Strat Forum PBEM: Game 1

[alexman]

We'll play as soon as we decide on civs. Where's Trickey?

[Harovan]

Just to bump this thread: I take France.

And yes: Where's Trickey??? This is supposed to be a fast playing group!

[alexman]

My preferences were 1) Americans, and 2) French. I guess the strat. forum has influenced us all in the same way! We all think alike.

I'll take Egypt then.

I PMed Trickey last night and he was online this morning but didn't read the PM. Three civs on a tiny map, anyone?

[jshelr]

If he does not show, I'll jump in here and we could add him to game two.

Question: what is the land relationship between tiny map with max pangea land and small map with, say, middle continents.

[alexman]

I would guess they are about the same. But the distance between civs (as given in the editor) is greater for a small map than it is for a tiny map.

Welcome jshelr! Thanks for stepping in. I updated the initial post. I'll send the game to Dominae soon.

[alexman]

A couple of things to keep in mind for PBEM games to work properly (although you probably all know this):

1) Always load the game from the Multiplayer screen, not as you do a SP game. Make sure that Accelerated Production is off each time.

2) Never save your game before you have ended your turn. If you do that, when you reload, you will have already gone through a turn of production.

[alexman]

4000 B.C. sent to Dominae

Diplomacy question: are we allowed to do things that we can't do within the game? For example, are we allowed to communicate with other players before we meet them in the game? Can we exchange minimaps before we have MapMaking? Can we have alliances without an embassy?

I vote no to all.

[jshelr]

No is correct. But people are violating those rules and there is going to be trouble in other games.

[Harovan]

We should create some kind of Strategy forum codex. It should include to respect these rules (diplomacy only after making contact, using the in-game features for diplomacy) and to load the game in a correct way.

[jshelr]

Sir R

Guys in the PBEM forum came up with the following common sense approach that could provide raw material for your codex

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=66088

[Dominae]

Are we to use this thread to indicate when we've sent the turn off to the next person? Personally, this process does nothing for me, as I check my mail and 'Poly at the same time.

I'll send the turn off in a few...

Good luck to all!


Dominae

[alexman]

Yes, please use this thread (that's primarily why I created it), because even if it's redundant in letting you know that it's your turn, it helps keep track of the save, and to plan when your turn might be.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by jshelr
Guys in the PBEM forum came up with the following common sense approach that could provide raw material for your codex

Interesting, but I think this is (a) way too complicated and (b) is designed for CivCtP. Parts of it may be used, but that needs a lot of work.

[Dominae]

Sent to Sir Ralph.

[alexman]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
We should create some kind of Strategy forum codex. It should include to respect these rules (diplomacy only after making contact, using the in-game features for diplomacy) and to load the game in a correct way.

Yes sir! At your command!
I put one up in the strat forum. Let me know what you think.