PBEM 23 Organizing/Tech Thread

[SevenSpirits]

Original post in spoiler:

Things have settled down for me and I'm looking to play in another game. I talked with novice and spaceman and we are interested in something like this:

Non-negotiable
4-6 players (want at least 1t/day)
No tech trading
Normal ancient start

Would like
No talking (but can still open borders, trade, etc like pbem18)
Snake pick
Snake pick is run AFTER we get to see screenshots of our starting positions
Spy units banned
No mod

Totally up in the air
Other bans (I'd be fine with none, personally)
Barbs
Leader/civ bans e.g. no FIN/Inca/India/Surya
Difficulty level (maybe try a high difficulty for a change?)
Speed (Quick/Normal)


Signups:

I encourage signing up with more than one player per civ, or at least a good dedicated lurker, to increase discussions and make the game zip along.

1) novice / spacemanmf / sevenspirits
2) mackoti
3) sian / ichabod
4) yuris (+ nicolae carpathia)
5) luddite / pindicator
6) fierce

Edit: All slots are filled. If you wish to join teams 3/4/5/6 they might still want another teammate - I'm not sure. Of course you can dedlurk anyone you like.

Here's the tracker:

http://mistbinder.org/tracker/tracker.php?game=pbem23

Player order plus gmail addresses:

sian / ichabod: 1300-1900 ... sianist & mozarthspier
novice / spacemanmf / sevenspirits: 1800-2200 ... novice.spacemanmf
yuris et al: 1800-0000 ... yuris125.rb
fierce: 0000-0300 ... cjreynol13 on aol
luddite / pindicator: 1900-0700 ... luddite202 & jwmoore5024
mackoti: 0700-0900 ... rbmackoti

Here are the settings:

Map settings & options:

Quick speed
Emperor difficulty
Unrestricted leaders
No tech trading
No vassal states
No tribal villages
No random events
(Also note: barbarians are left ON.)


Leader/civ picking process:

Commodore will show each of us a screenshot of our starting position, and of the settings screen (for stuff like sea level and map size). Then we'll do a snake pick of leaders and civs with the following being banned:
* All FIN leaders
* Inca
* India


Other rules:

* No talking! So no emails, chats, gossip, in-game chat, naming cities / units with intent to communicate anything, or anything like that. But you can still offer trades in the trade screen. In fact you can try to communicate with this in an ad-hoc way if you feel so inclined. Just can't send any text with the trade offers.

* No building spies, war elephants, or nukes of any kind.
* You can't use great spies to scout, nor may you use their infiltrate ability.
* You can't use the blockade ability of your ships.

Here's the snake pick order and results:

1) luddite / pindicator: [EXP/CRE] Suryavarman of Zulu
2) mackoti: [CRE/PHI] Pericles of Greece
3) novice / spacemanmf / sevenspirits: [EXP/SPI] Isabella of Egypt
4) sian / ichabod: [CRE/SPI] Hatshepsut of Ottoman
5) fierce: [CHA/IMP] Cyrus of HRE
6) yuris (+ nicolae carpathia): [CRE/IND] Louis of Byzantium

[scooter]

I'm somewhat interested in this.

[Commodore]

Oh! I'll put my name out there for making a map for this. Seven, I know I mentioned a couple ideas I've been using thus far but neither of those would be used here.

[Serdoa]

No sign-up (want to concentrate on one game for the time being) but am intested to see this played out. Especially the snake pick part after seeing the starting location sounds interesting.

[Krill]

(Not a signup) Will you know what the map type is before you pick the leaders?

[SevenSpirits]

(Not a signup) Will you know what the map type is before you pick the leaders?

I think that would be good. i.e. post a screenshot of the settings screen pre-pick too, and mapmaker may provide additional info if they wish.

[yuris125]

I'm tentatively interested, but I would very much like an experienced teammate/dedlurker. PBEM19 is a great learning experience, but it would be nice to have someone who would spot my moves before I make him, and shout "build more Workers" at least twice a day

[Gold Ergo Sum]

1) novice / spacemanmf / sevenspirits

Yeah, I think I'll pass on this.

[Gaspar]

Yeah, I think I'll pass on this.

[SevenSpirits]

Yeah, I think I'll pass on this.

That is totally the wrong attitude to have!