Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Looks like Pythium got a huge income hit. Wonder what happened.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Pythium players often take order/misfortune scales. Misfortune often generates independent armies that attack your provinces (trogs are probably the worst of these), and he may have had the bad luck to get one early. If I'm not mistaken, setting independents strength to 7 also makes barbarians and such stronger, so beware.

I'm sure everyone is having their own little difficulties: I for one lost several elephants to lion tribesmen of all people.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Nah, It's no big deal, I just overtaxed my capital for the first few turns, didn't have any luck with the patrolling and had to eat one turn of 0 tax in the capital.

Income will be back to normal next turn.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

[At least the only thing you've managed to lose are elephants. My Sidhe followers are getting annihilated cleaning up indies. ): ]

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I would have had merc's taking out my indies if tien' chi hadn't put stupid amounts of gold into their bids. Having stupidly sturdy troops helps though.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Random event torching my lab really put me behind in research. -_-

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I lost a hero to some lucky indies -.- .

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

[You know, they should really add a Pantheonic victory condition. I really don't want the swamps or wastelands, which seems to be the only thing around my territory.

Speaking of territories, looks like barbarian hordes may be on the rise. ):]

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

My apologies for double-posting, but I think it'll be easiest if I make my position clear here. I now know who my neighbors are. :P And I'd like to stay a peaceful nation for as long as possible. Barring obvious acts of hostility like massing troops on my borders, I will refrain from attacking first.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

No need to apologize for double posting, they disable the edit function for any post after the 1st after an hour or so.

Odd, something appears to be wonky with my internet/computer... the connection is fine, but my browser is acting very.. wonky. I'm almost incapable of retrieving the latest turn file from my email it took about 10 minutes to get it to download, and I don't know if I'll be able to get my 2h to reliably send, could I ask that the auto turn be paused until I can sort this?

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Its only getting worse, think I managed to get turn 12 sent in though. Maybe. Time to virus scan.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

That sucks for you. Btw do we play always 24h a turn or will there be extensions after a specific amount of turns?

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I'll be busy from the 22nd to the 26th, with no reliable access to the internet. What should I do about turns? Get a sub, or ...?

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

You aren't the only one who's having problems, Corvus. My last turn was a stale because my damn internet connection has been down (I should have just played the thing as soon as I got it, but... procrastination).

Holiday season is a bad time for D3.

I'm honestly not sure what to do about Ragnelle's problem. Maybe I should just set the turn deadline way back and have no turns from the 22nd through the 27th? Other players will probably be fairly busy themselves.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

You aren't the only one who's having problems, Corvus. My last turn was a stale because my damn internet connection has been down (I should have just played the thing as soon as I got it, but... procrastination).

Holiday season is a bad time for D3.

I'm honestly not sure what to do about Ragnelle's problem. Maybe I should just set the turn deadline way back and have no turns from the 22nd through the 27th? Other players will probably be fairly busy themselves.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

[Eh, your choice, really. I don't want to hold up the rest of the game. ]

On a related note, the Tuathans view Pangaea's scouting with great suspicion. Unless, of course, Pangaea also wanted a certain swamp badly?

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I'm not certain to have internet either between the 23rd to the 1st, maybe set the turn timer to 10 days on the 22nd and back to normal after new year.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Got it fixed, still staled T_T.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

how come i got two turn files from last night, one of which i staled

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

The server does not accept my turn file - wrong turn number, even after I had my turn resent.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Yeah confused the hell out of me too until I realised what happened.

Looks like two turns were processed accidently and then the second rolled back...

You need to use the first turn file you received and delete the second.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Yep use the first. The second file actually is a turn 16 file despite the email stating it is 15.

On another note. Whats up with Tien Chi? Looks like he staled the last 4-5 turns. If he is gone it would imbalance the game in favor of the neighbors heavily.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

can we postpone the game untill after chrismas

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Strange. Looks like the server did not roll back. He now sent turn 17.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Server desynced.
He now sends turn 17, despite stating in the subject it is turn 16. If you now send turn 17 back, he answers tha he wants turn 16 :P .

dark should roll him back.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I sent in 16. Won't have much time afterwards. :X Second the break until at least after Sunday or something...

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Same, I sent in turn 16, then I get a message this morning that we were on turn 15. Just pause the game, its Christmas, people are busy/gone.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

Does not make a difference, because if you have send turn 15, you got a stale message in-game on turn 16 (happened to me). Looks like we really have to rollback.
A second game-admin would be nice, to change things faster.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

The server definitely has a big problem, although there does not appear to be an admin password as I seem to have all the admin options.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

A PW is definitely set. Try postpone hosting or any other option where the pw is required.

No point in continuing playing at this time. Hope dark shows up soon.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I found a wi-fi hotspot in some random little coffee shop, and apparently the new turn assumed that I staled - despite me having sent a turn in yesterday and a turn in before.

Ugggggggggh. Not going to bother with turns for quite a bit until we figure out what's going on...

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 [full] (PBEM)
 

I'd like to apologize for the horrible trainwreck that has become of this game. I didn't roll back the turn or do anything except send in turns as usual: I have no idea what screwed it up. I would have postponed the hosting but, right when I've been busier than ever with the holiday season, I've forgotten the admin password like an imbecile. Like most of the rest of you, my position in the game is irrevocably screwed up. I would just declare an end to the game, but again, I don't remember the admin password and as far as I can see there's no way to retrieve it.

I'm sorry, everyone. This was my first game as an admin on the llamaserver and I clearly wasn't ready for the responsibility. If any of you are interested in re-organizing the game (with someone else as admin, obviously) I'd be glad to do it.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 (CRASHED AND BURNE
 

Just send a pm/email to llamabeast to shut down the game.

If the game is restarted, I'd prefer another map. Primea is bugged (there are two provinces overlapping in the NE corner) and there are several starting locations with only two neighbors.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 (CRASHED AND BURNE
 

If the game does get re-hosted I'd love to get into it.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 (CRASHED AND BURNE
 

Actually I'm pretty sure llamabeast can reset the admin password if he wants.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 (CRASHED AND BURNE
 

Most likely, I would suggest you have a talk with Llama before giving up.

Re: Torches in the Night: MA, Newbies (10> mp games) only, CBM 1.7 (CRASHED AND BURNE
 

Thats all really disappointing. Hope at least for a restart.