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Post by plattfuss on Oct 28, 2007 13:06:25 GMT -5
... I do hope that it has just been negligence or unwillingness to play out a loss on his part and not a real-life catastrophe. Yep, thats what I of course hope as well.
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Post by plattfuss on Oct 28, 2007 13:08:36 GMT -5
Whip, would you be willing to resume this game? For me it would be ideal to start next Thursday or Friday.
@ ClassicalHero: is that timing good for you as well?
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Post by whiplash on Oct 28, 2007 16:18:36 GMT -5
Ja, I'll put it back up when you are ready.
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Post by classicalhero on Oct 28, 2007 17:29:43 GMT -5
Give me adequate warning of the time you are going to put it back up, since only Emp has not played. Thursday sounds fine by me.
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Post by plattfuss on Oct 29, 2007 13:09:40 GMT -5
Alright, so we restart Thursday. Cool
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Post by whiplash on Oct 31, 2007 21:02:39 GMT -5
Maybe Friday.
I tried resurrecting this game and had a little trouble. I'm hosting a BtS PitBoss and thought that I could just run a side-by-side pitboss with Warlords and BtS with the same IP. I thought the programs would be "smart" enough to detect which game to direct a peer to when he joins. Nope! It results in a conflict. So, I need to set this up with dedicated ports for each game. I don't have time this evening. I'll try to get to it tomorrow evening.
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Post by plattfuss on Nov 1, 2007 0:17:13 GMT -5
np, thx for resume hosting this anyhow
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Post by whiplash on Nov 1, 2007 17:00:23 GMT -5
OK, the game is up.
IP = 65.26.251.51:2057
game password = origami
New turn started after I kicked Emperor at 1818AD
After you two each play a turn I will kick the others. I'm not doing it now because I'm not sure how the game would act with only one human (plattfuss)
Emperor was India (player no. 11) but like most others he changed his civ name to something else. Classical may need some trial and error to find the right civ to join. I would start with the one on the bottom of the list. Plattfuss is England so don't try that one.
I'll try to get civstats up after you guys get started.
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Post by plattfuss on Nov 2, 2007 4:05:36 GMT -5
not sure, but I think he changed his civ to Serbia.
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Post by classicalhero on Nov 2, 2007 10:11:38 GMT -5
I have logged in as the new leader of Serbia. It is a shame that Emp could not continue this game for himself since he was in a good position.
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Post by whiplash on Nov 2, 2007 10:50:29 GMT -5
OK, I'll kick the others after you both finish this turn.
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Post by plattfuss on Nov 2, 2007 11:36:55 GMT -5
@ classical hero: Emp and I had agreed to have a non-aggression treaty for another 11 turns (that would be until 1840 AD I think if each turn equals 2 years). Let me know if you prefer to have that much time or would like to have all options open earlier on.
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Post by whiplash on Nov 2, 2007 12:20:27 GMT -5
OK, I'll kick the others after you both finish this turn. done. If you two could agree on a time period for connection you could play in real-time. You might be half way across the planet from each other, but maybe the weekend. I know that Plattfuss ist eine Deutcher mensch. ;D
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Post by plattfuss on Nov 2, 2007 17:24:42 GMT -5
I know that Plattfuss ist eine Deutcher mensch. ;D You are absolutely right there my friend. I am sitting here in Munich and have to recover from Oktoberfest ...
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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 classicalhero on Nov 3, 2007 1:51:22 GMT -5
Well if emp is ready to take over until Emp iss ready to go. Considering that it better that he take over for this game since he is the one that did get into this great position. What could happen is for those times that he cannot play I could sub for him so that the game continues. I know that each turn will take a while to take, so I am non commital since it would be a waste of this game being lost by me if I make some errors that Emp would not make.
BTW, what is Civstat URL?
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Post by plattfuss on Nov 3, 2007 2:33:11 GMT -5
Welcome back, Emperor and congrats you found your special person. I met my wife only 3 years ago and experience how that can limit play time quite a bit. ;D
I think everything is said about your absence so I wont go into that anymore. If you can play within a week I would suggest that classical is going to sub you until then in order to keep up the momentum this game just resumed. You and classical can make a common game plan to make sure he is in line with your strategy. Since we are still in a no-war period for the next 10 days that shouldnt do to much harm I guess and I wouldnt want Whip to spend any more time on taking this game off- and online again.
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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 plattfuss on Nov 4, 2007 3:21:53 GMT -5
Believe it or not but am not that keen on finishing this game anymore. With the long pause we had I dont know my plans anymore and I have to invest some time as well to not just play it "turn by turn" but with some strategy. And - big surprise - I have other things to do as well.
Now that classical hero jumped in I started to give this a thought again and I dont want to pause for what ever long periods of time again. It is part of the game that you play it or look for a sub.
If you remember one of my mails from this summer you know that I played this game even during my holidays which was difficult for me. When you right after that asked for a break I was still willing to give that to you because I knew from my experience that it would have been very helpful also for me. The way you used this break on the other hand makes my feel for the moment that we shouldnt interupt this game any further.
As to how good or bad our positions in this game are: I think you have a decent chance to win this. How much of your time you are willing to commit to this game and pursue your chance is up to you. I also would like have more time to commit to it than I have at the moment. But thats part of the game.
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Post by classicalhero on Nov 4, 2007 5:46:46 GMT -5
IF platfuss does not want to play then I think it is best to put this game down. It hard for me to play this game since it is so advanced that I really have no idea what is going on and the strategy that emp would have for it would be different fro what I would do since I only joined up late, so I really do not see how this game can really go on. What I might suggest is that another game is started in place of this and we call this game a draw between Emp and Platfuss since this game could have gone either way, depending on how the strategy worked for each player.
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