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Ah WHOOPS. I uploaded a Ryleh pretender before checking back with the thread.

Seeing as you reserved it I have marked it anonymous again and Zap can feel free to kick it...

Sorry about the confusion.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Kicked.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sorry, and thanks. There's still C'tis and ... Wow. Abysia left. If you haven't played one of them - they're both solid. ( I _so_ wish it'd show what nations hadn't been picked http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

Hope you can get in as one of them, if you haven't played them yet. (His rules, not mine.)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And there may be a bit more time to claim them. In my talks with Mose re getting the corrected mapfile installed, it has emerged that there are no world.* files on the server. Perhaps I trashed them with my aborted upload.

Anyway, Mose has said he'll re-install the whole thing manually, but I haven't heard back from him and, obviously, I don't want to start the game until I do.

When I'm confident that everything's set up OK, we'll begin.

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Any idea of a new updated started time? I don't want to revise my S9W9F9 pretender until I've probably tested, so - perhaps a new updated projected start time for people to aim for?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Abysia's not left, I called them at the beginning of the thread. Coulda sworn I uploaded already.....meh.

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dp

[ August 07, 2004, 23:39: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There's been 2 anonymous kickings, one of which caught an anonymous Abysian registration.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Four hours and 15 minutes from the time of this post, or when I hear from Mose, whichever is later.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There's been 2 anonymous kickings, one of which caught an anonymous Abysian registration. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And I do recall where Norf claimed Abysia, saying it was because coHen was griping about the nation sucking so much.

A shame - Cohen as Pythium/Ermor/Arco is so much like the saran-wrap map of those natinos. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't really know what this means, but I assume it's more Cohen-bashing. C'mon guys - isn't it time to give the poor guy a break ?

[ August 07, 2004, 23:51: Message edited by: Zapmeister ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't really know what this means, but I assume it's more Cohen-bashing. C'mon guys - isn't it time to give the poor guy a break ? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Charlie Manson hasn't killed any blondes lately either - should we give him a break too? Baby Bush - he hasn't killed any GIs in 9 hours - we should lay off him?

Okay, sorry, "Great news! If you start next to Cohen and destroy his first army or kill his pretender, you have a _real_ good chance of going against an AI there, so do your best!"

"People who had treaties or alliances with Cohen - sorry, but his happiness ended, and so did your treaties. Rough Luck, but that's what happens with coHen."

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think that would depend entirely on how his rehabilitation is going. In other words, I wouldn't be prepared to damn Mr Manson, Cohen or anyone else for life without reviewing the case from time to time.

Cohen does seem to be behaving better lately. In the one game I'm in with him, I know he's been in decline for some turns now, but still fighting (possibly even making a comeback).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The fact remains that Cohen has been known to do this, and he has not refrained from doing so for a long enough time to entirely shrug off the reputation. Personally, I take a somewhat more tongue-and-cheek view of the matter. Maybe we should organize a deadpool on which turn Cohen goes AI. Everyone contributes, say, 150 gold to the deadpool, winner takes all.

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I'm not sure what the time is in Denmark, but I'm guessing that Esben has gone to bed. If so, we won't be starting before he gets up again, perhaps in eight hours or so.

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Hey, uh, since we haven't started yet, could you do an anon-kick on me? I want to upload a new draft on my pretender, since I discovered that I forgot something important in the first one I whipped up.

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Done.

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Excellent. Reuploaded. Given that it feels like I'm about ready to rupture a blood vessel, I think I'm going to lay off the next caffeine hit. Don't start the game without me!

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Effectively immediately, I am terminating my involvement in Dominions II for obvious reasons. I have anon'ed the slot. Kick me from the game and declare the slot open.

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Thx Zap ^^
I appreciate your effort.

However in Faerun Folly the 2 dead nations (ermor and pangea) are winning ...
This turn Pangea slaughtered my army ... laughing in fron of a barrage fire of 6 mixed inquisitors and 27 Goetik Masters casting holy pyre ...

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You appear to have recaptured Pythium, though, and Ermor is under attack from Man.

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True, but I've lost the army that took Pythium, so I'm going to re lose it soon, even if I'm putting toghether a small defence force.

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The game is stalled - unable to start due to some problem on the server. I'm currently waiting on word from Esben.

Also, we're down to 15 players following Norfleet's abrupt departure. Anyone who has never played Abysia or C'tis in a multiplayer game is welcome to join.

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The game has started

The problem was permissions on the world.* files.

Good luck everybody!

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&lt;grumble&gt;

It would have been nice to hold the game until everyone got the message - especially as people have been having trouble with the new forums. I didn't see this until today, and it's always frustrating to miss the first turn.

&lt;/grumble&gt;

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I beleive the game is hung
it froze on me this morning, and now the timer is not advancing (hosting in 1440 stays the same)
we may need to jumpstart it

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Seems to be OK now.

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Zap, I think it needs another restart.

Mark

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I don't know; did the game get restarted? I briefly had a connection, foolishly disconnected to do something else before I did my turn, and now once again cannot connect.

Grr.

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And then, having posted that, I connected. And my guess is that Zap can't have been repeatedly resetting, because I'd have thought it was sleepy time in Oz right now. Odd.

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Have had the samr problem myself, though just once, and only for a few minutes. Doesn't seem to be worth a restart, unless it's much, much worse on your end of things.

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I am also unable to do my turn
I was briefly able to connect, then my 3 yr old hit the disconnect button on my wireless internet,
now I can no longer connect
If we can restart, that would be helpful, it will throw off the game if some people get to do this turn, and others don't

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(clarification: by restart, I mean this turn, not the entire game)

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Y'all might want to try just reconnecting several times, if you haven't already. Network congestion, or the server being busy doing something else, with the game process swapped out of memory, might be causing intermittent 'outages'. Fifteen minutes later, it might be just fine,
while a restart will wipe out the orders anyone has uploaded already.

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I don't think it is network congestion, etc, cause all my other games load just fine.
I have been trying to load all day, and briefly got on, then lost it, all the other times, my whole system locks up requiring a hard reboot. something is wrong with the master game file
I think it is better for some people to have to redo their turns, then for some people to lose a turn completely, which will unbalance the game.

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Which ignores the fact that restarting the game can cause people to lose their turn. If the ones who already uploaded their turns don't know the game was restarted, they're likely to get a stale turn because they don't know they need to reconnect and upload their turn again.

I'm not saying that there isn't a need to restart the games sometimes, like now. But all too often, people start asking for the game to be restarted because they have a single failure to connect and don't even try a second or third time.

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your point is well taken,
I finally got in, and it looks like most people have as well
if there isn't anyone having anymore trouble, I see no need to restart the turn

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Actually, I've been having troubles getting on for the Last two nights. First with another game and now with this one. I'll keep trying, but it looks like this problem might be widespread.

Vig

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I finally got in Last turn, only to have the same problem this turn, I can't get in
What gives? is there a corrupted file? my other games run fine.
if people continue to have trouble doing their turns, then the game is obviously trashed
maybe someone could ask Mose if he knows anything about it?
good luck, I'll keep trying

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No, this is quite common on the Mosehansen server after a game has been running awhile without a restart. The fix is to restart the game, but when you do that you lose all orders submitted for the current turn.

Next time the turn runs at a time I'm awake, I'll restart it.

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Retracted, false bug report. Move along.

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Hi all
I am going to get another player to take over Atlantis. the reason for this is that I cannot mobilize any motivation to play Atlantis. I cannot place a finger to what it is, but it is definately making me take less time on my turns than in any other game. And I don't have a long term strategy, which I usually have as well. So to make sure that Atlantis gets the attention it needs, and that Ryleh gets a little competition at sea, I will try finding a player who's more dedicatet than I.
regards
René

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I'd like to suggest that this might be a good time to move to a 48QH schedule. I think we've definately gotten into the point where it's nice to be able to take some time with the turns, and it was originally suggested that the pace would slow down from 24 as we got into the game.

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I have gotten a replacement player for Atlantis. Soapyfrog will take over now.
I hope you will all have a fun game.

regards
René

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I am in as Atlantis. 48QH would be fine by me.

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The game is now 48hrs QH.

I'm not sure whether or not this change will have the side-effect of upgrading from 2.12 to 2.14 (?)

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Is anybody else having trouble? I've been unable to connect for the Last 18 hours, and haven't submitted a turn.

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Not responding for me either - probably needs a restart.

Incidentally, you haven't taken a turn in Fat Obstreperous Jerks in even longer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Zapmeister - the game is stopped right now, which is probably why Mark can't get in.

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Game isn't shown in the running ones.
And now that the game slots have been reduced to 15 slots, we should wait a lot before it get restarted unless Mose intervenes.