Civ IV: BtS PBEM

**Beefy187** · 10-24-2009, 12:31

You turn on the simultaneous turn option.
That way, all players will take their turns simultaneously and next turn begins when everyone finished it.

While email will grant me more free time, I would suggest playing online till Medieval or something then switch to email as ancient goes very fast.

**Beskar** · 10-24-2009, 20:07

Yeah, I been playing online with Beefy recently.

I suck in the military department, because I am always building and never have an opportunity to have free building time to produce units. (The thing I dislike about Civ4)

**Hax** · 10-24-2009, 21:42

I'd join. Beskar, Beefy, would you like another guy to play with? ^^

**Beskar** · 10-24-2009, 21:49

Originally Posted by Hax

I'd join. Beskar, Beefy, would you like another guy to play with? ^^

I have no problems. Do you have MSN or similar? We usually hook up using that. (Also, we play using Japanese time, which is pretty much Twilight/Morning hours for us Europeans)

Originally Posted by Jolt

Curiously, I originally suffered exactly from the same thing. Do this. Build one/two buildings then build a unit, always. You'll find out soon enough that you're keeping a large enough amount of units to have your cities well garrisoned.

Yeah, I will need to learn how to manage my workers better as well. I originally just stuck them on "auto" and what they keep doing is building things then rebuilding things on-top of them, etc.

**Hax** · 10-24-2009, 22:03

I have no problems. Do you have MSN or similar? We usually hook up using that.usually

Yep yep! It should be on my profile, but I'll pm it anyways.

**Jolt** · 10-24-2009, 21:47

Originally Posted by Beskar

Yeah, I been playing online with Beefy recently.

I suck in the military department, because I am always building and never have an opportunity to have free building time to produce units. (The thing I dislike about Civ4)

Curiously, I originally suffered exactly from the same thing. Do this. Build one/two buildings then build a unit, always. You'll find out soon enough that you're keeping a large enough amount of units to have your cities well garrisoned.

**Jolt** · 10-24-2009, 22:07

Originally Posted by Beefy187

You turn on the simultaneous turn option.
That way, all players will take their turns simultaneously and next turn begins when everyone finished it.

While email will grant me more free time, I would suggest playing online till Medieval or something then switch to email as ancient goes very fast.

This is an awesome idea.

**Hax** · 10-24-2009, 22:10

Yes, I agree. A very good idea.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 10-24-2009, 23:08

I wish I would have bought that CivIV:Complete when I had the chance.

I always wanted to play it against human players.

**Beefy187** · 10-25-2009, 00:25

Last time I saw the price in Australia, BtS was fairly cheep.
Just buy Civ4 and BtS. You won't need anything else.... Maybe Colony or what ever the new one is called.

And Hax. Today would be the last time I can play until in 3 weeks time.

**Ituralde** · 10-29-2009, 08:27

I would be up to it. I agree with TinCows observations though. The initial phase is just a lot of hitting "End Turn". Even if some quite important choices are made during those initial turns.

I would usually play these with my brother during holidays and we would get through one game in about two to three days. That is with simultaneous turns though. We usually play together against the AI though and stop once we've reached that point where the challenge is gone and it's just a matter of conquering everything that remains.

So yeah, count me in!