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[Konquest02]

I'd be willing to go with Ducki and BRC, as we are looking for more or less the same kind of game... Moreover, BRC and I are in the same situation (i.e. still at school and having to study hard!! err... maybe! ) We are still looking for someone else...

--Kon--

[ducki]

I'm game, Kon.

[BRC]

You know I'm in. Shall we take bets on who's gone first??

Just kidding. This will be my first MP experience, so I'd like to make it to the Medievil Ages

[alexman]

We are ready to start game 1 with the attached mod. It's a MP mod of the latest (1.15) AU mod.

Please feel free to examine the readme and/or the bix file and comment before we start, which will hopefully be some time tomorrow, after we have decided on our civ choices.

[Edit: Oops, I forgot the debug mode on. Replaced the attached file and added v1.15 readme]

[DaveMcW]

I'd like to sign up if it's not too late

I'm usually available from 0:00 to 5:00 GMT.

[jshelr]

DaveMcW--always room for an Mc

You guys want to try a five-person game on a tiny map? With little space we will get right down to the shootin'

First item on the agenda will be civ picking.

[alexman]

Ahem... paging trickey.
Mr. Trickey please respond at your nearest PBEM game thread.

[jshelr]

In the second game, we need to pick civs. I'll go last after others pick and reserve the right to whine that I couldn't get what I wanted.

[ducki]

Who is in Game two?
Me, BRC, Kon, DaveMcW, and jshelr?

[jshelr]

That list is correct

[DaveMcW]

Tiny map = archer rush. Are you sure you want that?

I'm not going to pick a civ until we have the map size finalized.

Map Size : Distance between capitols
Tiny : 6
Small : 9
Standard : 12

[jshelr]

I'm the only one that likes tiny maps for pbem i guess. I'm now going to be the moderator of game two and we need to track down trickey to enter game two.

Anyway, why wait for archers. Go with Aztec warriors and get it over with.

[joncnunn]

I see wildly cerifing distances between capitals in all of my games on Tiny maps.

In one game on a tiny map, 1 of the AIs was on a small contienant with nearby island chain all by himeself, while the other 2 AIs and myself were on the big contientant.

In my current game, it looked like 2 of the AIs capitals were only 5 tiles apart. Me and the other AI had sufficent room to grow. (All of us on a long, windy Pangena with several smaller islands.)

[ducki]

Maybe we could try Archipelago to see if that diminishes the ultra-early Archer rush?

[Konquest02]

Or we may have a tiny/small archipelago map? It may be a good compromise: greater distance between the capitols, but we still have to watch for early agression... As for my Civ, I'll see but I'd like to go with the Babs or even Vikings....

--Kon--