Artificial Selection

[Dauphin]

Game now started

Turn order

Dauphin - Ottomans
Zord - Arabia
Beta - Celts
Kloreep - Egyptians
Makahlua - Chinese
Rowick Hepan - Mayans
Aqualung71 - Persians

Ranking system to be used to choose map we play. PM your rankings. #1 being first choice, #4 being last choice.

[Rommel2D]

That would give greater advantage to a player the earlier in the turn order they are (more options).

There are two systems similar to this that give no advantage to any of the players over another;

*Each player plays each save through the first turn, ranks them 1-X, and play continues with the save that has the lowest total.

or
*One save is sent and each player has the option to veto it during the first turn. If they do, a completely new game is generated and everyone who hasn't vetoed in this game previously still has that as an option on the first turn.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Rommel2D
That would give greater advantage to a player the earlier in the turn order they are (more options).

Its no different to everyone playing all the turns and then people publicly vetoing in order. SO if anyone, its the last person in the sequence who gets the biggest advantage as they get to save their veto to the end - others may veto the one they would have vetoed earlier in the round.

Your first option sounds good though. See which system people would want to use. If they sign up.

[Makahlua]

I like the ranking myself

And yes I am signing up

Not sure what civ yet, but I'm thinking wet, warm, any billion, and random barbs. Is that 5-6 palyers altogehter or are we filling the slots out with AI? For 5-6 players, standard should be sufficient size, but maybe large if AI are filling out hte list.

[Kloreep]

I like the ranking. I'll sign up.

I'm open to pretty much whatever map conditions, but please don't make the map larger than standard for the sake of managing larger empires later in the game.

I'd say no AI; with fewer AIs than humans, whoever winds up a neighbor of an AI could have the advantage assuming conditions are right to bully and then conquer it. But this isn't a sticking point for me.

Assuming no AI, I'd prefer Regent difficulty; less corruption and 2 citizens born content. If we do have AI, we should probably raise the difficulty higher than that to make the AI competitive.

[Bogor]

Sign me up. No AI please, it's too easy to milk them no matter what level diff is set. Anything else is good.

[Zord]

I'll sign up too.
My prefs are no AIs, civ Arabs and everything else random.

[Kloreep]

Well, we seem to have 5 players.

Considering we'll have lots of starts to choose from, I'm leaning toward going with Zard's suggestion of all random. We'll get lots of different settings that way for our various starts.

For my civ, I'd like to go with Egypt, barring map settings such as archipelago that make other traits like seafaring obvious choices.

[Rowick Hepan]

Hi All,

I like the sound of this - can you fit another player in??

If so can I grab the Mayans?

[Dauphin]

What we have then...

Dauphin - Ottomans
Zord - Arabs
Makahlua - ?????
Kloreep - Egyptians
Bogor - ???????
Rowick Hepan - Mayans

Random map settings. Standard size. No AIs.

Can I have a confirmation of your time zones so I can set the games up in a east to west fashion.

[Kloreep]

I'm Central. (GMT-6)

[Aqualung71]

Room for another?

[Rowick Hepan]

I'm Eastern Australia - GMT +10

[Zord]

Spain, GMT +1

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
Room for another?

I always say room for one more.

Should we make this a large map, or keep it at a cramped 7 on a regular?