bkelly1984
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2002
- Messages
- 14
Hail CivFanatics!
I know you're out there. Like me, you're a micro-managing power monger who doesn't like online games because everyone else is telling you to hurry up and people either quit or disconnect just as the game gets interesting. Civilization is arguably the most in-depth computer game ever written! The development, research, conflicts, diplomacy and intrigue are to be scrutinized and savored, not rushed through in an evening.
Fortunately, for people like us the Civilization 4 play by E-mail (or PBEM) option exists. Someone can load the game, make their moves and when finished, email the save file to the next person. Since nobody is at their keyboard waiting for their turn, you can spend hours deciding if your city needs roads or irrigation. When you encounter another player, take the time to draft treaties and deal for technologies. Waste untold hours at work or school by planning out your next moves. Take the time to play the whole game, not just another Command and Conquer knockoff.
So, I seek other Napoleon-like people who have the maturity and ambition to play a Civ4 PBEM game, ones that could easily take months. If you'd like to join, send me your name, email address and preferences of what sort of game you would like to participate. To send me mail, click on my name to the left and select "Send email to bkelly1984". We'll start as soon as we have enough people.
There are a number of possible ways to do this. I'll draft up official guidelines soon and put together lists of options as they come up, but here is how I plan to work from the start:
bkelly1984
I know you're out there. Like me, you're a micro-managing power monger who doesn't like online games because everyone else is telling you to hurry up and people either quit or disconnect just as the game gets interesting. Civilization is arguably the most in-depth computer game ever written! The development, research, conflicts, diplomacy and intrigue are to be scrutinized and savored, not rushed through in an evening.
Fortunately, for people like us the Civilization 4 play by E-mail (or PBEM) option exists. Someone can load the game, make their moves and when finished, email the save file to the next person. Since nobody is at their keyboard waiting for their turn, you can spend hours deciding if your city needs roads or irrigation. When you encounter another player, take the time to draft treaties and deal for technologies. Waste untold hours at work or school by planning out your next moves. Take the time to play the whole game, not just another Command and Conquer knockoff.
So, I seek other Napoleon-like people who have the maturity and ambition to play a Civ4 PBEM game, ones that could easily take months. If you'd like to join, send me your name, email address and preferences of what sort of game you would like to participate. To send me mail, click on my name to the left and select "Send email to bkelly1984". We'll start as soon as we have enough people.
There are a number of possible ways to do this. I'll draft up official guidelines soon and put together lists of options as they come up, but here is how I plan to work from the start:
- People can choose between three games- 8 players, 4 players and 4 players with 4 computer opponents at a difficult skill level.
- At the start of the game, everyone is given the names and email addresses of the other players and told which of them they are to mail their saved games to. Players are free to communicate with one another privately with these addresses.
- Players are expected to make their moves and mail their game within 24 hours of having the save game mailed to them. (Not when they see it, when it was mailed to them!) Games will be emailed to the next player as well as the game administrator as verification. People who turn in turns late may be replaced by the game admin.
- We'll plan a "blitz" session, so the first 10 or more turns can be done quickly. Everyone will be expected to be sitting by their computers during this time ready to make a quick move and send the game on.
- I will create and administrate the first couple of games, which may cause a problem if I also play because the game admin could view anybodys empire even not knowing their password in Civ3. I promise to be fair, but it would be better if someone would be willing to administrate games that I can play in.
- Anyone who joins is expected to see their games to the end. Frequently people who are losing either abandon their empire or purposefully lose to another player. Doing either will cause you to be excluded from future games.
- Civ3 had bugs in the PBEM implementation that allowed people to circumvent the password scheme allowing them to see other people's empires. It was also possible to fight a battle many times until you got the outcome you wanted. If these problems remain, everyone is expected to be honorable and not exploit these loopholes until, hopefully, we can find a way to prevent them.
bkelly1984