C3C PBEM Tournament

[Rommel2D]

Aye

[Harovan]

I will join the tournament if all three of the conditions below are met:

- In each particular game play at least 4 players
- The default player limits apply (4 on tiny, 5 or 6 on small, 7 or 8 on standard)
- No AIs

[smellymummy]

looks like theres enough players now to start.. should we just post our emails now and someone could start the game?

[Rommel2D]

We have 6 people that agree (more or less) on a four-player game, two round, single elimination tournement. We still need 10 more players to fill in all the games, plus perhaps someone to referee/judge.

We also need to agree on game specifics before starting. I haven't seen any objections to the following:
>Tiny world
>No AI
>Random settings for everything except land mass and barbarians

Points to hammer out:
>If random is no good for barbarians, what would be best?
Raging sounds like a good way to have some computer opponents without any diplomacy exploits.

>What victory conditions will we have?
Would there be any problems with the default rules?

>How do we determine land mass?
Different land masses would probably produce differently paced games. It would be best to have all first-round games finish as close to the same time as possible. I'd suggest all four should be Pangea. (This could be changed for the championship game.)

>How are civs picked/assigned?

>Play-what-you-get starts, or multiple starts with a group vote?

>?

[Adagio]

And as mentioned earlier... I'm still not ready to begin any tournament... nobody has any clue on what could be wrong with my installation...

Originally posted by Rommel2D
>If random is no good for barbarians, what would be best?

I still go for random... this doesn't change the overall tournament anyway

Originally posted by Rommel2D
>What victory conditions will we have?

Just default...

Originally posted by Rommel2D
>How do we determine land mass?

I'd go with random, but pangea is fine with me

Originally posted by Rommel2D
>How are civs picked/assigned?

Not sure... random would probably be too unbalancing I guess!?!

[E_T]

lets start...

Let's get someone to make a tiny Map, have them look it over for fairness and then we all use the same map for the first round.

I say Raging Barbs....

And I can deal with a Random Civ, as long as everyone else is also random....

And Pangea is fine, too.

E_T

[Octavian X]

If you guys still need a judge/ref., I'd be willing to volunteer.

[E_T]

Fantastic, Welcome Aboard OctX. Yes, we need a judge/ref for this.

E_T

[Soltz]

If you need another player, I'm willing!

I can easily play one turn a night until the summer anyway (then work committments and holidays kick in).

I like raging barbarians, otherwise any rules are fine with me.

[Rommel2D]

If you guys still need a judge/ref., I'd be willing to volunteer.

Thanks Octavian. Have you played enough Conquests yet to have a good feel for the new Civs? If you generate a map on a tiny pangea, pick four roughly equal Civs, and make sure starting points and resources look Ok, we could use it for all four first round games.

I wouldn't mind random barbs, but I'd slightly prefer raging.

Most people don't seem very eager to make suggestions and/or comments about the tournement. Maybe everyone's distracted by the holidays? Hopefully if we start it, they will come...


We have:
smellymummy
GhengisFarb
CerberusIV
Rommel2D
Sir Ralph
E_T
[edit:] Soltz
ready for games, with ADG's status pending technical problems.
[edit:]One more will give us enough for two games.

Octavian X could pick four random players, or we could go with the first four to respond now. Anyone want to give more input?

[rogerurb]

Me too

Count me in too mate!
Roger Urb [/email]rogerurb@netvisao.pt[/email]

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Rommel2D
[edit:]One more will give us enough for two games.

Is it too late to join up with you guys? If not, then yes, I would be interested in this.

[smellymummy]

if my email is needed here it is

sm at inethighway dot com

when can we start?

[Adagio]

Wittlich >> Seems like you'll be joining the 3rd game... and hopefully I will too

Here's the players for the first two games:

Game 1:
smellymummy
CerberusIV
Sir Ralph
Soltz

Game 2:
GhengisFarb
Rommel2D
E_T
rogerurb (GMT)

From which timezone are you guys?

[rogerurb]

Portugal here

so my timezone is GMT=00:00