New team game

[snoopy369]

Well clearly Euros are peaceful, they never have big long deadly wars or anything, do they?

[Beta]

dacole - welcome!

I hadn't hosted a game either up until about a month ago. Bohemian Epic is now running relatively smoothly. A few little frustrations at the start - but as ephack has pointed out - the community is getting more experienced all the time. Besides - we have resident expert snoopy right here. He has drafted an excellent guide which walks you through the set up.

Remeber - the only thing you need to be prepared for is leaving your PC on 24/7, with periodic shutdowns for maintenance/upgrades. It is easy to save and reload the pitboss game though, so this is not too much of a hassle.

Ephack - 8 would be good - 4 teams of 2.

And would you like to be team mates - or is this going to be randomly assigned?

And as another suggestion - how about 8 european civs - a "Europe in Flames" game.

English-French
Germans-Russians
Spanish-Romans
Greek-Ottoman

Haven't checked the traits yet.

EUROPE IN FLAMES

[Beta]

Another thought is that we do a Greek City States war. We all get the Greeks, with fixed pairs.

SPARTANS PREPARE!

[Beta]

PM'ing Andydog, rumpo kid, and few others to see if they want in.

[Beta]

Along the line of Greek city states, maybe a game called Aegean, with island starts, and a short turn timer in the early going to get through the growth part, extending it when we start hitting the seas.

(sorry - just full of ideas this morning. And about to set up my better half's lap top so I can run a second pitboss game - some of the ideas above.)

AEGEAN

[Ephack]

No, that's fine, Beta, on the contrary: That's really good to have people with good ideas

The idea with the Greeks is interesting: then we would all have the same civ and it would be really equilibrated. Is there anywhere on the net a good map of Greece? Or perhaps is it too small for 8 civs. Should we take a mediterranean map? Or a totally random "islands map"?

And if anybody wants to be with somebody in particular, I have nothing against that. But I don't have myself any preference.

[Andydog]

Thanks for the PM Beta. This game looks great! I'll be keen to play. I like the idea of an island map but will be happy to go with the consensus.

[Beta]

That makes Ephack, snoopy, pinchak, dacole (host), Andydog, and Beta. Two more spots open - or we can go with 6 if there are no takers.

Random draw for teams then?

[Ephack]

Yop! I would say so. Can I nominate your wife official civ4-MP-random drawer?

[Beta]

Sounds good. And she has been teaching my dog new tricks, so he might be do the honours - drawing names from his food bowl.

Here is Wyatt the Wonderdog. He was watching the Daytona 500; hence the scarf.

[GeoModder]

If you can use other players, I'm game.
(o yes, this presumes it's a pitboss game with a dedicated server? No GameSpy intermediating?)

[Ephack]

Welcome Andydog and Geomodder!

Yes, this is a "home-hosted servor" game.

So, I go back to my "navigation manuals". In fact, I'm normally not very good at ruling the seas. But I'm learning fast...

[dacole]

Yea!! Glad to see this has taken off do we have a start time? As well will need instructions on how to host. Also changing computers when ever I get my motherboard back so it can run a duel core chip...not sure how long that will take, but will at that time need help in what files I need to take over to continue the game...(new hard drive as well)

[snoopy369]

PTBS setup guide (draft) is in my sig now. Check it out. I think it should be thorough enough for you. If you have a fixed IP, or if you can use dynDNS to get a fixed IP name, then you can (and should) set it up as DirectIP; otherwise you'll have to use gamespy ("internet").

I at one point preferred gamespy but it's failed us lately, so I definitely suggest directIP if you can. If you want to set up a dyndns account I can help with that also.

If you switch computers, all you need to do is to take the savegame just as if you were switching computers with a normal Civ game, and reinstall Civ of course.

[Beta]

Welcome GeoM! Youmake seven. We need one more for 4 teams of two. Anyone have anybody else they want to invite?