I am sorry to hear that, failedreality. I invited some people from a Final Frontiers thread in the BtS forum. Hopefully we can get up to a 2 V 2 V 2 or more.
If failed is good to go in time, I propose that I would start the game on 10 August, Friday, in the evening EDT (eastern daylight time, same as NYC, NY, USA).
For team determination, how about keeping it simple and saying that teams are decided by order of interest in the thread. Right now, that puts myself and failedreality against bbfrancis and prext. If two more people show up there's our third team, and so on. I don't anticipate this getting bigger than 4 teams - in fact, how about a cap of 8 players, 4 teams?
Unless otherwise commented, I will go with prext's suggestions for settings, leave the rest as defaults and propose a size on 08 August based on the amount of people that show up. Discussion of size for 4, 6 and 8 players now would be appreciated though.
Looking forward to exploring the stars with you all!