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[snoopy369]

Hey ... I'm a civ veteran (since civ 1) who's not played much multiplayer, and never PBEM. I'd like to play a PBEM game against some person or persons who aren't too advanced of players, to get an idea of how this goes and to have some fun.

I'm in USA (Central time zone), and usually am online at night (6-8pm CDT to 10-11pm CDT depending on the day), so it will go faster if you're online at these times as well (this is -6 GMT i believe, so this is like midnight to 6am GMT roughly). I'd like to play with 1-3 others (2-4 person game), no AI, at first, with standard rules, minus the silly wins (diplomacy, culture), random map on tiny or the next one up, 60% water, either pangea or larger islands.

Please post here and/or email me snoopy369 at yahoo period com if you are interested.

[smellymummy]

i'd be interested in playing

what do you mean by not so advanced players though? you mentioned you've been playing since civ1, wouldnt that make you an advanced player?

[snoopy369]

I mean advanced civ3 PBEM folks -- tho I suppose I don't mind much, but I've not played civ3 more than a dozen complete games SP, and never a game MP, so i'm sort of a civ3 noob ... and the game has changed an awful lot, so I don't consider my civ2 and civ(1) experience that useful.

So far I've had 2 people total respond ... i'll wait until tomorrow to see if anyone else wants to play and then i'll email everyone (or pm if no email option with details.

[smellymummy]

i've completed more than a dozen civ3 games in SP.. i never counted though

i can win on monarch and play on emperor, if thats any indication for what you're looking for. my email is sm at inethighway dot com

[snoopy369]

I'm sure it's fine, as long as you're willing to risk kicking my rear end early on. Civ2 I could beat on monarch level when I was in practice, civ1 on emperor easy, but civ3 i've never played well above regent. Go figure.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Im a rcent move up to monarch player with civ3, regent was becoming routine. Have played Emporer a few times but win more often at monarch, and find it less frustrating.

Im GMT though so if Id fit in with your times I dont know, though smelly knows me from other games and we seem to be online at the same times now and then.

If you want me Im in

[smellymummy]

cool, so that makes four players. might be ready for a game

[snoopy369]

Sounds good. We can start tomorrow perhaps - the player who directly emailed me offered to set up the game, so i'll probably just send information his way and then we can get going!

Go ahead and post your country preference. I'll go with Ottomans, or Persians if one of you all like Ottomans a lot.

Also should make sure to sync game versions -- is 1.22 good for all of you?

[snoopy369]

Chrisius, pls email me at the email addy on top if you're interested so i have everyone's email addy

[smellymummy]

1.22 is good for me. random civ for me.

when the game is set up could you post the turn order with emails, or just get a new thread started with the info?

[ChrisiusMaximus]

1.22 fine here and email sent to snoopy

Smelly how does that make four players ?only three of us posted here

[smellymummy]

snoopy mentioned someone emailed him about setting up the game... plus us three, that makes four

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Ah I see said the blindman

[snoopy369]

Actually it looks like 1.15 might be better version? Are you two able to go back to that?

Anyways, game should begin sometime soon, emails are sent on to our fourth for setup!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

a lot of people are saying they prefer 1.15 but 1.22 stops a lot of cheating, such as reloading from a single player save and being able to look at an opponents civ.

Of course Im not suggesting that what any of us would do just that 1.22 stops these things.