I guess my CivNet is patched to 3.0. If it's not I'm gonna patch it.
I did some research with hot-seat mode of CivNet and spotted some strange behaviour/problems.
First, you can see each other's map, cities and units.This is not big deal for me and actually I think it would be interesting to see how other people develop their civilizations.Of course it makes suprise attacks etc impossible.It would be like playing chess.Second thing is more irritating.When you save game and reload it you have to choose the number of human players and select civs again.This however means just pressing enter/ clicking ok few times.Positive thing is that new player could take over an AI civ and enter the running game.
Also when you load a game it seems game always loads turn for player who has the first turn.Let's say the order of turns is 1-Russia, 2-Zulu, 3 -Egypt. When Russia has made his turn and clicks End of Turn then saves game and sends saved game to Zulu, when Zulu player loads the game, he gets Russian player turn.This means he has to click enter again to play his own turn.For Egypt this means clicking enter twice.And so on.(I hope you understand my English
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CivDOS saving/reloading as different civ didn't seem to work at all.When I reloaded game as different civ all movement point where 0.This might had been problem of editor I used, maybe direct hex editor manipulation would work. CivNet is anyway simpler to try.
I believe it's possible to play civnet pbem but it's just takes few turns to get used to it.
So, if these problems doesn't bother you, let's start the game when you have acquired CivNet.
I would like to just try fresh start civ game, 7 civs, random map.
Deadline for turns propably isn't good idea, but maybe at least 1 turn per week would keep the game going.Sometimes faster sometimes slower.
If we start this game, I believe we should start a new thread where we discuss about it.We might even get new players to jump in the game.
I have never played any game by e-mail, just some civ4 online( which is fun but I believe Civ1 PBEM would be more 'hardcore' experience of multiplayer Civ).But I think I have the patience for e-mail game aswell.At least I have been on this forum since 2005 and I don't see any reason why I couldn't play 1 turn of civ everytime I check this forum.
Whatever, I don't know if this thing is going to work, but it's worth trying.I'm ready to
A pbem is new ground for the c1forums (apart from the civnet hookup thread). These are exciting time 
