Per Sparrowhawk's request: the "7 player PBEM" - game...

[caesar007]

sounds good to me

[Straybow]

Still trying to resurrect this game? Good luck!

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Straybow

Still trying to resurrect this game? Good luck!

No need to resurrect it; it's still running!

Carolus

[Carolus Rex]

Seems we need to prove Straybow wrong, guys...

Where's the game now?

Carolus

[Sparrowhawk]

Last I saw it was sitting with Eddy (I think DaveV sent him the turn sometime in late April).

Not sure if Eddy sent it on yet, but I doubt it , as kengel is pretty reliable for sending it fairly soon.

/me

[Kull]

Whatever you do,
stay away from EU2!
It will destroy your life,
(or at least p*** off the wife!)

[Sparrowhawk]

Too late, it is my latest adiction!! Great Game!!

of course I spend way too much time playing and get less sleep as a result, but does it really matter as long as ___________ ends out as the world power?

* fill in your choice country in the blank above, in my case it is currently Venice, the major power of Europe in 1770

Back on topic......but at least EU2 helps keep me occupied while waiting for my turn in Civ to come back around....of course when it does i will need to search for my disk, it has been so long since I played last

/me

[Kull]

I was totally flummoxed by the sheer number of different factions......and the scale of the thing is just breathtaking. It's the first God Game I 've ever played in which "conquering the entire world" seems not only impossible, but frankly undesirable!

I salivate at the prospect of a future version starting in 4000 BC!

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk March 16, 2005
Okay, game played and forwarded to Carolus (by Email).



* Sparrowhawk

Wow..... I looked back to see my last turn and it was sent as quoted above, March 16, 2005 or 3 1/2 months ago.

I have played the next turn and sent on the save to Carolus tonight (June 27, 2005).

Germanos would love this game!!

/me

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Off topic reply to Kull:

Originally posted by Kull
I was totally flummoxed by the sheer number of different factions......and the scale of the thing is just breathtaking. It's the first God Game I 've ever played in which "conquering the entire world" seems not only impossible, but frankly undesirable!

I salivate at the prospect of a future version starting in 4000 BC!

I can't agree more, the game is great and I too can't help but compare to Civ (starting in 4000 BC). Not sure what you mean by the conquering the whole world being not only impossible but undersirable as well. In my current game (Venice) I have been trying to conquer as much as possible and with only 1 1/2 years remaining (May 1818) I control the majority of Europe and North America, along with significant portions of the Middle East, Africa and South America. I think that as I get better i will be able to conquer the majority of the world, and hope to do so. Why do you think this is undesirable (though you are right in that it is likely a virtual impossibility to conquer the entire world).

(by the way, I am only playing on "Normal" difficulty , which may be why I was able to conquer the majority of Europe).

By the way, not sure if you have noticed, but in the "other games" section of these Forums there is a "Paradox" Forum which has discussion of Europa Universalis. I am still new to the game (my only complete game so far was as Scotland) and have picked up a lot from fellow Apolytoners. Perhaps we could continue this discussion there?

[Carolus Rex]

Will play my turn soon, really soon...

Carolus

[La Fayette]

Will play my turn soon, really soon...

Sure you will, Carolus, we are very confident

BTW Sparrowhawk, may I suggest that we enforce the 72h law (someone hits Control+N if a player has not played his turn after 72h)?

[Sparrowhawk]

While that sounds great to me to get this game moving again, it sounds like an abrupt change to a game that has been moving so slowly (often 1 month + at one player).

Not sure we could enforce this as it would result in probably 3 of the players having their turns "control N" on a regular basis.

Having said that, I would be in favour of some time limit.

/me

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
I would be in favour of some time limit.

* Sparrowhawk

What about a week then ?
Other players are invited to give their opinion.

[kengel]

Hi guys,
great thread, thanks for keeping this great game alive!
I wish I would have much more time to help this game keep running...
The last turn stayed very long at Eddy, because he had trouble with a new PC and civ installation and so on.
And very often it happens, that a player is not available for a longer time.

Nevertheless, this game will not die!

I would agree with a time limit of perhaps a week.
But I think we could speed up the game, if we use alliance player.

There are obviously alliances in this game, and perhaps it makes sense if alliance players could sub for each other after a time limit.

This could fit for me/Sparrowhawk,
Eddy / Ian,
Babylon / french ?
Just for the romans I do not know an adequate alliance player, but perhaps Carolus knows

[Sparrowhawk]

Both setting a one week time limit and using substitute players (allies) make sense to me.

Just for anyone interested, I took a few minutes to summarize the dates when I sent on turns, to give an idea of time between turns.

280 AD - January 04/2003
300 AD - March 22/2003
320 AD - April 18/2003
340 AD - May 15/2003
360 AD - June 14/2003
380 AD - July 09/2003
400 AD - July 29/2003
420 AD - August 06/2003
440 AD - August 24/2003
460 AD - August 30/2003
480 AD - September 16/2003
500 AD - October 06/2003
520 AD - October 15/2003
540 AD - November 07/2003
560 AD - November 27/2003
580 AD - December 11/2003
600 AD - January 18/2004
620 AD - March 04/2004
640 AD - June 09/2004
660 AD - November 07/2004
680 AD - December 08/2004
700 AD - March 16/2005
720 AD - June 27/2005

/me