C3C PBEM Tournament

[predesad]

not to be impatient or pushy ... okay maybe i am being impatient and pushy, any prospects on when we can get this thing started?

[Rommel2D]

Tournement Set-up

I think we're still giving people a few days to recover from the holidays (and ADG to recover his system). We haven't heard from Octavian in a few days. Are we being too demanding, or are you waiting on the results of the various polls?

There are a few people who have yet to verify that they wanted in to the tournement since we proposed the 4 player, 2 round format:
alva
notyoueither
Tarquinius

Iron Jackson has asked to be included since then. Since alva and nye were tenative in their initial requests, there might be an open spot for you I J.


GhengisFarb and E_T have yet to post time zones and email addresses. Mine was missed the first time:

jwala at fastmail dot fm
GMT-6
Playing times: around 6AM and 6PM GMT


Only half the players have voted on how to choose Civs for the game, but no one has objected to random so it's probably safe to go with that.

We also have the issue of how to deal with game delays. Octavian, are you Ok with keeping passwords and making nominal moves for a player before passing it to the next player? Would you like another referee to help with this? Would it help to give you an impressive title like The Big Kahuna or something?

Does anyone think we should use another method to keep games moving?

[Adagio]

Update:

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Rules:
Map: Tiny, pangea
Civs: Random
Barbarians: Have we agreed on this one yet?

[Iron Jackson]

It's fine. Currently I'm in some PBEMs which got stuck due to the lack of a referee keeping all the PWs. I would like to help Octavian with this (if I might).

I'm fine with random choice of civs. It gives you the possiblity to play with a civ you normally don't play. For example, I think I've played since the release of Civ3 only half of the civs (including those ones added with PTW and C3C).

[Adagio]

I'll post the players list for the first three games in a few minutes, so we can get started... Iron Jackson: You're in the game... since 5 players haven't posted their info, one of them wont get into this tournament... that'll be the last player to post the info... one of these guy's wont make it:


GhengisFarb
Tarquinius
alva
notyoueither
E_T

[Adagio]

**PLAYER LIST DELETED**


Does this look ok, or does someone have a better playlist?

Btw, I can play Conquest... it works in SP at least... never tried PBEM though... I still can't get PTW working

Did Octavian (or someone) make a map which should be used for all games in first round, or should we go random? Or should the players in game 1 make the map for game 2, game 2 players makes map for game 3, who makes a map for game 1?

[Harovan]

You should have my email too, from the Naval game or my post in this thread.

A random map should be fine. Somebody should look if nobody is screwed (stuck in the jungle or a vast hill area), but not "balance" the map - just say "yea" or "nay".

[Adagio]

You mean like all players votes 'yay' or 'nay' within a couple of turns, to say if they are screwed with this map or not? (Giving each player a max of voting twice or something)

[Soltz]

We could start each game with "four" random maps and then after the 2nd or 3rd turn each player could rank the maps by preference - 1 for the best map, 2 for the next choice etc. Ranks are added up and the map with the lowest score is the one used for the balance of the game.

The first few turns go pretty fast anyways.

[Paddy]

Hi there ADG,

II understand you are busy and all. These are from December 31, hope this helps.

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
sirralph at gmx dot com

IIRC, GhengisFarb is GMT-6, Tarquinius GMT+1 and NYE is GMT-7.

Originally posted by Wittlich
wittlich (at) sbcglobal (dot) net

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot


I like these ideas.

48 hours should be plenty of time

paddythescot @ hotmail dot com

I appreciate all you are doing to get this tournie happening

[Adagio]

Thx

I didn't include what Sir Ralph posted about GF, Tarquinius and NYE... I prefer them to post it themselves (To make sure they're still interested in playing the game)

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[Iron Jackson]

Originally posted by Soltz
We could start each game with "four" random maps and then after the 2nd or 3rd turn each player could rank the maps by preference - 1 for the best map, 2 for the next choice etc. Ranks are added up and the map with the lowest score is the one used for the balance of the game.

The first few turns go pretty fast anyways.

That´s a pretty good idea.

[smellymummy]

wouldn't i fit better in game two as far as timezones are concerned, than in game 3 ?

[Paddy]

Originally posted by ADG
Thx

I didn't include what Sir Ralph posted about GF, Tarquinius and NYE... I prefer them to post it themselves (To make sure they're still interested in playing the game)

Oh, OK.

By chance have they been PM'd with a friendly reminder.

I am not sure I am not sure if they, or actually anyone else, has the same issue that I have with thread reminders at the moment. I have in my 'personal options' tagged 'yes' for
"Use 'Email Notification' by default? Using this option emails you whenever someone replies to a thread that you have participated in."
Yet recently time and again I have gone back to threads, such as this one, to find that they have moved on without any notification.

If you do not have the time, would you mind if I PM'd them then on this subject only.

Also it has been the silly holiday / work season...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot
If you do not have the time, would you mind if I PM'd them then on this subject only.

Feel free... I don't have any more time today...

Originally posted by smellymummy
wouldn't i fit better in game two as far as timezones are concerned, than in game 3 ?

I had you there at first, but then I wasn't sure where Paddy the Scot (GMT + 11) would fit in