Pitboss 18 Organizing Thread (RB Mod 34 Civs)

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Well, good luck then! I'm pretty sure we already once tried to have a game with ALL THE PEOPLE and EVERYTHING and it was called PB3. And that game died a horrible, sputtering death even though like every team had four players. This sort of game always sounds really fun in concept, but there is zero way this doesn't end in angry tech thread rants and universal disgust circa T100, when some of the players are treating it like a competitive MP game, others are tuned out & on autopilot after the initial jolt of interest has worn off, and a few are reducing the game to a crawl with endless pauses.


My only other suggestion if people just want a silly game with a bajillion players is to use Perpy PBEM rules- maybe only have like 8 civs, but each is controlled by four people, who play in shifts and are forbidden to communicate with each other.

I wasn't here for PB3, but I thought a lot of the trouble there was so many players + diplomacy + tech trading (cartels). But yeah, mixing casual + competitive is a recipe for an unbalanced sort of game. However, that need not be fatal as long as the competitive people aren't powergaming and abusing the turn timer. It's all about having the right sort of players in the game and dealing harshly with malfeasance if bad behavior occurs.