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Things must be getting really bad; my wife asked me if I quit playing the game. I can't seem to get interested in a fight against the AI.

Can't wait to get back to kicking some Ruathian tail in GC1... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Greybeard

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yea that truely was a multi empire fleet.
100 geo ships
100 kolis ships
100 tesco ships
troops by andre
all gone
oh well
it is worth it for one less system.

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may i add.... what a game....

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So Geo, what are the specs on the server? Enquiring minds want to know. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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I'm on 56k but i hate the text ui lol, im prefer the graphics based layout but thats just me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nope, once you've beaten the AI every way shape and form, all that's left is PBW.

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Help me, I am in severe detox. I must log in and watch a battle soon or I will have to take up drinking again.
Where is the server located anyway, can I buy you guys a new one? How 'bout a main frame run by Linux? Anything to get me building and bLasting.
Also, do you guys have the play by Web software available so that we might be able to set up a second server?

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What's all the crying here for? PBW is nice, but your game hosts should be ble to run their games in its absense. One of my games has run 3 turns since PBW went down.

It seems people forget that SEIV was played before there was PBW. As a host I have even sent a few nag Messages out to the Last players to submit turns (I didn't want my players to feel to at ease being off line from PBW).

[ January 07, 2003, 05:54: Message edited by: LGM ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">17 of 18 players had uploaded their turn files in my admin game.
So should I run the turn at home forfeiting all the uploaded turns I can't download.
Should I request all to download to me? No 18 players is too much to keep track of, individually reminding them to upload to me instead, explaining etc.
It's a newbie game and belive me, I've had a lot of other problems related to us being newbies without trying to explain to all how to send files to me etc(I know it sounds simple but beleive me it will be complicated, If I tried to say this to all I'd drown in e-mails (not all are very good in english either!)).
We will wait!!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, I hope you're meaning NG1! I admit I've had my butt kicked so badly there that I can hardly sit becourse of the bruises!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif
But in (N)GC2 you and I are friends! (Right? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif ), besides, my people got tails and their butts are heavily protected!
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What is this (N)GC2? Is it the game where you're admin and where are 18 players?

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I see geo's not on...maybe that part came in and he's working feverishly on the server http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We can only hope eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
I imagine he is still at work though. But who knows since I do not know his schedule.
I'm just guessing because of how he wored his post a few Posts ago. He said something along the lines of: "There was no box waiting for me when I got home from work."
So that makes me think that he has a life outside of being a PBW admin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Geoschmo has a life? and i thought anyone with their name in the seiv gold booklet wouldn't! shame on geoshmo, flaunting his riches in front of us, just because HE has a life and we don't!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What is this (N)GC2? Is it the game where you're admin and where are 18 players?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yepp (Newbie) Galactic Combat 2

(originally 19, but one is dead!)

[ January 07, 2003, 20:52: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Must be tough getting a game like that started, not to mention waiting on players to submit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Must be tough getting a game like that started, not to mention waiting on players to submit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think we had a few bumps at the begining, but it wasn't that bad...... was it?

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Yes Ruatha, we are friends in NGC! I just had the game initials wrong.

WRT the game logistics, I think it's going rather well, with almost everyone submitting on time or even early. The first 40 turns have taken less than 6 weeks, haven't they?

I'm still having withdrawl pains with PBW down. I'm not even sure that I'll remember what my plans were for any of the 4 games I'm in the games after more than a week off...Greybeard

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Well, due to it being my first time as admin it was a bit "bumpy" in the beginning.
It's set on 48 hours turn time but it isn't many turns that has been run due to time-outs, most has uplaoded before the turn time is out. I think we've had one or two replacements early, but since then none.
So now it runs at approximately the same turn-over time as the other two games I'm in (with 8 players each). (Wich means I get three games at once and then have to waith atleast a day to play again....)

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I finally got through to someone at the parts supplier and got a tracking number. UPS has it and scheduled delivery is today. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Cross your fingers.

Geoschmo

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Great

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HotDamn, now you can run home and install that puppy, cross your fingers and give it the boot. And all things willing, you are back on line. You going to just trust it’s quality, or are you going to do some burn in testing?

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How do I get the status line at the end of the Posts to show more information, as FROM etc?

Fixed it.

Will be working all night so I can't check on the status of the PBW server until tomorrow, just one player left to upload on a game. What has happened during all this time? Severeal months must have passed in the SE4 universe, or do time stand still when the server is down? Some temporal bug maybe??

[ January 08, 2003, 17:42: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consider them crossed !

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As long as it boots and stays up a few minutes I will feel safe putting it back on line. I will turn off the autoprocessing though so everybody's games that would have kicked off in the Last week don't all try to run at once. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As long as it boots and stays up a few minutes I will feel safe putting it back on line. I will turn off the autoprocessing though so everybody's games that would have kicked off in the Last week don't all try to run at once. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Geoschmo</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was "Dravens" that hadn't uploaded in NGC1 right?
Will have to mail a nag then if the server comes up!

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I got goosey pimples (Rat Race) all over my body now. I can't wait to get the server back up!

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I would have sworn that I upload my turn. What turn are we on anyway so I can check.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was "Dravens" that hadn't uploaded in NGC1 right?
Will have to mail a nag then if the server comes up!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was "Dravens" that hadn't uploaded in NGC1 right?
Will have to mail a nag then if the server comes up!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't remember, I'm at work.
I remember being a bit surprised though, as all else had uploaded. But I'll check as soon as the server is back up.

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It's back up! Or, it looks like it is, and it just bugged me to start playing again via email... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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It's back up!

Geoschmo

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Hip hip Horrah! Congrats Geo! Way to go!

Cheers!

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ALLRIGHT!!! IT IS UP.

p.s. GEO, maybe now you can replace that old Latest Update Message from Sept. 16 2002.

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hey i am back to work

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds good. I'm in 2 games (one admin'd by me and the other by someone else). One game started with 8 empires but has had several drops and many "time-out" executions. Sounds like you got a bit lucky.

The one I admin has 4 players (now) and it's taken about 3 weeks to get up to turn 27 (or so...I can't remember it's been so long http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif )

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And the KOTH page too. I did defeat Cheeze, afterall. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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WOOHOO! I'm glad its finally back!
You can relax now Geo. At least for a little bit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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And I'm stuck at work until midnight! D'oh! Aaargh! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Doh, that sux!

Hey Geo, I go to manually run the turn myself in Return to Hell. And when I go to upload the game turn to send to everyone and the bottom frame goes to "Page cannot be displayed" any reasoning behind this? I have tried a few times now. I downloaded the turn files and ran the turn myself on my computer but now I cannot upload the new .gam file to the server due to that page coming up.
Just thought I would point that out if you didn't realize it.

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It's back down again.

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I must have broken it when I sent my turn in for Small Universe. It just kept saying 'Turn Executing'....

[Edited by the Grammar Patrol.]

Quikngruvn

[ January 09, 2003, 03:12: Message edited by: Quikngruvn ]

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Congrats to Geo for getting the Server up again, but there maybe a few more issues to work out before he gets it running smoothly again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

The Conquista game that I am hosting just sent a message that "Turn processing FAILED" and now I can't get into the site again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

I'll just stroll off to finish the server rebuild I was working on before I learned PBW was up and will wait quietly until Geo returns to say everything is working again.

Good luck Geo, we are all counting on you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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his site is prolly just down again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

hopefully he wakes up and notices it

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Servers down again. Obviously I am not qualified to be diagnosing problems like this. I am punting. Taking it to the shop like I should have Last week instead of trying to fix it myself.

Sorry guys. No eta this time. I will let you know when I do.

Very Frustrated Geoschmo

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get on msn messenger and i'll try to help man http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Post the problem here, someone should have ideas, but taking it to the shop would be the surer (quicker?) way.

43 people here at one time! I wonder what the highest number of people to read Shrapnel is?

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lol grazic... we are all here cuz we have pbw withdrawl http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

geo, realize that i - (and prolly a lot of others here) have about 30 times more experience than a 'pc shop' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ January 09, 2003, 03:26: Message edited by: Cirvol ]

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Ahhhhh!!!!! PBW was just back up, long enough to get my new Devnull mod game turn. Long enough to satisfy my PBW withdrawal. Long enough to see I may finally be getting the best of Rollo at his game. Finished turn and went to upload it.....

Only to be denied access by another "web site is unavailable".....

Please, just take me out and shoot me.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was "Dravens" that hadn't uploaded in NGC1 right?
Will have to mail a nag then if the server comes up!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Turn 43 was the Last one sent out I think.

Arghh, missed the up-time on the server due to work, what an annoying interference in my Non Real Life!