(February 12th, 2014, 13:39)Bobchillingworth Wrote: 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.
PB13 has just as many players as PB3. It's been a rousing success, and I believe it's safe to say it's probably the most followed game on the site right now. Settings and pre-game mindset matter more than number of players. Maybe I'm wrong because I'm obviously not reading other threads, but I get the sense that most players are enjoying that game, and I definitely know lurkers are.
The ghost civ idea is something we've thrown around as an idea quite a bit before, and this does sound like the game type where it actually makes sense to do.