C3C PBEM Tournament

[Adagio]

Quick votes:

Should we use Cerb's replacement idea?
My votes goes to: Yes

Should we add more players to this game, or try to see if we can get enough players for a second tournament?
I'm undecided

[Harovan]

Add to this tournament. To start the 2nd, 3rd etc. tournament while the first is still running sucks. Look in the online MP forum. There are already discussions about the 4th tournament, although even the 2nd hasn't even completed round 2. And that is online MP. The mess will be yet bigger in PBEM, where a game lasts about a year, or even more.

[Iron Jackson]

I agree with Sir Ralph. A single tournament will be better than starting another one. If we get 5 oder 6 players for the final game it doesn´t matter.

Edit: The replacement suggestion by Cerberus is fantastic. We shall handle it that way.

[Wittlich]

I too vote Yes to Cerberus' replacement suggestion.

Add more people to this tournament - Yes (but up to when it actually starts).

Second Tournament - No.

[BigFree]

Can we start already? Who hasn't given their password to OctX?

[predesad]

my only reservation about adding to this tournament is the same point Rommel brought up -

As it stands, we have to wait for all 4 first round games to finish before starting the final. I'll be suprised if we finish that before Civ4 is released. Since the whole tournement will move at the pace of the slowest first round game, I don't really want to have a fifth or sixth late-starting game added into the mix.

if we start a 5th or 6th 1st round game unless they get started quickly we be waiting for them to finish to start 2nd round, and on down the line. Which is why i thought a 2nd tournament would be better. And who cares if we have 2, 3, or 4 touney's going at the same time, just start a new thread for each different tourney to avoid confusion.

i think everyone's getting impatient, i thought we were about to get started. do we all have our email's posted? whoever needs to pm passwords needs to do so. could we get a post about who has / has not pm'ed their password?

and surely this discussion about 5th, 6th game or second tourney is not holding up the game, because we could be playing while trying to iron this out.

whoever is holding up the game please do what you have to do so we can go.

if the delay is on Octavian X (making maps or whatever) please disregard because we all deeply appreciate the work you are doing, in fact, you just take your good sweet time if you need to.

oh, & that replacement thing is a good idea, unless it is a temporary replacement, we should be able to get temporary replacements at any point in the game IMHO.

[E_T]

I've PM'ed my Password to OctX. I'm ready to go.

Lets get the games that are already setup going. If we add other people, they can go to other first round games (same as us). I like what SR says, let them join until the first games get to AD.

We can figure out how we do a second round AFTER we get this one started. Time is Flying and I'm not....

E_T

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by predesad
oh, & that replacement thing is a good idea, unless it is a temporary replacement, we should be able to get temporary replacements at any point in the game IMHO.

I concur with Predesad. I myself, have filled in as a temporary player in other PBEM games due to another player's few weeks of absence. There were no problems and more importantly, it kept the game moving.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Wittlich
I too vote Yes to Cerberus' replacement suggestion.

Add more people to this tournament - Yes (but up to when it actually starts).

Second Tournament - No.

as stated...

[Octavian X]

Let's see...

I've yet to recieve passwords from rogerub and Tarquinias. In 24 hours or so, we'll consider them out, and we'll use some of our volunteers for a fifth game as replacments for them.

That said, I'm starting Games 3 and 4 now. In a moment, I'll load C3C up, patched to 1.12, enter in the passwords, and let the chaos begin.

[BigFree]

*BigFree goes running around the forums saying "I'm in game 4! I'm in game 4!"

I'm ready. Let the games begin!

[Harovan]

Don't forget to change the turn order in game 4 to a straight east to west flow.

[Octavian X]

Wittlich and BigFree, there should be a nice present in your inboxes.

As a reminder, here are the e-mails for the people and Game 3 and 4:

Game 3:
Wittlich (GMT - 8) wittlich AT sbcglobal DOT net
smellymummy (GMT - 7) sm AT inethighway DOT com
notyoueither (GMT - 7) notyoueither AT hotmail DOT com
CerberusIV (GMT) CerberusIVciv3 AT aol DOT com

Game 4:
BigFree (GMT - 8) bigfree1 AT comcast DOT net
Sir Ralph (GMT + 1) sirralph AT gmx DOT com
E_T () royparrish AT earthlink DOT net
Paddy the Scot (GMT + 11) paddythescot AT hotmail DOT com

If you find any problems, please feel free to report them to me either privately or over PM.

That said, let the games begin!

[Octavian X]

Sir Ralph, the change was made. Now, unless I've somehow messed this up again, the turn order should be:
BigFree
E_T
Sir Ralph
Paddy the Scot

[E_T]

When did we decide on the Beta Patch?

E_T