Hi,
since I was playing this game a long time ago, I thought it might be nice to direct some attention to another strategy/role-playing game with a pbem mechanism:
Olympia is a rather old game with newer offshoots like
Atlantis or
Eressea, but it is still highly addictive and challenging.
A current instance of Olympia is running at
http://olympia.v-labs.be/g3/.
A short introduction into the game can be found here:
http://olympia.v-labs.be/g3/node/392Cheers,
Peter