Go team Lurkers.

Diplomacy is no option. Peace is no option. This means war.

Thanks to all who played this game - I enjoyed reading all of the reports . From earliest to latest, the following players conquered Rome:

• Ronald 525 BC

• timmy827 200 BC

• haphazard1 500 AD

• spacetyrantxenu 1300 AD

• Square Leg 1735 AD

So, with the advent of PB7 there might not be a ton of interest, but here's my idea for a new PBEM. I think it'd be best to have four or five players just for turn pace reasons.

Basically, I was thinking an AW game on some sort of Pangaea or Lakes-style map, with civs and leaders lurker-chosen, from a ban list of traits and civs the players have already played with on RB. So my combo would be a leader lacking:
[strike]Fin
Org,
Exp,
Chm,[/strike]
and probably Spi/Agg, although a duel is pushing it to be fair.
and excluding the civilizations of:
[strike]Mongolia
HRE
Carthage[/strike]

Ideally preference would be given to less used leaders, too, that list excludes neither Pericles nor Louis, but both of them have been seen a bunch of times. Obviously this would be a fair amount of decision-making on the part of the mapmaker too, as the final decider. Would anyone be interested in this concept?

And here's the final listings:

Always War.
No barbs
No huts
No Spies
No Nukes
No SoZ
No WE
No events
No religious victory, but AP is fine.

Players, emails at the usual place:
Ginger Eagle: (gingereagle1969)
Kyan: (peterofindia)
Dazedroyalty: (dazedroyalty)
Ceiliazul: (Ceiliazul.rb)
Commodore: (Commodore.RB)

This will be fun...

People here seem more interested than most in the design of games. I stumbled across a compilation of links to video game design post-mortems that I thought I would de-lurk to share: http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-l...stmortems/

It looks like they're all from gamasutra, with the exception of three Humble Indie bundle talks. I hope somebody finds them entertaining!

So yeah













my thread.

I intend to fully update this one.

Figured we should have one of these, especially as I don't even know Mackoti's email to pass on the save. So everyone, post the emails you want to use for this game. I'll edit them into this post, along with any other information that would be useful (like the tracker link once we get that set up).

Emails (at gmail unless otherwise noted, not including it just to avoid spam bots):
Shoot: shootthemoonrb
Nakor: ikingbas
Dave: davidharris93
Sian : Sianist
Pindicator : jwmoore5024
Mackoti : Rbmackoti

I'm setting up a forum for a school group project, and was wondering if anyone knows of a good free host. Priorities:
- good uptime
- no ad in the first post of a thread
- decent interface
- pleasant or customizable theme

Thanks!

Yeah yeah, here's my spoiler thread. I hope you're happy with yourselves now. :neenernee

Obligatory picture to prevent accidental spoilage below. Given the nature of the game, I thought an artist's impression of Itkovian's ultimate fate in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series would be appropriate. Also, go read it if you haven't already and looking for an epic, gritty fantasy series to sink your teeth into.