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I PMed you.

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I going to be setting up an automatic emailer this week. If everybody could PM me their email addresses, I can set up the automailer and get a list sent out to everyone for diplomatic purposes.

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Graeme Dice are you going to change the time back to 24 hours now that we are out of the weekend? Just curious.

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I'll be switching the game back to 48 hours once the next hosting occurs.

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Ah, yes 48 hours. Sorry I got confused there.

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can you make it any faster for the first couple turns?

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I'm not planning to make it any faster, as it's much easier to get into a rhythm when the turns come at predictable intervals.

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Somebody has to tell me what the Snake Charmer is like. I haven't seen him in SP yet, and as I am Atlantis, I can't even try to recruit him.

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Um, does misfortune just increase the likelyhood of bad event or does it also influence the severity of the events? In 2 turns, random events have increased capitals unrest significantly and cut its population by over a fifth. Is this just bad luck? It never happened in SP.

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Heh. I don't believe it necessarily influences the severity of the events directly -- however, there are certain HORRIBLE events that are restricted to the lower levels of Misfortune, so that you can only get them with a 2 or 3 rating.

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How big a disadvantage is it to essentially start with only 20000 people as opposed to 30000?

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Your starting income is 2/3rds of what it would be with 30000. It can be dealt with as long as you expand as fast as you can.

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Reasources are not affected by pop. are they? Abysia has low gold and high reasource cost, so I am more worried about indirect ramifications (especially with a 0 growth/death scale).

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I do wish the game had an option to disable random events for the first six months.

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That would throw off the balance even more making missfortune a complete nobrainer. At least now there is a risk involved with having missfortune.

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Okay - an option for turning off *bad* random events for spring and summer of year 1. Merely missing out on good random events would be problematic - and even order-3 misfortune-0 players such as myself experience a certain number of earthquakes and lab fires and such on turn 1.

And given how deleterious some of the bad random events can be, even in the late game (and given how useful many of the good random events are), I dispute that misfortune would ever be a no-brainer.

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I've gotten used to the horrid Misfortune element at game startup. After all, is it really that much worse than starting off two provinces away from Ermor as sometimes happens? You can generally find ways around the nasty Misfortune events, even losing your lab or temple turn 1 (which, admittedly, sucks, but if you're playing Misfortune 2 or 3, you should probably be buying a mage or a priest or, better, both on Turn 1 just in case.)

*shrug* I do think that turning it off would tend to give too great a swing to the already heavily-chosen Misfortune scale. But then, we allow so many other scales to be tampered with by game settings at the game startup phase that I think you could probably add some sort of toggle or slider for random events as well.

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You can set random events to rare, of course: but this greatly penalizes people with the turmoil/fortune combo (which is actually quite nice if rare events are common.)

Also, personally, I use a perl-script to ensure that start-sites are reasonably spread out on my random maps.

Obviously the game is going to be far from scrupulously fair - but I find it very irritating when someone is essentially swatted on the first turn, no matter what picks they took.

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I PM'd the game hoster this morning but I haven't heard back so I just wanted to let everyone know that I'll be out of town over the weekend and I won't be able to post a turn for around 48hrs from now.

Thanks,
Chris

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My internet connection apparently went down this morning after I left. I've restarted all the servers and set them back to their normal hosting schedule. Look for the email notification of new turns to hopefully start tomorrow.

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Hehe, my computer crapped out and it took me 3 days to get it working again. I come back and I havent missed a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. Such bad luck in game, such good luck out!

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Is R'lyeh stale-ing?

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Things are looking bleak for Oceanius, Man did not hesitate in taking our foothold on land, and it seems a priest misfollowed an order. For the time being we have retreated into our pond preparing to launch an assault on our aggressive neighbor to the south.

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Do we upgrade before or after you upgrade?

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R'lyeh is being played by a player who is also MIA in another game I am in. It is going to make a 48h QH take forever if he isn't killed or turned over to a sub/computer.

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Yeah, he is in two games I am in as well. Did he tell anyone he was going to be away? If not I say turn him AI.

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Are we upgrading to the patch?

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I will be upgrading the server as soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow afternoon.

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I will be patching the game after the next hosting.

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Can we get a sub for R'lyeh or turn it into a computer? he hasnt done or said anything for a long time.

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So to play the next turn we have to patch the game? (just to be sure)

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If nobody objects, I'll turn R'lyeh over to the computer for the next turn. The next turn is also player via the next patch.

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I've just read where a bug in the new patch causes some sort of nasty Horror to attack any commander or pretender in the hall of fame, horror marked or not. Should we patch or delay the patch until this is fixed?

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Why has the hosting all of a sudden go to 46 hours untill next? I had done my turn yesterday, and it was less time than that before?

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He patched it maybe?

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So is r'lyeh a computer now? He staled for the last couple turns along with man.

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Since R'lyeh hasn't spoken up to claim his position, I'll turn him to the AI.

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should we patch?

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The game was patched last weekend, as posted in this thread, so you will have to patch if you want your battle replays to match what is happening on the server.

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How many stale turns (without notice) do you wait for untill a player is set to computer? Just wondering.

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I ask, because Man hasnt played a turn in over a week, Im pretty sure.

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JayedOne was posting here several times a day for quite awhile until 11/4. Nothing since then, so it kinda looks like he has wandered off. He could be having a access problem though, you never know. I PMed him a few days ago and asked him to go AI if he's not going to play. Sucks for us, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

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Anyone get eaten by the Hunter of Heroes yet?

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In one of my other MP games my Pretender was killed by the Hunter of Heroes. Of course that is the only game that is not patched to the new version out of the 5 games I am playing. ;P

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i've just seen the Hunter of Heroes once and that was in single player, so i can't see whats the problem with him (or maybe he hates lucky nations http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif). But im very symphatethic to his cause to kill other heroes http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Man has been stale for about 10 days now, if im not mistaken.

Does anyone know where Jaydedone has gone?

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No...

Should we do something for him? E-mail him or change him for a computer?

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If he's staled twice, turn him computer - otherwise, he's just free provinces for his neighbors.

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My problem is that I don't have any good way to determine who has staled on a given turn, as I very rarely actually see the turn processing start.

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Its been nearly two weeks since he has posted anywhere on the forums. He has (Along with R'lyeh before he was switched) been the last one left before the host for the last couple turns.

Generally if your the last before the host, you are the first after the host. he just has been stale for many days. My guess is vacation, or loss of computer access, or something that would keep him away from computer/internet for an extended period.

Either way, he is making this game drag something serious.