And every SC would be required to win.

Tried it.
Everyone is being a dick about it.
I want out.

I am trying to start one that is around 12 hour phases.

Yes, I understand that.
Note that I show[ed] interest.

Ah well that's one need 35 more players. I will also be setting a RR requirement.

would it be a gunboat? 12 hours wouldn't give much time for talks?

12 hours wouldn't even give enough time in a gunboat.
If you have to conquer every sc, it could take 2 hours to input orders. Minus 6-8 hours for sleep leaves only 2-4 hours for contemplating the world's problems.

I think for such a game to be successful, it should probably be 1 and half days at the very least, otherwise you might get many cd's.

Conversely, the only way anyone has a hope in hell of taking every single SC on that monstrously huge map is through CDs...

yes,
I think knownworld 901 would be a much better platform for such a game. The transform option really increases movement flexibility and it is also build anywhere. I tried starting one a while back but it didn't take.

I think the world war maps we commonly use a lot right now should be updated with the transform option. You can do anything at that point, go anywhere you want. Make much better alliances because You can just switch the huge tons of armies to fleets now that you don't need the armies anymore except for a small amount.

I believe that the transform option would take the strategy out of everything. Half of the game is deciding what your builds are and how it effects your expansion paths. If you don't have enough fleets to win the end-game, well you better get innovative or slap yourself for not thinking forward early enough.

Well, it takes just a turn to transform, and it stops if it is attacked.

Why not it be 2 turns instead to transform, it may give people enough warning time to notice. Maybe even 3, but for that, remove the "stop transform if attacked" feature for the balance of making the transformation take longer.

3 turns is like, a penalty for the fact that you can capture sc's in 2 turns and then build intead. So it means there would still be a penalty for not having "planned" your fleet builds.

I very much like Crusader's idea...
I think it would be a great thing to do over the summer.
One of my favorite things is to toy with many nations on a large scale map like this.
I intend to win Crusader's game.
And to try to avoid any more rambling.

Well, if I can get enough interested I will set it up over the summer. I like large scale games as well as fast games with a lot of fighting. Making a short phase world war 4 map makes since.

I would also set a phase/CD/RR requirement hopefully we will have few CD's that way. I will leave it open to opinion whether the game be anonomous and or random nations.