4 Player game

[JohnGalt137]

If anyone is interested in joining a PBEM game with 4 players the layout follows.

Our players are:
Centreline05
Johngalt137
EPW (5/26/2010)
-DudeFromCentreline'sWork (Out 6/25/2010)
+Ricketyclick (6/26/2010)


The map is set up so that each player controls 2 civilizations: one on a medium sized island, and one on the central landmass. The map is available upon request.

Edit: We aren't using this map. We can't seem to make the quickstart mod work with it, despite a great number of attempts.

Wonders: ON
Nukes: Undecided
Pollution: OFF

[EPW]

I'll play. I would like to see the map if either one of you has seen it though.

[JohnGalt137]

Sent you an email with the map.

[thehappies]

I would like to play too, but I'll be moving this summer and be gone for almost a month before that--so I'd probably ruin the game by stalling it for a long time right after it starts. If anyone drops out though, I'll be available to sub by sometime in August.

[JohnGalt137]

I may have found us our fourth.

[JohnGalt137]

When are you free to knock the first five turns or so out?

[JohnGalt137]

It looks like the map we are planning on using won't work with the quickstart without crashing. Ergo we will be using a random map. I'm going to send the first turn around tonight.

[JohnGalt137]

Questions about the settings. I think we'll all be voting on these things, let me know what works for you guys:

Wet-Dry: I vote 30% (mostly wet)
Warm-Cold: I vote 30% (mostly cold)
Ocean-Land: I vote 70% (mostly Land)
Island-Continent: I vote 70% (mostly Continent)
Uniform-Diverse: I vote 20% (mostly uniform) (Hoping that this will give us similar start location-strengths)
Few Goods-Many Goods: I vote 0% (Few goods)

Wonders: I vote on. (Since this is a multiplayer game, should someone get ahead with a wonder other players can gang up on him to catch up. Also we could ban specific wonders. (Edison's Lab, London Exchange, and Labyrinth come to mind).

Nukes: I vote on. (MAD is effective in multiplayer games).

Pollution: I vote on. (Removing it loses a whole section of the game and managing it is more interesting in games with large numbers of players, and could provide reason to gang up on a polluter threatening the world.)

Bloodlust: I vote off.

I vote donut world.

[EPW]

Wet-Dry: 50%
Warm-Cold: 50%
Ocean-Land: 50%
Island-Continent: 60%
Uniform-Diverse: 50%
Few Goods-Many Goods: 100%

Wonders:OFF

Nukes: NO
Pollution: OFF-Removes the worst feature of the game
Bloodlust: don't care.
donut world.

[JohnGalt137]

> Ask yourself and your friend this
>
> What game settings do you want:
>

[He filled in the below]

> Wet-Dry: 30%
> Warm-Cold: 30%
> Ocean-Land: 30%
> Island-Continent: 70%
> Uniform-Diverse: 70%
> Few Goods-Many Goods: 0%
>
> Wonders: ON
>
> Nukes:Add a wonder pre-req
> Pollution: OFF
> Bloodlust: ??
>

I think we had it worked out fine, lets do wet, warm, ocean, continent,
diverse with few goods. Make the nuke wonder, turn off pollution and
bloodlust i don't know but whatever you think best, minimize bands of
barbarians. Your next WWII turn is attached.

[JohnGalt137]

What parts are you most attached to EPW?

In order of importance my votes:
1. Few Goods
2. Wonders On
3. Uniform
4. Pollution
5. Wet
6. Nukes on
7. Mostly Continental
8. Warm
9. Mostly Land
10. Bloodlust off

Also I assume the way the 4x rule works is that once the game gets down to 1 v 1 the 4 x rule applies, or once one civ is 4x the sum of the others.

[EPW]

Wonder OFF
Pollution OFF

Give me one of those, and we can use you and your friends settings for the rest.

@4x rule
It ends when it ends, its not a ladder game.

[JohnGalt137]

Alright I'll get the game started then. We'll do pollution off.

[JohnGalt137]

Zeroth turn sent to Frato (centreline05, MichaelDotFratoAtSomeSchoolDotCom).

[JohnGalt137]

Did you get the turn from Frato EPW?