Civ Choice

[Arrian]

Arg. We need more than just a top three:

By snoopy in the public forum:

Preferential list it is. Please PM me at least 3 selections, more is better ... if you don't PM enough to get selected, you'll be assigned a random one. (Thus, seven civs is the recommended list length

We'll get our top three ordered right and then throw in the ones that missed the cut, ok? That means Monty, Alex, Lizzy and Asoka.

-Arrian

[Harovan]

While I posted my 3 choices, I did not bring them in order and hence, they were not counted so far.

My choice is

1. Elizabeth
2. Catherine
3. Mansa Musa

[Theseus]

I'd like us to quickly reconsider the back-ups then... early game paranoia has me by the scruff of my throat.

[Krill]

Don't even bother renumbering them. Just send out the top 7 and be done with it. We are falling incredably behind the prefered start date already...

[Arrian]

I'm inclined to agree... it looks like:

Mansa
Qin
Saladin
Elizabeth
Montezuma (actually tied with Lizzy)
Alexander
Asoka

-Arrian

[Hot Mustard]

Looks good to me - let's get this game going already.

[Aro]

Agreed.

[Arrian]

Well, notwithstanding that I want to get this going too, the internal GS deadline I was going on was noon EST tomorrow.

There is some question as to whether Qin or Saladin should be #2. In the original tally, Saladin was #2. When we removed the other contenders, Qin has surpassed him (13pts to 12 right now). But, since we're going to send in a list of 7, I'm now thinking we should go with the old ranking (including Sir Ralph's picks, which are clearly under the original system):

Mansa
Saladin
Qin
Elizabeth
Montezuma (tied with Lizzy)
Alexander
Asoka

But again, having thrown out the deadline of noon tomorrow, we should probably stick to that. It's less than 24 hrs away at this point.

-Arrian

[Hot Mustard]

I'm sure we're all adult enough to not quibble over the precise rankings or bemoan what we end up with. I'll be quite happy with any of the top 4 and would be content with the others.

[Theseus]

Fine... Arrian, I suggest in the spirit of moving things along, just go ahead and submit the seven as you most recently listed them.

[Dominae]

I have serious reservations putting Montezuma in our top 5. His strengths are not likely to be that useful in this game. There's a serious drop in power between our #4 (Elizabeth) and #5, yet there's a chance we might have to go down that far.

If we really want a resourceless UU and a shot at a Religion, Huayna Capac is a much better choice. Plus he's Financial.

[Aginor]

Actually, if we're going off-the-wall leader on a UU basis I'd recommend Hatshesput - if it's possible to assemble a team better suited to MM abuse a pure builder, especially one with the possibility of going offense early on, it's this crew.

That said, I bet we could take them even with Monty if we had to.

I seriously doubt that we'll fall below Liz or Qin, though. And unless I miss my guess entirely, we're playing Mansa (wagering that Liz and Qin are off the board fast, and that Mansa and Sally are less popular alternatives and that given where we have them ranked we draw one of the two).

[Arrian]

I actually very much agree with Dominae w/regard to Monty, but hey, he mustered 8 pts in our voting...

vmxa1, DeepO and Theseus all voted for him. I'm not gonna just wipe out their votes. If any of those guys wants to change their vote b/c they've changed their minds, fine. Otherwise, I'd leave the list the way it is.

2 more hours... then we should send snoopy the list via PM. If NYE isn't around, I can do it.

-Arrian

[Solomwi]

List looks good to me, even given the reservations about Monty.

[Krill]

Sent yet?