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I can't connect to the server, is it just me or is it effecting other players as well?

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Does anybody know if Atlantis is still playing?

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I don't believe that Atlantis is still playing, since I'm sieging his only remaining province. I'm just reluctant to turn people to the AI since it can't be undone.

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Marignon has underestimated the tenacity of it's northern neighbor Midgard. The glamoured nation blitzkrieged to our capitol and began the process for siege. They easily defeated a several hundred plus army of blessed fanatics and all hope is lost.

The few remaining leaders of Marignon that survived the attempted breakout have gathered all the valuables they can carry and have fled the capital to the neighboring nation of Patala in hopes of political refuge.

Regards,

Marignon

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Just waiting for Migard/Ighalli. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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any chance we can have a slightly longer hosting schedule for the sake of those of us living in US of A until after thanksgiving (2 days from now)? Something like 96 hour quickhost rather than 48 (just until the weekend).

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I'll see if I can get home in time to change it tonight.

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Hadn't read st.patrik's post, but I _think_ it just quickhosted when I uploaded my turn about an hour ago. 47 hours left on the clock - think his nation (Jomon?) got this turn in, plenty of time to change the clock to 96 which then gives people until ... Monday to get their next turn in?

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thanks guys - I really appreciated not losing a turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The server will be going down for a few hours this weekend, while I repartition the windows drive and reinstall Win98. I'll also implement the turn emails at the same time, as they require a server shutdown to get the new --postexec commands to work. Expect a delay from a few hours to a day before the server comes back up.

I will also be starting another set of games next week. Look for the announcements coming soon.

Just missed it...
 

Drat! Just missed getting my turn in, before you took the server down.

Hope I have not missed my turn.

Any idea when they are back up? Been down 12+ hrs now AFAIK.

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mine is also not in yet - hope i don't miss it.

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hmmm - I've been having trouble connecting for several days, and haven't submitted a turn since friday. I really don't want a stale turn, but things aren't looking hopeful.

anyone else still having problems connecting? or just me..?

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Same here, all 3 of Graeme's games are down and have been since Friday.

I presume the updates were harder than he anticipated, hopefully the server will be up soon, fingers crossed.

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The server is unfortunately still down as it turned out that I also needed to get a new floppy drive for my newer computer before I could make the startup disk necessary to rebuild the server. I'm hoping to get everything reinstalled today or tomorrow depending on my schedule, and have the server back up by Saturday. I have to apologize for the long delay.

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That's a relief, was beginning to get worried.

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The server is almost back up, except for the fact that the video card cooler fan melted and needs to be replaced.

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The server is back up, and should stay up indefinitely now that I've identified and fixed the problem that was crashing it. (Video card overheating to the point that the fan melted to th chip.)

The server is currently running version 3.04, and has a 48 hour time delay before the first turn starts. I'm still looking for a good email notification program that will work with my setup.

Server problems...
 

Server appears to be down http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Server "should stay up indefinitely", for some definitions of "indefinitely". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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As in, "it is not definite that the server will stay up."

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I'll check it out when I get home.

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The server has been rebooted. I'm not sure what crashed it.

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any chance of a slowdown over Christmas? I don't know about anyone else, but I will be out of town and access to the game may be hard. Anyone else in favour of a hiatus for a few days?

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I will be putting the games on quickhost only today, until the first week in January.

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cool - thanks!

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Anyone who want to stop the axis of Man/Midgard/Caelum should contact me, we must act now against them !

let this christmas be their last one.

Ermor

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What's the latest news on moving back to timed turns?

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There is no Axis! I'm just one of the nation that decided to help caelum against Ermor. No one want to fight Ermor, but everyone is always happy when a few nations decide to go against it. Please dont backstab those who protect your lands against the scourge.

For the living!

Man

-> By the way, I never even talked to Midgard.

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I've started up the timer again.

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Actually Midgard and Caelum are making a fest, without you.

Caelum have cheated everyone, saying that I was the main threat of the game, but it was a nice ruse.

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Why would we? What do we gain out of Ermor's depopulated, death ridden wasteland of a domain? Only disease's for our starving troops thats what. Your lands will provide little income, you do not have a high gem income.

The only reason you were attacked was because in provinces/armies/castles/dominion etc...you were 2-3 times more powerful than anyone else. Myself/Midgard/Man have done everyone a favour in dragging you down.

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it's false, it's not because I have a high statistic about my quantity of troops that means I have the most powerfull army.

Caelum, alone, against me is already a balanced war, so against several...

Do not forget : I cannot recruit any serious troops, I must summon, and as you have noticed : I do not have a good gem income, not enough to be a threat.

Anyway it's the risk of LA Ermor, being banged because of the stats.

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I consider attacking Ermor doing a favor for everyone else on the map. I don't think many of the other nations were lining up to slow down your wasteland. Your army size isn't the main threat I see from you, it's your massive dominion and province count. Better to contain you sooner than later!

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Question is not anymore if I was a major threat, etc,
we all know that invaders do always pretend some falses reasons to support a 'preemptive' strike on another country.

Question is :
Who can stop your alliance ? is it too late?

facts are that you're both allied, and aggressive.
facts are that there is no other alliance than yours
facts are that midgard is definitively the most powerfull nation.
so your alliance is the real major threat of the game.

Again I make a call to arms :

Who can stop Midgard ?
anyone who want to, I will support him, before it's too late.

Who can attack Caelum?
he can count on me.

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Declaration of war against arrogant fools,

As the War rages all over the land Agarthan legions must secure the interests of the Nation.

For long have the Acrosephalean minions wronged us. We offered them our friendship in our folly and thus they made us regret our offerings to them.

We offered them four and more neutral provinces but in their greed they did not listen to our borders agreement and attacked province that we wanted for ourselves and even fortified it same time we pleaded Acrosephalians to withdraw. For many months they held the province and we were forced to gather an army to retake what was ours.
And still we were foolish enough and let them keep the provinces we had given them in good faith.

And to further our mistake - we offered them a non-agression pact on a condition that they must not fortify or bring troops into very narrow corridor of provinces which geopolitically speaking was threatening our heartlands.

They didn't comment the condition of not militarizing the border. Instead they brought in very large armies and build fortrifications.

In this point we knew that war was the only alternative.

Meanwhile our other neighbours, Ermor and Caleum locked themselves into deadly wrestle which we couldn't join with our friends; the Caleum.

...We had to start a long march to bring troops against Acrosephale who had refused our terms on peaceful borders and brought in more troops.

Our diplomatic embassy noted that the court of Acrosephale was partly thinking or was pretending that they believed we had an non-agression pact which we didn't have. If they though so they would have been reading our correspondence as a three year old would read. This is without sense of logic and awarness of what they agreed on as they on their own fallacy of fantasies that we are weak and could be trated without respect or even answering our clause of not militarizing the border that was presented them with the offer of non-aggression pact.

Now foolish Acrosephale will pay for their arrogance.

-K'telos, who Liveth the Grave and now speaks for it

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Can, K'Telos, clarify his position with the Caelum?
You seems to clearly declare them as your friend.

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OOG :
I cannot connect to the server, it does freeze during the 'waiting for the game info' screen

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Server appears to be down.

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Agartha's long winded and somewhat poetic post is just a way of prempting my announcement of his breaking our nap with no notification time.

Be aware that Whollaberg does not respect his treaties and will often add new clauses to them after the treaty has been agreed to and consider them part of the agreement and grounds for his breaking the agreement.

Short story is that he is breaking his nap with me at what he sees is a vulnerable time for me and making up excuses for the why of it.

Not sure why he could not wait the three turns except to get a tactical Pearl Harbor type advantage.

XOX of arco

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Nonsense Xox of arco! You only claimed we had a NAP when you found out that you were to be struck. We didn't have treties as you broke those twice already by conquering and fortifiying a province that was agreed to belong us and then you even refused respond to our plea for non militarised border.

Failing to respect ones neighbour might lead to a war.

Cheers,
K'Telos who speaks for the grave

P.S. To Ektor we are in friendly relations with all of our reasonable neighbours which include you too. We just hope that you could contain you spreading dominion a bit so that it would not become a further annoyment.

P.P.S. We hereby dennounse any connetions with this gray eminense whom the acro claims has hands on our steer.
We haven't even heard of him!


P.P.P.S. What comes to planning for a war there is a certain advantage to make the enemy stumble on their feet and words that gallop into different directions.

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Midgard is killing me, he's so powerful, specially against undeads, I definitively cannot stop him.

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The living people of the world have little to gain by trying to stay my hand. Instead of listening to the servents of the underworld, swallow up the lands for yourself and root out the dark faith. We must act before all the people he oppresses are nothing but ash.

Ve, God Above All

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The server should be back up, let me know if it isn't.

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Server seems to be down again.

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Same for me.

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I'm really starting to get fed up with Shaw, since they can't seem to manage to keep their connection up for more than 24 hours at a time these days. I'll reboot the router once again tonight when I get home.

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The reason that nobody has been able to connect for the last while is that when my Internet connection died for the better part of the day on the 24th, I got a different dynamic IP assigned to me. I just figured it out while at work, so I'll fix it as soon as possible. I'd like to get these games rolling again.

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The new IP address is 68.148.8.147

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Somehow i cannot connect with the new ip either (port 8888)...