Does it happen anywhere? Does it work well? Is it compatible with Pitboss? Where could I get involved? I see a lot of pbem threads, but they're all for Orbis. Which as I understand is yet another mod on top of FFH. Why is that? Is it better for multiplayer, or just being played a lot for some other reason (e.g. it's newer)? For the moment at least the idea of learning the ins and outs of a whole new set of changes again is just a bit too much for my brain to handle.
I will observe that some things definately don't seem to be designed for multiplayer. The spell "Trust" obviously, but that's no big deal. A bigger thing is that I can't see all how the hidden nationality mechanics, the Svartalfar worldspell in particular, would really work. While the AI might just put up with it, are humans really not going to know who's really controlling them? A few captured spiders they might think are barbarians, but otherwise I'd have thought it was probably pretty obvious what's going on. They still get around forced peace treaties, but that's a minor benefit. And similarly, what human is going to put up with Loki capturing their newly settled cities the way the AI does?
I will observe that some things definately don't seem to be designed for multiplayer. The spell "Trust" obviously, but that's no big deal. A bigger thing is that I can't see all how the hidden nationality mechanics, the Svartalfar worldspell in particular, would really work. While the AI might just put up with it, are humans really not going to know who's really controlling them? A few captured spiders they might think are barbarians, but otherwise I'd have thought it was probably pretty obvious what's going on. They still get around forced peace treaties, but that's a minor benefit. And similarly, what human is going to put up with Loki capturing their newly settled cities the way the AI does?