OK guys, glad to see there is interest. It seems old-school CFC pitbossers are all retired or gone to RB though as I do not know any of you. Anyway , glad to meet you
So, in short, a pitboss is a way Civ to be played in which there is a server, which is active 24/7 so all players can connect and play their turn when they want/can. Normally the timer is 24 hours, so each one to have a shot at playing no matter of time zone or something. If someone is not played his turn to the 24-hours limit, the turn just rolls. If all players play their turns earlier than the 24 hours, it turns too, so a turn can be way shorter than 24 hours actually. Also, if someone asks for a pause, there must be such, as what is the fun in playing against inactive opponent
There is also something called double-move order. Once in war, all the belligerents must maintain the turn order set in the turn before war is declared to avoid someone moving his units twice before his opponent have a chance to react. Yes, in online playing the ability to move twice before your opponent do this once is a virtue, but here it is not. Online you are both able to move and who makes it depends to some degree to who is prepared to do it and who have quicker reactions or at least who have more luck. In pitboss this depends on who have more spare time to be available all the time, which is not good thing to decide who gets advantage. Because of that, double- moving is forbidden at all.
Other specifics are the no- tech trading setting. In the long investment MP between people which is the pitboss, it is considered better measure of civ skills if people do not trade techs. Because if 2 or more players trade techs, it is extremely hard to someone who is not trading to keep up with the ones that trade. Because of that (and many other reasons among those) tech trading is usually forbidden in pitboss.
With all this said, be aware, that a normal pitboss lasts for about a year and by deciding to join you commit to trying your best to finish the game and play your turns in timely manner.
We do have some other players from different sites, who will be joining, so we will have the players to make the game happen. We also have a dedicated server available. Usually a normal pitboss is somewhere between 7-8 and 16 people with 10-12 as average number of players. Other players from CFC interested, please, state this here.