Re: [eia] bids

["Jayson Abbott" <jaysona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Done.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:33 PM
Subject: [eia] bids


> 1. I just sent out the escrow for bids. If you're playing, you should
> receive a message from escrow@xxxxxxxxx, asking for your bids. To place
> your bids, reply to that message. If you reply, but then change your mind
> before all replies are in you can reply again to overwrite your previous
> reply.
>
> 2. Please everyone read 14.2 before bidding. You must bid a unique
positive
> integer for each power. The powers are assigned in the order listed in the
> escrow. E.g. whoever has the high bid for Britain will get Britain,
> regardless of whether that person also bid 800 points for France and a
> billion points for Turkey. Ties are broken by highest roll.
>
> 3. You are bidding in Victory Points. Whatever you bid is added to the
> total you must achieve to win the game. You can find some previous bids
> here:
>
>  http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/eia/eia-200403/msg00291.html
>
> and here:
>
>  http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/eia/eia-200403/msg00306.html
>
> As to the appropriateness of those bids, we've commented on that in the
> list archives a bit in the past two weeks. Searching the net will likely
> dig up some more bids from other people.
>
> 3. All of the important information about the starting setup of the powers
> is in 14.7, so you can see what you're getting. The VP targets are on the
> player aid card. It just occurred to me that Jayson at least doesn't have
a
> copy of section 14, since that section is not in the online rules. I'd be
> happy to mail anyone who needs that a copy of it.
>
> 5. Lots of the stuff we're using can be found on Kyle's web site:
> http://home.att.net/~menexenus/
>
> -- 
> J.
>
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