epic game PBEM with multi-turn-sessions

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Thanks for setting this up sabrewolf

[sabrewolf]

i'm sorry i didn't start it yesterday. because of poly's maintenance work, i didn't know redboy's email-address.

i hope to find some time tonight (first move no moves, only japan can use it)

[smellymummy]

sid right?

i'm going to need help

[sabrewolf]

just got home and off to bed. too many events today, chasing around town... urgh

btw: i had an idea new idea what we could otherwise play. started a post but that's on my notebook... i'll post it tomorrow

[Redboy]

My email is wswanson@telus.net. What is this new Idea Saber? I am intreged.

[sabrewolf]

ok, here's my idea.

now playing 3 games, of which 2 are in the beginning phase with just 1 city and virtually nothing to do per turn, and the 3rd game one being a nice multi-city game, i was thinking of following:

EVERYONE starts with 4 settlers. you can chose if you pan out and found cities or if you want to imediately add the settlers to 1 or 2 cities.

i was also thinking of making the game neutral by making all civs trait-less (or all have all traits (to be discussed)) and giving everyone all base level techs.

if fact, imho, we could even start in the medieval ages.

my main aim is to skip the "boring" first turns and immediately get into the build phase.

what do you people think about it?

[smellymummy]

i think that for pbem, you have to be patient, and wait a few weeks (months?) for the games to get busy

conquest pbem sort of achieves what you want though.

have you played the mesopotamia one? you start with several settlers in that...

[sabrewolf]

well, most conquest PBEM (ww2, ror, for, med, etc) have the problem, that you know exactly who has what units in the beginning.

and to be honest... i'm not too fond of victory point wins (nor do i really like wonder victories)

however, i havn't tried the mesopotamia one... that could be interesting. but are the starting locations more or less equal? i'll check it out.

but just in general: would you people be interested in something similar as my above proposal?

[sabrewolf]

here's our WW II PBEM thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113778

redboy already recieved my save. please tell me if anything went wrong... and anything else also please in the other thread. this one here is for preparing other spinoffs

[sabrewolf]

conquest pbem sort of achieves what you want though.

have you played the mesopotamia one? you start with several settlers in that...

i checked out the mesopotamia scenario. it's definetly different than the epic game, and could be fun.
but:
- you start with only 2 settlers
- starting positions like greece and egypt really suck...
- tech tree doesn't even come close to the more interesting part

i think that for pbem, you have to be patient, and wait a few weeks (months?) for the games to get busy

yeah... and if we just want to skip the first two months and directly enter the fun part?

so, would anyone of you be in such a game (details can be changed of course), or more likely not?

[ChrisiusMaximus]

yes

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by sabrewolf
- starting positions like greece and egypt really suck...

I didn't think Egypt was that bad if you consider the agricultural bonus for deserts.

[sabrewolf]

true... but not just the land, also the position.

rommel, what about you? would you play something like what i asked a few posts ago?

[Rommel2D]

I have another week or two before I'm confident the tournament will get it's own momentum going, I'll see about new games then...

[sabrewolf]

you could start thinking about it already now
we could wait a bit for the start.