OK people.
I have some news. Good and Bad.
(1) On the one hand my tests have not gone well. It is possible to run this game by direct connect but getting that first game-creation hosting involves alot of manual work.
(2) On the other hand, we have a volunteer to tackle that. Velusian is starting a game now in the MP forum.
Mega Game thread
So if you thought this game as an interesting idea then go jump on his since it might be a long time before I decide to do one.
(3) My fingers are lazy but my mind is on continual outflow. A comment in the games thread about bidding on nations sparked me off, "You can get 80 players". My mod took for granted that it would be all nations of all 3 ages, and maybe the empty slots. But "80 players" got me to thinking. As far as I can tell from messing with the SingleAge mod the game might allow multiple renamings of the same nations. So it might be possible to create a mod at the start of the game to include any nations files that you received. Naming ea_Ulm files as ea_Ulm_# where # is a number. 6 Ulms, 8 Arcos, 12 Vanheims, etc etc all in one game. No bidding at all because it doesnt matter who wants what. Let them all in the game (up to the 80 slot limit of course). Oh well, add that to my already huge project list.
Gandalf Parker