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Looks like Jomon has unlimited troops to burn. Okay, we'll take them from you. Could you be so kind as to summon up more trolls? I like them as troops. I don't have to worry about afflictions.

And Arco. Shame about all those magi. Who knew they would fatigue out? Can you buy 40 more quick? You'll need them. Might be wise to not use elephants as bodyguards. They are sloppy about where they put thier feet.

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you lost a ton of provinces that turn, and you are talking ****?
dumb ***

and you have been added to my ignore list

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Watch out. Swearing will get you banned. Besides, you are just bitter that I smacked you around so well in End of Time.

But really, you should do better math. You lost 39 magi to my one magi. And 58 troops to my 29. And mine were 20 dirt cheap hawks at 1/4 gem each.

I lost 4 empty provinces held by scouts and pd. And I'm not the one who lost 5 provinces in a single turn by forgetting to buy one PD and letting me take them with scouts.

You now have 4 unsieged forts. That's 10 turns of mage recruitment to replace your losses. And you lost 20 elephants. So let's see, somewhere about 5000 gold lost to my 100 gold and 5 air gems?

But man it really hurts to be on your ignore list. I had to go and cry for an hour to get over it.

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Please treat all players with respect and refrain from name-calling.

Poor sportsmanship will not be tolerated.

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Well, I hope it's understood that I was doing in game taunting of my opponents. As you can see I started with the nation names, NOT the player names.

I tried to build some diplomatic agreements when I started and was rejected and attacked wholeheartedly from 2 sides by vastly superior numbers of troops.

Taunting my opponents is simply another form of diplomacy and has nothing to do with you as players.

However, if that's not understood I will refrain from taunting. Let me know. It's very popular in a number of my other games. Part of the roleplaying.

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well, i thought your message was a little silly but not really disrespectful or anything. The response that ghoul31 posted was way over the line though.

Role-playing and some silliness are appropriate at times. But personal attacks are not okay.

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It was meant to be silly. For sure.

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slMagnvox, are you still interested in playing? I noticed you've staled the last five turns in a row. If you still want to play let me know because otherwise I think we may just host without you since you are holding up the game for everyone.

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Good call SciencePro. 13 stales is pretty brutal.

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SciencePro: You interested in forced hosting? We're all in now except Utgard of course.

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done

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That was it. Pythium is defeated, a dominion death. It was fun playing with you all. I wish you epic battles and a great game. See you around :).

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good game kelpa and thanks for playing

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SciencePro

Can I get a 6 hour extension? My power is going out and I might not have internet soon. My UPS is beeping at me on and off.

Maer

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Power is back and my turn is in. No worries now. You can host.

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well crap as you guys probably saw the game mis-hosted this turn. I think the better option is to just proceed onward. In other games where i have tried roll-backs it only made things worse and introduced weird errors.

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Fine. Let's move on from the stale.

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Hey SciencePro,

Please be kind and post here if you extend for yourself. It's just good manners so we know why the game is delayed. No problem that you needed an extension. But maybe when you do your turn could you force host? The sooner Utgard dies the better.

Cheers,
Maer

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yeah i was meaning to do that but I was at work and only had a minute.

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well crap.

crap crap crap.

anyone have any idea why the game mishosted again??

and what the heck should we do now???

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I'm asking on IRC. Maybe post a thread for suggestions.

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Well, best suggestion was have half players submit and half not :) Then roll back. All round it's a bit of a mess.

Alternately you could have each player submit and force host without the others. Find out who's turn is corrupt.

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Just end it. Jomon was probably going to win anyways

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I can accept that. I'm just a sub anyways. But I'm having fun. However, I don't think Jomon has the win yet by any means.

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yeah jomon is way ahead but i'd rather play it out and see what happens.

I will make a thread on the main forum to ask for advice. And I will add a delay in the meantime

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okay so i haven't really gotten a lot of suggestions. Here is what i'm thinking: maybe the problem happened because of something that got set-up in turn 65 (the last one that worked). Or maybe it has something to do with utgard stale-ing so long.

So maybe we should roll back to turn 65. I will change utgard's email address to my own and make him AI. Then I will force-host with only his turn in. Then we can try to play our turns again for 66 and see what happens.

This sound okay?

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You probably don't want to use your own email for utgard. You'll get a cheat error for identical cd keys. Ask for a neutral party to do it.

Otherwise it's the best idea we have.

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sounds fine with me

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I thought I could avoid the CD key error by force-hosting a turn with just utgard and no other turns to mess up the game.

But getting a neutral person to do it makes sense. i'll ask in a post.

Please, no one else submit turns while we are waiting for the volunteer to send the AI turn in.

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hmmm well i did 2 rollbacks and sent the turn to our volunteer to set utgard to AI but we are still waiting for that turn. I was hoping no one else would submit turns but arco and jomon did. I think I will stale on purpose this turn just to make sure it's not me causing the crash. This may put me at a slight disadvantage but I think its worth it to gain information about this problem. Patala you can decide for yourself if you want to submit or not. Added 48 hours in the meantime.

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Hmm,

Pretty desperate situation for me to stale. I could lose 3 forts if I do. If I stale I might as well go AI. Jomon could have taken this opportunity to storm.

I guess the others aren't really understanding what you are doing.

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Sorry, I didn't noticed I didn't have to play this turn..

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Well crap so it looks like Maerlande just got a banning (maybe temporary?)

I am beginning to think this game may really be cursed.

Maybe ghoul is right and we should just end it and declare ddavidd the winner. Maer is the only other player with a good chance to win and it may between the banning and the host errors I'm not sure how to continue.

So, does anyone have a problem with declaring ddavidd the winner?

Maer you can email me I guess. To find my address, take all four z's out of the following: eashzzton@gmazzil.com

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okay i got in touch with Maer and he does want to continue. The hosting seems to have worked this turn so the game continues...

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Hi,
I'll play the current turn, and leave for two days.
I won't be able to play the next one before satursday evening.
Could you ad 24 hours to the next hosting interval.
Thanks in advance

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yes

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ghoul, are you still okay with decalring ddavidd the winner?

I'm ready to give up so i think it may be time

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Manderlade told me by email he is ready to stop too

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So, we stop this game ?

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i think so, let me just make sure it is still okay with Ghoul31.

What say you, ghoul?

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ok, lets end it.

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Okay then congratulations to ddavidd of Jomon - the winner of Smoke_Monster

Good Game everyone and thanks for playing.