5 Player Themed Pitboss: Signup Thread

[Gavagai]

Events - no strong preference.

Picking - snakepick.

Weak preference for simultaneous for faster speed.

[thrawn]

Events - would rather without but ok with if others want.

Picking - snake is good. Not a fan of random blocks.

Turns - I don't have a reliable play window at all at the moment and will only be able to do simultaneous. But if you want sequential can't we fix a turn order that we always fall back to instead of picking the first or second part and get the best of both worlds this way?

Ljub - I think you are overthinking it

[Magic Science]

Magic Science, if you like me to be your deadlurker, I'd be happy to

Sure, welcome to the team. .

time constraints are a reason I don't want to play.
But I will read and I think I could offer semi wise advice for someone.

Sure, feel free to join GT and I if you want. I promise to report much much more than in PB74.
No pressure if you prefer to join another team.

[Magic Science]

Events - Vote no events.

Pick Method - Vote snakepick if simultaneous. 
But Scooter, what do you mean by "draft"? Pick order of 5432154321, with 5 being the player 5th in turn order? Like in PB77? That seems like a good idea if we play sequential.

Sequential or Simultaneous - No strong preference. I can do either. If we do sequential, my best consistent window is 4AM to 7 AM GMT.

[Magic Science]

Also, Scooter, you should decide the city-trading rule for us. That rule has not been defined yet and it seems like something better done by someone with the wacky map knowledge that you have and we don't.

[scooter]

Pick Method - Vote snakepick if simultaneous. 
But Scooter, what do you mean by "draft"? Pick order of 5432154321, with 5 being the player 5th in turn order? Like in PB77? That seems like a good idea if we play sequential.

Yeah if you go with a draft, which appears to be the lean, I would suggest snake pick if simultaneous and 5432154321 if sequential.

Also, Scooter, you should decide the city-trading rule for us. That rule has not been defined yet and it seems like something better done by someone with the wacky map knowledge that you have and we don't.

1 max per peace deal is probably the safest and generally inoffensive rule, so we'll go with that.

[scooter]

Let me try to recap the preferences I've seen here. Superdeath hasn't chimed in, but we have the other 4, so we can narrow things down a bit.


Events: Thrawn and MS prefer OFF, Dreylin and Gav have no preference. Superdeath stated up-thread he is "99% against Events," so I think we're safe to call this OFF.


Pick Method: Gav, Thrawn, and Magic Science all prefer a draft/snake pick. Dreylin's got a light preference towards something random-ish, but it looks like a snake pick is the leader here.


Simultaneous/Sequential: Dreylin, Gav, and especially Thrawn all prefer Simultaneous, and nobody has spoken up as pro-Sequential yet. So unless Superdeath feels incredibly strongly, it looks like Simultaneous has it.



I'll also create a subforum and get this thread moved over next.

But if you want sequential can't we fix a turn order that we always fall back to instead of picking the first or second part and get the best of both worlds this way?

Just FWIW, the reason this isn't the same thing is that all end-of-turn events (production, tech, etc) occur immediately upon pressing enter in Sequential, which is not the case in Simultaneous. So you don't have a case where one player whips a units, but those units are unavailable to defend on their opponent's turns, for example.


This does make me think though that one way of "fixing" Simultaneous a bit more is an underlying turn split priority. But that's maybe a conversation for another day.

[Amicalola]

This looks really fun, I'm a bit sad I missed out on the signups. I'd be up for dedlurking someone.

[scooter]

I forgot to mention - starting screenshots are still on track to be ready by the weekend. Very slight chance of tomorrow if my start reviewer is especially happy with the latest version.

This looks really fun, I'm a bit sad I missed out on the signups. I'd be up for dedlurking someone.

If you can by some miracle find 4 more people who want to play this prior to this game fully launching, there's no reason there couldn't be two games running simultaneously on the same map. We've done it before actually. That seems pretty unlikely though.

[thrawn]

I'm in need of a dedlurker experienced in the civ4 mechanics, strategic and tactical options, etc, since I've not played even a single SP game ever

So Amica if you want to lock (dedlurker) horns with Naufragar again, you are welcome Also I wouldn't mind stepping down if/when the game starts taking more time than feels good if you'd be interested to play the second half.