Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

yes. they're quite dangerous, and get zealous during mating season. usually docile, they may chase after an unwary interloper during this time. but they are very slow. any half-witted postman could outrun one.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

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someone takes their 48 hours very very seriously.

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there is one in every crowd.

Utgard and sunscreen
 

I will be on a cruise (woohoo) starting Sunday 3/23 till 3/20. I do plan on logging in and taking my turns but my PMs may be pretty short.
-SSJ

Re: Utgard and sunscreen
 

Trip around the world? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif


Hope you have a good time.

Re: Utgard and sunscreen
 

Just the Southern Caribbean (leaving from San Juan). The wife and kids are with me so there will be spousal enforcement of a six umbrella drink maximum per day. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif If the Utgard Giants start rampaging wildly next week there may be rum involved...

Thanks for asking!
-SSJ

Re: Utgard and sunscreen
 

I wouldn't blame the giants for getting a little enraged, having snakes in their yard that they cannot catch. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Have a good time on your voyage!

Re: Utgard and sunscreen
 

Thanks Firewalker. I am enjoying this game no matter what the final outcome. Seeing the snakes crawl around my provinces makes me wish my giants had fangs despite all my trash talk...
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif-SSJ

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

1 Dwarven Hammer available for immediate delivery! Will be in your treasury next turn (#24)!

Price: 20 gems, any combination (3 slaves = 1 gem)

First-come, first-served...PM me.

Easter holiday?
 

Can we have a pause for easter? Friday til sunday. I´ll be doin family stuff and such and I figure some others here would be busy too...

Re: Easter holiday?
 

That would be great for me too.

Re: Easter holiday?
 

No problem. After that turn or including that?

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Interesting...

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...o=&fpart=1

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i'm not sure if i should cheer or shake my head in exasperation.

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Hm, does this mean the Arco/Pan war may be over?

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more importantly, does it mean we can get turns done faster than every 47.86 hours.

*sigh*

I know we're on hold for easter, but it would've been nice to have a new turn to muse over while we're on hold. wishful thinking.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

every game i am in seems like at least one player vanishes or is continuously last and i tell myself i am going to try to some how establish a league of fairly reliable, relatively quick players.

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I've been pondering the merits of trying to get a 24-hour hosting game that doesn't delay - for anything. You get sick? Find a sub or stale your turn.

Harsh, but I wonder if people would be up for it.

Sorry for the complete tangent there.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

it isn't an issue of spot delays.

it is an issue that this game has been on a 48 hour timer since something like turn 5.

it is an issue that the culprit of this delay was none other than the host and admin, who had set a ground rule (check post one) of 24 hour timer for first 20 turns.

it is an issue that this person has consistently been the SOLE reason of delay.

it is an issue that this person used their host/admin privlege to adjust the timing of the game to their own whims (that is, bump up to a 48 hour timer without ever having consulted anybody else in the game)

it is an issue that all this behavior, taken together, is simply rude and inconsiderate.

sorry Zeldor. but that's all been on my chest for some time now. had to mention it all; it's better for the long run. nothing personal.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

My Internet is down and I cannot do my turn now and there is nothing I can do about it till Monday.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Ok, it works.

Omnirizon:

I have never used my host rights to help me in any way. There are no statistics, but I think that Bogarus was last most of the time.

I know I am last way too often even though, I am trying to find a sub for me, but without luck. IF you guys can find someone on my place I will be happy to give my place away.

And rules were simple - 24 hours till wars, 48 hours with wars. That is not my fault that cleveland just cannot live with lost war against me in previous game. We did fight for 40-50 turns there and it will be like that here, I guess.

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your attention to detail is breathtaking.

BTW, you forgot to send me those pearls again. how many turns in a row now?

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After you declared the war? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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you had promised to send them last turn. so I sent me war dec then too. I should've received them two turns ago anyway. why don't you pony up and ship em.

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I will bring them around when sieging your capitol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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We'll be waiting.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Well, Zeldor, if you cannot find a sub after a few turns, and you really don't want to play anymore, you should probably AI yourself. I mean, how many turns have you been looking?

Anyway, no hard feelings here -- I'm getting into two endgames now and it takes long enough to do those turns. 48hr turns are fine with me.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

send me the gems you owe me before AI'ing though. Or I'm going to start a thread telling everybody your actually a little girl.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Why would I send gems to my enemy? :| Really, really, start thinking be you write something.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

You won't see me long in that game anyway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Atlantis - my ally, decided to stab me in the back and take some of my lands. Great way to make friends. I wonder who will want to sing any treaties with him now? Anyway, he will have to summon his PoD again... and I guess he is the one without astral magic to prevent mind hunts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Sigh.

Zeldor, you attacked me first. You went underwater with your wyrm and took one of my provinces. YOU broke the NAP. If there is a misunderstanding we could talk about it, but I thought you meant to declare a war with that attack. Honestly I don´t understand how you think.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Funny. When I was trying to contact you for last week there was no reaction. But when you tried to kill my pretender and failed and I put that information here you are suddenly here to talk.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

couple of things:

1) I, Bogarus, have very rarely been the last player. Usually I'm among the last 3 but I'm usually not the last.

2) Trying to get a trade honored after you declare war on someone is a lot of guts.

3) 48 hours is pretty good for turns. Especially for folks in wars and are coordinating trades etc.

4) Bogarus is interesting but the infantry sucks.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

SPARTA, Alexandria, Late Spring of Year 3 - Oltarnees, serpentine pretender of Arcoscephale, has again been slain.

The mighty Wyrm arose from the sea in a rear guard action, attempting to open a new front on the previously quiet Southern boarder in the Pan-Arco war.

But Pangaean National Guardmanikins mustered a stalwart defense, overwhelming the beast before it could cause a single casualty.

A (second) memorial has been erected in the Hall of Fame in honor of Oltarnees.

(AP)

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

cleveland:

I totally forgot that fear does not work against undead.

And how many manikins you already have? 1000? 2000? 5000?

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

A rough estimate puts me at 470 +/- 20, though as you know, it's not too difficult to decrease that number... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

You sent me a pm last week which I missed because I´ve been busy. In that pm you proposed some agreement about the waters. You must´ve taken my silence for a yes. Truth is I haven´t given this game much attention at all, partially because it ran to slow to keep up motivation.

To me it seemed you attacked me for no reason. So I attacked you back and underlined that with a message to add some roleplay.

So the whole thing is a misunderstanding and I cannot see why you need to make a big hassle and send me pms telling me how I will be "doomed in every MP game now" and "no one will trust you". You start a newbie game and that is how you treat the newbies?

I think that kind of personal attack ruins the game completely. I don´t want to involve any feeling but fun when I play dominions. It is just a game after all. A toy for big kids.

You have ruined the fun of this Alexandria game and that means I´ll put this toy away. I am not prepared to play when players take in-game stuff out of the game and make a personal RL conflict out of it. I will call for a sub and focus on other games instead.

And I can only hope you are mature enough to put this behind you and meet on a proper level in future games.

EDIT: I got a bit angry when I wrote this, prhaps I´m overreacting. I´ll chill out and maybe be back to play again.

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Yvali, Don't worry about it - no offense to Z but I don't take his accusations seriously (and I am guessing I am not the only one). There was a similar "communication" issue early on in in Urapara. You are a trusted and loved member of the game - I hope you will keep playing. Tien Chi loves fish after all!

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Thanks for that DonCorazon, I´ll be staying.

The "hall of shame" thread was a bit too much though...

Re: Alexandria - battle for balanced glory [closed
 

Yeah, I have some thoughts on that as well but generally try to avoid being a controversy generator. As you said, it is just a game. Let it just be said that I find that particular post highly ironic.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

A conversation overheard somewhere in the Nariun Sea by a particularly sentient seagull flying by:

Nagini: "If you could just keep this appetite for Huskarls under control we wouldn't be ..."

Nagaraja: "No one mentioned that it SNOWS in those mountains at this time of year?! You know how sllloooowww Nagas get in the winter time -- it's time to sleep!"

Nagini: "Oh, why don't you just eat a shambler and shut up while we swim back to a nice warm lake somewhere back home!"

Nagaraja: "Hah! Not for long: I'll have Jotun Woodsman on a plate before this is OVER!"

[A shambler whimpers as it is bitten by the Nagaraja.]

Needless to say, the Seagull nearly fell out of the sky laughing to itself. The shamblers however did not look very amused.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

Wanted: one Bag of Winds or a Winged Helmet.

Willing to trade: any Nature item forgable under Cons 6, including a Serpent Kriss, Hydra Skin Armor, Green Dragon Scale Mail, or the highly coveted Tree Lord's Staff. I can discuss non-Nature items, but am pretty limited by gems.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

Those Huskarls did manage to give the Naga's a bit of indigestion this week with the help of their larger kin ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Sometimes I manage to have a nice battle in spite of my crappy troop placement and troop mix.

-SSJ

PS My bandwidth on the ship reached speeds typical of 1996 today. Thought I'd jump on the forum.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

Not last that time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I am really curious how Ylvali plans to survive here. Not the strongest nations that needs allies, but he prefers to backstab them.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

I vote to delay the turn...no need to have 2 stalls.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

My armies have been struck down by Marignon, and I have practically no chance to rise again, so I'll put AI control on and wish you all good game.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

Heh, too late. Strange that people stale on 48h turn without any word...

If they will plan to stale next turn though I will look closely and delay it, cause it will be serious problem.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

I really enjoyed our fight, FrozenFalcon. In the end all that priestly power was a little hard on your undead although at least you managed to kill Carmont the obese cardinal http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Looking forward to seeing you in another game.

Re: New semi-newbie game!
 

Funny, having 1:3 war for some time I am not the first one to die.