E-mail campaigns?

[Xehh II]

How do you play an e-mail campaign? I seems to me that it would be extremly hard, can someone tell me

[HoreTore]

Basically, you gather a bunch of other players, than start a new game. After a set amount of turns, you mail the savegame to the next in line, and then you plays the same number of turns before sending it to the next.

Of course, it can be, and usually is, expanded by more rules and quirks...

Econ21 is running a HRE game now btw.

[Xehh II]

Still sounds extremly hard, what if someone stuffs up?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi Xehh II,

Still sounds extremly hard, what if someone stuffs up?

Sadly, if somebody does mess up, then it is the next player's role to try and save the empire! That's all part of the great fun of it! Hope this helps you, cheers!

[Xehh II]

Well, I better stay away from those e-mail games then.

[DukeKent]

Their is a PBEM (Play By E-Mail) campaign going on at the General's Collective right now where each player has a faction. Each player plays one turn for this faction then posts the save game on the General's Collective board (or it could be emailed to the next player). Then the next player plays his turn. Obviously this campaign takes a long time. We started just after the new year, and are only on turn three so far.

[Xehh II]

Ok, don't laugh at this but how do you e-mail the save game to other people and how would you get it out of the e-mail thing. Please don't laugh, I'm absolutely useless with e-mails.

[TinCow]

Well, the way we do it here is very simply. We still call it a PBeM, but there's no email involved. The Org has an upload facility where we upload the saved games. It's actually pretty easy.

The PBM forum can be found here and basic instruction on PBMs in general are found here.

[DukeKent]

It depends on your email program. In Microsoft Outlook, click on the New Mail Message button. Then click inside the main message text box. Select the Insert pull down menu, then File which is the first option listed. Then navigate to the file you want to insert. The save files are I believe under the save folder in the Medieval II root installation directory. I am not at my home computer, so I am not 100% sure on the location of the save files.

[econ21]

Obviously this campaign takes a long time. We started just after the new year, and are only on turn three so far.

Yes, that kind of lag and the coordination problems that lie behind it, are one reason why multiplayer RTW campaigns using Myrddraal's script floundered in the Throne Room. What we tend to play are what you could call "succession" games, where only one faction is controlled by the players. We started a rather involved HRE one at the beginning of this year and now are in 1144 or so, so it is long (probably take half a year or more to complete) but it is moving.