Tech Thread PBEM 51

[retep]

That tittle say it all!

Agreed Rules:

Always War
Torusland Inland Seas
Scout + Settler Start
Seven to roll random/civ combinations; Seven/Lurkers to balance combinations
Snake Draft to select; Last in turn order selects first
Turn order to be determined according to time zone
Bans: War Elephants, Nukes, Spies, Corps
No Events/Huts/Barbs
Ban Blockades? Yes
Difficulty? Prince
Speed? Quick
Ballista Elephants allowed for Khmer? Yes
What should be revealed in starting BFC? C
a) Edit terrain so that all food resources can be made visible.
b) Manually reveal tiles in fog of war.
c) It's ok, just reveal as many as possible.
d) Unfog whole BFC

Improvements? Yes,

Turn order:
yuris125 - retep - wetbandit - Azza - Oxyphenbutazone

Link to the tracker: http://mistbinder.org/tracker/tracker.php?game=bts51

[Oxyphenbutazone]

I'm tentatively interested, though I'm not really feeling the whole crazy variant plan, seems like it wouldn't be so much fun in practice. Are you thinking AW or not?

[retep]

I could be standard just trowing ideas to attract people

Yeah, I was thinking AW.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Alright, you can count me in. I have a mild preference against AW, but I'm good either way.

How many players do you think? 4-6 seems about right for PBEM

[SevenSpirits]

a) You can see your start. (otherwise you can't until game start)
b) You can choose your leader. (otherwise random except bans, yeah even PRO leaders)
c) You can choose your civ. (otherwise random)
d) You can start with one combat 1 warrior instead of scout.
e) You can start with three scouts instead of one.
f) You can start with a random extra tech. (fishing/wheel/agriculture/hunting/mysticism/mining)
g) You can start with 3 huts in a five ring range of your capital.
h) You can start with settler+worker but not scout. (this takes 2 choices)
You get to choose 2 of this options, except H that takes your 2 choices.

Not a signup since my hands are full with 2 games already.

I would advise against a setup like this, because even though it looks like there is a lot of variety there, in fact there will just end up being 2-3 right choices and a bunch of ways to terribly screw yourself before the game starts.

I can volunteer to provide a map and/or interesting setup constraints if you like.

[Azza]

I'd be interested in smallish map AW PBEM. Not sure about the crazy variant stuff you're proposing, or the need to ban Sury (especially if not banning Willem).

[wetbandit]

I'd also be interested in playing in a PBEM. 4-6 players, AW or not-AW (AI Diplo then), not interested in the "Choose your Start" options you've proposed though.

[retep]

Yeah I perfectly okay with a standard game. I not really good on planning this kinda thing so maybe someone with more experience with this can help. Maybe Seven if he wants.

We have four people(tentative) so far maybe we can start trowing ideas about some features while waiting for a fifth person.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

I'm thinking something like this:

Torusland script, Inland Seas/Oceans(lightly edited by Seven)
AI Diplo(AW is fine too, but this is my preference)
NTT
Snake pick with possible bans(Pacal/Willem/India/Inca?)
Prince Difficulty
Barbs, events, huts off

[Krill]

If you want to use a Torusworld map it probably won't even need balancing, just get someone to generate a couple, pick the one they think is the most fun, then randomise you gets which start location. A 4 player game would probably work best on a 28*28 map size as well.