[llamabeast]

Great, the game is started! Hopefully you should all have received your first turns just now. The first turn has 48 hours on the clock in case of problems - you shouldn't need even nearly that much time. Subsequent turns will have 24 hours, at least until people start to ask for it to change to 48 hours, which will probably be sometime in mid-game.

I'd also like to ask for a volunteer to admin this game. The admin has to do two things:

1) If a player asks for an extension or anything then do it (provided it's reasonable; a day or two is reasonable, if they are going away for a week they should get a sub). It's super easy via the interface on the website.

2) If the admin gets knocked out of the game, pass the password on to one of the remaining players.

It's a really easy, almost zero-work job, but it keeps me from having to carefully watch 30-odd game threads (which I tried for a bit, and it hurt).

Finally, advice on a fun game: I highly recommend doing lots of diplomacy, and posting here lots with bits of reports from your empire and so on. Games with lots of interaction like that tend to be really fun and memorable.

Have fun guys!