I don't know if this will be unpopular, but for the sake of speeding up the game we might want to consider disabling Domination Victory to hopefully stave off lengthy wars. That's basically always my preference for multiplayer games, but I understand that war is fun too. 
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And we can do quick game play too. 
Agreed. Could we also start farther down the research tree? Not crazy far.
I think that will allow us to get close to a game completion.
Oh yeah, good call on that too. I've never started anywhere other than the beginning so this will be interesting... :O
I find Classical the most fun to start in because you have most of the basic techs researched allowing to improve most tiles, you get to start with two spearmen and a worker, and you still have a decent amount of the early game to play. That said, if we want to try and wrap the whole game up before 12AM EST, we might want to start in the Medieval or Renaissance Era.
Also, disabling Domination victory is fine by me as you can still go to war, you just don't win if you hold everyone else's original capitols. Time victory might also be another good one to disable, as it automatically will end the game on turn 500 if no other victory condition is met by then but that very rarely happens.
