[The Panther]

Hey all, I am back!

We now have 13 players and only need 4 more. I will adverstise on the Quarter to Three forum and will probably get another 4 fairly soon.

Unfortunately, Soapyfrog is upgrading his server right now and cannot host. We could try the mosehansen server, but he does not have all the mods enabled. Plus it would be VERY hard on Mosehansen to know who has uploaded the pretenders (and have the correct ones) since everyone has to remain anonymous.

I am dead set on the total anonymous thing for this game. I want to try really hard to make sure no one knows who their neighbors. I mean, you might be between Cainehill and Jurri and are in trouble before you know it. Or you might be next to Panther and have an easy time at it. But you never know. You also never know when your neighbor might suddenly attack you for reasons that are not at all apparent! Seems like it is worth a try to me.

As for a player in the game hosting, I thing that would be too hard. Hosting by PBEM means that the host knows nation assignments. Hosting by server could work, but it has been my experience that hosting on your home computer 24/7 with 17 nation players is much too difficult. The game still has a few instability problems. I could be wrong, though, and it might be able to work properly.

So, we need 4 more players and a hosting arrangement. Alneyan is back next week and we also might as well wait for him since it is still going to take a while to settle everything anyway.

But it is getting closer! I am down to 3 games and have room for another one, so I am raring to go.