Noob looking for noob gaming buddies

[Tyrghen]

There are more people wishing to try out than I'd have thought
Well, I've contacted some of you. At the moment I doubt I can involve in more than one game though.

 

[Tyrghen]

Anyone would be up for a succession game?
It would be faster to play and would allow us to learn from each others.
Beware though, I like to learn by mistakes

 

[DNK]

Well, I guess I'm a bit late, but I'm interested. I've only been in two half-games so far, so that's sort of noobish, I guess.

 

[Tyrghen]

Hello mate, I PMed you

 

[tbok]

Hey guys... I'm new to this multiplayer thing. Can anyone give me a quick run down on how PBEM works and what is Pitboss?

I need to learn now because I am doing research study on personality of Civ players and business students. Basically I'll get a bunch of people playing and have them fill out an online survey. I'll need the game results with all the stats.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Tyrghen]

PBEM is played like a regular email game. You play your turn then send the mail to the next player in queue.

Pitboss is a "server" that runs 24h/24 where everyone needs to connect and play their turn, rather than send the save file to each person.
It allows people to play simultaneously without and need to follow a turn order.
You can also set the pitboss server so it closes the turn after X hours even if not all player did play. The queued orders of the player are executed but that's all.

Hope it helped.

 

[mrllama1960]

Hey all, longtime Civ fan here and looking forward to a 1.74 plain vanilla CIV4 game by email. Never done one before, and I think email would be cool. East coast USA, and I'll make my moves in the evening, home nearly every night. contact me if you like...

fl3yd at verizon dotnet

 

[Tyrghen]

I've started a PBEM game with 4 other people. At the moment I don't have enough time to play another game. But I'm sure some others will contact you.

 

[Zorzak]

i am interested too, i mean PBEM BTS, i prefer play without AI, monarch+, normal+, barbarians+, normal size+
just gather all of us (who is interested) and make a game to for example 8 players, without AI
my email is: grzybczyk.kamil@gmail.com i am waitng for more instructions

 

[lifecry]

I'm absolutely fiending for a PBEM game

Are there of you still floating around that haven't gotten one going yet and are still interested in doing so?

 

[DNK]

Well, I have two going now, but I'm up for a third - it just needs to be vanilla.

 

[lifecry]

cool with me.
do you have a preferred number of players/favorite civ/ map, etc?
I'm pretty flexible.

 

[DNK]

4 players - much more would take forever.
Civ - I'm fond of Elizabeth now, since I'm trying to get the hybrid strat down.
Map - fractal, although I'm very open on that one.

 

[SV110MHH]

Any room for one more?

 

[lifecry]

heck, yeah.
welcome
I'd even be down with doing it with just the 3 of us.

As for maps, I'd like an Archipelago-ish, island-y map. But I'm not gonna be hard nosed about it.

As for civs, I'd like to rock Ragnar or Hannibal, methinks.

 

[Tyrghen]

Those are BtS leaders, DNK plays Vanilla which has the standart leaders

 

[DNK]

Well, don't choose based on what I'm running.

 

[Tyrghen]

Hmm, I thought you needed Vanilla only

BtS has some good points though, but myself I stick to Vanilla for now until I get a better grip of some aspects of the game. Since BtS adds a whole new layer of things. Vassals, colonies (with prohibitive costs of distant towns) and that kind of things.

 

[DNK]

Well, I'm personally only running vanilla, yes.

I've decided to just wait it out for the next release.

 

[lifecry]

sorry for not replying sooner! been out of the loop for a few days

I'm ok with a vanilla game. no prob.

in which case my choice would be....Ghandi of the Indians.