[cleveland]

I must of course jump at the chance to resume smiting my former Urapara foes.

If I may voice my preferences:

Players - the more the merrier

Age - Late Age (gotta see Bogarus in action)

Map - World of Geometry & Alexander are both excellent choices; I recommend keeping the ratio of land:sea nations = ratio of land:sea provinces

Style - FFA...have played 1 team game, and it wasn't as much fun as Urapara

Mods - all sound pretty good

Banned spells - rather than banning utterdark & nexus, why not just ban their 2 main beneficiaries (Ermor & Rhyleyhehyh (sp?))

Other settings - boosting indy strength to ~7 makes for a more interesting early game. I'd also recommend something like 30 min turns for the 1st 10 turns (because these shouldn't take anyone more than 1min, newbie or not), and 36hr quickhost turns thereafter (so that everyone can play @ the same time each day w/out pressure, if they so choose).

Thanks for organizing Z...what's your projected start time/date?