The most popular event from the annals of RBCiv history is back with a vengeance!

You MUST sign up in the signup thread to play Epic Eight!

Sponsor: Sirian
Opening Date: Monday, August 28
Duration: Five Weeks

Difficulty: Monarch
Civilization: RANDOM
World Size: Standard
Opponents: Seven
Terrain: Pangaea, Natural Shoreline
Climate: Temperate
Rules: Standard
Victory: Any
Version: Core Game v161

Variant Rules: You may not declare war on any rival prior to 1000BC.

Scenario Goals: Play the hand you are dealt.

Scoring: None.

Special Rules: You MUST sign up in this thread to participate in this Epic. Why? Because you're going to have your civ assigned to you at random (by actual physical dice rolls) from these eight possible selections:

Every civ will start in the same place in each player's game, but the civ that you play will be randomly assigned. I don't know who is going to sign up or in what order, and nobody is going to know which civs one another is playing. We're all playing the same map, though, with the civs in the same places, so that should make the discussions interesting when report time comes around.

To sign up, reply in the stickied signup thread on the forum. ANY reply in that thread counts as a signup, so reserve your questions for the Info thread and please limit your signups to one per player. Thank you.

To qualify, you must have a valid email address to which your start file may be sent directly by Griselda. If you wish the file to be sent somewhere other than to the email account you used to register to our forum, or if you have turned off receiving emails, you will need to supply, openly or in private, an address at which you can receive your start file. Files will -ONLY- be delivered by email, so comply or sit this one out.

If you need your save file sent to an email address that's different than your registered address, please put a note in your post letting Griselda know. You can put the correct email in your post, or send it to her by a Private Message, but if there's not a note in your signup post asking her to check for an alternate email, there's a good chance that it will get sent to the wrong address. If you do not receive your file on opening day, or within 24 hours of signing up if you register late, please check in with Griselda by Private Message to ensure that your file was sent to the right location.

We encourage all our community members to jump in on Potluck. Whether you are the Gentle Adventure type, the Extreme Adventure type, or anything in between, this is the giant RBCiv melting pot. Don't be left out of the dance!

Signups will remain open until Monday, September 18, which is three weeks after the event begins, with two weeks left to go. If you haven't signed up by then, you'll miss your chance.

Special Reporting Procedures: On Closing Day, Sirian will sticky a thread for each civ in the report forum. You are requested to post a reply in the thread (for the civ that you were assigned) that links to your report.

* If your report is hosted on your own webspace, you do not need to create the usual report thread linking to it. Discussion will be held per-civ instead of per-report as is typical. This may get hectic for those who do not have full threading turned on in their forum settings, but we're going to give it a try anyway.
* If you are posting your report in text-and-pictures directly to our boards, you will need your own thread for that, so operate as normal except adding your link to the sticky thread belonging to your civ assignment.
* Replies are NOT to be posted in the report threads, which will be Closed once complete. All discussion should be held in the stickies.

REMEMBER: No spoilers! You will not know which civ you are playing until you receive your start file by email. Anybody who reveals the civ they've received, directly or indirectly, prior to Closing Day, will be disqualified! Don't be the one who goes there. M'kay?

Closing Day: Monday, October 2. Reports due by Oct 3.

Read Epic Eight results.