the oob
Retired PTBS host
Details:
* Warlords
* 14 players (though expecting less as a few probably won't show up to the accelerated start).
* Two hour accelerated start at 1am UTC time (the same thing as GMT time I think), saturday the 14th of April, this includes setting up time. Check when this will be for you here, but bear in mind daylight savings time if you have an adjustment for it approaching, so I suggest checking the day before the game to be sure, I've had people turn up an hour early/late before. I can't pick a time which is good for everyone, but this should at least be good for NZ/Oz/America. For NZ'ers: I think this will be 1pm for us, but check beforehand. Any Europeans/others who feel like playing at ludicrous hours are welcome, you'll only have to do it once.
* Map: Terra, Huge. Make sure your computer can handle a map of this size, especially in the late game.
* Turns: simultaneous, 24 hour timer
* No barbarians (prevents early game imbalance)
* Technology trading will be on. I want to have a game where pretty much everyone can get to the modern age (eventally), so this should help with that, and keep things more balanced than they have been with the current game.
* Default difficulty (noble I think) for everyone
* Balanced resources
* No war until 3500BC, to prevent very early rushes, however you may make preparations for war before this date, as long as it doesn't require declaring war.
All other options are default.
The rules for the game can be found here, please take the time to read them as I will assume everyone playing has.
What you need to do if you want in:
1) Post here with your choice of leader, email address, and MSN address (you must post the leader on this thread, but you can PM your email address and/or MSN address to me if you prefer). Since we’ll be meeting on MSN for the accelerated start (see below) you will need this program or some equivalent, and you’ll need to add me to your contact list: the_oob[at]hotmail.com. Bear in mind this is different from my email address, which is theoob[at]gmail.com (and note that the former has an underscore, but the latter does not, don’t mix them up).
Warlords allows duplicate leaders, so you don't need to worry about someone taking your choice. However if you have a few leaders you'd be equally happy with, preferably take a unique one for the sake of variety, same goes for civilizations.
2) I am currently running a test server for people to try out before we start the game. When you’ve completed step 1 I’ll PM you with instructions on how to connect to this server (ip address, password, etc.), try it out. Please give the test server a try before the accelerated start session, so you can contact me if you have difficulties getting in and we can get it sorted out.
I'll also ask you to connect to it using Hamachi (download it from here) since you'll need to do that for the accelerated start. The details you need for that will be send to you with the aforementioned PM.
Bear in mind that it’s just a test server, I will be restarting the server for when the game starts, as explained below.
3) You must attend the accelerated start session detailed above.
There will only be one of these sessions, just to get through the early part of the game where turns will pass very quickly. You are required to be in the game from whenever we start (which will hopefully be within half an hour of the planned time) to 3am UTC time.
After that people can leave as they wish. Anyone who leaves beforehand will be given time to reconnect (and should contact me on MSN as soon as possible, I will leave it on during the game for this reason), but if it becomes apparent that they won’t be back for the rest of the session they will be left out if the game hasn't started yet, or replaced by an AI for the remainder if it has started (in which case they will be able to take the game back later, they are still considered to be in the game).
For this session we will be meeting on MSN first, I will add you to a group conversation as soon as I see you online. Once everyone there is ready and it's past 1.10am UTC we'll start, so while I plan for 14 players I expect there to be a few less as chances are some won't show up. Try to arrive early, but remember that we’re meeting on MSN, not in the game, since I'll be restarting the server once we start, so I can exclude those who haven’t showed up rather than have a bunch of AI run empires.
4) After the accelerated start we will have no more planned times for everyone to be on, so all you need to do from then on is take your turns. We'll be using civstats for email notification, I'll set this up and send out an email about it after the accelerated start session.
Dealing with outages: if you can't get in, try again 15 minutes later. If you still can't get in, let me know and I'll load from a previous save if asked to do so (but only if it's due to a problem on my end). I've moved recently and my connection here is more stable than my old one, but there will be outages now and again for whatever reason.
Current players (may be out of date) (note: Warlords allows duplicate leaders/civs)
the oob (AKA Kim Jong-il): Wang Kon, Korea
CB Droege: Gandhi, India
Crazy Joe: Catherine, Russia
TopDog (AKA Spike): Elizabeth, England
fuse (AKA Dr. Strangelove): Elizabeth, England (remember, duplicates are allowed in Warlords)
classical_hero: Huayna Capac, Inca
Bolkonski: Isabella, Spain
Makahlua (AKA Sabriane): Roosevelt, America
da_Vinci: Montezuma, Aztecs
whiplash_CDC: Alexander, Greece (randomed)
Oyzar: Mansa Musa, Mali
burlicconi: Qin Shi Huang, China
* Warlords
* 14 players (though expecting less as a few probably won't show up to the accelerated start).
* Two hour accelerated start at 1am UTC time (the same thing as GMT time I think), saturday the 14th of April, this includes setting up time. Check when this will be for you here, but bear in mind daylight savings time if you have an adjustment for it approaching, so I suggest checking the day before the game to be sure, I've had people turn up an hour early/late before. I can't pick a time which is good for everyone, but this should at least be good for NZ/Oz/America. For NZ'ers: I think this will be 1pm for us, but check beforehand. Any Europeans/others who feel like playing at ludicrous hours are welcome, you'll only have to do it once.
* Map: Terra, Huge. Make sure your computer can handle a map of this size, especially in the late game.
* Turns: simultaneous, 24 hour timer
* No barbarians (prevents early game imbalance)
* Technology trading will be on. I want to have a game where pretty much everyone can get to the modern age (eventally), so this should help with that, and keep things more balanced than they have been with the current game.
* Default difficulty (noble I think) for everyone
* Balanced resources
* No war until 3500BC, to prevent very early rushes, however you may make preparations for war before this date, as long as it doesn't require declaring war.
All other options are default.
The rules for the game can be found here, please take the time to read them as I will assume everyone playing has.
What you need to do if you want in:
1) Post here with your choice of leader, email address, and MSN address (you must post the leader on this thread, but you can PM your email address and/or MSN address to me if you prefer). Since we’ll be meeting on MSN for the accelerated start (see below) you will need this program or some equivalent, and you’ll need to add me to your contact list: the_oob[at]hotmail.com. Bear in mind this is different from my email address, which is theoob[at]gmail.com (and note that the former has an underscore, but the latter does not, don’t mix them up).
Warlords allows duplicate leaders, so you don't need to worry about someone taking your choice. However if you have a few leaders you'd be equally happy with, preferably take a unique one for the sake of variety, same goes for civilizations.
2) I am currently running a test server for people to try out before we start the game. When you’ve completed step 1 I’ll PM you with instructions on how to connect to this server (ip address, password, etc.), try it out. Please give the test server a try before the accelerated start session, so you can contact me if you have difficulties getting in and we can get it sorted out.
I'll also ask you to connect to it using Hamachi (download it from here) since you'll need to do that for the accelerated start. The details you need for that will be send to you with the aforementioned PM.
Bear in mind that it’s just a test server, I will be restarting the server for when the game starts, as explained below.
3) You must attend the accelerated start session detailed above.
There will only be one of these sessions, just to get through the early part of the game where turns will pass very quickly. You are required to be in the game from whenever we start (which will hopefully be within half an hour of the planned time) to 3am UTC time.
After that people can leave as they wish. Anyone who leaves beforehand will be given time to reconnect (and should contact me on MSN as soon as possible, I will leave it on during the game for this reason), but if it becomes apparent that they won’t be back for the rest of the session they will be left out if the game hasn't started yet, or replaced by an AI for the remainder if it has started (in which case they will be able to take the game back later, they are still considered to be in the game).
For this session we will be meeting on MSN first, I will add you to a group conversation as soon as I see you online. Once everyone there is ready and it's past 1.10am UTC we'll start, so while I plan for 14 players I expect there to be a few less as chances are some won't show up. Try to arrive early, but remember that we’re meeting on MSN, not in the game, since I'll be restarting the server once we start, so I can exclude those who haven’t showed up rather than have a bunch of AI run empires.
4) After the accelerated start we will have no more planned times for everyone to be on, so all you need to do from then on is take your turns. We'll be using civstats for email notification, I'll set this up and send out an email about it after the accelerated start session.
Dealing with outages: if you can't get in, try again 15 minutes later. If you still can't get in, let me know and I'll load from a previous save if asked to do so (but only if it's due to a problem on my end). I've moved recently and my connection here is more stable than my old one, but there will be outages now and again for whatever reason.
Current players (may be out of date) (note: Warlords allows duplicate leaders/civs)
the oob (AKA Kim Jong-il): Wang Kon, Korea
CB Droege: Gandhi, India
Crazy Joe: Catherine, Russia
TopDog (AKA Spike): Elizabeth, England
fuse (AKA Dr. Strangelove): Elizabeth, England (remember, duplicates are allowed in Warlords)
classical_hero: Huayna Capac, Inca
Bolkonski: Isabella, Spain
Makahlua (AKA Sabriane): Roosevelt, America
da_Vinci: Montezuma, Aztecs
whiplash_CDC: Alexander, Greece (randomed)
Oyzar: Mansa Musa, Mali
burlicconi: Qin Shi Huang, China