Ok, I'd say: let's keep this thread for pre-startup organization; then I'll open another thread after some things are settled, to keep the other thread clean; for the moment we have some interested players:
1. 45°38'N-13°47'E
2. E_Pluribus_Unum
3. Civ Fuehrer
4. DRJ
5. CivEikka
Hydromancerx and cheesemijit, I assume you wanted to join in too, right?
Settings to be discussed soon, but I'd say version 2.8beta unless another MP working version comes out before we start.
Planned start I'd say during next month (november).
Multiplayer mode: E_Pluribus_Unum and me were proposing a simultaneous turns, direct IP game, meeting once per week in the evening about 20 GMT playing let's say 2 hours per session (further details will be discussed). That'll be on normal speed about 20 sessions (5 months) - our last game on normal speed lasted little less than 40 hours which, given the fact that we couldn't meet every week due to personal reasons (holidays, my wedding and so on), translated into 7 months of gameplay. I assume that we're all dedicated players that will agree to play once per week and will keep the commitment for the duration of the game: that said, it can happen that someone will have other real-life commitments that could force him/(her? are there girls playing RoM besides my wife?

) not to be online for a game-session occasionally. That shouldn't be a problem, we can skip a game session every now and then; keep in mind that playing on Epic speed could mean almost 1 year of gameplay.
I'm also suggesting to use a pitboss server in addition to playing all together once per week: that way we could play as usual on the day we agree, but if someone has time during the week, we could also play some additional turns between 2 game-sessions. I've never actually tried pitboss besides some basic tests but it looks like my old Celeron 800Mhz can be used as a pitboss server; I could run it 24/7 but the problem is I don't have a good upload bandwith (more or less 300kb/s). So if someone else has other proposal, we can discuss about it too.
I'd say that's all for now. Waiting for feebacks and then we'll start talking seriously about tests and settings!
