Civ V. 
I'm not kidding. I'm genuinely curious to see how it plays out against other humans. A lot has been improved about the game since release, and while it's still a pile of crap, that's mostly because of the AI being extremely abusable. (And I have to admit I don't consider Civ IV single player to be much better.) And most of the remaining badness is the retarded choice of an apple icon to represent crop yield.
No, seriously, most of the remaining badness is that you can't effectively queue unit moves, which is not really an issue in a PBEM game.
Lots of people have written about Civ V strategy on civfanatics. Most of those writings will be completely useless in multiplayer. There's an entire game to explore, that hasn't been explored! (Even Firaxis hasn't played much MP.
) So, I know some of you own the game. Anyone want to give it a shot? Provide some entertainment for your fellow RBers?
Well it's now possible to play it PBEM, even though that's not an officially supported game mode. Basically Firaxis have implemented hotseat, and you can pass the hotseat save around and it's the same as PBEM. And as of very recently there's this program some people made (Windows only) that automates this somewhat so playing your turn and passing it on is hopefully not very onerous.
I think 4 or 6 players would be ideal. Also I'd advocate for an understanding that it's OK to quit and the game might very well be aborted early, because I don't think any of us would know exactly what we're getting into. (I am thinking roughly like this: if one person wants to quit we find a replacement, if more people want to quit we just call it.)
Any brave souls want to give it a go?
Signups:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(5.)
(6.)
Maybes:
SevenSpirits
(It would be smart of me not to start any more games right now, but I do want to see this happen...)
If there's not much interest now I will probably try again in a few months.
I'm not kidding. I'm genuinely curious to see how it plays out against other humans. A lot has been improved about the game since release, and while it's still a pile of crap, that's mostly because of the AI being extremely abusable. (And I have to admit I don't consider Civ IV single player to be much better.) And most of the remaining badness is the retarded choice of an apple icon to represent crop yield.
No, seriously, most of the remaining badness is that you can't effectively queue unit moves, which is not really an issue in a PBEM game.Lots of people have written about Civ V strategy on civfanatics. Most of those writings will be completely useless in multiplayer. There's an entire game to explore, that hasn't been explored! (Even Firaxis hasn't played much MP.
) So, I know some of you own the game. Anyone want to give it a shot? Provide some entertainment for your fellow RBers?Well it's now possible to play it PBEM, even though that's not an officially supported game mode. Basically Firaxis have implemented hotseat, and you can pass the hotseat save around and it's the same as PBEM. And as of very recently there's this program some people made (Windows only) that automates this somewhat so playing your turn and passing it on is hopefully not very onerous.
I think 4 or 6 players would be ideal. Also I'd advocate for an understanding that it's OK to quit and the game might very well be aborted early, because I don't think any of us would know exactly what we're getting into. (I am thinking roughly like this: if one person wants to quit we find a replacement, if more people want to quit we just call it.)
Any brave souls want to give it a go?
Signups:
1.
2.
3.
4.
(5.)
(6.)
Maybes:
SevenSpirits
(It would be smart of me not to start any more games right now, but I do want to see this happen...)
If there's not much interest now I will probably try again in a few months.
If this gets going, I'm in
