I've enjoyed reading the other posts on this thread. And I'm glad to see so many friendly team-players for Civ World. I believe that as this game continues to progress, the devs will see the potential for encouraging teams as well as individuals to play this game. In the meantime, I've discovered that I don't even enjoy this game without the team atmosphere.
Please consider this my application. I can't pm yet because I just signed up for this forum expressly to reply to this thread.
I prefer playing in a team. Yes, I enjoy making points but not as much as communicating well with my teammates and achieving something together. I did play with a few teams here and there, but it would be great to have some kind of consensus about what type of game we wanted to play as a team before we started, for example: heavy production, low tech, battle-wins, or great-defenses high tech era wins, etc. It seems like in any game you need some people who are going to concentrate early on production, and I'm happy to do that, but can change to a different tactic when appropriate.
I almost quit the game because of something mentioned earlier in this thread, attacking little nations for one player's personal glory and because some people always have to have a battle. I enjoy a good battle that takes skill and attention, with wonders, technology or an era win at stake, but not because of personal glory, battle-hounds or just plain being a bully. When I was learning the game, I liked to just build and grow and discover, and I think that happens with a lot of new players. It seems like good etiquette or neighborliness to let those people be, as long as they aren't attacking others.
I also like watching the market and earning a little gold here and there. Nothing big so far, but nice moderate chunks. I will log into the game at least twice a day and when I have nothing else to do, I may put the game on while I'm watching tv and be available for voting, discussion, or team strategy.
Please add me to the team player list. Thank you so much for starting this. This is my gaming account which is separate from my personal account. I named it after one of my dogs who is now in Pet Heaven, Gracie Goodheart, Shih Tzu .facebook name: Gracie Hart