Monday Night Pick Up Game

[Frank Johnson]

I perfer a medium map

Deity or emperor

At least "some" barbarian activity.

No city bribe

1x production

We generally ban gifting of gold due to massive bug cheat present there.

I don't know what you want to do on alliances / tech trading etc. I'm flexable.

[Scurry]

i'd like to get into some multiplay but mondays are no good for me. I have classes on monday night. Tuesday, and Fri-Sun are my only available evenings. I've never done any civ2 multiplay but am itching to try it.

I'd be interested in some PBEM but i aint never done that either. Just a noober i guess...lol.

Anyway, there's my two bits.

[drake]

Ok, so you lets have a roll call here...whos on for this coming monday at around 7 est?

Setting look like they'll be 1x1x king, maybe emperor, medium to large map and if the group agrees, the no rr, city bribe and howies rule.

I think Frank, Chris and I are sure things...anyone else for sure?

If so, lets find out soon. I think we should cap the game at 5, so the next 2 people to confirm will probably be in.

Peace.

[srholmes]

i could do this coming week.(ie midnight GMT, is that)?, and probably future weeks. i just can't commit indefinitely...

[Chris 62]

Drake, not sure 100% for Monday, may not be able to.

[Makeo]

I'll be here

[Chris 62]

I should be OK for Monday, but if we are four people, I'm not keen on a medium map and 1x, I hate being crowded and having nowhere to go if someone else had a more favorable start area.

Emperor and Diety are virtually the same, and again, not a big fan, diety means happiness is the number one issue, and a race to happy wonders, not a fan of that either, but I'll go along with the majority.

Barb I don't care about, personally I feel they add nothing to the game except cheap units and extra income from barb leaders, some people love them, I feel they are a waste, but if you guys want them, I'm OK with it.

I agree with no city bribe, but not with no gifting of gold in alliances, this is a part of alliance, a rich ally can be a valuable ally, often more then an ally with many units.

Again, we should vote on exactly what we want here.

[Frank Johnson]

Eh....if we aren't gonna do medium lets do some custom size in between because large is for 7...personally I find medium to be quite good for 4.

Deity and Emperor's happiness issues are pretty easily overcome, and in all the rescent games I've played no one has "rushed for mikes" etc etc..... and the top players didnt have a single happiness wonder. Although I can see how HG might help early, but in my last deity game, I just killed the player with chariots who didnt get phalanxes and he couldnt hold the HG.

The only reason I want some barbs is it forces people to have at least 1 garrison unit per city, so even if they get in a comfortable alliance they can't just leave it all out in the open. Too many games have fell appart because there were no barbs and I attacked or encouraged an attack on the rich tech leading player with virtually no defense in certain areas.

Here is the bug in gold gifting. Its been argued weither its based on what gold you have at the start of your turn or your income.....but basicly if I had 1000 G...spend all but 1 on improvments, go to my dear ally..give him the 1 gold.....and go back and look at my total.....it wont be 0 it will be alot higher.....and its infiantely repeatable. So not gold trading. And no cheap **** like trading units to move them twice in a single turn....etc.

[drake]

Emperor level sounds like a good bet, custom random map, with dimensions between medium and large. Some barbies and basically no cheap sh1t. This is gonna be a fun game, and there arent any people here who care that much to cheat to win.

If its only going to be 4 people, alliances really shouldn't play a big part anyway, atleast I wouldn't think...that is unless it gets too lopsided. Anyway, hows that sound?

And whos going to be host?

I'll be here around 7 est on AIM and ICQ.
My AIM is highfill78 and my icq # is 92965309

[srholmes]

i can host if you like - i have broadband here

[Prometheus]

If there is still room sighn me up, I will be here 7est, AIM name JMTQT, Drake and Chris should have it.

[drake]

Sweet, looks like we got a good game forming

We wont know who shows up until tonight, but so far the people that have verified interest are

Holmes,
Frank,
Chris,
Makeo & Pro, and myself of course.

IF all show, thats a 6 man game, and I'm not sure that it isn't a bit too large of a group. I just know how slow a game can get in moden times (as do the rest of you).

We can discuss that then.

So we have 4 people on AIM, frank, chris, pro and myself. Do you have it MAkeo? Holmes?

[srholmes]

yes, i am srholmes007 on aim and 169333241 on ICQ

[Makeo]

no i don't.