Setting up IP games XXXIII

[rah]

Well the old one is up to three pages....time for a new one.
Ming, feel free to delete the old one.


IT's FRIDAY, thank god.
I'll be at Ming's at the usual time. MUST PLAY MP...AI TOO STUPID.

For tomorrow, not sure yet. One of my employees is having a house warming party that I'm obligated to show up to. Don't know how short of a stop I can limit it too.


Rich

[Ming]

Originally posted by rah
Well the old one is up to three pages....time for a new one.
Ming, feel free to delete the old one.

Nahhhh... just closed it. It should disappear soon enough

Oh, and bring dinner tonight!

[War4ever]

i should be around if i get through spamming the boards.... the last month has been soooooooooo borring....

not sure yet what the wife has in store for me yet.....

if your busy tomorrow maybe i can be busy tomorrow (early) and we can all meet up later for some late MP

[rah]

That might work.

Depending on what time Ming can break free. Wouldn't want it to be too late.

RAH

[War4ever]

well if its too late then we could always scrap it altogether now....

either way the following week i have christmas parties to go to ...so i will be out

i imagine with the holiday season rapidly approaching that the amount of MP played will be minimal....

tis the season to be jolly, lack of mp makes me cranky.....

[rah]

Don't want to scrap it, just trying to encourage Ming to try to arrange things properly. Like a 9:30 to 10:00 start. Even though I plan on leaving that party earlier if I have any say in the matter.

Rich

[Ming]

Unless something weird happens, or just dumb luck... my usual EARLIEST time would be around 10... but more like 10:30.

I would love to play on Saturday night (MP still beats SP any day of the week)... but again, I have no control over the starting time.

I will do my best to hasten my families need to go to sleep early on Saturday...

[rah]

Try booze

And I think your neck will be acting up and you will need to lie down and rest a little.

Get organized and start watching things quicker.

Make sure she serves the leftover turkey to induce sleep. (or illness)

Fake falling asleep with lots of snoring to try to chase them.


Rich
Just a few helpful suggestions.

[Ming]

Originally posted by rah
Try booze
And I think your neck will be acting up and you will need to lie down and rest a little.
Get organized and start watching things quicker.
Make sure she serves the leftover turkey to induce sleep. (or illness)
Fake falling asleep with lots of snoring to try to chase them.

Hmmmmm...
1) Booze won't work. That just makes her want to party longer.
2) The neck trick might work, especially if we do the Christmas Tree during the day. The problem is, it might not just be an excuse
3) I have to time it right. If I start too early, it just means time to watch "one more" program
4) After last week... turkey is out (in more ways than one)
5) This has worked well in the past. But I will only use it as a last resort since it might be wearing thin

[War4ever]

i wish you luck Ming......i will do a little cheer for you

maybe smartfart will play tonite.....it would be nice to have four.....five is too many..... but four is usually ideal

[Bird]

I expect to be around tomorrow night. I don't know if I'll get MP working though. I e-mailed the problem I was experiencing to the tech support people at Inforgrames, and believe it or not they responded. I haven't had time to do what they suggest yet, but will do so tomorrow. (Actually, it's simplistic -- I'm supposed to completely delete the Civ II files from the hard drive, including the recycle bin, and then reinstall. Previously, I had just uninstalled the game and then reinstalled it. We'll see, wish me luck.)

[War4ever]

wishing you luck birdy!

[rah]

Yeah good luck bird. Gee that sounds too simple to work.



War4, based on your extremely high activity on Apolyton today, I must assume one of two things.

1. You are really really bored and civIII ain't cutting it. You need to get back working.

2. Working on beating Raz's one day post count record in hopes of being a deity before you head back to work.


Rich
Gee, maybe i'll build some elephants tonight. The legions I've built in the last couple of games have been real effective.

[War4ever]

Originally posted by rah
Yeah good luck bird. Gee that sounds too simple to work.



War4, based on your extremely high activity on Apolyton today, I must assume one of two things.

1. You are really really bored and civIII ain't cutting it. You need to get back working.

2. Working on beating Raz's one day post count record in hopes of being a deity before you head back to work.


Rich
Gee, maybe i'll build some elephants tonight. The legions I've built in the last couple of games have been real effective.

your probably right on all accounts.... to make matters worse i lost my keys so i am under house arrest! what is the single day post record.....

i ca'nt get it..the boards are way too slow and the OTF doesn't count....

going back to work on moday..thank god...of course in two weeks i will be whining about being back.....

as for civ3...piece of junk

it will never be mp and the ai as you put it is just too stupid

been watching mtv...tired of all the george harrison crap...too much kid rock!

i don't know how these guyz spam so much .... its getting on my nerves when i do it.......haha

[rah]

I don't know, you'll have to ask raz.

Your prolific effort this week has moved you up into the top 80 posters. (only because otf posts don't count)

I wouldn't call your posts today spam though. But if you kept it up for 2 months.............................

MTV
Didn't know how depressing a day could get. Makes work look even better.

My only gripe is that the Golf season is ending here. I didn't play last weekend which was my first missing weekend since April. This weekend looks iffy. MUST PLAY GOLF, DOMES ARE FOR WIMPS>

RAH

[War4ever]

hehe...... i have posted everywhere...on a different note..makeo want to play tonite...so thats three...a fourth and were set

[ColdWizard]

looks like i was too late today, oh well

[War4ever]

your late dammit.....whats your excuse

[Epik]

Okay something odd is going on...

The game froze on me and I had to reboot. Now I am not getting any responses on ICQ. I did get one response from War4Ever after rebooting, but nothing since then.

Wonder what the problem could be?

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by War4ever
your late dammit.....whats your excuse

ummm... my.. err.... ah.. dog ..... lessee.... um. ate my ... uh modem? yeah, that's it, my fictional dog ate my modem!

actually fridays are generally heavy workdays, so are the ends of each month. fridays at the end of the month are just compounded

[War4ever]

jeepers , sounds like you have your period....if you get that worked out look me up

[Ming]

Now let's see what we can do on Saturday nite... I NEED a MP game. as much as civ III is fun, Civ II mp is still more fun. I'll stay in touch and let you know.

[War4ever]

when was the last time you played Ming....its been awhile you an I.... i hope to be around later as well.....does anyone have any ideas for a time....i have to christmas shop today

[War4ever]

oh and i just had a thought.....seeing as golf is over for a bit....RAH...can you make a weekday game at all...say TUESDAYS or does the wife still rule during the week

[SmartFart]

I have 6-7 hours rite now. How about a game?

[War4ever]

smart is your icq acting funy...i get no response..psot here if you want to duellll

[Ming]

I just love AT&T Broadband. It seems that their service provider for the Internet went belly up over the weekend and I have lost internet access for my house for now... (I sure hope they figure something out quick)... So that is why I wasn't around the weekend. Which is a real bummer since my family went to bed early on Saturday night... figures

[rah]

YES, AT&T sucks. All weekend, no connection. Needless to say we called and they said they're anticipating no solution for 7 to 14 days. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Civ III isn't that much fun.

I was home by 9 on saturday and became frustrated very quickly.


RAH

[Bird]

Well that sucks. I was wondering what happened. I reinstalled MP and downloaded the patch. This time the patch executed like it is supposed to do. I should have tested MP with War4, but didn't think about it b/c I was plugging away with Civ 3. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Are you going to change providers, or have you prepaid too much money?

[rah]

It has nothing to do with the prepay, (there is none).
But we didn't even bother buying a modem when we bought our new machine. Just an ethernet card. They provide the highspeed modem and their's is the only coax running into our house. So we're kinda limited. And actually besides this little fubar, we've had no other complaints in the years since we got it.

I have to laugh though, Internet provider with a guarenteed contract from AT&T should be a license to print money. How the heck can you go bankrupt. You don't have to advertise or have a sales force, and you get fat checks every month. It would take real mismanagement to screw that up. It must have been a real crappy contract with AT&T. That's the only possible explanation.

Rich.