Civ5 PBEM 5 Organizing Thread

[yuris125]

With Civ6 just 2 months away, I wanted to see if there's any interest in giving Civ5 a little bit of a send-off, so that it doesn't just quietly fade into obscurity. Thinking just a regular BNW PBEM, although if there's a twist you guys would be interested in trying, I would certainly be up for it

Player list and play windows:
yuris125 (2300-0100 GMT) - Songhai
oledavy (2100-0300 GMT) - Russia
HAK (23:00-03:00 GMT) - Inca
Ichabod (01:00-03:00 GMT) - Persia
pindicator (0300-0600 GMT) - Rome
Nicolae Carpathia (0900-1400 GMT) - Ethiopia

GMR link: http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#23941

Speed: Quick
Difficulty: Prince
Ancient Ruins: On
Barbs: On
Religion: No bans
City States Number: 12
Worker Steals: Allowed
DLC: DLC civ are allowed. Other DLC are not used
Civ selection: The following civs are banned

Code:

Poland
Babylon
Korea
Maya
Huns
Mongols
Arabia
Venice
Spain

Map: Custom made by chumchu, see discussion in post 18 onwards

[AdrienIer]

I haven't bothered to put a lot of thought into civ 5 playing (only have 80 hours in it, and never played to optimize stuff) so if in the end you need one more player to fill the ranks I'll play. I don't want to take a spot from someone who'll be actually relevant in the game though.

[yuris125]

I never played to optimise either - admittedly only minor optimisation is needed to beat Civ5 single player, even on deity. I'll put you down as a tentative sign-up

[chumchu]

I'm potentially interested, depending on the settings. I would prefer a fast game with ca. 6 players and a fair bit of early combat instead of the usual tradition turtling. I played it a lot (1000+h) until I lost interest, starting with SP and plying more MP later on. My interest in SP was rekindled by the best SP mod http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=550671. Unfortunatelyt is not for MP and the main MP mod (NQ-mod) is not very good in my opinion.

I would be as excited to instead try to make a balanced/interesting map and watch you play if you need a map creator.

[yuris125]

How would you enforce early combat? I don't believe Civ5 has an Always War option

[T-hawk]

You don't need an option. You just have everyone declare and stay at war with everyone. That's how we played AW in Civ 3 before it became an official option.

[oledavy]

I'm in.

[chumchu]

You do not necessarily need to have always war. I would plan on: 1) avoiding too defensive terrain like long mountain chains 2) putting more of the good resources (especially luxes) in central places, rather than in the capitol 3) restricting the civ choices a bit. You want to open up for other strategies while not forcing the players hand too much.

[AdrienIer]

I'm not really interested in an AW game

[yuris125]

Ok let's lock in no AW, although a map which encourages early(ish) aggression would be welcome. I don't think the game would devolve into Tradition turtling anyway, in the past games there always was at least someone going Liberty (Pyramids is a good wonder), and rushing someone who's running farmer gambit is a long-standing RB tradition

chumchu, can I take you up on your mapmaking suggestion then please? Assuming the game gets off the ground, but looks promising so far