Looking for a game

[Hellboy]

Saint_Dude,

This started out as reply to your PM, but as I was writing up your reply, it got long enough that I thought it might be better as a public post. So, here it is:

You're at least in the right place to find games! But it does sometimes take a while. One thing I've been noticing is that lately there seems to be a increased number of smaller starts (especially those running on Gandalf's server), and a decreased number of starts with a larger number of players.

Your first choice will be to go for a PBEM game or TCP/IP game. It's definitely more convenient for everyone involved to play TCP/IP, but that requires that the host makes a machine available as a server. In my case, I have a second machine that I've made available to serve the two games I'm hosting. It's certainly possible to host games on your primary machine, but I would hesitate to do so. You would also need an "always on" broadband Internet connection to host a game.

Playing PBEM is a bit more of a hassle (especially for the host), but it's still quite doable and fun, and definitely worth the effort. I've played in a couple of PBEM games and enjoyed them thoroughly. Whether you're talking about TCP/IP or PBEM the manual does have detailed instructions both for playing and hosting.

If you're interested in finding a game sooner or later you'll find something suitable starting up here in the forum. If you want a particular type of game (and from your PM it sounds like you were looking for a bigger, long term game), you can consider hosting a game. Hosting PBEM involves a bit of legwork, but has low learning curve to get started. If you've got the hardware to host TCP/IP that's more convenient, and the learning curve really isn't that harsh.