First PBEM. death to xenos and other stuff

[Kurvivor]

Is setting demon boil native lifeforms free next to your cities OK?

[Peter Gray]

As an enemy or our units?

[Kurvivor]

As a free native lifeform.

Chit-chat aside, i propose that everyone who has faction in mind (except alien) will PM it to CMN, and everybody else will be random. No alien players, though, and alien AI are a must.
If that is ok with everyone else, we could begin.

[Kirov]

Is setting demon boil native lifeforms free next to your cities OK?

It is not prohibited by the rules, that's correct. However, think of the women and children! Nevermind, I'm sure you'll find a narrative for justifying such a gruesome attack. Everyone does.

Choosing factions in secret is sure interesting, although we can run into conflicts with that. So let me just say I'll go for the Pirates, but you can still pick your faction via PM if anybody asks me.

[Peter Gray]

I would go for the Free Drones but since they were brought up as a potentially over-powered faction then I will be fine with Gaians instead.

[Peter Gray]

Is Unity Scattering ON? For me it's an important fun element in every Civ game. It really boosts exploration phase and you know, the bonuses you can get are pretty small but make the game also more dynamic.

[MallaxOZ]

I'll go with if that's OK with everybody. Never play with her before in a multiplayer game, could be fun.

[Peter Gray]

So far only Xfire factions

[MallaxOZ]

I like the Hive way (to hell), but I already have a game in progress with this faction 

[Peter Gray]

So far, so good.

Peter Gray - Free Drones, [email protected], GMT +0 (Greenwich is 4 miles from my house hehehehe)
Kirov - Pirates, hlaskover AT gmail DOT com, GMT +1
MallaxOZ - Cyborgs, ---
Kurvivor - Morgan, ---
Kindem - LOST CONTACT? Kindem didn't posted save for the first message. Lack of interest in the beginning is a very bad sing for a PBEM game so I would refrain from contacting him. I would go for 5 human players and invite someone else, I don't mind longer play as long as it's interesting and 5 players is way more interesting and harder to get locked in all vs 1.

SET-UP:
* cooperative, diplomatic victory allowed
* blind research
* random medium map
* Transcendence level

HOUSE RULES
* NO Empath Guild
* NO Cloudbase Academy

UNITY MISSION VOTING ON RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

CHOPPTERS:
 (a) bans weapons stronger than 4 on choppers
 (b) precludes them from atacking base tiles

FREE DEMON BOIL
Voting result: NAY

UNITY SCATTERING
Voting in progress...

[Peter Gray]

FREE DEMON BOIL: YEA
Since Kurvivor's behind setting up the game, the Free Drones favour his proposition.

CHOPPTERS: (b)
the Free Drones wouldn't like to see choppters being severely capped on their tech-level so it would be better to go with the second option, i.e. not attacking on enemy bases.

[MallaxOZ]

--- E-MAILS PLEASE

Won't we just post the turns here?

UNITY MISSION VOTING ON RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

CHOPPTERS:
 (a) bans weapons stronger than 4 on choppers
 (b) precludes them from atacking base tiles

FREE DEMON BOIL
 (a) yes
 (b) no

Disagreee with  :

Choppers : A - I agree that in many games, the first to have this weapon often crush the other. Nevertheless, I don't mind B, my research lab are ready...
Free demon boil : B - My cyborgs are peaceful people, and we think that if you want to attack, just be honest and declare vendetta.

[Peter Gray]

The Free Drones don't mind disagreements as those are part of human tradition. What worries us is that when we've agreed with Kurvivor, we were accused of war-mongering. Was it only badly chosen diplomat with low competences or are Cyborgs provoking an all-out war? You, see, the Free Drones offer an alternative for people that desire justice and we do not plan to impose it on others forcefully. The Free Drones do not need nor do not want any windworms around our bases, be it under our control or not.

When it comes to choppters, we actually can ban them altogether except for the free one that you get from the Unity Wreckage.

About giving out e-mails or using the board for save files, idk what are customs here.

[Kurvivor]

If we are picking, then i will take 
Now then. Free extra units are a disgrace. True success is achieved by one's own hard-working hands (- for free demon boil). And relying too much on a blind luck is not a good foundations for a respectable enterprise (- for scattering)

[Kurvivor]

when we've agreed with Kurvivor, we were accused of war-mongering

Ah! It seems a misunderstanding occured.
It was merely a jest, you see. Setting native lifeforms free next to a city is a kind of comradery pat on a shoulder between Pact Brothers, you see...
I was not suggesting giving anyone such a monstrous thing at the beginning of the game