Some kind of... long-running play-by-email (or similar) game?

[Morbid]

Hope civ 4 is faster to play multiplayer then civ2 ever was.
Good multiplayer games took ages

Anyway to arrange similair starting points nowadays?
Nothing was more irritating then to start in the mountains, just to find out your oponent started next to the sea with a whale, fruit and a river in one spot.

Anyway HF!

*Starts to install Civ again*

[Daekesh]

You should probably start with a really short game tbh.  Test the waters a bit.  Maybe 50 turns or something?  Just to see if people can manage the time.

[Tyler]

5 turns per day will mean me coming home from work to find my empire in ruins! I think 120 turns is needed for a decent game though.

I think something like

We start out with a 2 hour session to get the game going, maybe 40 turns or so.
Play another ~50 turns at 12 hour intervals.
Then all get online together for the final ~30 turns (as the later turns will take longer).

[Kilizion]

Do want.

[delling]

Well that's why I asked if we can change turn timers throughout the game...!

But yeah, if we do the early turns together then it doesn't matter quite so much. I just don't want to spend a month on the first 50 turns

[Palmar]

Tyler speaks so much truth it hurts.

[Grishnag]

thing is i realy do want to play this cause it sounds fun.. but having 8 hour turns means i probably wont be able to play it cause of work and all that sort of stuff


oh about that pitboss stuff do you need everyone that is gonna play it have it installed or just the host?

edit: nvm