In better news, I held a second poll and actually set a quota of cast votes. It's been a few days, but 7 of 15 players gave me some votes; 3 were for NES, 2 for IOT, and 2 were indifferent. So, I'll be changing gears and hosting here I think. I'll keep an archive of turns in a post I'll continually edit in the IOT thread, but all diplomacy and gameplay will be here.
The game's not due to start until next Monday, so I'll go get a signup thread ready for the NES boards.