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Post by emperor on Jun 11, 2007 22:34:25 GMT -5
The walls of Necropolis shook this turn as the second Serbian attempt to take the city began. While the Incan people had been distracted by taking the bait of recapturing one of their minor cities, a colossal amphibious force initiated a hugely successful assault on the city of Necropolis, killing vast quantities of Longbowmen and leaving almost as many extremely heavily wounded. The city's days in Incan hands were now certainly numbered...
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Post by emperor on Apr 17, 2007 4:16:44 GMT -5
While the Serbians had suffered a setback in their campaign to liberate the Incan people from the iron ruling and mass conscription of their overlord Necrominious, they were not overly concerned. Although the first battle of Necropolis had been cursed with bad luck so as to be unsuccessful, in the meantime there had been great successes elsewhere, and the rest of the Incan strongholds were falling like dominoes. The fortress of Necropolis might hold strong for many years to come, but eventually the day would come when it too would fall, and its people would be freed from the tyrannical grasp of the overlord they feared. Slowly but surely, the Incan people would be able to move out of the dark ages and begin to experience the benefits of the modern technology offered by the Serb Empire. Gradually as well, they would learn to look less favourably upon their stern Buddhist traditions and come to see the benefits offered by the other religions of the world, including the holy Islamic faith. Yes, the future was indeed a bright place to look forward to for the Incan people.
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Post by emperor on Nov 28, 2007 2:29:26 GMT -5
Well done, plattfuss. Hope to see you in another game.
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Post by emperor on Nov 3, 2007 19:05:45 GMT -5
Okay. Glad to hear you also found your special person plattfuss. It's difficult for me to make a game plan for classical hero when I am unable to check into the game and write one for the next few days though (I simply don't have the time). Plus the pre-war buildup and troop positioning is one of the more important aspects of how to survive the actual war. Any instructions would need to be extremely complicated, and would take as long to write as the turns would to play myself. I'd suggest that if you want to keep going now that things have started, then classical hero should take over the game for the most part. I might check in occasionally, but I don't see a great deal of point in playing if I'm not able to play or write instructions for the majority of the pre-war turns. I do concede that my situation is one that requires a great deal of strategy to win, and simply taking each turn as it comes will almost certainly not work for a victory. I do think though that since it's been about two months, surely another six days is not a great deal more to wait. But if you can't wait, then I'm not overly concerned, there just won't be much point in me playing later on and interrupting classical hero's turns. This game will almost certainly not fall in Serbia's favour if the two turnplayers are unable to coordinate a fully fledged strategy between them right from the pre-war buildup, it's just a simple fact.
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Post by emperor on Nov 2, 2007 19:32:00 GMT -5
Sorry guys about the (very!) long absence. I was genuinely busy with university work for a while, but expected it to get less busy. It did get slightly less busy for a time (although not much), however life also threw up something unpredictable as well - I recently found a very special lady and thus the priorities in my life have been significantly rearranged. Specifically, my free time is now no longer exactly my free time. In fact, being that I'd already been on a break from Civ for a while at the time, I actually forgot all about my games for a considerable period of time, and hence my practical disappearance from the forums as well. I was reminded about this only just now because I just got a turn notification in my email from Civstats for this game, and was very surprised by it. For some reason, I do not (and have never) received reply notifications from this site (civ4players) even despite marking threads with bookmarks, thus in the past I always had to check the boards here manually myself. Since I don't use this site for anything else, it's always an 'out of the way' trip, and since forgetting about the games I haven't actually checked in here in months. I still do check my emails intermittently though, and I'm somewhat surprised that no-one emailed me to remind me about the game when it became clear that something was up with my virtual disappearance. I know for certain that whiplash, IglooDude and plattfuss all have my email address, and it wouldn't have taken much time to drop a quick message. Then again, it's my own fault too for the games completely slipping my mind. When I originally posted that I'd be ready in a few days, I actually did mean it at the time. I certainly wasn't leaving you hanging all this time just because I thought I could 'avoid losing' or something. (In fact, I'm fairly sure I still have a decent chance to avoid loss in this game.) As IglooDude pointed out earlier, I've actually been absent from all of the games I was originally in for the last few months, and not just this one. Several of those games I'm actually well on the way to winning (or at least was when I left due to my workload). Anyway, as for my current situation - I'm in the middle of exams, but those will be finished next Friday (6 days away), and after that I really will actually be free from university work for the summer (I'm in the southern hemisphere, our summer holidays are November to February). I should be able to play Pitboss games with no problem during the weekdays, though in some of the weekends I may be otherwise busy. So if you'd still like to finish this game with the original players, we could do it starting next week. Of course, if you'd prefer to keep going now that you've started then I'm not greatly concerned. It'll just mean that plattfuss won't know whether I personally could have beaten him, I guess. I wish good luck to classical hero in that case. Hope you're all doing well. Cheers, - Emp.
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Post by emperor on Sept 18, 2007 5:12:41 GMT -5
AFAIK 3.13 should have no effect on Warlords, since it's a BTS patch. Warlords should still be at 2.13 as before. I'll be ready to play in a few days.
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Post by emperor on Sept 12, 2007 0:43:36 GMT -5
I'm around on the internet again (very intermittently), but am exceptionally busy with university at the moment... who the heck arranged to put all of my tests and assignments due in the first two weeks of term back! Anyway, at this stage I barely have a spare moment to play the single PBEM I'm in, and I don't think I'd have the time to add in another hour-a-night game just yet. If we could wait just another week before getting started again, my assessments should lighten up considerably and I'll actually be able to play without severely affecting my grades. - Emp
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Post by emperor on Aug 24, 2007 2:41:15 GMT -5
Could I make a request... I'm going to be away for the next 2 weeks on holiday, and most likely won't have access to Civ4 or the ability to play Pitboss games. Since this game is down to just a few of us playing, and since very shortly it'll just be down to two (and those two will inevitably be battling it out at some stage in the future), I'd really appreciate it if the game could be put on hold until I get back. I know it's a reasonably big ask, and will inconvenience some, but really at this stage with so few turns left I feel it'd be a shame to leave someone to sub for me for so long in such a complex situation. (Besides, whether I win or lose the upcoming wars, it'd be nice to know that it was due to my own good moves or blunders, not someone else's.) Basically, it'd just be nice to be able to be the one who finishes what I started so long ago. If there are any strong objections then I can of course look for a sub, but with so few turns left I think it'd be a shame to rush this and end up with me not playing what will probably be some of the last turns of the game. Let me know anyway. Whiplash, if there are no objections could you make a save and take the game down sometime before this turn (1816 AD) ends? I won't have time to finish my turn (currently busily rushing to pack).
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Post by emperor on Aug 19, 2007 19:59:43 GMT -5
Notice to all - Civstats is down, but the game is still up. (Whiplash, could you fix this up sometime soon please? )
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Post by emperor on Aug 18, 2007 3:01:36 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I'm afraid that it seems to be a very one-sided campaign so far. The basics: the five have split into two smaller alliances of 2 and 3, respectively consisting of Emperor/Plattfuss and IglooDude/Test of Time/Kingpin. I'll try and get some screenshots at some stage (I presume I can link them here via imageshack). By the way, I can also lend you my password at some stage if you're interested, whiplash.
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Post by emperor on Aug 8, 2007 19:27:32 GMT -5
Can't connect just now, and judging by the fact that Civstats shows only two players have played this turn despite 2 hours left on the clock, I'm guessing that no-one else can connect either. When the game gets fixed up again, if we could have a few extra hours on the clock to enable us all to play that'd be great.
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Post by emperor on Aug 6, 2007 22:09:18 GMT -5
No idea sorry.
For those of you lurking, we may as well announce it publicly since all the remaining human players in the game are now aware of it - the carnage begins between the five titans in 1780 AD. Watch this space, it should be a very interesting time. ;D
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Post by emperor on Jul 28, 2007 8:39:08 GMT -5
Had trouble connecting just before, and now I can't connect at all...
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Post by emperor on Jul 22, 2007 20:03:46 GMT -5
Connected fine and played my turn in 2.13 at the end of last turn (a couple of hours ago), but now I can't connect for the new turn just now...
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Post by emperor on Jul 21, 2007 22:55:57 GMT -5
OK, I suspected that might be why I couldn't connect before. I'll patch my own version soon.
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Post by emperor on Jun 22, 2007 16:19:23 GMT -5
How soon do you think you'll be able to fix the problem, whiplash? I guess if it'll be a while we could look and see if there's someone who'd host at Stratagamer...
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Post by emperor on Jun 21, 2007 19:51:16 GMT -5
Down again?
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Post by emperor on Jun 13, 2007 5:45:23 GMT -5
I hope those units now in your capital weren't double-moved to get there, Necrominious. I can't tell because you moved twice before I logged in. But if they shouldn't have been there, then they're preventing me from what would otherwise quite probably be taking your capital this turn.
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Post by emperor on Jun 12, 2007 17:16:01 GMT -5
Can't connect to the game.
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Post by emperor on Jun 7, 2007 7:25:47 GMT -5
Still can't connect though. When we do figure out what the problem is, we'll probably need to reload the game since I don't think we'll have enough time to play 1510 AD now. (I won't for sure, since I'm off to bed.)
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