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We are planning to start a new game of Empires... anybody wishing to join us sign in below.

Wellsonian said:
Ok, I think we should do this. I want to participate. We have enough people, but I don’t want to run it. Any takers
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What would be needed to run this? I take it mainly setting up the game and communicating the necessary stuff to get started the participants etc?

I'd like to help / put some effort in getting this started. Although I haven't played a PBEM/MP in Empires before. And have quite some CM PBEMs ongoing, so I'm trying to be vigilant not getting overburdened.
 
To start things of I thought to make myself useful a bit.

Potential participants:
@Nathangun
@Wellsonian
@YpPy
@poesel71
@Rico
@Nelson1812
@Iain F
@Zero
@Lethaface

Houserules
The question of houserules needs to be addressed. The following subjects were mentioned before:

* Excluded factions?
* Difficulty setting (expert?)
* limitations with regards to alliances between human players?
* Limitations with regards to client states?

Picking a country
Seems the last time everyone could choose 2 nations and all went into a pot with random draws? If that worked well, seems like a good way to do it again.
 
Reply to Lethaface.
Houserules
  • I would say exclude nations in the major category as well as nation with 3 or less stars of difficulty (there are only a few)
  • I would say expert. It would make increase mechanics to make expansion and keeping your empire together harder, above that only AI seems to get bonuses.
  • I'm for anything goes. Though as said, if someone would like some limitations I'm ok with that too.
  • Not really sure, have not played in a while. Someone else might know if the mechanic is too broken
Picking a country
A pot luck would be fun

Additional Houserules
I did find that buying provinces off the AI was way too easy. Maybe that should be disallowed?

Turn timer
What should the turn timer be set to?
 
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Agree on everything except for the ban on buying provinces. Without that mechanic we will have a very hard time just fighting the AI.

I liked the 24h turn timer we had (although others hated it). It keeps the game moving. But 36h are also ok.
 
poesel71 said:
Agree on everything except for the ban on buying provinces. Without that mechanic we will have a very hard time just fighting the AI.

I liked the 24h turn timer we had (although others hated it). It keeps the game moving. But 36h are also ok.
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Fair enough about the first point, my views are solely based on single player. As for the turn timer 36 h would probably be as good as 24 h. Though with no ability to pause it, I know that I would miss a fair few turns over christmas and new year.
 
YpPy said:
Fair enough about the first point, my views are solely based on single player. As for the turn timer 36 h would probably be as good as 24 h. Though with no ability to pause it, I know that I would miss a fair few turns over christmas and new year.
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Probably you wouldn't be the only one missing out a fair few turns ;-).

Something which crossed my mind: Given the time of the year, many of us will have more games to play but less time to play them. :D (showing here too).

I'm still up for a game and due to corona I guess I'll manage with the turn timer, although with two important GOLIVE's at work and December family affairs. Perhaps it would be wiser to make this a 2021 incarnation of Ancient times?
 
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