New Pitboss game?

[ricketyclik]

Ooh! Ooh!

Can I play too?

[Kaleb]

My preferences:

1. Map size - Large preferably

2. Civ Choice - I'd like to pick with unrestricted leaders.

3. Tech Speed - Normal - with no tech trading tech progress will be slower.

4. Barbs - On, but not raging

5. Huts - Off please!

6. Victorys - All

7. Events - Off

8. Vassalage - never tried this on in MP, so don't know.

9. Tech trading - None, or at least with brokering off.

10. Turn timer - 24 hours

[ricketyclik]

My preferences:

1. Play

2. Play

3. Play

4. Whatever settings the rest of you agree on.

5. Play

[Kaleb]

One thing we did in a game I'm playing is to take unrestricted leaders and then to randomly select a picking order among players.

We then picked a leader in order, and then picked a civ in reverse order. It made the picking process some fun and also made it pretty even.

[binary010101]

I was under the impression that if you choose a leader, it automatically determines your civ.

[Kaleb]

Not if you have unrestricted leaders. It means you end up playing civs or leaders that you wouldn't normally use because the normal civ-leader combo isn't good

[St Jon]

Not my preferred option as I may end up with Russia.

[Kaleb]

then don't pick Russia...

[St Jon]

Sorry, I misunderstood and having re-read your post in that light it sounds like a good and fun idea.

[Kaleb]

So how many players have we got? They way we randomised was as follows:

Player A - assigns a number to each player and send this list to Player C
Player B - creates a random order of the numbers (e.g. 3, 5, 1, 2, 4) and sends this to Player C
Player C - posts the messages from players A and B together on the forum so we have our picking order. Players then start to pick in order within a set timelimit.

So to start - what's our final lineup of players like?

[Kaleb]

Am I right in understanding that this is the list of players?:

1. Wittlich
2. St Jon
3. Zorzak
4. Janis
5. Evalds
6. Pinchak
7. Beta?
8. Binary010101
9. Black Knight 427
10. Kaleb
11. mzprox
12. ricketyclik

If so another option to randomise the pick list (if we want to do that) is to just use a number randomiser:

http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm

[Hercules]

Is there room for one more.

[Black Knight 427]

Are we starting soon?

[Pinchak]

So to start - what's our final lineup of players like?

May I suggest no double civs. Having 3 Indias, 2 Romes, 3 Englands, and 4 Germanys would just suck.

[St Jon]

May I suggest no double civs. Having 3 Indias, 2 Romes, 3 Englands, and 4 Germanys would just suck.

I certainly agree! I am in a PBEM like that and it is weird when you sign a Peace Treaty with yourself.