Casual PBEM (Full & playing)

[Baalz]

Yeah, I agree it'd be nice to have a set host schedule, maybe 2 to 3 times a week (or whatever the consensus is of what "casual PBEM" means) that we all try to have our turns in. With a long term game like this and this many people, it's unfortunately likely somebody is gonna be real tardy regularly or just up and disappear on us.

[Ewierl]

My vote would be for a reasonably prompt baseline schedule (every 2-3 days or whatever), but with lots of flexibility for times when people can't get their turns in on that schedule.

There are limits, though. If one person is consistently being late without warning/explanation, we and our esteemed host may want to deal with that.

[Dedas]

I agree.

[Agrajag]

My concept of a "Casual PBEM" is along the lines of no hosting schedule at all, but if everyone agrees that X is taking too long, the turn is hosted anyway. (which figures out to 2-3 turns a week)

[Reverend Zombie]

I think a set schedule of some sort is best--anywhere from once to 3X per week?

Leaving things indefinite is going to encourage straggling.

[RicoRico]

Hi all

It's a lot of people indeed, and thus quite likely there will be delays. Just looking at my situation: I could probably play 2 to 7 turns a week, depending on my Real Life activities . But there will definitely be times and can't make a turn for a whole weekend (though that will not be often), and I'm planning a 10-day skiing holiday somewhere in the coming 2 months (but that's just once). That's why I tried to set up the Casual Game.
If the 10-day holiday is problematic, I could transfer control to another player for that period, and skip a few turns. Not so good for my strategic planning of course, but hey, at least I'll save some gold ;-)
I agree with some here that if certain people are consistently delaying the game, we should host anyway, or if it gets really out of hand, replacing him with a computer player, if everyone agrees. I'll set up a master password for such a case (don't worry, I see no fun at all in cheating).

Let's just see how it goes for now and find out what the 'natural' pace is and go from there. For the next 2 weeks, I can probably play a turn each evening.

I'll try and start the game tomorrow evening (GMT). I contacted Manuk by email and personal message some times, but he has not responded yet. He sent a pretender last week but it was already taken by Micah.

[Micah]

yeah, and the last thing I want to have to worry about while being casual is consensus-building over how long is too long =)

[Manuk]

Caelum pretender sent.

[FAJ]

How about it just hosts whenever the host gets all the files; with 3 days being the max for a stale without an excuse/notification?