My name is Zulu Elephant and Im a first time PBEM *hangs head in shame*

[McMeadows]

A shame over the number of civs. I wonder why they restricted this.



Zulu dawn,.... Name is perfect, like you I've allready got a game going as "random". And Paddy "it's all good" the Scott, go ahead, show us a picture...

[Modo44]

If I'm available, it is in the morning 8AM-11AM GMT and then afternoon/evening 2PM-12PM GMT. I'm usually available, except on some Tuesdays.

[Zulu Elephant]

OK then, Im going to start the game with:
Random everything (including civs)
Standard sized map

Im going to put everyone in in this order:
Zulu Elephant - h0266763@hud.ac.uk
Grandpa Troll
Beta
Snoopy 369
Paddy the Scot
Modo44
Makahlue
McMeadows

is this ok with everyone?
could everyone post their email address so the game can start

What are we doing with the time of play?

Just play your turn as soon as possible after you receive your email and then send it on?
That seems sensible to me (as long as everyone keeps an eye on their email and everyone accepts that people will be at work/whatever sometime and accept the delays this causes

Or some other system?

[Grandpa Troll]

what other system could we have?

I mean..simple..play your turn as soon as possible and then the game gets going fast

my email is BCRONKITE-the at sign-ec-dot-rr-dot-com

[Zulu Elephant]

ICQ numbers would be useful too (as long as everyone checks their messages regularly and it's not abused.

[Beta]

Zulu E - the order looks good. Although I am not sure about Makahlua. That puts her in between Poland and Holland - in terms of play times.

Ms Mak - is that OK with you?

Grandpa knows my e-mail address.

And Grandpa is right - the standard etiquette and expectation in pbem's is that you play and send as soon as you can - within reason.

This is a great time sequencing for an 8 player game, with reliable folks. It should move well.

Please enter my player name as "BetaZ" when setting it up.

[Zulu Elephant]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
what other system could we have?

Just checking. Remember, Im a first time PBEMer

my email is BCRONKITE-the at sign-ec-dot-rr-dot-com

bcronkite-the@sign-ec.rr.com ??

sorry for my ignorance

[Beta]

May I also suggest that when we are set to go - you start a new thread called Zulu Dawn for the turn postings, and inlude the turn order in the first post - along with an appropriate picture that either Paddy or I can provide. The last item obviously is not a necessity - more of cultural norm here in the pbem forum.

[snoopy369]

Yeh, as long as the times of play are fine, it works out ok. Heck, we have 6 player games going with 2 turns a day- who knows what you could do with 8. 1 turn a day is 1 turn a day regardless of player numbers ... as long as everyone's fairly active, which these seem to be.

And if i didn't enter my email earlier, it is my username at yahoo.com , though beta knows it well.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant


Just checking. Remember, Im a first time PBEMer

Strictly speaking you could have enforced times, and/or specific play times. Such as the 6p2aday styles. Also, some games just put people in whatever order (most conquest scenario games, for example, ask you what civ you want, not what play order you want, even though it's fixed slots). Those tend to go somewhat slower, but then again i'm a perfectionist at slotting, and I nonetheless screw it up about half the time

bcronkite-the@sign-ec.rr.com ??

sorry for my ignorance

This is going to sound condescending no matter how i put it, so ... I assume you are aware of 'anti-spam' techniques to avoid email trollers? Although you probably are, I figure I should make sure. Some people are very testy about things like that. Again, apologies if i'm just telling you something that's patently obvious, but it's best to be sure (Not that antispam techniques are particularly effective ... from what I can tell, I get so much spam that I can't possibly be on any more lists anywho )

[Zulu Elephant]

Originally posted by snoopy369
This is going to sound condescending no matter how i put it, so ... I assume you are aware of 'anti-spam' techniques to avoid email trollers? Although you probably are, I figure I should make sure. Some people are very testy about things like that. Again, apologies if i'm just telling you something that's patently obvious, but it's best to be sure (Not that antispam techniques are particularly effective ... from what I can tell, I get so much spam that I can't possibly be on any more lists anywho )

Still not sure what you mean about the email so condescend away!
Better to get my PBEM newbie ignorance out of the way in one go.

[Zulu Elephant]

ok, last things before i start the game...

what difficulty level are we playing on? I know it doesnt make a lot of difference if all the players are human controlled - but anyway


And is everyone ok with the default game rules?

GAME RULES:
Allow domination victory - default on
ALlow space race victory - default on
Allow Diplomatic victory - default on
Allow conquest victory - default on
Allow cultural victory - default on
Allow wonder victory - default off
Culturally linked Start locations - default on
Accelerated production - default off
Elimination - default off
Regicide - default off
Mass Regicide - default off
Victory point scoring - default off
Capture the princess - default off
Allow cultural conversions - default on
Preserve random seed - default on

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant


Still not sure what you mean about the email so condescend away!
Better to get my PBEM newbie ignorance out of the way in one go.

Missed the boat on this game, not that I should be getting into too many more PBEMs anyway.

As to what snoop meant Zulu...posting Grandpa Troll's email address with the @ and . actually showing makes it far easier for someone trolling a site for email addresses to latch onto. Most PBEMers post their email addresses in various ways to eliminate the @ and . symbols which means it doesn't become a highlighted link, something which is easier for for the spam trolls to latch onto.

[Zulu Elephant]

Originally posted by Rhothaerill


Missed the boat on this game, not that I should be getting into too many more PBEMs anyway.

As to what snoop meant Zulu...posting Grandpa Troll's email address with the @ and . actually showing makes it far easier for someone trolling a site for email addresses to latch onto. Most PBEMers post their email addresses in various ways to eliminate the @ and . symbols which means it doesn't become a highlighted link, something which is easier for for the spam trolls to latch onto.

So does that mean that i got it right when i 'translated' it a few posts up?

[Beta]

Zulu - I suggest Monarch for this game.

and have you confirmed with Makahlua as to play times?