No offense, but there is only one, maybe two gamers I know in meatspace, that I would trust to remain impartial while hosting a game they are also playing. I will not be participating if anyone decides to host the continuing game, unless a 3rd party takes over the administrative duties.
is this a joke? how could somebody influence a game they admin?
admins are people who volunteer their time to make games happen for others.
that is just an asshole statement.
He's probably just had a bad experience or two, in the past, with pbem.
I don't play much PBEM, myself, but I've heard the occasional nasty story. I doubt it's very widespread in our niche of the woods, but there will always be a few (as with anything). I didn't take it as a direct insult on us, just general policy.
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I think, in the end, you would've overcome me Parone. I was actually pretty damn poor up until I fired off that "Milk & Honey" global enchantment, and I was probably still quite a ways behind you, as most of my provinces were forest. So I had lots of Resources and little monetary income from those.