ending the game?

DeathByTheSword · April 8, 2003, 15:23

so what does everyone think?...i will start the debate before voting for it...

i dont see a problem with it....we can always start a new one on a custom map which is smaller....

Method · April 8, 2003, 15:26

yes. end this. win my diplomatic victory ASAP. just make sure we have enough before calling the council. if we don't, then we have another 20 years of this

Maniac · April 8, 2003, 15:26

Yes close it down! If necessary, "liberate" a few Hive bases to gain enough population, and declare yourself Supreme Leader.

lucky22 · April 8, 2003, 15:42

*sigh*... When the folks doing the brunt of the real work want it done, I guess it should be done... with you three that pretty much leaves GT. What's he think?

Drogue · April 8, 2003, 15:42

I agree. Much as I want to transcend, victory by diplomacy seems apt.

Jamski · April 8, 2003, 16:47

*WoA sighs and wipes away a tear*

OK, but I'm going to play on from the last save, so that I can trancend (on my own - ha!) and become your GOD!

-Jam

Kassiopeia · April 8, 2003, 16:51

Fine by me.

Also, it'd create a nice statistical quirk - I would be Director for only two terms, the first and the last.

Quote:

Originally posted by War of Art
*WoA sighs and wipes away a tear*

OK, but I'm going to play on from the last save, so that I can trancend (on my own - ha!) and become your GOD!

-Jam

Two notes.

1) Don't use color=silver. The poor folk addicted to the old grey forum style might want to have a word with you on that (I'm using MOO3 mind you). Use /me instead.

2) No playing ahead

Jamski · April 8, 2003, 16:59

1.) I'm on MoO3 style too, so I forget what it'll look like.
2.) No fear - this will be playing behind

-Jam

ColdWizard · April 8, 2003, 17:10

ending the game sounds ok to me... unlike color=silver on default style

Jamski · April 8, 2003, 17:31

Change to MoO3 if you don't like it

-Jam

Hercules · April 8, 2003, 17:37

Well I am in two minds. I always like to finish by transcend but whatever is quicker I suppose. Certainly the challenge has gone. Though I would like to decommission more boreholes.

ColdWizard · April 8, 2003, 18:07

Quote:

Originally posted by War of Art
Change to MoO3 if you don't like it

-Jam

right, I'm going to change to an ugly style just to read your comments

Jamski · April 8, 2003, 18:13

Quote:

Originally posted by ColdWizard

right, I'm going to change to an ugly style just to read your comments

Are you? Great

Now we only need to get the other 28000 'poly posters to do the same...

*WoA gets the sarcasm*

-Jam

Cedayon · April 8, 2003, 19:23

Recommended procedure:

1) change all land bases that don't have some REALLY pressing need to produce the most expensive crawler they can easily (ie through minerals or with a small rush) finish by next turn.
2) next turn, take as many of the new crawlers as necessary and insta-build the Cloning Vats somewhere (New Apolyton was polled for it)
3) pass turns, possibly taking bases from Yang if you feel like it to expedite things
4) at the end of the turnchat, if we've got, say, 1300-1500 votes, convene the planetary council to elect us as supreme leader, and laugh all the way to the bank as we essentially establish a planetary dictatorship over the heads of all the other factions

Method · April 8, 2003, 20:41

Shhh! i thought we weren't going to reveal the dictatorship part until the plan was already in place!

Cedayon · April 8, 2003, 21:57

Oh, drat! I never can keep my mouth shut about those dictatorship plans...

Ah well, it's not like the other factions can stop us anyway

GeneralTacticus · April 9, 2003, 04:40

I agree with DBTS, TKG and Maniac. The workload has gotten utterly insane, and the sooner we can get it all over with, the better.

Kirov · April 9, 2003, 05:38

Hell guys! Just passing by, but I'd like to know if any new ACDG will be started after this.

Hercules · April 9, 2003, 05:54

I was going to ask that also.

Archaic · April 9, 2003, 07:00

Perhaps we should have some team's for the next one, divided along the ideologies.....

GeneralTacticus · April 9, 2003, 07:09

I'd be fine with that idea, but I rather doubt we could get enough players. We only have about 10 or so active ones now, so imagine what it would be like if we had just 3-4 teams.

Kassiopeia · April 9, 2003, 07:15

Quote:

Originally posted by War of Art

Are you? Great

Now we only need to get the other 28000 'poly posters to do the same...

*WoA gets the sarcasm*

-Jam

*sigh*

colour=grey (down with needless removal of Us

) is illegible on the MOO3 style too

You see, MOO3 style too has two different sorts of background colours for posts. A darker and lighter shade of blue. With /me, the colour will be automatically either darker or lighter, depending on the background. It's dynamic in that sense. So, I recommend that if you want to use * WoA, change your nick to WoA...

It's just that this irks me (I have two pet peeves, this is the other one), used to irk me on the IRC channels too when people used any colours they wanted. Luckily, most IRC clients can strip colour coding from text. The Poly forum, unfortunately, can not.

* Kassiopeia slaps War of Art around a bit with a large trout *

Archaic · April 9, 2003, 07:16

Hmmmm......a good point, though I'd think with smaller teams, it'd be easier to get some of the more experienced PBEM players into the gig.

GeneralTacticus · April 9, 2003, 07:21

Can somebody please explain how exactly one gets the /me tag to work? I've tried many times, and it never seems to.

Archaic · April 9, 2003, 07:28

I personally just do it the long way and set the colours up.

Lemmy · April 9, 2003, 07:45

GT, i believe it has to be on a new line /me <-- doesn't work?

/me on newline does work...its automatically converted.

GeneralTacticus · April 9, 2003, 07:47

Let's see.

/me is testing. (EDIT: Success!)

GeneralTacticus · April 9, 2003, 07:50

Ok, it seems the reason why it hasn't worked for me in the past was that I'd always tried to test it using the preview fuction, which it would seem does not register it.

Jamski · April 9, 2003, 08:18

I suppose I should try it too

[/me] *WoA tests it*

-Jam

Jamski · April 9, 2003, 08:21

Hmm, no success - what am I doing wrong?

color=whatever always does the job, but noone likes the colour.

-Jam