Anyone interested in playing PBEM on Earth map?

[Eli]

If no one else takes any civs in the Mesopotamia-India region, switch me to Persia.

[Conqueror]

Originally posted by Eli
If no one else takes any civs in the Mesopotamia-India region, switch me to Persia.

It depends does ADG give us huts to pop or not If not i may just take some civ from around there

[Adagio]

I'm not the only one in charge of the huts/babarians... Just tell me, what settings you'd like for them, and then we'll just before the game starts, see how people "vote" on the different options...

Personally, I wouldn't care about if they're on or not, since both is fun

Eli >> For now, you're set to Persians then

[Adagio]

How many people should be in the game? 5?

[Conqueror]

Originally posted by ADG
huts/babarians... Just tell me, what settings you'd like for them

I'll vote for huts enabled and Raging barbarians

Originally posted by ADG
How many people should be in the game? 5?

4-6 humans is good, its a bit more faster pace than full 8 humans.

[Dis]

is this game filled yet? I'm interested in the Aztecs

[Eli]

How many AIs then?

[jshelr]

This is a neat idea. Iriquois please if there is room in the game. Can we use Marla's map with civs sited "properly?"

It's going to take approximately forever to play the game, but that is ok.

BTW, the Aztec choice is clever. No one starts in South America

[Adagio]

If we say, Max 6 players, then the game is filled if Conqueror, Dissident and jshelr is in the game.

The reason I didn't pick Marla's map, was: AFAIR that map is bigger, and the starting positions haven't been set...

Conqueror >> Which Civ would you want to play as?

As for AI's. I wouldn't mind having them in the game, but I wouldn't mind not having them in either... What do you others think?


BTW: When shall we start the game? Monday? During the weekend? Later?

[Eli]

As for AI's. I wouldn't mind having them in the game, but I wouldn't mind not having them in either... What do you others think?

I think we should skip them.

But I see a possible problem concerning the civ choice.

At this point, every civ has an entire region to expand to, without competition.
Dissident and Jshelr have North/South America, Ananias has Western Europe and the British Isles and I have the India and the Middle East region.

If Conqueror or ADG's random civ are in one of these areas, some players will have huge advantages over others.
For example, if someone picks America then Jshelr will be in problems, or Ananias if someone picks the French, or myself if someone takes Babylon.

So IMO, since we all know the map and the civ locations arent random, to keep the game balanced every player should have his "own" region.

[Eli]

As for AI's. I wouldn't mind having them in the game, but I wouldn't mind not having them in either... What do you others think?

In second thought, maybe they can be used to fill unused regions, like Africa, East Asia or maybe even Russia(if no one picks a civ there of course).

We should have huts, and barbarians, but not too much of them.

[jshelr]

Or, darn

On Marla's map, the Iriquois get one cow and one wheat per city. Your alternative probably won't make Canada look like heaven.

[Adagio]

Well... I might want to take Egypt or China then, just to avoid the mentioned problem...

[Ananias]

IMHO,

up to 3 AI should be used to fill empty regions
(whats the point of multiplayer if AI abounds?)

(# of human players)/2 > or = # of AI


We should have some huts, but I think its silly when you can pick up your first 8 techs just by letting a couple scouts walk around, so not too many.

I would encourage Conquerer to pick a civ for the sake of maintaining regions. then we can pick AIs that we know wont start too close to anyone.

[Eli]

There are still four free regions.

Northern Africa and South Europe - Carthage, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Spain... Maybe someone else.

South&Central Africa - Zulus, err... and the others.

Oceania - No one starts there, but we can make some custom realistic civ like the Aborigines.

East Asia - China, Japan, the Mongols, the Koreans.

East Europe, Russia - Russia... and that's it I think.