Re: E-mail Basic Civilization

From: pwork@afit.af.mil (Paul R. Work)

Date: Thu, 07 May 1992 19:34:58 +0000

Howdy Y'all,

Well, the first game of E-mail Civilization is underway!  This will
be a summary of details that have been worked out to allow for the
E-mail format.  Anyone else who wants to organize a game is free to do
so.  Any questions about any further details are also welcome.

The turns will be on a three week basis using strictly a Monday to
Friday schedule as follows:

Week 1:

Day 1:  Collect Taxation, Population Expansion, Census, and
                 Construct ships.

Day 2 - 5:  Player movement.

Week 2:

Day 6:  Resolve conflict (if any), build cities, remove
                 surplus population, reduce unsupported cities, acquire
                 trade cards, begin trading.

Day 7 - 10:  Trade.

Week 3:

Day 11 - 13 Trading continued.

Day 14:  Acquire Civilization cards, return excess trade cards.

Day 15:  Resolve calamities, move succession markers on AST.

We will try and get at least two players' moves in each day of
player movement, so that things move quickly enough.  This will be
accomplished by having each moving player send his move to all other
players as well as the referee.  In the trading phase, players are free
to correspond with each other to arrange any trade they want.  Once they
have finalized a trade, each player will send a message to the referee
describing the trade according to the rules of Basic Civilization (three
cards, xx points with yyyyy).  If the details of the messages agree in
the necessary content, the referee then posts a message to all players
informing them of the trade, and another message to each player involved
in the trade in question informing them of exactly what they received
(yes, its still possible to trade away calamities or screw the other
player).  In the beginning, acquiring Civilization cards shouldn't pose
a problem, although that might create a bottleneck late in the game.

Followups detailing game progress will be posted if there is
sufficient interest.  Starting nationalities and positions are as
follows:

Nationality     Starting position

Africa           Tripolitania
    Crete            Knossus
    Assyria          Nalchik or Caucasus
    Thrace           Scythia
    Egypt            Upper Egypt
    Babylon          Susa
    Italy            Pannonia

Catch ya later,

-Paul