Xteam is named after my avatar, and I saw your post in the SGOTM3 thread. What prompted you to ask to join us? I assumed you had recognised my name from this forum, but clearly not.
We're proposing to go for the Sponsored Variant, which is gonna be tough - Emperor level, Xenophobic, Non-oscillating Always War. I recommend you read the intro page carefully and make sure you know what you're letting yourself in for. We'll be taking no prisoners

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It's down to mad-bax to decide who joins what team, and he needs to know your current experience and playing level in order to do so. If you haven't played a Succession Game before I suggest you scan a few threads in the SG forum to see what happens. Whatever team you end up in, if you usually play at the lower difficulty levels you should do some research in the Strategy forum and maybe read a few spoiler posts in the GOTM forum to see what works and what doesn't in competitive play, 'cos you'll be on a *very* steep learning curve at Emperor level.
If you want to check out my style and that of the Xteam, I've just played the first 20 turns in a game
here, and the Xteam/TeamX (mad-bax changed our name for reasons unknown to me) played SGOTM1, and we completed SGOTM2 last week. We didn't win any awards in either game, but we played OK-ish and reached our variant objectives, and had a lot of fun.