Any europeans want to play a diplo game this afternoon?

[Robert]

let's say we start 14:00 CET ? (13:00 GMT)

[alva]

What's a diplo game???

[Robert]

A long large game with much players on a large world in multiple sessions.
Because the world is that big it's important to have allies, and use diplomacy rather than pure force to survive.

If you're a warmonger and kick the hell out of your neighbours you might see an alliance of 7 players against you (like Iraque right now )

those games are cool and the best!
it's civilization as it's meant to be!

[Crousto]

I'm in Europe and interested in good long games. I'm sick of those random people from Gamespy who leave without any warning just because they lost a city or even failed to take one. I'm usually available during evenings and weekends, and will have plenty of time during the Christmas holidays. However, I doubt we'll manage to find enough people right now to start today
What do you have in mind for the game settings and amount of human players? Right now I've never succeeded in hosting or joining a game with more than 3 human players And what about the turns mode? I like sim.turns, it should be OK if we don't have too much wars. Turnbased is ok too, but I don't like turnless, Civ is not a RTS

[Robert]

Let's try to find more people first, and than try to find good play-dates.

I prefer turn-based over simultaniously. Turnless is no good indeed.

I think it's possible to play with 6-8 people, but only if the ping is low. With people from europe (western?) that must be possible.

[Robert]

more europeans interested?

[Franses]

I sure am. Count me in. Did not get a chance to play over the Internet yet and am looking forward to a good game. But...... do you really expect to be able to play with many players on a large world?

From what I have read about it sofar, this is impossible.

[Crousto]

Yesterday, I've had a nice game with 5 players for 1 hour (then some quitted, but I don't think it was connection related). The matchmaking had been made through DirectIP. Some players were in the US and some in Europe. If everybody is in Europe, it should be possible to have even more players.

[Robert]

If we focus on low-ping, it must be possible.
And of course we can join through IP if things fail.
It's not so bad if there's a crash or two.

Pherhaps we should install ICQ for chatting,
since civ3 chat fairly doesn't work, and chatting is very
important in a diplomacy game.

[Franses]

Do you have experience with the voice chat in PTW. That would be a nice possibility but I did not get it to work yet.

[Crousto]

I just come back from a sim.turns 3 players game with 2 German guys... Not a single lag, it was brilliant (except that they were always chatting in German and I didn't understand anything... maybe they were plotting some evil plan against me ). Matchmaking worked through Gamespy.
I agree about ICQ for chatting if a patch doesn't fix the text-wrap thing quickly. I haven't got the voice chat thing to work too... I fear it may slow down the connexions anyway.

[Franses]

I kind of hoped to be able to play you today, Crousto. I pm'ed you about it but probably was to late. Pity. Better next time, I hope.

[Emma]

i'd love to play! but i only just got PTW. how do i join the muliplayer game at 14:00?

[Crousto]

Originally posted by Emma
i'd love to play! but i only just got PTW. how do i join the muliplayer game at 14:00?

In the first post, CyberShy talked about 14:00 last weekend, but not enough players were present at this time. Now that we are 4, maybe we could start planning something for this weekend or friday evening, and more players will join until then.
I'm free this weekend and most evenings.

[Robert]

Sunday will be a possibility for me.
around 14:00, but I have to go around 16:30 again...