Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [Uploading Pretenders]
 

You are either correct about Ermor or I just don't know what I'm doing. The answer is actually both :)

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [Uploading Pretenders]
 

I still am not satisfied with my pretender. Isn't that just terrible? I must have changed it half a dozen times. And I want to change him again... I should have used a Wyrm.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [Uploading Pretenders]
 

I often feel the same way. It doesn't help that one of my friends is a veteran dom3 player always willing to tell me that my pretender design sucks. The one I am currently using... sucks. :o Also I clearly have no idea about certain MA independents, having never ever played MA -- hence you may have noticed the dip in my army size a couple of turns ago.

MA C'tis is also.... weird. I think the miasma does more harm to me than to anyone else. Not being able to recruit independents is rather painful, even if apparently *all* the independents I could recruit are currently stupid nature mages I can already do better than.

Also, sorry for being an obnoxious stickler, but since we're in turn 7 already can we really change the thread status to 'in progress' rather than 'uploading pretenders'?

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [Uploading Pretenders]
 

name_thief, you don't have private messaging enabled, so I have no other means to reach you. (you should in the future)

Suffice to say that if you don't want your pretender cursed and horror-marked you should withdraw him from my territory at once. Trust me, C'tis has excellent ways of dealing with SC pretenders.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [Uploading Pretenders]
 

Robespierre: Can you also turn on PM pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee?

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Done.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

man, wrap around maps totally mess with me. anyone else have problems with em, or is it just me?

our little map is getting crowded...and crowded nations are grumpy nations. it will be interesting to see who throws the first punch...and how hard it lands.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Name_Theif: Can you turn on private messaging? I'd like to talk to you about our current situation.

Cheers!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Well, I just kicked Shinuyama's pretender back across the bridge after he strolled in and took one of my provinces. Does that count? :re:

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

wish i'd had a scout there to gather all that delicious intelligence...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Shinuyama then decides to reinvade, because the province (which is within two of my capital and which we invaded on the same turn before, with my army getting to it first) is "his".

It didn't turn out so well for him (he didn't survive the battle):
http://orbisterti.us/dom3/celestial-near-death.jpg
And that is why you don't mess with the lizards!
http://orbisterti.us/dom3/celestial-afflictions.jpg

Dibs on his capital, btw. :rolleyes:

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

we will see...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Arguably it was my province because when I invaded it was under my Dominion and it was under my control at the end of the turn. Although I will say I was arrogant in my message. And it is two provinces away from my capital as well. This is kind of a crowded map.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Well, I have tried to take the province twice, and succeeded on the second try only to have you show up and scatter my army. :re:
At that point I actually assumed you were invading because it was so close to my capital so I actually prepped a horror-marking squad just for you and moved it close, wasting some research time. Also, you didn't communicate at all outside of the in-game messaging so I had no means of knowing you weren't on the offensive. So, I was getting peeved. It didn't occur to me that your own capital would be so close, or that you'd be expanding blindly so close to my own capital. :doh:

Sorry about the afflictions, but it's what C'tis is good at. I'm sure you would've done the same to me. :p

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

How do I turn on Private Messages? I don't actually know how.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

It's under User CP -> Edit Options -> Private Messaging. It's a bit awkward to find. You can also choose to receive email from other forum members, which I think makes it greatly easier to communicate.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

them sad giants sure can swim...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Still can't hit the broad side of the barn though. :p

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

are you talking about their rock throwers? i thought maybe that was just me...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Oh, they can hit the broad side of a barn...the barn 2 fields down from what they were aiming at!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Right now we are just waiting on C'TIs and Shinyama. Shin had a stale turn last turn and hasn't posted here. If we get where we are just waiting on him, I will set him to AI.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

tried to diplo him a few turns back and never heard from him

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

check those army graphs...ctis and ulm are having a party!!!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

I'm sorry that I dropped, I had a bit of a crisis with my computer and couldn't play. A thousand apologies.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

looks like ctis decided to just stop sending in turns. didn't even have the courtesy to go AI. i have to say, megawidget is the first truly rude dude i have met on here. everyone else is really cool. so let's all agree, the glass is 99% full!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Sorry for the holdup..didn't see that the turn made. Will get it done shortly.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

hmmm. i have to redo turn 38 and turn 39 now? that's like an hour. in the future, maybe you should check with the other people you are playing with before you "roll back", especially if it is just for a stale. also, roll backs are notorious for corrupting game files and destroying games.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Yea. I know this is probably your first hosting game, so no worries mate. But word around the street is rollbacks can corrupt games. Generally would post and ask prior too rollback.

But no worries from me on it. I'm in here for fun. Just info for next time.

Parone. I think maybe you can just resubmit your original 38 turn. Though to be honest I'll probably redo mine. Not sure when I'll get it done though. Will be tomorrow sometime.

Cheers!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Didn't know about it corrupting files, so I'm sorry if I just borked everything. I feel like at the stage of the game we are in, one stale makes a big difference.

I thought about posting first, but decided it would be better to roll it back right away before people started working on the current turn. I didn't think it would be a big deal as everyone could just resubmit their turn 38, but I see that I was mistaken.

Is there a usual process for something like this?

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

No worries. I know this is your first host.

Usually if there is a desire to rollback. The requestor posts on the board and its usually debated. I think I've seen this 3 or 4 times. Everytime its been decided not too because of the chance of corruption. In one of those cases it led to bad feelings and the game was ended unfortunatley.

If its agreed to rollback, then the rollback occurs (like I said I haven't seen this yet, but I know it does happen). Otherwise it moves forward.

My personal feeling is that a stale is kind of like the fog/bad luck of war. But I recognize and accept that is me and am fine with others asking for/getting rollback. I guess its the chessplayer in me :).

All that being said. We rolled back so let's go for it. I'm thinking in future it may be a good idea to post a rollback policy prior to game being started so that everyone is on the same page ahead of time...to try to avoid the awkward situation.

Cheers!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

i had already sent in 39, which worries me. i think the game corruption may occur when you have one dummy like me who sent in the advance turn, and that gets mixed with previous turns-causing the whole thing to go Boom. lets hope i am wrong.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

ok, submitting. everyone close your eyes and cross your fingers...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Here's hoping Argath suddenly has 50 provinces!!

Dang...Sad giants are even sadder :(. LOL

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

well, i guess i did not inadvertantly cause the apocolypse.

Ulm puts its question to you again, Vanheim: why are you letting nasty C'tis live?

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

No.. I may have broken it..

It says it's received everyones file but C'Tis' Can that be right?

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

LOL...No Way!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

ahhh well. i was afraid this would happen

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

well, at least this game was named properly...

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Well post here after you send in your turn and I'll have it host. Maybe it will get straightened out. When I sent mine in, it seemed happy with it.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

sent mine in. give her a go whenever you are ready

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

The other guys haven't posted, so I guess we'll just let it host tonight when the turns are due and see what happens.. sorry if I broke the world.. :(

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

ill take some blame too, austen. wish i would have just extended the NAP. i was just so eager to start the killing!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Ok...So its both of your faults..That makes Argatha and R'lyeh the winner by default!! Just Kidding :)

Sorry Austen, I don't think I did post..I did submit Turn 39...been juggling too many balls.

Cheers

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

We Live!:)

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

round one goes to...Vanheim.

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

round 2, vanheim. but closer

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Heh.. I don't think I've been very happy with the results of either round.. esp Round 1.. so I guess we both feel bad about how it's going.. :P

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

Isn't that how war always is!

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

i can't grab you!!!
:envy::mad::cold::shock::doh::eek:

Re: What Could Go Wrong (Newbie MA CBM1.92) [In Progress!]
 

round 3, vanheim. but i think i got a shot at round 4