Sciz should be last of the (many it seems) Europeans because he's such a night-owl. Unless others are too of course, I don't really know.
With such mostly-similar timezones we should do pretty well. I'm kind of the odd one out on the opposite side of the world, but being a full ~12 hours out of synch isn't so bad because my mornings are everyone else's evenings and vice versa
My vote on settings:
Prefer the defaults for basically everything, but if we want some twists that's fine. It could be argued that twists killed the game this is replacing, but there were certainly other factors at play there too. Maybe just less twists
Acheron off or pre-placed is fine, on wouldn't bother me but I can see why people don't like it.
As for things that don't have default values:
* Standard world size for 6 players, wrap is mapmaker's choice, not fussed about the script but would like to know what script it's going to be based on before picking civs.
* Emporer difficulty. If not, then close to it (on either side) preferred.
* There's also the human Hyborem and/or Basium issue to discuss.
* People have talked about banning various things in the past, in particular Impersonate Leader. I'm inclined to leave everything as unbanned.
* Prefer restricted leaders mostly for balance reasons, but I can see the appeal of unrestricted.
I'm also happy to give the original players of PBEM4 a higher weighted vote on the settings, since this is kind of still their replacement game. But those are my opinions anyway.
With such mostly-similar timezones we should do pretty well. I'm kind of the odd one out on the opposite side of the world, but being a full ~12 hours out of synch isn't so bad because my mornings are everyone else's evenings and vice versa
My vote on settings:
Prefer the defaults for basically everything, but if we want some twists that's fine. It could be argued that twists killed the game this is replacing, but there were certainly other factors at play there too. Maybe just less twists
Acheron off or pre-placed is fine, on wouldn't bother me but I can see why people don't like it.As for things that don't have default values:
* Standard world size for 6 players, wrap is mapmaker's choice, not fussed about the script but would like to know what script it's going to be based on before picking civs.
* Emporer difficulty. If not, then close to it (on either side) preferred.
* There's also the human Hyborem and/or Basium issue to discuss.
* People have talked about banning various things in the past, in particular Impersonate Leader. I'm inclined to leave everything as unbanned.
* Prefer restricted leaders mostly for balance reasons, but I can see the appeal of unrestricted.
I'm also happy to give the original players of PBEM4 a higher weighted vote on the settings, since this is kind of still their replacement game. But those are my opinions anyway.
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