Hi I want to play MP every sunday for 3 hours or so. But don't want to use gamespy or whatever. So I thought I would try to find like minded players from this forum. I can be available for a sunday session anytime between 12pm to 12 am GMT. Anyone able and willing to play regularly within this time slot?

Hamachi connection.

sure, I've played a few PitBoss session that were 3 hours in real time. It works but might take a while to setup as several people will initially have trouble getting in.

I can't guarantee, but now that I know it is an option, I 'll look in.

It really depends on the time, but I doubt that I will be able to make since it ill be more than likely too late, unless it starts are 12:00 GMT.

Not a huge interest so far... :(

When I think of how many people use this forums not many seem to play MP. Honestly I think SP is like a training mode for learning to play the game to point where you can play MP. Once you can beat the AI at monarch level or even prince it is high time you started playing the real civ which is mp. :mischief:

This is the SP forum though... The MP forum is mostly based around the ladder... I might be interested, but imo it is easier to organize such things over msn or some other form of IM...

I would be interested. Not this Sunday though....

I would also be interested (it seems we got the usuals here) although not this coming sunday also

Oh I am sure I won't start the 'Sunday session' until after my holiday in august.

I'm interested as well. :)

I am back from my holiday so can start thinking about starting a Sunday game. Any suggestions?

I'm not available this Sunday, but should be available anytime from the next one onwards. :)

I'll be available most Sundays.

Ok for the first Sunday club game i am thinking about another earth map with historical starting locations but this time with fewer civs so that it is more of a economic game and less of a warring game. Would this be totally objectionable?

for example

we could have just 2 civs in europe, Rome and either celtia or the vikings

just 2 civs in africa; mali and zulu probably

and arabia, india, russia, mongolia, china and perhaps japan and ottomans in asia

and i am thinking we use ai civs in the new world and australasia as sort of colourful barbs to give the game a 'colonisation' flavour.

so that would be 9 to 11 player civs and 3 to 5 civ barbs played by AI.

anyone interested?

Why earth? Playing on huge maps would certanly bog down my comp at least so count me out for that one...

i just like earth maps. it gives me a sense of context. :lol:

I am easy with earth.

Earth seems okay, from next weekend onwards.

That sounds OK with me too. I like the Earth maps. They take away a lot of the exploration but everyone knows at least in which direction they should spread and where everyone else is.

I would make sure both Europeans start on the continent (i.e. no Celtica IF they start in the UK/Ireland). They will be at a big disadvantage if they have to ship troops/settlers/workers to the continent vs the Romans who can simply walk....

I like the idea of the AIs being considered basically the barbarians as they are unlikely to give any of us that hard a time but they will be better than the barbs. But you will probably want tech trading off to stop 'AI abuse' and it's a bad setting anyway :p

That sounds OK with me too. I like the Earth maps. They take away a lot of the exploration but everyone knows at least in which direction they should spread and where everyone else is.

I would make sure both Europeans start on the continent (i.e. no Celtica IF they start in the UK/Ireland). They will be at a big disadvantage if they have to ship troops/settlers/workers to the continent vs the Romans who can simply walk....

I like the idea of the AIs being considered basically the barbarians as they are unlikely to give any of us that hard a time but they will be better than the barbs. But you will probably want tech trading off to stop 'AI abuse' and it's a bad setting anyway :p

Yes I agree about celtia starting on the continent. tech trading will be off although i might consider just no tech brokering.

Doing tech trading in real time is going to slow things down(in gameplay time) and speed things up(in game speed) and facilitate for prearanged alliances(especially with that map...) as well as allow for AI abuse...

ok expected settings will be

no techtrading
epic speed
huge earth map
city flipping after conquest
barbs on
no goodie huts

comments/suggestions?

I'm certainly interested in some multiplayer sunday fun... I should be available most of sunday to play as much as we want.

I'm inexperienced when it comes to multiplayer though, what kind of compatibility issues are we looking at here? I use BtS 3.13 with the BUG mod...

I'm assuming we'd be using at least patch 3.17, which is the latest patch. Regardless, we all have to be using the same patch, and can't have different mods (or lack thereof) running. Personally, I'd prefer avoiding mods, but that's just me. ;)

city flipping after conquest
I would prefer we didn't have this setting on, as it gives the defender too much of an intrinsic advantage. The default setting is off, so I suggest we keep it that way. :)

Hello again,

first off i won't be starting a game anytime soon because..
- i have grown rather tired of the standard game and have decided to have a look at modding.. So i will try to make/modify a mod suitable for a super earth realistic multiplayer! who knows how long it will take or even if it will happen at all. i will keep you posted..

:)