Introduce a Rookie to PBW?

[Fyron]

Assuming it is a new game, yes. If you join a game as a replacement, you use whatever empire was designed by the original player.

[lasorjolt]

Yeah, it was a new game and I just uploaded my empire.

[Karibu]

Just remember one thing Iasorjolt, PBW teaches quite a bit humility and your proven tactics against AI are useless there. However, I have found PBW thousand times more interesting than pLaying against AI. So good luck and enjoy.