Spiralus PBW discussion thread.

[Dragonlord]

Beedee: Ouch. I guess that means no ruins in Spiralus. Hmm the bug introduces an interesting tradeoff though.. what would you like better, a game with ruins or a game where I've tried to get a map optimised for tactical and strategical deviousness?

As for the number of games you can be in: when I started PBW I was not sure either. Now, I can tell you that at the max I was on 6 games, which altogether took me about 2 hours daily (on average). I try to arrange it so that I have some games going which are slow starts (like the one-planet start in the Dracus game) and they take me maybe 5-10 minutes per turn, and one or two bigger games. For example I was in what I called to my girlfriend "the big game" which was a 10-player, 5-planet start medium mid-life galaxy slugfest called "Letharg". In the final stages that game took me an hour a day.

Currently the games I'm still in altogether take up about 20-30 minutes a day, so I'm trying to create another "big game". The 5-planet starts (like Newbie II) obviously get big sooner. And Beedee trust me, the diplomacy in Newbie II was nothing compared to the complex negotiations in the Letharg game, although we didn't send such lengthy in-game in-character Messages there, most went via email.

I've tried attaching two of the maps I generated in the fashion described in my earlier post, hope it works since I've never sent files to this forum before.