Teams, please decide what you'd like the base map type to be:

Rik Made - Completely Random
Rik makes the map, and he decides everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age).

Rik Made - Parameters Team-Decided
Rik makes the map but the teams decide 70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age.

Non-Rik Made - Completely Random
Ginger or myself start up a new PBEM and pick random for everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age).

Non-Rik Made - Parameters Team-Decided
Ginger or myself start up a new PBEM and pick everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age) according to the teams' will.

Abstain
Your team abstains from voting.

Barbarians, SGL, and SoZ terms will be decided in a different vote. Try to have the vote in by Sunday or Monday-ish. :)

Team Saber has voted for Rik Made, with Rik deciding what it will be like.

Team FREE votes

Rik Made - Completely Random
Rik makes the map, and he decides everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age).

Team GONG votes Rik Made - Completely Random
Rik makes the map, and he decides everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age).

Team B ... votes Rik Random

So let it be written, so let it be done. We'll go with a Rik-made most-options-up-to-him map!

team BABE votes Rik Random

we also had a request that Rik give us an idea of the map type.

Do we know anything about the map yet (like size for example)? Or are we starting completly in the dark?

Completely in the dark, though someone could take a screenshot of the minimap on the starting turn, and calculate the map size by comparing the ratio of pixels in the minimap to visible tiles in-game. :mischief:

Completely in the dark, though someone could take a screenshot of the minimap on the starting turn, and calculate the map size by comparing the ratio of pixels in the minimap to visible tiles in-game. :mischief:

Sometimes I think I'm way out of my league here. :lol:

Completely in the dark, though someone could take a screenshot of the minimap on the starting turn, and calculate the map size by comparing the ratio of pixels in the minimap to visible tiles in-game. :mischief:
Assuming Rik uses the same tech costs and map sizes as the normal game would be easier.

I'll just wait till I get a request with all democratically decided specifics from the admins. Then I'll start work.

Rik, we have decided on what we want. It's the first option:

Rik Made - Completely Random
Rik makes the map, and he decides everything (70% pangaea/80% continent/etc., size, temperature, climate, and age).

You can also visit the Checklist (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=191980) thread for things like barbarians, SGLs, SoZ, etc. The only thing we have left to decide are custom rule changes, which are basically done (see the ruleset thread as well) - map trading to Map Making, contact trading to Writing.