What about a 30 player PBEM game accros time-zones?

[Diemar]

What about it?

A gigantic game across time-zones, the order of play should be in light of what time-zones the players are in.
This way you should be able to take atleast one turn a day.

Enslave them all!!
Thomas Diemar

[This message has been edited by Diemar (edited October 01, 1999).]

[DON]

That would be quite a feat, if you could pull it off.

Good luck

[Swissy]

I thought Monkey tried to set up a game with more than eight players, and wasn't able to get it to work. A programmer would have to get into the pbem set-up code and make a mod to add the extra 22 players and to make sure the turns order is right
( 1->2->...30->1).

Once that is accomplished, it would make a very good game. Imagine having to deal with a REAL player in but a few turns You sitting there with your lone warrior and a couple of samurai come out of the woods, gulp!

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[Blue Max]

30 players and a turn per day - chances are slim and none and slim just left the building. Of the 4 pbem games going, only 2 of them are completing at least one turn per day on average - the us game and the european game(slamps?). Both of these games have less than 8 players(at least the us game does). 30 people across the globe will be a logistics nightmare I would say a turn every 3 or 4 days would be more like it and that would probably be a stretch(at least in the beginning when all 30 civs were still in existence).

[KDan]

And how long do you suppose they would survive? :-) I wonder...

hey, btw... I don't know anything about this, but isn't there any way to enforce the end of turn, so that you CAN actually keep up with 1 turn a day? Enforcing always at the same time or something...?

Daniel

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[*Ed*]

"You cannot be serious!!"
A 30 player global pbem game - if you were very lucky you could be on turn 10 by the end of the first year, how many people are going to stick at it that long?? Great idea, but as stated above, a logistics nightmare.

**How about somebody organise a huge 20 player 24hr CTP - as people drop out they can be taken over by AI...**

Ed

[Diemar]

*ED*

Great idea!

A full time 20-32 player game would be a non-stop event. Guys would be playing all the time, due to the difference in time zones, and this way the game would still be in progres the next time you log on, if you log on regulary.
Ofcause we whould make a password, and when one player left the ai would take over until he returned..

Anyone else wanna try this?

Enslave them all!!
Thomas Diemar

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[ChrisLynx]

KDan: In the US PBEM game we have a rule to enforce turn times, though we haven't actually had to use it yet. If someone is sent a turn before noon, and does not pass it along before midnight, then the player before them is responsible for reloading the turn and attaching an AI to them. This way the player's turn is run by the AI and the turn is mailed to the next one down the list instead. Correct me if I'm forgetting part of this, US PBEM guys.

Ed, Diemar: That is just weird enough to pique my curiousity. I'd like a refresher course in joining and quitting games in progress first, but then I'd be up to give it a try.

[Jordan]

I'm down if it is going to work

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[Sophanthro]

I'm In If this can work.
Would Prefer to play between 10pm - 1am EST US (4am-7am Greenwich Standard Time) weekday nights(including Sunday) or earlier Saturday and Friday.

Sophathro
Email Heil3297@Kutztown.edu

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