Team Leaders/Polotics

[Krill]

Speaking from my experience with several very successful MTDG teams, the only positions that really need to be formalized (via elections or consensus or whatever) are The Turnplayer and The Diplomat

Someone has to be responsible to get the save played on time – or else to pause the game.

We should probably develop a formal system for what to do if there's no word from the elected turn player… something like - if there 3 hours or less before our turn expires, and the turnplayer hasn't posted to say he's about to play, then any Team3 Member should request an extension and pause the game. Then the "Backup Turnplayer" should play the game as soon as possible.

Having a team diplomat is also very important for the sake of having a consistent message delivered to the other teams.


As for everything else… the MAIN thing we need is not more "decision makers" – the whole of team 3 will participate in that – what we need is "information gatherers" – people who will keep track of key information, post detailed updates, and generally help keep everyone informed about what's going on.

Ie – someone willing to log in and look at all the military stats, or spying stats, or demographic screen in general – to help the team deduce what our opponents are doing, and best craft strategy to defeat them.

I'm fine with giving these people formal titles like "Chief Military Advisor" – but really, this won't carry any authority. It'll just be a position to help the team by taking on the burden of gathering quality info from the game and posting in our forum. (remember, not everyone will be able to log into the server regularly… or at all!)

:b: it's the best way to do things; every one is entitled to their opinions, to advise what to do in any given situation, but they have to be able to explain why. I don;t have access to the CIV lobby or any pitboss games from uni so all I can do really is offer advice from screen shots that have been posted or run through simulations created via a world builder, and maybe draft the occasional short diplomatic email.

 

[Whomp]

I'm fully on board with what General_W has said. This game is won through great diplomacy and excellent turnplay. One without the other is a losing proposition.

The way I see it any other advisors would be what Krill has said where if someone is say a "military advisor" it be through running simulations or reading the tea leaves through the demographics screen to give us a sense of what other teams are doing and what outcome we should anticipate.

 

[AutomatedTeller]

And both the diplomacy and turnplay can be highly affected by other players, in terms of suggestions, analysis, wordsmithing, testing stuff (I keep learning things about Civ III!)