PBEM with a twist (another one)

[Dis]

OK we are settled on these. I'm putting these in order for easier game creation.

World Size: Standard
barbarians: roaming
Landmass: continents
Water Coverage: 70% water
Climate: random
Temperature: random
age: 4 billion
Difficulty: ?


And I'm assuming we are playing with standard civ3 rules? No funky things like regicide?

And what about culturally linked starting positions and cultural conversions?

And what is the game difficulty and any other winning conditions we might want to change (diplomatic victory etc.)?

And Flandrien, you're going to have to tell me how you set up a PBEM game as administator and assign passwords, without playing the first turn. I can't figure out how to do that.

[Beta]

For difficulty I suggest Regent or Monarch - the only difference being the barbarian combat bonus.

I think culturally linked start should be on. It will be one more aspect of strategy when picking the civs.

Yes to cultural conversions - although in a human vs human game I don't think it will matter much. It may, but I doubt it.

For victory conditions - use the standard ones, including diplomatic - which is hugely redundant anyway in a human game. (Unless of course you mail me $500 in which case - sure, I'll vote for you. )

[vondrack]

Originally posted by BetaHound
For difficulty I suggest Regent or Monarch - the only difference being the barbarian combat bonus.

I think culturally linked start should be on. It will be one more aspect of strategy when picking the civs.

Yes to cultural conversions - although in a human vs human game I don't think it will matter much. It may, but I doubt it.

For victory conditions - use the standard ones, including diplomatic - which is hugely redundant anyway in a human game. (Unless of course you mail me $500 in which case - sure, I'll vote for you. )

[Hot_Enamel]

Dissident,

Work out the starting order, and ask the first person to email you their password.
Set up the game, you choose the administrator password, & key in the first players password.

Save the game, and email it to the first player who will play their turn. They forward to the next person who chooses their password as per normal.

As for my choice of remaining settings
Monarch
Culture links off
Standard victories
Accel Prod OFF

Regicide & Mass Regicide is OK.
At least it gives you more units to move around during the early stages of the game.

Lets agree on the playing order ASAP and roll the dice.
I am keen to choose a civ and see what I am playing.
I hope its not the Chinese

[Dis]

This seems the best order I guess. It was posted on the previous page. Any tweaks needed. Sometimes you can't always get 1 turn a day, but sometims you can.

08-09 GMT ... vondrack (GMT+1)
08-14 GMT ... Hot_Enamel (GMT+10)
17-21 GMT ... Tiberius (GMT+2)
19-21 GMT ... Flandrien (GMT+1?)
19-22 GMT ... CerberusIV (GMT)
23-04 GMT ... BetaHound (GMT-5)

let my try that pbem set up again.

Yeah that way works. I did something wrong when I tried that before. It seemed to skip a person. OK that should work fine.

[Beta]

Diss - the order of play makes good sense.

Before you try and start the game - we need to pick civs.

There have been suggestions on how to do it. Use the last order you posted, and roll a die to determine who will be player number one and will pick the next player's civ.

[Dis]

yeah I was just testing, it works now. Plus we have to wait a few days for Tiberius.

now where are my die...

[Hot_Enamel]

Roll it ... ROLL IT !!!!

I want to know my Civ, so I can start my stratgey planning

I get 1 vote from BetaHound for $500...now is that USD or Euro's ?

[Beta]

Worse yet - Canadian $'s. Currently trading at 64.25 cents on the U.S. dollar.

[Dis]

Play Order:
Player 1: vondrack
Player 2: Hot_Enamel
Player 3: Tiberius
Player 4: Flandrien
Player 5: CerberusIV
Player 6: BetaHound

OK I seem to have no dice around. I had to use a website dice roller. My first roll is a 2, so Hot_Enamel gets to pick first. Next roll: 4. Next roll (that isn't a repeat): 6. Next roll: 1. Next roll 3. And that leaves position 5 to pick last.

First pick: Hot_Enamel picks for CerberusIV
Second pick: Flandrien picks for Tiberius
Third pick: BetaHound picks for Vondrack
Fourth pick: Vondrack picks for Betahound
Fifth pick: Tiberius picks for Flandrien
Sixth pick: CerberusIV picks Hot_Enamel

Is this good? or do you want to not have people pick for each other?

I could have the person pick for the person following them. Say

Hot_Enamel picks for Tiberious.
Flandrien picks for CerberusIV.
Betahound picks for Vondrack.
Vondrack picks for Hot Enamel.
Tiberius picks for Flandrien
CerberusIV picks for Betahound.
But this doesn't give the person with the best dice roll the advantage.

Or I could just have the person with the best dice roll get their civ chosen last. In that case.

Flandrien picks for CeberusIV.
Hot_Enamel picks for Tiberius.
BetaHound picks for Vondrack.
CerberusIV picks for Betahound.
Tiberius picks for Flandrien.
Vondrack to pick for Hot_Enamel.

Whichever you guys want to use


official dice roller : http://www.rdinn.com/calc_dice.asp

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by Dissident
Play Order:
Player 1: vondrack
Player 2: Hot_Enamel
Player 3: Tiberius
Player 4: Flandrien
Player 5: CerberusIV
Player 6: BetaHound

OK I seem to have no dice around. I had to use a website dice roller. My first roll is a 2, so Hot_Enamel gets to pick first.

I could have the person pick for the person following them. Say

Hot_Enamel picks for Tiberious.
Flandrien picks for CerberusIV.
Betahound picks for Vondrack.
Vondrack picks for Hot Enamel.
Tiberius picks for Flandrien
CerberusIV picks for Betahound.
But this doesn't give the person with the best dice roll the advantage.

I would go for this.

Otherwise standard victory conditions with culture linking off and accelerated production off.

I would caution against regicide/mass regicide as it cuts down the usefulness of an expansionist civ if anyone is given such a civ.

Dissident - sorry but a little more dice rolling is required to set up the map conditions I suggested. I didn't realise at the time but it is not possible to set random temperature and climate and not random age, it is all three or nothing. Could you determine temperature by a die roll - 1 or 2 gives cold, 3 or 4 gives normal and 5 or 6 gives warm and similarly for climate. Then set the map accordingly.

[Dis]

OK I can do that. but I seemed to be able to create 4 billion and random temperature and climate. I just checked my test game. It shows all the settings as custom. So I'm not sure if they stuck.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Dissident
Play Order:
Player 1: vondrack
Player 2: Hot_Enamel
Player 3: Tiberius
Player 4: Flandrien
Player 5: CerberusIV
Player 6: BetaHound

I could have the person pick for the person following them. Say

Hot_Enamel picks for Tiberious.
Flandrien picks for CerberusIV.
Betahound picks for Vondrack.
Vondrack picks for Hot Enamel.
Tiberius picks for Flandrien
CerberusIV picks for Betahound.
But this doesn't give the person with the best dice roll the advantage. [/url]

I would go for this system, too. The I-give-you-a-civ-you-give-me-a-civ system would not really encourage assignment of crappy civs...

I do not think the person with the best dice roll was supposed to get any advantage for himself. I believe that person was supposed to be able to deal the greatest deal of damage...

[Hot_Enamel]

Ok - If we all agree that I get to pick first ...

Hot_Enamel picks for Tiberious.
Flandrien picks for CerberusIV.
Betahound picks for Vondrack.
Vondrack picks for Hot Enamel.
Tiberius picks for Flandrien
CerberusIV picks for Betahound.

Nice die roll BTW

Then I choose to give Tiberious the dreadful English

What a hoot

[Beta]

Oooooh - I'm scared already. Those man-o-war's just keep me awake at night.