For anyone who is interested, the new Arcadia-Series Atlantis game Xanaxor is starting up soon. We run small games with a set intake from the start (ie no players joining midway), and
for game balance ask players to only sign up if they expect to hang around. Expect good competition and nice roleplay atmosphere.
The two GMs of Arcadia both play in the game; we have never had problems with this, but present it as fair warning.
The game is a heavily modified version of Atlantis 5.0 running two turns a week with smallish faction limits and a few timesaving features. I'd expect it to run around six months, though not all factions will survive that long.
Arcadia offers some nice features other Atlantis ( 4.0.x, 5.x ) games do not have: many changes have been made to combat, terrain, races, skilltree and unit types, resulting in a ( hopefully ) more balanced & fun version of Atlantis. Please re-read the rules and take note of the many changes made to the game.
The rules, map etc. can be found at:
http://home.arcor.de/oidipus/game4.html
Details of signing up can be found at:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/arcadia-pbm/message/1467
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/arcadia-pbm/message/1469
Piotr (one of two Arcadia GMs)