New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[The Panther]

On the subject of pace:
I was thinking of 48 hour quick host. This allows the game to move very quickly at the start if we have no stales. Plus, with a victory condition, the pace will not need to change except in extraordinary circumstances. Also, I am certainly willing to wait for Alneyan to get back from vacation, or perhaps the host can make the first couple of moves for him. It will be a while before we get enough people to start the game anyway.

On the subject of quitters:
Yes, every MP game has people who drop out for various reasons. I have been thinking about this and suggest the following when a nation stales something like 4 turns in a row:
1. Have a list of alternates willing to step in when needed.
2. Set the game to run on the impossible level and turn the staling nation over to the AI. The computer players will thus get the extra gold every turn but not the boosted pretender.

On the subject of mods:
Has anybody looked at the hero mod yet? That might be cool in that it gives a player another reason to avoid taking the usual misfortune. EDIT: The hero Mod has been added to the game settings.

Latest Player list:
1. Panther
2. Tauren
3. Cainehill
4. Shmonk
5. Griffin
6. Alneyan
7. Jurri
8. Izaqyos
9. Bill Paxton
10. Turin
11. Boron
12. Bluebird
13. Goblin
14. RonD
15. Huntsman
16. Sedna
17. King Lear


Alternates:
1. Oversway
2. Yellow Cactus