tuesday/wednesday of next week to get kingdoms though. Hopefully that won't be an issue.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Where the hell is OverKnight??

Can will put out an APB on the guy somehow?

You're the Grand Master, you probably still have his email.

[AussieGiant]

You're the Grand Master, you probably still have his email.

On it.

[OverKnight]

Where the hell is OverKnight??

The Grand Master called and so here I am.

Sign me up.

If we don't want to have more RGBs than actual army units at the beginning, I'll gladly defer having an avatar. And please don't make me the monarch, I mucked that up enough last time.

[TheFlax]

Welcome back!

[ULC]

The Grand Master called and so here I am.

Sign me up.

If we don't want to have more RGBs than actual army units at the beginning, I'll gladly defer having an avatar. And please don't make me the monarch, I mucked that up enough last time.

Yay! I am so happy! You suddenly disappeared when you were needed most! Where did you go?

Now, someone needs to get a hold of PK, and were all set!

[Vladimir]

Looks like I'm going to have to eat my words and fit this into my schedule from the start rather than waiting until October...

Just make sure you keep the wife happy first.

[KnightnDay]

I'm in, but won't be playing right away.

I should have Kingdoms by Thursday, so I will be ready after that.

[econ21]

I make that 21 players signed on so far:

TheFlax
Cultured Drizzt Fan
Cecil XIX
GeneralHankerchief
TinCow
YLC
Ignoramus
everyone
mini
Rowan
Tristan de Castelreng
Dafug3
Vladimir
Ibn-Khaldun
econ21
Marcus Aggripa
KnightnDay
Ituralde
AussieGiant
woad&fangs
Ramses II CP
EDIT:
Overknight
Beskar
Andres?
Northnovas
TheLemongate

Assuming equal distribution across Houses, that would be five per House, which is a good number. My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.

[Cecil XIX]

My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.

We've come a long way since your day, old man.

[TinCow]

Assuming equal distribution across Houses, that would be five per House, which is a good number. My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.

16 is nothing. In LotR, I spawned 56 on the first turn.

[econ21]

16 is nothing. In LotR, I spawned 56 on the first turn.

Just out of curiosity, roughly what proportion of the 56 were active after 10 turns?

I was very interested to see how you allocated the avatars, although I hope whatever process Zim uses, it does not take 7 days for players to finish it. I am itching to start writing a story...

[GeneralHankerchief]

Each player got a choice of RBGs (after the first batch, players got to pick from three), so there were plenty left over.

I'd say that there were around 20 initial stories introducing all of the avatars in the game's opening days.

[Rowan]

And then there was Bart...

About every scenario I devised as his backstory was already posted when I finally got him. In the end I finally figured a backstory for him but never wrote, let alone posted it...

[TinCow]

Just out of curiosity, roughly what proportion of the 56 were active after 10 turns?

I was very interested to see how you allocated the avatars, although I hope whatever process Zim uses, it does not take 7 days for players to finish it. I am itching to start writing a story...

56 were spawned because there were 4 family members, thus 60 total avatars, which was double the number of players we had (30 players at start). We then went through a lottery, with priority given based on participation in the previous game (KotR) and in the test game that preceded LotR (this is what we did for avatar priority in KotR, so it was just continuing the tradition). First person on the list got their pick of any avatar, family member or RBG, on the list. When they were done, their chosen avatar was removed, and the second person picked. Rinse and repeat until all 30 players had chosen, at which point all extra RBGs were killed off to bring the avatars back down to 30. It actually worked pretty well and didn't take very long at all.

[AussieGiant]

56 were spawned because there were 4 family members, thus 60 total avatars, which was double the number of players we had (30 players at start). We then went through a lottery, with priority given based on participation in the previous game (KotR) and in the test game that preceded LotR (this is what we did for avatar priority in KotR, so it was just continuing the tradition). First person on the list got their pick of any avatar, family member or RBG, on the list. When they were done, their chosen avatar was removed, and the second person picked. Rinse and repeat until all 30 players had chosen, at which point all extra RBGs were killed off to bring the avatars back down to 30. It actually worked pretty well and didn't take very long at all.

That was a very good system and something I'd recommend Zim do again this time.