Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I will just point out that, yes, I do have both - I also don't have 1/3? 1/2? of the map, and we've both been clamming (Iyae for longer than me) so it's entirely possible that Korwin is still more powerful.

Graphs off make it hard to judge.

Mostly because I have no that much turf, and whoever cast Armageddon wrecked my income still further.

Still, with 4 big powers left in the game (Marigon, Bandar Log, Arco and now myself) things are going to get spicy.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I think Pangea wants to continue the war (turn submitted - no message)
I'll wait for an peace or war message before submitting my turn...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

You did carve a lot of space out of my empire.
And as long as I'm preoccupied with the others, I really don't want to mess with your numerous SC's.

The others should know, that as long as they are at war with me, they are directly helping the hentai faction ;)

On further thought, as long as nobody took me up on my offer.
I could imagine an alliance with Big R against the rest of the world.
How about an assurance to cast arcane Nexus? (from me)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

You've already killed a few of them, don't talk yourself down so much :)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I did?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

yeah, arcoscephale has conquored man and shinuyama. you know about the shinuyama situation I'm sure.

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Whether I am a great power is margenal at this stage, In alot of ways my newbyness is catching up with me.

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And whoever else is hitting the elemantal royals should seriously pm me, so that we can organise who has what and not have any more failed castings. I promise I won't be mad :P.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Yes, this is why you don't see a peace message from me:

"yeah, arcoscephale has conquored man and shinuyama. you know about the shinuyama situation I'm sure."

Man and Shinuyama were my allies, and I just can't agree to let you have all of their combined lands and the castle you took from me two turns ago.

Make another offer other than full retreat on my side, and we can certainly talk about peace.

Pangaea

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

sending turn in, before P&P RPG session starts...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I need a 24 hour extension for this turn, thanks.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Ahhhh not done. Did i postphone LastRites?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Sorry for your stall, I apparently saw your reqest after the Game hosted (I then postphoned the last rites game - where I'm the admin, came back saw its the wrong game, turned back and reversed the change for the last rites game).

At least I'm not the admin for this game, so I don't need to wash my head in ash...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

yeah it's not your fault, nothing you could have done. I also PMed earwicker beyond posting here, and it still wasn't enough, but oh well...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Well, everyone, I've had to come to a fairly painful decision about continuing to play Dominions. It's flat out the second-best game I've ever played, with #1 being Demon's Souls. I love playing it; in fact, I'd say I'm addicted to it... and therein lies the problem.

When I started playing the game, I had a lot of free time. My job is somewhat seasonal... I'm employed full-time, year-round, but the company I work with runs two music venues; from fall to spring, we run a 2,000 seat hall, but in the summer, we run an 18,000 seat outdoor venue. Basically, since I started playing in late summer/early fall, I usually had at least a couple of hours of downtime each day at work to play the game (my boss is cool like that). But for the last two weeks, I've rarely had more than ten or fifteen minutes, and as summer kicks in full-swing, that will go down to zero.

If I weren't a single parent, that probably wouldn't be an issue, but I only have about half an hour of free-time during the week, and sometimes none at all. It's at the point where I've been waking up an hour earlier than normal to try to squeeze in turns, and even then, it's tight. I'm also writing a novel right now, and I realized that, because of Dominions taking up all my free-time, I've only written one page in the last two weeks.

The final straw for me was looking at this turn, and knowing that I still had at least half an hour to an hour's worth of play before I finished it, but had no time before the deadline to do it. For a brief minute, I thought to myself, "You know, maybe I don't really need to go to my daughter's orientation meeting about her upcoming first year in junior high." I realized I was getting ready to put the game before family, and that's when I decided that this game is so time-consuming that it's interfering with my life.

So I'm going to have to bow out of Dominions for the time being. I'll miss it... horribly so. I honestly thought this was a game I'd play for years, but real life isn't allowing it. Maybe I'll be able to come back at the end of the summer.

My position in this game is totally hopeless... I have about 100 gold income per turn, no pretender, and only a handful of troops in my castle. I think it is best to go AI, but if you guys want me to find a sub, let me know.

I'll miss you guys :(

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Ah, sounds like I tough decision there man, but glad to see you are putting you're kids first.

remember the game is always there if your life gets boring again ;). I'm vaguely trying to detach from PBEM myself, it's not easy.

and yeah, I reckon Abi should probably be put to AI...

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Right, I'm also being a sh*te admin at the moment, I'm on vacation and don't really have time to check the boards. do any of you fancy taking over the admining until the 12th (when I'm back on my own computer)? alternatively we could do a perminant 12 hour increase to the time...

My appologies for the stale

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

@earwicker7: We'll miss you too man. However, putting your family first is totally the right thing to do.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Can do, I'll take over Admin duties until your vacations end.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Ah brilliant. thanks Korwin.

I take it you still remember the password.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I do, indeed :)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

hey guys,

I'm back at home and able to both admin the game and not stall anymore. thanks for looking after it Korwin.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

no Problem

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

guys, I can't seem to keep up with my position and I'm doing a horrible injustice to it these past few turns. I did take a pretty bad position(well map position was fine, anything else was horrible) after all and worked hard on fixing it. now the position is perfectly playable and even winnable if whoever takes it will have the time to spend on each turn and is not a complete newbie.

I'm afraid I don't have this time anymore, with uni kicking in harder and me getting preoccupied with other things. this is the last dom game I'm left with, and I need to detach entirely for a while until I can get my mind back into it. so please find a sub for me. sorry guys, and good luck to everyone.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I'm potentially interested, but need to know a bit more before jumping in (# of provinces, etc). Maybe someone could give me a brief intro?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I can give you all the information you'll ever want, including my strategic plan, what I was going to do from here on if I had the time, etc. keep in mind that we're in the late game already, with most people(including Marignon) having all research complete, so each turn(if done properly) should take a good amount of time to do. if you're interested and have the time than PM me with some specific questions you have on your mind and I'll answer them and add more information.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

So, if you all have your research complete, why are you leaving me all the good artifacts?

Sorry to hear Blackguard, good luck with the RL work...

And yeah, Jimbo, If you work it out with Blackguard we'd be happy to have you. Mari is in 3-4 place, and the game has gotten surprisingly tight amongst the 4 of us...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Colonial: Who are the four of us you are referring to?

13lackGu4rd: Sorry to see you go; hopefully we'll play again sometime. :)

jimbojones1971: If you do join, this is a fun game. Everyone has been great to play with; we've somehow managed to avoid any jerks. ;)

Also, have a good weekend everyone. :)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Seems like the game will be over soon (or at least soonish).
I'm going under the masses of Tarts, Chayot, Queen of Air...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Marignon needs more Time?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I need a sub, not more time. so far jimbojones1971 hasn't PMed me yet so I don't know what's up with him. either way, I think you should post a looking for sub thread and freeze the game until a sub is found.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

fair play,

Currently postponed 24 hours, I'll put up a sub request just now...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

what? why did it just host? I had turned quickhost off :`(:`(

appologies for that. I don't know what happened there...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

quickhost off only holds off hosting automatically when all players send in their turn, it has nothing to do with hosting after the normal turn interval passed. in this case what you needed was a lot more than a 24 hour extension, which you haven't done. the 24 hour extension finished so the turn hosted...

oh well, another turn gone, nothing we can do about it now(no rollbacks for that, that's be just dumb), so I suggest you extend the next turn for 72 hours(for now), hopefully finding a sub for my position during this time, than proceed from there.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Quickhost = if all turns get submitted it will host without waiting for the hosting time.
If not all turns are submitted at the hosting time, it will still host. Nothing to do with the Quickhost setting.

At least thats how I understand it.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

ah, ninjaed...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

****. I see.

Learn something new every day...

so yeah, its on 168 hour turns now.

sorry again.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

anyone else want to chime in enthusiastically on the sub thread? we don't seem to be catching any fish...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Can we AI our missing player? I'm excited to keep playing this game....

Nathan

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I know exactly what you mean :(.

He is a bit big to set ai, but if I get the support of the other two, I will, -sniff-, perform the opporation...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I'll go find the subthread and post in there.... I guess before asking for him to AI I need to do my part and help recruit. :)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

To be on the safe side --> Turn submitted.
Do we have an solution for Marignon?

Turn will host in a few minutes...

Edit: Added 3 hours. Not shure what Colonial's plans are...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I believe we are still trying to find a sub. I chipped in on the 'please join our game' thread, and I'm not sure if we have had any bites yet.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Added 24 h.
Hope thats OK, Colonial.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

aye cheers Korwin.

I was expecting a '12 hours' notification that I didn't recieve... no harm done I guess

I guess I will keep on extending the turn by random ammounts for a while, I'd like to see this game continue soon :(...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Heyas all!

So, I'd like to talk again about setting our missing player to AI, and getting this game going again. :)

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Well I don't know if that turn yesterday was intentional or not, but I was excited to take a turn in this game again. :)

I hope everyone is doing well.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

yeah, it was an accident, but certainly wasn't the end of the world. I also enjoyed having another go with this thing.

I will set Mari AI before the next turn, if we still don't get a sub, since that turn was yet another stail for our orenge friend...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

All right.

I'm gunna add 72 hours, then set Marignan AI.

Sound good?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Woo woo!

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Marignan is no more :'(

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

And the AI has immedeately attacked everyone he has a border with. Brilliant.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

We should change the hosting intervall to something shorter than 336 hours.