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With it being quite apparent that plenty of people here enjoy great board games, I reckon it would be good to have a few games of something relatively simple: Catan, Dominion and Carcassonne are playable online here for free, among plenty of others. Skype would be ideal for communication.

Who would be interested in this?

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I would be interested although I have no idea how to play any of those gamew you mentioned :grin:

That's simply a matter of learning as you go, a technique as old as the board game itself.

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I'd be interested. My friends moved the game night to a night that I find it very hard to make it to with any regularity, so I'm going into a bit of withdrawl. I also have Catan and Carcassonne on XBLA, and have been meaning to pick up Ticket To Ride for a long time, so if anyone else owns it I could be persuaded very qickly.

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I'm up for both XBLA and that other thing, whichever gets the most players.

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I'm dibkins on brettspiel. Up for catan or carcassone.

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Is it like Neptune's pride in that it's slow or is it like Neptune's pride in other ways?

It's a shame the board game thing doesn't have Imperial. I really want to play it, but have no takers among my friends(also I have no friends where I live now, lol)

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Diplomacy online usually has a 1 day per move (turn based) so it can be quite slow. Though since the game is all about communication and being a conniving bastard you do need that time!

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Imperial is totally available on brettspielwelt, and I'm always up for that.

Note that it is the original Imperial, not the sequel Imperial 2030 that the pod-people talks about. The difference is largely in balance, 2030 is more about expansion while regular imperial is more about conflict between nations, and it's on a map of Europe instead of the whole world.

The game-mechanics are sort of unusual, and the interface, while fully functional, does a real bad job of explaining anything so if you haven't played one of the games you might be in for some trouble. But with half-an-hour spent learning it's not a big problem.

It could be cool to get together 4-6 players for an online game of Imperial, but beware that we are talking about an entire-evening commitment here. I've played matches that went on for five hours.

So, yes. I'm totally up for that.

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I'm in, pending being able to take a whole evening^^

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Imperial is totally available on brettspielwelt, and I'm always up for that.

Note that it is the original Imperial, not the sequel Imperial 2030 that the pod-people talks about. The difference is largely in balance, 2030 is more about expansion while regular imperial is more about conflict between nations, and it's on a map of Europe instead of the whole world.

The game-mechanics are sort of unusual, and the interface, while fully functional, does a real bad job of explaining anything so if you haven't played one of the games you might be in for some trouble. But with half-an-hour spent learning it's not a big problem.

It could be cool to get together 4-6 players for an online game of Imperial, but beware that we are talking about an entire-evening commitment here. I've played matches that went on for five hours.

So, yes. I'm totally up for that.

I know 2030 it's simple once you've got the hang of it, though quite intimidating if you haven't. I'd say it would be better for those with a decent amount of board game experience.

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