Turns of AXT018 game in Apolyton PBEM Tournament

Tau Ceti · May 21, 2000, 18:13

The players of this game:

joer, University, jreber@gmx.de
edgecrusher, Cyborgs, edgecrusher2k@hotmail.com
demomedic, Drones, jslimmon@cadvision.com
WhiteElephants, Data Angels, feenybe@cs.com

The AI factions are the Peacekeepers, the Spartans and the Believers.
Difficulty level: Thinker.

Please, read and obey the rules posted on the thread Apolyton 2000 PBEM Tournament

You should post turn administration/notification messages below.

joer · May 21, 2000, 19:21

Welcome to the game everybody!
I like the faction setup (totally different from what I have seen so far), so let's all play fair, play fast, have fun and enjoy ourselves.

I am living in Europe, so I play usually my turns between 4 AM and 6 PM EST. I should be able to play at least two turn per day. It would be nice if we managed to get 1 turn / day going.
Turn sent to Edgecrusher.
--

***Booting Chiron system......
Kernel 7.0.3 booted.
System time: Jan 1, 2102, 21:09
TP++/IPv10 stack set up.
University of Planet Network recognized.
login: Joe R. Zakharov
password: ihatemiriam
Password accepted. Welcome, professor!
> statusreport
Safe landing. Two colony pods.
University base established. Sufficient nutrients around.
Fungus near.
> more fungus
Information unavailible.
-- University Server, first bootlog, 2102

May 22, 2000, 18:54

send in the drones

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i've become impossible
holding on to when
when everything seemed to matter more
the two of us
all used and beaten up
watching fate as it flows down the path we
have chose

joer · May 24, 2000, 13:23

Turn sent to CyC.

WhiteElephants · May 24, 2000, 18:08

Turn to the Provost. The last two days I've had a lot of trouble with Compuserve so bear with me. Hopefully it will be OK tonight.

demomedic · May 25, 2000, 00:06

greetings all,
turn sent to the data angels

joer · May 25, 2000, 03:36

Turn to CyC.

Just a reminder, since the question popped up: By the latest tournament rules, we are not supposed to communicate with each other before we have made contact in the game (by meeting or acquiring the comlink through other means).
-joer.

WhiteElephants · May 25, 2000, 18:00

Turn to Zak last night. I've had trouble with my internet connection (CompuServe), but I think it has been taken care of. I will send saves with the year included for now on as well. Sorry Zak/Joer.

demomedic · May 27, 2000, 21:26

My turn to the Data Angels.

WhiteElephants · May 29, 2000, 23:12

Sorry folks, I had to retake my turn because I don't know how to properly zip a file. Duh. Any suggestions. I downloded the zip and I though I just had to change the extention .sav to .zip.

joer · May 30, 2000, 02:06

Got the turn from WhiteElephants, and it worked.
Turn passed on to Edgecrusher.

May 30, 2000, 10:24

rollin' rollin' rollin'...

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i've become impossible
holding on to when
when everything seemed to matter more
the two of us
all used and beaten up
watching fate as it flows down the path we
have chose

demomedic · June 1, 2000, 09:13

To the angels ...

joer · June 1, 2000, 18:59

Turn to edgecrusher.

joer · June 6, 2000, 03:39

TocTocToc...anybody here?
Anybody knows what happened to the game?
It's been stalled for 5 days. Who sent the last turn?
-joer

WhiteElephants · June 6, 2000, 18:17

Good question. When I get home I'll resend the last turn I took.

joer · June 7, 2000, 03:23

I got the same turn from WhiteElephants as last time.

Edgecrusher, do you want me to resend it?
Please, the last person who got the turn should make a post here, so we can identify where it's halted.
-joer.

WhiteElephants · June 9, 2000, 16:12

Well... Joer is gone till Tuesday, and if the game doesn't move, I'm gonna get in touch with Tau Ceti to end it. OK? Do we have a pulse doctor?

joer · June 13, 2000, 14:44

I'm baaaack!

Still no movement. Sigh.

Considering that I sent the move to edgecrusher twice and there hasn't been a reply, we could also opt for deleting his faction and moving on with three people.
Is there still any interest by the other folks to continue the game?

WhiteElephants · June 13, 2000, 16:52

I'm still interested. On the other hand we could always have Tau Ceti line us up for another game. I like the idea of four players as opposed to three. Three players seems like it would tend to end up in a 2 vs. 1 sitution too easily.

joer · June 14, 2000, 11:14

Hey, there's always the AI.

So far, my experience with 4-player-MPs is a very bad one (I'm in 3 games that have all stalled), so I would prefer to continue this one with 3 people, rather than start another one with 4 that will stall again after 10 years.

However, the final decision is up to you folks. Do you want me to mail TC or not?
-joer.

WhiteElephants · June 14, 2000, 16:12

Scrathch that "folks" to "folk". Looks like I'm the only other interested party. (Why sign up for a game you don't intend to finish or at least play?) Well, my vote is that three (two?) players are better than one and we might as well move along. I'm going to sign up for another game though. I'm going to warn you now that I'll be gone five days in August which is the only forseeable problem I would have with taking a turn a day.

demomedic · June 16, 2000, 10:28

I'm still here and willing to play. Just waiting for turns.

WhiteElephants · June 16, 2000, 16:19

Well, FOLKS lets fire it up!!! I'm gonna email Tau Ceti and tell him to switch over the elusive edgecrusher's faction to AI and we'll get this ball rollin'!

WhiteElephants · June 16, 2000, 16:39

OK gang. I just email Tau Ceti and told him the scoop. I think Joer has the last turn played so I told him to post on this thread to let us know what's going on. I told him we wanted his faction to be turned over to the AI. I hope that's OK considering we haven't moved the game very far.

I imagine that edgecrusher realized that resistance to the underground hacker network Silicon Ice was futile. I'm suprised the rest of you haven't come to the same logical conclusion.

June 16, 2000, 17:09

waitta sec... i thought i sent it out! oi... i'll send it when i get home on monday night. why didn't someone send me an email? i don't always check here...

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i've become impossible
holding on to when
when everything seemed to matter more
the two of us
all used and beaten up
watching fate as it flows down the path we
have chose

Tau Ceti · June 16, 2000, 17:18

Given this latest turn of events, I will see what the players have to say... I always found it strange that edgecrusher seemd to be playing his other games, but not this one.

WhiteElephants · June 16, 2000, 17:44

It lives!!! Hey man, the war is over, you can come out of the shelter now! From my understanding Joer sent you your turn a couple of times with no response and then ya don't show up in this thread at all... What are we supposed to think? We were worried sick! For all we knew ya coulda got hit by a bus (knock on wood).

Well, now that the band is back together do you think we could get this show on the road?

joer · June 17, 2000, 02:53

Sorry I should have probably sent you another email, edgecrusher.
Though it's always good to check the threads once in a while.

Anyways, good to see you back and active, I'd like to get this game moving again.

Resent last move to edgecrusher.
-joer.

joer · June 17, 2000, 02:54

Ack, ignore that resend, edgecrusher. It was totally superfluous from my side.
I'll just wait for the next turn....
-joer.