[llamabeast]

The best thing you could do would be to organise your own newbie game. Experienced players tend to forget to organise newbie games, so it is really helpful when new players do it themselves. You will probably get people signing up really fast.

For examples of recent newbie game threads, check out Jotunland or Pretender's Playtime (both started by newbies), or Peccary (started by me), all on the multiplayer subforum.

You would be very welcome to use my PBEM server, which makes things pretty easy. If you are averse to PBEM, you could perhaps ask Gandalf Parker to host a network game for you, or else host one yourself if you're not behind a firewall or anything.

The community is very active, by the way. There's currently 39 games running on my server, and perhaps another 10 or more also organised from this forum. They start at a rate of perhaps 2 a week, I'd guess. But they're like buses - sometimes you have to wait a fair while, other times there's loads starting at once.