PBW question - how many turns per day?

[Suicide Junkie]

Here's an interesting idea:
What if you set the auto-turns to every hour?

Then you would have the AI playing most of your turns, and the players would have to go with the flow of the AI in order to keep a stable empire.
Whoever works best with the AI would win, and someone who tried to countermand every AI command would be in deep trouble.

Plus there is a great excuse for not winning

[PvK]

Sounds like a neat idea, though you might get sued by the wives of some of the players who can't stand to let the AI take control...

Also it could be a see-saw battle between people in different time zones. <g>

You could also [be insane and] do one with teams of players who all had access to the same empire, and each played the same empire but at different times of day, though I don't know that PBW supports broadcast emails of turn files for one empire to multiple players - you might have to use a listserv or something to distribute it.

PvK

[Suicide Junkie]

I imagine the competition would really heat up on weekends, too, but the first weekend would fall somewhere in the mid-to-endgame!

[Gozra]

The amount of turns varies with player number. However I have started and completed a number of games already. and the best pace seems to be about 1 turn a day. But an alert host can speed it up by running the turns a bit faster. And weekends seem to help speed the games up further. I think it is best to have several games going at once. then it seems as if you are doing several turns a day. 6 committed players seems to be the best mix.

[Possum]

I'm only in one game at PBW right now, Quikngruvn's Ay Chihuahua, which I notice he didn't have the BALLS to play in himself

It's been frustratingly slow. We have not even averaged one turn per day. But this follows what the other posters have said; we started with 8 players, although we are now down to 6, and soon to be 5 (whimper!).

[capnq]

The amount of turns varies with player number.

And who the players are, and how early in the game it is. My game that did four turns in one day had eight humans and four AIs at start, and IIRC, the four-turn day was within the first two game-years.