[Thrawn]

Llamabeast - Thanks for the offer of your server. I've been in a few PBEM games that used it, and it was really helpful.

Ubercat - I'm not opposed to the idea of a delay to game start to familiarize yourself with the nation. We'll just have to see what the consensus is on how long.

Baalz - I will look for this mod, it seems like something that would exist. I also think your idea for assigning nations after teams are picked is a good one.

I'm going to start a list of rules, as we have them currently, in the original post. Also a list of mods that might be useful (but those would still be open for debate).