Succession Games

[waggywags]

I'm curious, but has anybody here tried playing any Mount and Blade Warband succession games? For those who want to know more, it's basically a savegame that gets passed around from owner to owner.

I suppose it's kind of pointless, yes, since most people are rather unlike in taste of troops etc, but it'd be interesting. Is there any succession game ongoing, and if not, would anybody be interested?

 

[manekemaan]

sure why not, since i've been doing a lot of testing mods lately i have gotten a bit tired of the begin game.

 

[greymanelor]

Could be interesting.

What would the ground rules be?

 

[Bobsama]

Could be interesting.

What would the ground rules be?

How about no soldier dismissal, as a starter?

 

[manekemaan]

maybe keep the companions like they are : they will ofcourse continue in their growth but you can't change the type of companion it is: keep the same types of armor, types of weapons (lancer, with throwing spears or foot archers etc) and try to continue in the same skill setup

 

[candyman]

Doesn't that basically mean the first player basically gets to choose exactly what the companions do?
I would assume companions should be somewhat agreed upon, so they don't try to play firentis as medic and jeremus as combat or something >.>

 

[manekemaan]

that kinda makes sence :p

 

[Filou]

It's all about setting the rules of your game. 
You could have it that players are allowed to recruit only one companion per session.  Also possibly whoever recruited the companion gets to set up the equipment/skills, others can improve but not dramatically alter the layout.

There should probably be a rule of thumb for which faction(s) are used too.  Even with  a no dismissal of troops rules it's pretty easy to send them all to die into battle in order get a new batch

 

[VikingHaag]

I like the idea... anybody votes for a nord footman as character? (BTW, would we use mods?)

 

[Fierkraag]

Hmm this sounds interesting. How long would a session be? in game time one day wouldnt be enough per person to really do anything and 30 would be too large. Maybe 7-14 days?

 

[killer110]

What if they never give the file back after the 7-14 days? And would the save file be copied, moved or both? How? I'm just giving requirements and stuff to be realistic. Feedback would be appreciated.

 

[Fierkraag]

well how about if say you put the save file on say megaupload and then dont take it off until the next person has put their updated one up so the file isnt lost, also maybe make it so that a person has say 2 days real time to do their 7-14 days in game time and if they dont then someone else takes over and does that save instead. Realistically deleting the file after someone else has gotten it would be kind of daft as even if they arent someone trying to ruin it accidents can happen and thus it would be best to keep a backup, so say copy the file put it up on megaupload and keep both copies until the newer updated one is put up and confirmed. That seems logical to me anyway

 

[candyman]

I think it would be a good idea to just have an archive of past saves, just for record keeping purposes....

 

[Winterz]

It's a really interesting idea.

 

[manekemaan]

ok so what mod are we gone do? i vote for native compilation (the light one atm)

 

[Winterz]

Mod? I thought this was a savegames exchange(ofc we must have the certain mods installed). 

 

[candyman]

Well yeah, its a save game exchange, but it means we gonna have to have mod compatibility

I'm voting for the basics, at least, PBOD and Diplomacy

 

[Fierkraag]

Ive yet to actually try any mods so I will just go with what you guys choose in that regard

 

[candyman]

Oooh, another thing

Realistic saving or not?

 

[Winterz]

No, so you don't overwrite another one's work.