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No, I don't have the Ovens. Next question?

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Hehehe, well said LingChih.

I'm glad we are finally back on schedule. Seems like we've had major delays for ... almost the whole of November.

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So Baalz falls. Goodbye Baalz, never really got to know you. Though we did fight in previous games.


Or should I say Atlantis falls? That would probably be more appropriate.

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Thats premature, Lingchih. Atlantis just took a severe blow but they arent dead as far as I can see. Has any atlantis fort been stormed? Has his cap?

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Heh, Atlantis has had war declared on it by pretty much every nation in the game simultaneously, Atlantis was undeniably walking dead at that point....

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Yeah, I know that you are pretty much toast. But I thought it was a bit much for a nation other than yourself to just unilaterly announce that.

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Hey guys I'm not gonna get home tonight until probably like midnight. So I'm gonna delay the turn for just 5 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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I apologize for the earlier post. It was in poor taste. I was just so shocked when I saw the province graph, I had to post something.

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Indeed! And for your crimes you will now be Transformed into a swine! ;)

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I had to leave town this weekend and I forgot to submit my turn before I left could you please delay the hosting 19hours(or 24if that's easier to remember)?

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Extended.

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Ahh, the seas. We so enjoy the endless seas. Alas, we must suspend our conquering of the seas, since mighty friends now border us on all sides. But still, we have our own sea now, the Sea of Midgard.

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A proposal has been floating around IRC and I thought I would bring it up here. Some players, myself included, are interested in calling this game a draw. Its been a really fun game, with some great (balanced!) wars and some astounding political reversals. But its been going on for a long time and there is no clear end in sight for many turns and people are tired. On top of that, we've had major delays due to technical problems with the llamaserver.

So, I present it to you all now: do you want to carry on with this game? Or wrap it up and call it a draw?

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Personally, I vote to draw. There are some major powers left now that have a shot at the win, but that win wont come for (in my estimation) at least 30 turns.

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I definitely vote to continue. I'm sorry but I am really a big fan of ending games and I really really dislike games ending prematurely w/o proper closure.

And I don't think the game is a draw. Atlantis will soon be eliminated (Sorry Baalz, just calling the facts) and I'm 100% certain that the situation will not remain static. The game may even end much faster than what we can now guess.
We all played a substantial amount of time to get to this point so why stop here and not get to the end?

If any given player wants to quit then we can find him a sub, but I think the players that do want to cont. have the right to see it through.

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Of course. I'm not proposing to unilaterally end the game by any means. But I know that I'm not alone in my feelings so I wanted to air it on the forum and get everyone's opinion.

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Well, I'm a bit tired of the game, to be sure, but things are finally starting to move now that the research is starting to trump the ****ty map, and I'm not gonna pull out on a game if there's anyone that still wants to play in it unless there's a clear winner.

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coobe's LA aby shall never concede!!

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So, after going back to IRC to get people to post thier support for the vote, I found that said support had quickly evaporated. Forget it, I guess.

I'll start shopping for a replacement.

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I'd like to trade for death or nature gems, I'm offering fire,air,water, or blood

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Eh, on second thought, its going to be hard starting a new game right before the holiday season. I'll play on until the new year, at least. Perhaps there will be some resolution by then.

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Just bumping.

Anyone need earth gems? They are, like, falling out of my pockets.

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Fencing event this weekend, I would like about a 48 hour extension on the turn please.

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Please set Patala to AI. He had 5 stales in a row now.

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Indeed he has. Odd - didnt he say before that he was really attached to his nation and wanted to play it to the bitter end?

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I tried setting him AI from the admin screen but its not possible. You have to actually go into his turn and thats something I'd rather not do (as an admin) unless its absolutely neccessary. Calmon, cant you just kill him? You've been sitting on his capital for ages now...

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Actual the patala turn is in, maybe he set himself ai.

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looking to trade fire, air, water, blood for death or nature (or possibly astral)

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actually make that ... trading fire, air, water, blood for *earth*, death, nature (possibly astral)

but i'll probably pm a couple earth nations myself right now

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The world needs you! If you are a honorable leader of a nation of proud fighter against the darkness, join us! We need more glorious individuals in an alliance against the all mighty evil GAAAAATHHHH.

Do you remember the former 'all mighty evil' Atlantis? He was nothing against the power of the absolute unholiest giants of Gath! So we also have to warn you... it IS the most dangerous and risky thing you ever be involved but the reward of freeing the whole world is always worth to join in.

So far Bogarus :trophy:, Caelum :trophy:, Marignon :trophy: and Midgard :trophy: are in but i think you need more to equalize my all mighty powerfull forces fully equiped with dozens of unique items!

I've legions of tartarians and even more demons of all sizes out of all dimensions!

My cities are full of the mightiest mages you ever saw prepare to instant kill every army lost in my wide lands. I can't count all the blood stones and clams i own to survive even without any of my sites - of course the best you can imagine.

I also ordered to cast the famous Forge of the Ancients. Not that i need it but i really like the appearance and the smell of it! If you plan to dispel... forget it! I invested thousands of earth gems -a part of my monthly blood stone income- to empower a natural E50 mage. This in additional to the 999 max gems makes it as good as indestructible!

This turn the hasty glorious alliance member Midgard :trophy: mistakenly teleported some smaller raiding troops in our territory. Maybe he didn't note that the NAPs with Caelum :trophy: & Bogarus :trophy: (1 turn) and with Marignon :trophy: (2 turns) still exists. However the new-blessed tartarion winged lion commander was disrupted by some of my lower demon scums in seconds. The rest of this expedition will be doomed next turn or maybe i'll play some time with them.

Really urgent: Our Alliance member Midgard needs support! In a way of heroism he bring up some troops in the all mighty devils territory! The other alliance member still can't support this glorious first step so we pled to the rest of the free world! Help immediately! Ugard, Ulm, Agartha, even Jomon you may stop your conflicts and follow us in our justified war. Please contact your local Angel office for more informations.

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To the Glorious nation of Gath. Yes, we realize we did arrive a bit early for the party, but we just couldn't resist. We saw no reason to fight the others for scraps, when we could get a whole slice of the pie for ourselves.

See you soon,
Midgard

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I would need a 24 hour extension this time, (pre)christmas stress has started :)

Is it possible to go to a 72 hour cycle until new year?

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24hr extension added. Good luck fending off the wolves, Calmon!

About the christmas/new year holiday time. I'm going to be away from the 23rd to the 1st of January. Since many other people are likely travelling or will have trouble doing turns, I think we should just suspend the game b/w Xmas and NYE.

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i'd also be interested in switching to 72h and taking a christmas break

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Christmas break is OK by me. 72 hour is not. We should stay 48 hour.

In other news, yes, we got our butts kicked. But we did kill a Tart and some Sybils. And we still hold the prov next to Abysia.

--Midgard

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Ok, I will plan on putting the game on hold for the Christmas -> NYE period. After this coming turn, I suppose.

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can anyone forge stone birds at a reasonable price?

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a new turn hosted and is due on the 25th.... shouldn't this one be delayed like a week?

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Namad, I believe IH said after this coming turn. And when he posted that we were on the previous turn.

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The game is now postponed until after New Years Eve. I will try to get my turn in before I leave for the holidays in case you all find time to do yours. However, I will not be able to play the next turn, should one generate.

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January bump. Looks like the the game is back on. Let's go dogs!

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Is the game on 48h schedule?

That's extreme for turn 67. Can we please switch to a more reasonable pace of 72h at least?

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72h would be preferable for me too

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So what's up with the schedule?- I half did my previous turn and will have little time to play this one as well. Kinda takes the fun out of the game :(

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I'm fine with a longer host schedule if people want one.

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can you get a sub for me? I don't intend to take anymore turns

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Ironhawk can you please postpone hosting for a few days until we find a sub for Namad?- He's too big a factor in the game to just go AI w/o creating a major disturbance.

And for the love of god (or rather, sleep), add time to hosting schedule. Last time I checked this wasn't advertised as a blitz game.

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Its the responsibility of the player, not the host to find themselves a sub. Namad if you want to leave the game thats your perogative, but you need to find a replacement player or you will leave us all in the lurch. I will postpone hosting for you to do that but I urge you not to simply walk away without taking care of your responsibilities...

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i am very very angry. I haven't wanted to play a single turn of this game in many weeks. if you'd like i'll change to blank turns from ai. if i were to play I'd just ruin the game even worse and ruin the chance of anyone wanting to sub even worse. I am asking around about if people want to sub i just haven't ever found a sub and doubt it's even possible. I really don't want to hear another word about this game ever though. it's not like atlantis didn't just stale like 10times before the end not even waiting until the first turn on which he attacked

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I consider this official cause to break NAP. Hey, if you're going AI, there is no need for adherence to an NAP anyway. I've got a long border with Utgard, and I don't want to suddenly find Utgard SCs on my doorstep.

-Midgard