3 players for a PBEM game

[MortVader]

Hello.

I'm looking for 3 people for a PBEM game.

It will be a duel size map (the smallest) with the "Great Plains" mapscript. 4 human players total. No AI's.

Since this will be my very first multiplayer Civ experience, I'd prefer if not only pro's sign up

All settings will be standard.

/Morten a.k.a. MortVader

The players:
MortVader (Kublai Khan)
polarnomad (Peter)
marcsterix (random)
John-SJ (Napoleon)

[John-SJ]

Hi,

Sure, I'll join in on the fun. Should we pick leaders, or will you be setting the game up with random leaders?

[MortVader]

Hmm yeah, pick your leaders & supply your emailadresses (maybe you should do that by PM, or at least obscure it)

I think I will go for Kublai Khan :]~

edit: Kublai, not Ghengis

[John-SJ]

All right then, I will choose Napolean this time, and my email address is:

jdulleck (at) pacbell (dot) net

[marcsterix]

Hey sure, I'll join in also.

I'll take a random leader.

I'm marco at rentalrobots dot com

Later

[MortVader]

Excellent

Now we just need the last one!

[polarnomad]

What the heck! I've never tried a PBEM, so... bare with me if I screw it all up! (ie: someone'd better explain how it works...)

I'll pick Peter. I however would prefer to PM my email to you. Which I will do directly after posting this.

Am prepared to be beaten!

EDIT: um, silly me... Do I need to send PMs to all of the involved players with my email, or is one PM to MortVader going to suffice? (You guys are probably thinking, "Oh boy! This'll be a fun game!")

[MortVader]

And we're off! ;D

I've made my turn and sent it off to John-SJ.

I've never tried a PBEM either. Not in Civ, anyways.
You can open your turns by clicking directly on the file attachment, when your turn arrives by email.

If for some reason (fx. hotmail?) it dont work; deploy the file somewhere you can find it: example C:\saves or whereever. Then load the game from Civ. When you've done your turn, it will send automaticly. You do have to provide your smtp server to do that, though. But this should be a one time thing, I hope?

Click ALT-D ingame to enter your smtp-server information. Also don't forget to create a password in this section, so that you can feel certain that only YOU will open your turns.

Edit for Polarnomad: It was enough that I got your mail-address

[polarnomad]

Ok, thx. I'll let you know if I have trouble.

[John-SJ]

Mort,

I am at work right now but I just checked my email, I have not yet received your turn. Are you sure the turn was sent cuccessfully?

[MortVader]

Yeah.. at least it said so ingame. I will resend the turn manually right away!

Oh, and when you get it, maybe you can check if I misspelled your email ingame? (ALT-D)

/Morten

[John-SJ]

Okay, I got the second one, and it appears to have arrived right on the heals of the first. Oh well, the first email seemed to have been a little slow I guess.

I will play this when I get home from work.

[polarnomad]

Shall be interesting to see how this game will work out since we'll be sending it back and forth across the pond.

@John-SJ: I'm not sure what order it's going to go in, but if you still can control who it goes to after you, perhaps marcsterix should be next in line. That way it only crosses timezones half as often.

EDIT: Although, now that I look at the time associated with marcsterix's username I wonder if he actually is on your side of the pond... UK?

2nd EDIT: marcsterix corrected his timezone!

[marcsterix]

What?? you don't have CIV loaded at work???

[John-SJ]

From previous PBEM games I know that the turn order is already set, when I save the turn it will have the name of the next player on it already.

That being said, it is still not too late (if we agree that we should) to restart the game with turn order taking time zones into account.

If we should decide to restart, I am GMT - 8, U.S. Pacific time.