Strat Forum PBEM: Game 1 - Page 2

Harovan · January 8, 2003, 20:11

Turn to jshelr

jshelr · January 8, 2003, 20:28

I'm not sure we made connections correctly on this first turn, but we will soon. Meantime, I found a good guy to act as a substitute for any of us when we have to be away for a day or, if it stays this cold, for a couple of weeks. I'll get you his email address tomorrow.

Harovan · January 8, 2003, 20:33

Is there a rule that we can't play when it's cold?

I resent the turn to the addresses you just sent me.

jshelr · January 8, 2003, 20:40

sir r's file has managed to get past the aol system into my inbox.

I've played and will send to alemxan. The start was better than being poked in the eye by a sharp stick.

jshelr · January 8, 2003, 20:46

this is the first sav in case i have screwed up the email address

jshelr · January 8, 2003, 20:51

ok, now where is that corkscrew?

BTW, I loaded from the SP screen after not getting anywhere on the multiplayer screen. We've been doing this without problems in several other games but I'm happy to learn how to do it right. Just didn't want to hold up the parade.

Harovan · January 8, 2003, 20:55

As vondrack says, there never have been problems, if you load it from the main (SP) menu from a newly started PTW.

alexman · January 8, 2003, 21:06

jshelr, I'm not sure how (at the address you used), but I got it.

3950 to Dominae.

Dominae · January 8, 2003, 23:55

Sent to Sir Ralph.

Dominae

Harovan · January 9, 2003, 05:06

Turn sent ti jshelr

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 09:08

Sent awhile ago. Wwe are off to a decent start.

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 09:18

I have found a good guy who volunteers tol play turns for us when we are unavailable. That will make the game flow much faster. Will pm you off line with his name and email address.

alexman · January 9, 2003, 09:42

Dominae's up.

I'm not that enthousiastic about someone else playing our turns, but if that's what everyone wants, I can live with it. Will he step in when we have delayed playing for a while, or when we are going to be away for a long time?

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 09:50

With this group, I would leave it up to the player to request that someone stand in for him. Much of the time, there is no big decision to make and it's helpful for all concerned to have a neutral party to keep the game rolling.

Dominae · January 9, 2003, 11:57

Sent to Sir Ralph. I anticipate playing all my turns myself in the near-future, and I should be able to find my own replacement.

Dominae

Harovan · January 9, 2003, 13:12

Sent to jshelr, or to be more precise, to the newly created jshelr mailing list.

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 13:17

I see I'm coming up in the world....

Sent to alex

alexman · January 9, 2003, 13:23

To Dominae!
Nice pace!

Dominae · January 9, 2003, 17:51

Off to Sir Ralph.

Harovan · January 9, 2003, 17:58

3850bc to jshelr

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 19:42

We hit a snag, but no matter...good first day.

Sir R and I have a communications problem to fix. Next file from me will probably be tomorrow morning.

Harovan · January 9, 2003, 19:49

I don't see problems. Just send me the definite address where to send the save and I will.

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 21:00

game to alexman

alexman · January 9, 2003, 21:06

And on to Dominae

Dominae · January 9, 2003, 21:45

Sir Ralph is up. Wow, I've played three turns of this game today! That's more than I play in other PBEM games in a week!

Dominae

Harovan · January 9, 2003, 21:48

Turn sent to jshelr. Last turn for today. Almost 3am here.

jshelr · January 9, 2003, 22:13

turn sent

will be around tomorrow until I run for a plane at 3pm.

alexman · January 9, 2003, 22:25

You'll run because you'll be late waiting for your turn?

To Dominae.

Dominae · January 9, 2003, 22:45

Problem: I just loaded the game from the main screen (not from the Multiplayer section, although I booted up PTW fresh), and it displayed the game as Regent. Does anyone know when this changed, if at all? I killed the program immediately, tried through MP, but there it doesn't allow you to see the difficulty (just 'Custom').

Should we be doing anything about this?

Dominae

Dominae · January 9, 2003, 22:50

Also, our scores have all gone down to 46 (from 50). I just checked if the game was otherwise okay, and killed the program immediately.

It seems that we were at Emperor in 3850BC, but not in 3800BC.

Dominae