Shattered Ascension discord server: https://discord.gg/rUxMcUe

In case you are wondering why this steam group became eerily silent, this is due to Discord proving to be a much more convenient place to hang out and play Shattered Ascension over TableTop Simulator, so the community transitioned over to discord.

So there you go. If you wish to follow the community, head over to our discord server: https://discord.gg/rUxMcUe

Oh, and to get you motivated, here's a little bit of teasing about what you'll find there:
- A bunch of friendly people to play with. We regularly see more than 6 gaming sessions per week.
- Teaching games to help you smoothly get into the water of Shattered Ascension
- A direct line to get answers to your questions
- Automatic game continuations scheduler
- A discord bot keeping you up to date on your continuations
- A leaderboard (if you're into that sort of things)

PsiComa recently released a youtube video giving an introduction of what is the TI3:SA mod for TableTop Simulator. Check it out on youtube!

So if you have friends that have no idea why you are spending your nights in front of your computer playing an obscure "board game on the computer or something" rather than hanging around with them, you can now direct them to this video.

The community is growing and with it are the number of games currently in progress. Last week we hit 20 games that are currently started but awaiting continuation.

While it's great that more and more people are getting involved, it's time that we make an effort to complete games. If you have played a game with us, please visit the Games in Progress board of our group. There you should find the game you started. Just make a post and propose a continuation date. Or answer to posts in your game thread.

Also we are posting the regular gaming nights as events in our group. It would be awesome if you could post a quick comment if you will be able to make a date or not. It helps with the planning a lot, which in turn means more play time and less time lost to organizational issues.

One final thing:
If you are online and in a mood for playing (or not), just join the group chat and hang around.

Thank you all for making this group a place where you can play TI3 pretty much every week!

Best
Thrombozyt

Greetings everyone,

As you may already know, we have established a weekly meeting on Tuesdays at 20:00 CET, in order to start and continue games of Shattered Ascension on the TableTop Simulator mod.

So far, it has worked really well, we gathered a core set of players and were able to start eight games and finish five of them (including an epic game of almost twenty hours).

But the point of having a steam group is to enlarge the Shattered Ascension player base, to promote the creation of games with new players from other countries, and to grow a strong community dedicated to this atypic game.

So I'm a bit puzzled when we see so many members in the group, and yet get to see so few of them on the Tuesdays. Maybe you are shy. Maybe you are not availlable on Tuesdays and are secretly cursing us for having chosen this unconvenient time. Maybe you are a bit new to either Twilight Imperium 3 or Shattered Ascension, and do not feel comfortable enough, or do not want to spoil other people's games with your inexperience. Or maybe you only want to play with your local friends, and are annoyed by this kind of posts.
The fact is that we don't know. We don't know if you would like to play with us, we don't know when you would be availlable to do so and we don't know what you expect of this group.

So if you are interested in making this steam group a place vibrant with life and galactic warlords struggles, please consider leaving a comment to this announcement, to let us know your opinion and a bit about you so that we can organise relevant stuff to turn this group into a place that suits your needs. (You can also simply say hi, just that would already be great)

• Where are you from? (especially the timezone)
  
• Are you familiar with Twilight Imperium 3? Shattered Ascension?

We believe it is necessary to have at least one regular playtime, from which the rest can grow. This playtime is currently Tuesday evening, but since we don't see a lot of you in the group chat at these times...

• When would you like such regular playtime to be? By extension, when are you availlable to play?

Would you be interested by some kind of easy-going learning games? A not-that-competitive game aimed at providing insight on Twilight Imperium 3 and Shattered Ascension and acquiring some practical experience.
Training duels against a willing-to-teach player can also be a great learning vector.

We do have a rustic scoreboard managed by Thrombozyt (actually one for the duels/skirmishes (3 player games), and one for the Matches (4 to 8 player games)), but would you be interested in some kind of tournament at some point?
Series of duels or something like that?



That's it! You made it to the end of this annoucement!
As a final word, know that you can often find at least one guy in the group chat, if ever you wish to know something or simply talk. Note that this group chat is where we usually meet before launching the Tuesday game time. It's also a good place to meet the other persons of the group that are not your steam friend, so we encourage you to just hang around in it (turning on the "beep when users send messages" that is mysteriously off by default is worth considering (there's an arrow for that in the group chat window)).
And we are also planning to start at least one new game next Tuesday, so you can join us in the group chat before 20:00 and we will decide how many and which games to start so that everyone gets to play.

See you!

--
Cyrusa

(By the way, the CET evenings may very well be unconvenient for non-european players. So if a non-european player group was willing to create the same kind of regular playtime, at a more convenient time for them, they would be welcome)
[EDIT] There is a regular play time for US players. Check out this thread.

PsiComa launched a pretty cool initiative a few weeks ago.
The idea is that everyone introduces himself a bit to the community, to create better links inside the "SA Family", to know the skill level of people, when they are able to play, where they are from and so forth. It's also very interesting to hear about how to found your way here.

Share your stories and learn more about your future opponents in the Introduction thread!