newbie mp question

[Gandalf Parker]

You might consider "subbing" for a player in an MP game.
That way you get the feel for mp with a ready-made excuse if you lose "it wasnt my choice of nation and pretender"

[thejeff]

As fair warning:
Resist the temptation to jump into to many games at once. The Early turns go fast and won't take more than a few minutes a day, but later on if you're doing at all well it'll be easy to spend an hour or more a turn, especially if you're trying to coordinate with an ally.

[llamabeast]

The best thing you could do would be to organise your own newbie game. Experienced players tend to forget to organise newbie games, so it is really helpful when new players do it themselves. You will probably get people signing up really fast.

For examples of recent newbie game threads, check out Jotunland or Pretender's Playtime (both started by newbies), or Peccary (started by me), all on the multiplayer subforum.

You would be very welcome to use my PBEM server, which makes things pretty easy. If you are averse to PBEM, you could perhaps ask Gandalf Parker to host a network game for you, or else host one yourself if you're not behind a firewall or anything.

The community is very active, by the way. There's currently 39 games running on my server, and perhaps another 10 or more also organised from this forum. They start at a rate of perhaps 2 a week, I'd guess. But they're like buses - sometimes you have to wait a fair while, other times there's loads starting at once.