PBEM 23 Organizing/Tech Thread

[luddite]

after talking to pindicator, we're going to change our vote on leaders for no fin leaders. I guess Wang Kon would be OK though, if someone wants to pick him.

[Fierce]

Looking like these are the popular choices, I think we have enough to be a majority. Any chance of this starting this weekend?



1. Diplo? No talking
2. Leader/civ selection? Snake pick
3. Choose leaders/civs after seeing starts/settings? Yes
4. Ban on building spy units? Yes
5. Speed? Quick

The following options are quite intertwined as difficulty affects barbs and the relative strength of traits:
6. Difficulty? Immortal
7. Barbarians? Yes (normal)
8. Trait bans? Just FIN I believe
9. Civ bans? India and Inca

10. Other bans? All banned
War Elephants
Using the "blockade" action on ships
Moving great spies outside your borders and using infiltrate ability
Nukes
Corporations


11. Other unusual settings? Nope, all standard

[SevenSpirits]

I'm back - I was taking a long test so pretty tiring day.

Fierce your summary is pretty good. However, I think you got two things wrong:

On difficulty we had 2 votes for monarch, 1 for not immortal, 2 for immortal, 1 for don't care. That is definitely NOT Immortal! Can we perhaps compromise on Emperor?

For bans you listed Corporations as banned. But actually only Ichabod and spaceman voted for this and they aren't even a whole team. Does Corps allowed seem gamebreaking to anyone?

Please all teams say whether the settings Fierce posted (with the above changes) are good. Once that's settled we will wait for Commodore to come back with a map.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Immortal is too high, and it gimps expansion traits too much. I'd prefer Monarch. I think it's fine leaving corps on (I don't know whether they'll even matter before the game is over), but I think blockades should be banned.

[Fierce]

I'm back - I was taking a long test so pretty tiring day.

Fierce your summary is pretty good. However, I think you got two things wrong:

On difficulty we had 2 votes for monarch, 1 for not immortal, 2 for immortal, 1 for don't care. That is definitely NOT Immortal! Can we perhaps compromise on Emperor?

For bans you listed Corporations as banned. But actually only Ichabod and spaceman voted for this and they aren't even a whole team. Does Corps allowed seem gamebreaking to anyone?

Please all teams say whether the settings Fierce posted (with the above changes) are good. Once that's settled we will wait for Commodore to come back with a map.

Eh, trying to get things moving, I just counted my vote as Immortal to end the tie. Corps are fine either way, don't think they will really matter. I won't be available much tomorrow so hopefully we can get started early this week. Oh well

[mackoti]

Corporations are ok , because i dont think someone will trade resorce to one wich just build a corporation.

[SevenSpirits]

Immortal is too high, and it gimps expansion traits too much. I'd prefer Monarch. I think it's fine leaving corps on (I don't know whether they'll even matter before the game is over), but I think blockades should be banned.

Kinda useless to not talk about the one difficulty level being suggested here...?

[novice]

We also need time zones. We are GMT+2, GMT+1 and GMT-7 (Pacific Standard Time), I think. So we're fairly flexible.

[mackoti]

Me gmt +2 and for dificulty lets pick the midle way so i change my vote to emperor .

[yuris125]

Yeah, let's go with Emperor, hope I don't overexpand like in the last single player game where I went broke before discovering The Wheel

I'n ok with allowing corps

I'm in GMT