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tloomis · Joined: 02 May 04 Posts: 4 Location: Austin, TX

I really like the PBEM format and spielbyweb has done such a great job in implementation. So I have been considering other games that would be nice to see created here.

An ideal choice would be a game that 1) is great in its own right, 2) is a game of reasonable depth that provides room for analysis, 3) is heavily turn based so that your number of turns over the course of the game is relatively small and each turn can have a large impact on the game, 4) does not use negotiation as a means for player interaction, and of course 5) is relatively straightforward to implement (programatically, graphically, etc.).

My top choice at the moment is Hansa.

What do others think?

Tim

Mabi · Joined: 13 May 04 Posts: 36 Location: Italy

bb · Guest

perhaps you could add a poll with your top 5?

bcubed · Joined: 03 Dec 05 Posts: 3 Location: Birmingham UK.

I vote for Dungeon Twister and it's expansions.

sodaswirlee · Joined: 03 Nov 05 Posts: 2

this suggestion breaks your 4th guidline, but i think Diplomacy would be a great addition. Every other PBM style online implementation is kinda.... lacking.

TMJJS · Joined: 17 Nov 04 Posts: 70

philfry · Joined: 18 Dec 05 Posts: 9 Location: Ohio

Riff · Joined: 30 Oct 05 Posts: 20

One of the 18-- series of Railway games would be good. Or Puerto Rico.

sodaswirlee · Joined: 03 Nov 05 Posts: 2

Samurai would work.

MarkJohnson · Joined: 02 Apr 04 Posts: 7

Hansa is a personal favorite, so I like that one. Entdecker, too. Both of these have noninteractive turns, but kind of a lot of little ones. Good, but not as ideal as some other choices.

El Grande and the Ragnar Bros. Kings & Castles (or Vikings Fury) might be good.

RyanMC · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

I think the biggest thing to consider is how many turns each player will have to take. If a game has one slow player that needs to respond to 40-50 turns, you may be in for a LONG game Smile

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HappyProle · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

Samurai could be cool.

striking_cobra · Joined: 07 Dec 05 Posts: 107 Location: Gloucester, UK

Bridges of ShangriLa - fantastic game, pure strategy, absolutely no luck involved! It has a very easy rules set, there are only 3 things you can do each turn, so the coding would be (relatively) straight forward!

Joel · Joined: 30 Aug 05 Posts: 6

My vote's for El Grande.

BrooklynCrew · Joined: 30 Jan 06 Posts: 2

It appears Caylus and El Grande are in development... I think Goa is an excellent suggestion. I'm a big Martin Wallace fan but those title might be a little too complicated... Liberte would be cool.

There are several popular Train/Destination games that could work...

Ticket to Ride, or Elfenland type stuff...