Don't you think having 4 Civ top categories is a bit much?
Plz create one top categorie named "Civilization" and put all related sub-categories under it.

If you are one of the players in PBEM7 - get out until I kill you!!

For anyone else, enjoy some of the genius of cyanide and happiness!!

Hello in my thread,

if you are playing in PBEM7 - do not read on, go away till the game is over. If you are lurking, leave a message






















Because I have no pictures available (and do not want to search something completely irrelevant) I will leave some space here. Just in case.

We finally had enough subforums that I felt like the general Civ discussion was getting lost under all of the other forums. So, I made a new "Civ General discussion" forum and turned the original "Civ" section into a category. That way you don't have to scroll past all of the games to get to the civ general forums. You can also click directly into the reports, pitboss, or PBEM forums from the main page. It looks a little weird there since it puts "category" forums (those with subforums) next to one another, but I think it's easier to use this way.

Those of you with direct bookmarks to a particular forum might have to update. Sorry if that's the case.

Let me know how everything's working.

Okay first off, a traditional pointless post in case someone mis-clicks onto my thread. So to take up some screen-space, here's some goofy comics, courtesy of XKCD:










Aaaaalright, real post coming up soon after. Not much to say yet, but I'll have some opening thoughts going into the snake pick. Also, I just want to say Dazed is a dirty cheater for opening his thread as early as he did - so I'm going to do the same thing.

First post empty to prevent mouse-over spoilers.

Does anyone play on a Mac? I'm going on vacation next week and will only have a PowerBook with me so I'm thinking about downloading the Steam Mac version. Has anyone done this before? For that matter, I've always been a traditionalist and bought games at a real life store. Any thing I should be aware of with downloading from Steam?

And Pool C starts:

Player Order:
ShoottheMoon shootthemoonrb at gmail dot com GMT -8
WarriorKnight warriorknightrb(at)gmail(dot)com GMT +8
Serdoa serdoaciv [at] googlemail [dot] com GMT +1
ad hoc adhocpbem at gmail.com GMT
regoarrarr (has sent you his)

Game Settings:

CTON AW
No Events
No Spies
No WE (Ivory is up to the map maker's discretion)
Great Spies may not leave your borders

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Settings already decided:

No Tech Trading
Events Off:
Espionage: Passive only (no spies)

Is anyone against these settings?


To be Decided:

1) Leaders:
Restriced or Unrestricted?
Snake Pick? Send choices to neutral observer? Other?
Duplicates?
Any Restrictions? (Like banning traits or forcing everyone to take a lower triat for example)

2) Out of Game Contact:
Available from the beginning? Or the PBEM 3 method? Or strictly require in-game contact?

3) Map Trading:
Allowed at all times? Or only after Paper? Or forbidden?

4) Play Order:
Please put your time in so we can get an order sorted

5) The map:
The other 2 PBEM's are 'flying blind' with no input from the players on the map type. I would be fine with that, but I could also go if we give the map makers some 'guidelines'. What does everyone think?

6) Anything Else?

Okay, let's start by filling up some space with random pictures:





Some opening thoughts before the game even starts:

The best thing to do is to try to give an honey appraisal of my abilities and experience. I will need to be cautious of me weaknesses and play to my strengths (if I have any!)

My SP experience with Civ goes back the original. I spent the most time on Civ2 though Civ4 is catching up. I've played three MP games so far. I was on Ilios' team in PB3 but faded out (sorry Ilios!) mostly due to the game being so large I could never keep track of who was who and what was happening. I played on MP game on Gamespy with strangers and decimated them (walked into an undersides Capitol on turn 20 and choked the others until the conceded). The. Last night I played MP with sunrise, TT and scooter. I tried to chariot rush sunrise and did a five galley sneak attack later. Both came close but failed because of my lack of knowledge on how to execute a realtime war. Fortunately, with PBEM that won't be a factor.

In SP my biggest weaknesses are lack of planning ahead at times (no specific vision I am following) and playing too speedily without thinking. The latter should be helped by the obviously slower pace of PBEM. Establishing a strong strategy and staying focused will be essential though.

I do feel I understand the mechanics fairly well. I don't have the exact formulas for city growth memorized but I have the basics down pretty well.

I plan to try to follow a Sullla-esque emphasis on building my own civ and only going to war when definitely needed or beneficial to me. I will be tempted to rush an opponent so I will need to resist. Of course, I need to stay adaptable too!

(In other words if I change my mind later don't complain! )

I'll post more later...

Reserved for posting rules/settings/preferences etc...

Snake Draft - Random Order
No FIN/PHI Leaders
Normal Game Speed
No Tech Trading
Huts: On
Events: On
Espionage: Passive only (no spies)
Gifting of Units = Allowed - But you're not allowed to build the Heroic Epic until you've self-created a 10xp unit
No Temporary Gifting of Cities - And NO Bail-out gifting of cities during war
No Contact Allowed until you've met in game
No Screenshot Trading until you or your trading partner have the technology Paper