I might actually be a hand once in a full moon, though my schedule and moods and desires are so erratic that arrangements are unlikely to work. Creating a bit of a Hamachi and MSN network of players would be the best bet for me.

I think it works the best if the time is scheduled (for example sunday xx.xx o'clock players get together in hamachi). If there are events concerning this, I'd suggest a broad variation; pure free for all games, epid games, team games, free diplomacy games. This would be atleast something I'd be up to.

PS. Good effort for starting this thread Enginerd.

[This message has been edited by Deroman (edited 03-02-2009 @ 06:05 AM).]

hamachi could be useful, and pointing out in a thread a time to be online would be marvelous. but i believe the hamachi network someone created in this forum is already full with only 20 or so members, if we could have a network with a lot more than that we'd have a good chance of hitting some spontaneous 3/4 player free-for-alls with no planning

I think those are all great ideas...especially doing an online tournament, and having a set time for people to meet online.

Aow1 online? i used to play it 5 years ago at gs with many other guys. When sm did hit, the aow1 lobby there lost all players.

Hamachi and msn is a way to go, would prefere hamachi though, i can be in msn but not availble for games, thats a bit of a problem in instant messengers.

I currently use the warlock mod, its fun and a bit more balanced for online games than the standard version. You can't make op leaders from scratch, defense rating is expensive a lot(8pts) and is limited to 5 max at the custom screen, leaders are more item dependent.

In online games we played 99% of the games with leaders on, cause its fun and speedy. But people needed to have expierence too, FC was used a lot too, the only restriction was against heroes and leaders fc was not allowed.(unlike aow sm where you do fc vs indies and all battles TC vs humans)

Big games could be finished in 2 hours this way, quite many dying to indies as they where too greedy to lvl their leaders with indie xp in FC.

[This message has been edited by DarkMystery (edited 03-13-2009 @ 09:49 AM).]