Thread: Anyone for Civ4 PBEM?

I'm getting a bit excited (in the pants) about Civ5 coming out in a few months and was thinking of having an MP game of Civ4 to hold me over in the meantime. Trouble is a decent game of Civ4 takes a pretty substantial investment of time and it's hard to get people together for a couple of hours of gaming just one time, let alone for 2 or 3 sessions to play right through a game, so I'm wanting to see if anyone would be keen to participate in a play-by-email game of Civ4.

If that sounds like something you'd be into then put your hand up and we'll sort something out. I'm not fussed if it's vanilla Civ, Warlords or BtS, what map or world size etc. Just bear in mind that it's a long-term commitment and could take weeks or months to complete. That's not to say I expect whoever I play with to be constantly checking their email - there'll be times when people can't have their turn for a day or two, but it would really suck if it got up and running someone lost interest completely after a couple of weeks.

Anyone in? I'd like to get about 4 players max.

I would be interested, but only for BTS really - I find it hard to play anything else after playing BTS.

I may suck too as I've never played against human opponents!

I'm up for a long game, be nice to play a player v player instead of AI.

Cool. Just need one more.

why not

ill play as well .. love civ4

Sorted!

Ok, so tentatively (in case someone takes issue with any of these preferences), we'll be playing:

Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword v3.19 (that's the latest BtS patch and has the added bonus of legally removing the CD check. Get it here.)

Settings:

• Noble difficulty (It's the default and I don't think it really matters since there's no AI)
• 5 players
• Pangaea map type
• Temperate climate
• Medium sea level
• Start from Ancient era
• Normal speed
• Standard resources

Options:

• No barbarians (they shit me to tears)
• No tech trading (to encourage players to really think about their direction rather than just researching whatever and periodically diploming to "top up" each others techs - helps develop asymmetry between empires)

Barring any issues (i.e. someone doesn't actually own BtS) these are what I need to know in order to set up the game:

• Your player name
• What race and leader you want to play as
• Civ description (eg. "Roman Empire") <- only if you don't want the default for your chosen race
• Short description (eg. "Rome") <- only if you don't want the default for your chosen race
• Civ adjective (eg. "Roman") <- only if you don't want the default for your chosen race
• Your email address
• Your ISP's SMTP server (eg. mail.internode.on.net - so that I can set it up so the savegame can be automatically emailed to the next player in-game).

Any issues with that?

Ok - update to 5 players since unseen is keen. I wouldn't want to add any more than that though. This will take long enough as it is.

just bought bts, installing now.

Sweet.

FYI my pick for race and leader is Stalin - Russian Empire.

No strategic reason. I just like 'em.