Come Join a Hotseat!

[Mithridate]

Got tired from the AI? Test your skills against real life players!
Always wanted to play a multiplayer campaign in this beautiful universe? This is your chance!

Westeros Total War offers an unique hotseat experience, unlike any other mods. Here the focus lies on wars, not economy, there are no rebel settlements. Everything is about supporting claims to the Iron Throne or declaring independence!(ever faction can claim independence after certain requirements have been met, only Stannis, Renly and Joffrey can claim the Iron Throne)
This is the Game of Thrones, who will win and who will die?

The hotseat will use some new files based on enhanced submod, which will hopefully fix some issues people have with enhanced submod.

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All above Credited to Dux, felt pointless to type my own when he had put it so well. Give the man some rep

Dux and I are currently hosting Two such hotseats, since theyre mostly filled with the same people and where filled so incredibly fast ive created a third for latecomers Hopefully Dux will help me admin that one as well.

here is the thread

[Lord AcidRocker]

Yay hopefully there will be a large pool of readied HS players when 1.0 is released!! All hail Mith and Dux for fathering new HS children

[Mithridate]

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Thank you, i hope so too

But my dream is to draw a crowd to the Main hotseating forum, Westeros is a great gateway to introduce
people to hotseating as theres fewer "hardcore"/experienced hotseaters and a lot of trafic of new people.

[Lord AcidRocker]

Ahh yes I frequent that forum from time to time. I have a TATW hotseat in there which hasn't started but there's a lot more HS using other M2TW mods like KGCM, SS, etc.

I think one reason it's not very active is because it's so damn hard to find. If it wasn't for The Norseman posting the link to it from a thread in the TATW hotseat sub-forum, I likely wouldn't have known about it until i read the above post with the link. However, the re-emergence of a BI hotseat by Vasilefs shows signs that they have yet to find their grave.

I know you have deeper connections to the old school hardcore HS gamers so i might just be out of the know, but I applaud your efforts to revive hotseating.

[Inarus]

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Thank you, i hope so too

But my dream is to draw a crowd to the Main hotseating forum, Westeros is a great gateway to introduce
people to hotseating as theres fewer "hardcore"/experienced hotseaters and a lot of trafic of new people.

I would point out this isn't where hotseats belong, but I know exactly what it's like trying to get an audience to a subforum. The WTW forums need a clean up, hopefully something to encourage such traffic to the subforums will be included if we ever do reorganise them.

[Mithridate]

Hotseating is far from dead and im a late arrival, during my soon to be year of oh so sweet hotseating ive seen the number decline slightly (due to including .org). But ive also seen a serious buff from westeros. We are about the same in the main forum as before, but those whom have left where pretty long standing hotseaters and the replacement new blood though seemingly devoted

I too think the finding part have been the biggest issue, possibly followed with new people being afraid of the veterans and all the rules whom can look overwhelming at first.

[Badger-dude]

Well I have signed up for this hotseat (Arryn was taken yet again! Grr) and look f9 playing with some new playera.

Also, I have just released the Alpha of my Fire and Bloid submod and would love it if anyone (including the advanced players) Fancies that

[complete noob:(]

Come on people, playing hotseats are great. It really ups the difficulty (because you play against real people with real intelligence) which makes it much more fun, since every game will be different.

[Mithridate]

Its filling up, going to give it over the weekend before allowing some of the other youngbloods
Or if they press the issue, some moderately experience player to really show em the ropes!

[complete noob:(]

Or if they press the issue, some moderately experience player to really show em the ropes!

(even though I'm admining)

[Mithridate]

Indeed, all the hotseats should be moved to the main thread but it works pretty well with the subforum. But the time for Medieval 2 in it self pulling a hotseat crowd is over, now its via the mods. Imho it thus makes sense to keep them in the one and the same place to then ship over to the main one when theyre ready ( or should the amount of players greatly decline ).

If you link to the main forum and all westeros hotseats where there i fear most would be overwhelmed, while now its smaller while still decent coverage of both forums is maintained. Much easier to get a foot in and discover how awesome it is to hotseat^^

[Dux]

Indeed, all the hotseats should be moved to the main thread but it works pretty well with the subforum. But the time for Medieval 2 in it self pulling a hotseat crowd is over, now its via the mods. Imho it thus makes sense to keep them in the one and the same place to then ship over to the main one when theyre ready ( or should the amount of players greatly decline ).

If you link to the main forum and all westeros hotseats where there i fear most would be overwhelmed, while now its smaller while still decent coverage of both forums is maintained. Much easier to get a foot in and discover how awesome it is to hotseat^^

I will never support any move of Westeros hotseats to the main hotseat subforum. The Westeros hotseats are perfectly located and we have build our own nice community over here. Absolutely no need to change that. (don't touch my domain )

Yes I believe complete noob is right that you two are having a misunderstanding.

I however do purpose a general announcement/stickied topic regarding hotseats in the Westeros main forum. In this thread all hotseats and free places will be listed and newly started hotseats for youngbloods will be announced. Best might be to close that thread and only allow me(or someone else from the community) and the mods to post there.

[Inarus]

No, they're good where they are, they were making an awful mess of the main WTW forum, but I think maybe some kind of stickied announcement thread or something would work well in the main WTW forum. I'm not sure how you guys do things, probs talk to Dux

[complete noob:(]

I think you two are talking about two completely separate forums

When Mith says "main forum" I believe he is referring to the "Hotseat Campaigns" sub-forum of Multiplayer Battlefield.

I think Inarus is talking about the main WTW forum.

[Mithridate]

Complete correct

Dux: It would be good with a hotseat listing thread to keep track, but i have to admid that ive never really seen them work during my year here and on .org. Other than that, a thread where people looking to join more hotseats could post would work well, the replacement player thread have worked somewhat well for that already.

On the New hotseat:

We need 5 more players, i aim to start by the end of the weekend so if not enough brand new players have arrived i shall have to include the other youngbloods or other interested players

[Mithridate]

Shameless self-bump

Hurry up and take a seat, 3 slots still open and id like them to be filled by all new players.
If not, filled by this weekend it will start on Monday with other youngbloods

Lannister, Stark and Tully are still free

Theyre all large and strong factions, Tully require a little of a politician while Lannister a warror!
Stark are a free spirit to do as they please^^ Beware the raiders, from east or west alike

[Mithridate]

Only Joffrey and Stark remains!

Edit: only stark!

[stefan1921]

Darn wanted lannisters, alright put me down for Stark, is their a guide i can find on how to do this? Thanks!
EDIT: Unless I'm too late?

[Dux]

Post in that topic, or else he might miss you.

[Mithridate]

Edit, we have started