Starting a new PBEM Conquests game

[Snotty]

The main problem with 7 would be speed. If you jam us all into a small map then someone will get crushed soon enough and things will pick up.

[Beta]

Originally posted by Snotty
The main problem with 7 would be speed. If you jam us all into a small map then someone will get crushed soon enough and things will pick up.

How true! But it would be a fun start. To think I will probably be praying for scientific and bronze-working.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Yep, 6 player PBEMs are somewhat slow, 8 player PBEMs tend to be agonizingly slow, 4 player PBEMs are just about right but the minute one civ is knocked out they tend to degenerate into endless warfare.

Glad to see you got it going!

[Shogun Gunner]

Still need:
ikkuh -- no email and still confirming

Location/Time Zone
Shogun Gunner – Washington DC -- Eastern Time zone GMT - 5
J2k – Los Angeles, CA -- Pacific Time zone GMT - 8
Wittlich – San Francisco, CA -- Pacific Time zone GMT - 8
SlightlyMadman – Baltimore, MD -- Eastern Time zone GMT - 5
Ikkuh – Netherlands GMT + 1
Snotty – England -- GMT
Beta -- Toronto, Canada Eastern Time zone - 5

Sequence
1. Shogun Gunner
2. SlightlyMadman
3. Beta
4. Wittlich
5. J2k
6. Ikkuh
7. Snotty

Please confirm the above information and for us newbies, Beta bumped a thread regarding appropriate protocol when playing. Review if you need to…I will be.

Wittlich/Snotty/Beta: Feel free to point out anything that is being done wrong – you both have played in these games before – I want this to go correctly. Thanks!

[Snotty]

You seem to be doing a remarkably good job of it SG

[Shogun Gunner]

Sequence

I understand that I start the game, so let’s go in this order instead.
1. Shogun Gunner
2. SlightlyMadman
3. Beta
4. Wittlich
5. J2k
6. Ikkuh
7. Snotty

This preserves the order of 1,2 and 3 being in EST
4, 5 in Pacific
6 Netherlands
7 England

That should work.

[Shogun Gunner]

Thanks Snotty.... Once I finish reading the "Standard PBEM Etiquette" I fire up C3C and we are off...

[Shogun Gunner]

rules for the game

Dominae put together a great posting. A summary for comment:

Basically, let's play fair: It ruins it for everyone if one person is trying to be sneaky (renaming a city Peace Treaty for example to trick in negotiations) That's BS.

Unit Renaming: I suggest we keep the name of the unit when renaming, but allow clear abbreviations. Battleship = BB, so New Jersey BB would be okay. The main problem seems to be with workers and settlers. Can we keep the word settler or worker in the renamed title?

NO RELOADING - obviously. For a setting, I will "preserve random seed"

Combat Log: I'm not sure about the combat log, it seems that other PBEM don't do this. Thoughts?

Appropriate Interaction: No contact with other players about the game until the civs meet in the game. Anything special about negotiations after civs meet?

Password Protection: I suggest passwords, but up to each player.

Anything that I'm missing?

[Wittlich]

One thing that should be added:

When a player sends you the save, don't wait for one whole week before posting on Apolyton that you never received the save. I suggest that if you don't received the save within 48 hrs (though 24 hrs is more likely), then email or PM the player who sent you the save that was lost in the mail and request another resend. So many times PBEM games grind to a halt for a few weeks over an email save being lost in transmission.

Other than that, looks good Shogun.

[Shogun Gunner]

See New Thread for Random-Random PBEM

Use this thread from now on:

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[McMeadows]

While you were sleeping.... Tremendous activity.
Thanks for leaving me a spot and I'll gratefully take it.

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