8th

This is the patch (Last changed: Tue Apr 20 17:05:26 CEST 2004 )
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09-dec-2003 - 05-aug-2004

Players:

• Fiona
• Thelonious
• Duloc
• Magic_Mirror
• Myst
• Recluce
• Shrek
• Winterwood
• Coco

8th started out as a usual Stack speed game (i.e. 3 updates a week), but because of the 3 starting mini islands, the pace was to high and was set back to twice a week.
For 8th I copied and adapted a some ideas of Lord Of The Rings and added a swamp theme to it. Something we'd always wanted to experiment with, being from Holland: dikes and polders:

• No plains; swamps instead.
• Mobility needed to move through swamps 5 times higher than normal sectors.
• Units with swampwalk ability (normal sector movement cost (1/5th))
• Deity mil in each unowned sector that doesn't sink at the start of the game.
• Slower tech growth rates.
• Fairland adapted to produce the swamp.
• Three starting "islands" per player.
• Swamps can be diked to prevent flooding, simulated by increasing efficiency, costing hcms/lcms.
• Swamps get a 80 - (4*eff/5) percent chance of becoming flooded at the update.
• Water gets a 80 + (eff/5) percent chance of becoming a swamp at the update.
• Swamps can be navigated through, but cannot be (l)mined.

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