PBEM On Pre-Made Map?

[Jon Shafer]

This is a PBEM map with 6 players on a map of Europe

Resources, goody huts and shielded grassland will be randomized.

The player order and data is as follows:

[b]Player			Civ		Color		Email[/b]

Trip			France		White		TripGoT (at) hotmail.com
GeneralTacticus		Ottomans	Default		angusniven (at) hotmail.com
Ormuzd			Bulgaria (Greece)Dark Green	nebucadnez2ar (at) yahoo.com
GhengisFarb		Prussia (Germany)Blue		GhengisFarb (at) yahoo.com
Tiberius		Huns (Mongols)	Default		tibi.k (at) xnet.ro
Flandrien		Scandanavia	Default		kris.maes (at) pi.be
Computer		Poland
Computer		Rome

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I'm in, and I promise not to side with the Germans this time.

EDIT: Nevermind, I AM the Germans.

[Jon Shafer]

Any choices of maps or civs?

Probably be playing with random start locations, since otherwise it would be really easy to pick a superior start location. Though that can be part of the fun. We'll see what settings we can tweak to get the most fun out of the game.

[Flandrien1]

What would you say about giving the best starting positions to newbies, and worst starting positions to experienced players ?

[Tiberius]

I suppose you consider yourself a newbie Flandrien, don't you ?

I might be interested in this game, but I'd like to know the settings first (what map?).

[Flandrien1]

I am not a newbie.

Are you a newbie, Tiberius ?

[Jon Shafer]

That sounds like a good idea Flandrien.

We need to figure out which map though. What size does everyone prefer? The bigger the better for me, so I'll pretty much let everyone else decide the size since I doubt everyone would agree with my selection.

On a Europe map, the easiest start positions are usually Russia, France, Spain and maybe a country in Scandanavia. The harder ones are Britain, Germany and Italy.

[ormuzd]

what about greece? or they are not on this map?

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Flandrien
Are you a newbie, Tiberius ?

I could be to get the best starting position

(I was just kidding. In case you didn't notice, there was a smiley there, too.)

I'd be OK with any of those civs. The best would be to choose them randomly, but picking a favourite is good, too.

Standard map, I suppose ?

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by ormuzd
what about greece? or they are not on this map?

Sure. Depends on who wants to play who and where.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I like the random start positions with each having an equal share of resource disribution.

[Jon Shafer]

Which maps do people like best?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=47825

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=32963

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12802&highlight=europe

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41992&highlight=europe

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41382&highlight=europe

Or any other suggestions?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

If we play on a map moderned on the real world I would prefer the civs to start where they actually are in real life.

[Jon Shafer]

What about civs that don't exist, ala Poland, Austria, etc.?

[Tiberius]

What do you mean, civs that don't exist? Tell this to the poles and the austrians