EB Online Wippien Experiment

**WinsingtonIII** · 01-28-2010, 01:38

Alright, so I've got it installed. I am using my gmail, so the name is entirely unrelated to my guild name.

Here it is:

sthenige1 [at] gmail [dot] com

My internet at home has been acting weird, so I may be forced to go to the campus library to play, which means that I may have to plan ahead with people for matches, unfortunately.

Just out of curiosity, how much money do you guys usually play with? Is it like 40000 mnai like the tournaments seem to be? I've been wanting to test out some builds, but I'm not sure how much money I should allow myself.

**vartan** · 01-28-2010, 03:38

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The guys have come up with many fancy and great ideas, but I like to be traditionalist and stick to what's always worked best. 36k, and traditional rules. Ask Anti about what we did in July '09. He'll bring it back to the front page. I highly recommend those rules, they weren't too bad. But remember, this isn't a tournament we're talking about, so I say play reasonably, play fair, play nice, don't play rough, have etiquette, and think before you act or speak inappropriately. There should always be exhibition matches, and the only tournament/official matches that would have rules (other than the ones y'all make amongst your individual games) would be posted and made clear. I have plans on making it even more convenient for those who wish to play (read: not having to make threads for every tournament, but having a central location, hub...site).

**WinsingtonIII** · 01-28-2010, 03:49

Yeah, I mean, I prefer to have somewhat historically accurate builds in the first place, so I won't be loading up on elites or anything. I just was curious about how much money I should be trying to work with. Thanks for letting me know, I'll start working on some 36k builds and maybe this weekend I'll play some games.

**vartan** · 01-28-2010, 04:01

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No problem. As far as I can remember, 40k was too much, and 35k wasn't enough for Mak, so 36k was some sort of compromise of a sweet spot, if you will. Anti's idea, blame him.

<3

If you actually made several builds for your favourite faction(s), even more than one, say, against barbarian nations, Rome, etc., it would facilitate game initiation times as you'd just load your preset.

**antisocialmunky** · 01-28-2010, 14:32

Those rules were really really complicated especially the 2nd revision. Anyway. Congrats guys.

**vartan** · 01-28-2010, 14:41

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Those rules were really really complicated especially the 2nd revision. Anyway. Congrats guys.

We still haven't had one successful game and the only people tested so far are Scattered and I, and we've always had problems of our own, lol. I was referring to revision 1 by the way, I never liked 2. No matter, we'll need a whole new set anyway, I'll start work right away!

**Skullheadhq** · 01-28-2010, 16:42

If we test the commercial version for 30 days, can't we quickly make a 256 player hamachi server and then just return to the free version after the trial has expired?