PB56 Organizing Thread

[civac2]

PBEM 78, currently running, has barbs disabled.

[Mjmd]

I'm willing to try no barbs, but I don't have a strong opinion on it. Does anyone know of a previous no-barbs game? I'm almost certain it's been tried before.

Most games pre-2015 were played with no barbs.

Why did it change back to having barbs?

To follow up a discussion in the mod thread. I would agree on a very large map, barbs might serve a purpose. But for the size we are looking at, I don't think it adds enough positive to make up for the negatives.

[NobleHelium]

I'm willing to try no barbs, but I don't have a strong opinion on it. Does anyone know of a previous no-barbs game? I'm almost certain it's been tried before.

Most games pre-2015 were played with no barbs.

Why did it change back to having barbs?

To follow up a discussion in the mod thread. I would agree on a very large map, barbs might serve a purpose. But for the size we are looking at, I don't think it adds enough positive to make up for the negatives.

I could answer this question honestly but it would probably insult half the active players.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Barbs off, goody huts off, events off.

Please.

[Jowy]

Barbs off, goody huts off, events off.

Please.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...edit#gid=0

[NobleHelium]

Please stop voting for the inflation modifier. That is a highly experimental setting intended to slow down late game tech in tech trading games. There will still be normal inflation with it off.

Also, if late game tech is too fast then that is because the map size is not set correctly. Many of these big Pitbosses should actually be played on at least Large map size rather than Standard.

[Mjmd]

Please stop voting for the inflation modifier.  That is a highly experimental setting intended to slow down late game tech in tech trading games.  There will still be normal inflation with it off.

Also, if late game tech is too fast then that is because the map size is not set correctly.  Many of these big Pitbosses should actually be played on at least Large map size rather than Standard.

What am I missing. The only mention of this was me mentioning I removed it as a voting option. Luckily no one has mentioned it until now and I thought I was in the clear.

[NobleHelium]

Well I actually missed that part. But I think it's more likely the game would have been started with it enabled because a couple people voted for it in the thread and it was not included in the spreadsheet.

It's better to adequately explain it to everybody that it really shouldn't be an option for a game like this. I do however think the map size should be set to Large which is not mentioned in the spreadsheet and it presumably would have been defaulted to Standard.

[Mjmd]

No one mentioned it in the thread.....

Anyways, people are pretty used to it being defaulted to standard. I have no clue if it is correct or not, but as we've discussed in the mod forum, at some point even if things aren't correct, doing what people are used to playing on is sometimes correct.

[superdeath]

For this many players, id probably start with large and see how everyone is spaced out. Im a bit sad to see some people not wanting much ocean though.