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Read the Llamaserver FAQ. It says:
I think that is exactly the problem you have

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Uff... I set up my mail.ru account to resend mail to my gmail account, and now I have no problems :)
Thanks for help :rolleyes:

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Marignon seems to have staled last turn and is heading towards that path again this turn. I sent the player a pm an hour or so ago, but in the meantime, there's only 3 hours until the turn hosts. If marignon's turn isn't in in a few hours I will add 8 hours to the turn if there's no objection.

If it's not in after that, should I look for a sub? Or for someone to set marignon ai.

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Okay, marignon's turn is in. But I see pythium is also close to staling. I will go nudge pythium's player.

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Thanks for the efforts, rdonj, you're doing good. :)

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Is someone monitoring to see if any players are habitually staling? Is it perhaps time to move to a 36 or 48 hour schedule?

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I'm keeping an eye on the staling offenders, and giving rdonj a friendly shout when needed. We had a full round of turn files last time as well, so those players with the early stales are still with us, for now at least.

The status page says that we will be switching to 48 hours on turn 15/16. Which is a shedule I'm hoping will be adhered to, since the slower pace was one of the main reasons I signed up.

Re: YARG - Yet Another RAND Game [Running]
 

We shall move to 48h on turn 15 as stated in first post.

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Thanks for the confirmation on the 48 hour schedule WraithLord.

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I have been informed that one of the nations in this game has sent an NAP offer to another. This is strictly against the rules and tantamount to cheating in this sort of game. After conferring with wraithlord, it has been decided that the offending player will be removed from the game. I will set up a thread looking for a sub immediately and notify the player of their removal. Sorry about the holdup to the game. I will add 72 hours to the hosting time while I search for a new player. If none shows up that can be extended a day or two, or I will set the nation AI.

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rdonj, thank you for putting so much attention to administrating this game.

The rules for this game are well clear. Any form of communication is off limit. Sending a NAP, with or w/o knowledge of the rules, defeats the very purpose of this game.
Please respect the house rules so that the game will continue to be enjoyable to all the players.

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Good to see no leniency on the rules, and I fully support the kicking out of any players who try to get around the very point of what a RAND game is all about.

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Was there a verdict on whether it's permissible for eliminated players to declare who they were?

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Yes there was - permissible. It is and was the same for all previous RAND games.

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Sad that we can't know who that rules violator is. But we really can't because if this info is made public, a person who NAP suggestion was sent to will know who is who.
p.s. Do I understand it right that the game is paused until a sub is found? If this is occasionally resolved before Sat, are you going to set timer back?

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The game is paused for 3, maybe 4 days. Once everyone takes their turn after the sub is found the game will return to its original schedule. I don't plan on setting the timer back as the sub will not necessarily be able to finish the turn before then anyway, and inevitably someone will plan to use the extra time procrastinating and miss their turn if the postponement is cut.

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Ok, then it means we have a break. Not bad, really:)

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Okay, a sub has been found to take over the staling nation and should be submitting a turn sometime within the next two days.

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Now, when the sub was finaly found, could you name us the violator?

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Hm, probably yes, if name of new player will remain unknown.

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It was Ossa.

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All turns are in but why did you turn quickhost off?

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Oops. Sorry, forgot to set it back on. Will go do that now.

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We've hit turn 15. Hosting interval now set to 48h.

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If there are no objections, can I request that the turn reminder email be changed from 6 hours to 12 hours. Since they have little value at 6 hours if you get one at 1am :)

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Maybe 9? 12 seems too much for me because I'll simply forget about it.

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I don't quite understand this sentiment, why not just send in the turn as soon as possible instead of waiting for the last minute. Since its a rand game there is no diplomacy to wait on, and if everyone sends in their turns as soon as possible we might get a few more fast turns since i doubt that anyones empire is that super complex yet.

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I agree with Isokron on the 12 hour warning. I don't like to get caught with no warning during the middle of the night.

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It depends on a player or, even, person style. If you have a lot of spare time and don't think on your turns a lot it doesn't mean that other people are in the same conditions. This game was declared as a "slow pace" and it is the main reason I signed up for it (and I nearly regret it because 3 games at once is definitely too much for me). Stupid mistakes everywhere an nothing as a result:)

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Well, it's set to 9 hours for the moment. I can't imagine this being controversial as compared to 6 hours, so hopefully it's not. Anyway, we'll see if this works out for now and if it needs changing in the future that's not a problem.

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First player is out, Abysia.
Who was he?

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Abysia was Dragar.

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lol, even when its random he gets it.

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LA Abysia is not that bad. It's MA Abysia that is the real bummer IMHO. I had the poor luck of getting it and then EA Agartha in my last two RAND games :(

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I totally agree. I was stupid/insane/masochist (pick one or more) enough to sign up for four games at the same time. One of which was team game qwerty in which I had to sub for my teammate as well.

Now that was crazy. I never ever gonna do something even remotely close. I think two games are ok if you have a family and job and a life for that matter :p
You can do three I guess if you have nothing but spare time on your plate.
Four puts you on the verge of insanity :D

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I am sorry but I have to quit, guys. I have extremely little time now and playing dominions is becoming more and more pain than a pleasure. Probably, I'll remain in one game that is in the late stage but this one is not the case.
I already found a good sub for my nation and informed rdonj about it. Danbo will be playing here instead of me.
So good luck everyone and sorry once again.
And I will NEVER play 3 games at once again!!

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As per Ano's request, I am adding a small postponement to the turn to help Danbo get settled in. He may not end up needing the time, but I prefer to err on the side of caution when setting up subs.

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Greetings!
Now I want to confirm that I sub ano for this game. Also, I think I should supply my email to receive turns? I pmed Wraith Lord, as he was the topic starter. But now I'm reading the message, which points to administrative privileges of rdonj. So, will someone, please, tell me who is admin for this game? Anyway, I think I'll provide my email just right here to make things faster - daniel [at] bojenov [dot] ru
And thanks for delay, rdonj, but I had a lot of time to think over the strategy yesterday, so I'll do my best to send in my turn today.

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You are correct, you needed to give your email to an admin. I dearly hope that you did NOT tell wraithlord which nation you are subbing for in your email, since he is playing in this game and should not know. Wraithlord can handle some requests, but if the admin needs to know what nation you are playing in order to handle something, you should send your PMs to me. Anyway, I have switched control over to your email and I will request a turn resend on your behalf. Hopefully you should have your turn by the time you read this message.

Re: YARG - Yet Another RAND Game [Running]
 

So who played Mari?

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Marignon was played by natpy.

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The beauty of a no diplo game, waiting to see who it is that killed you...

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@ WraithLord - Can you please do a quick update of the first post to note Marignon's defeat. (played by Napty)

Thanks in Advance

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sure thing.

Turn 22 and we're 2 man down. Who's next in line to be thrown off the boat???

Yeah, its one of the beauties of RAND games. Waiting to see who hides behind the mask.

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BTW and OT re. this thread. Next game I plan to host will be a no diplo game but not anonymous with the all ages mod and CBM and no generators. The game theme would be that all nations are allowed. Each player brings the nation he thinks is best or that he can play best :).
So no nations would be banned from it and something like 18-22 players in all. You think Hinnom rules, you believe none plays it as good as you and that you are neigh invincible leading it - that's the game for you - as you can pit yourself against other players who think they can do the same with their nations!

I'm posting this to get some early feedback on the game outline.

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No diplo game but not anonymous? You sure have a lot of faith in people, or I misunderstood you.

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Good point. Let me restate accordingly:

Next game I plan to host will be an AND game, like RAND but w/o the random nation assignment, with the all ages mod and CBM and no generators. The game theme would be that all nations are allowed. Each player brings the nation he thinks is best or that he can play best.
So no nations would be banned from it and something like 18-22 players in all. You think Hinnom rules, you believe none plays it as good as you and that you are neigh invincible leading it - that's the game for you - as you can pit yourself against other players who think they can do the same with their nations!

The player bring his preference to the host (not me, like in this game). If the nation is free he gets it. If it's taken then can choose another nation.

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All ages would be fine but CBM makes extensive changes to many of the nations. I havent played with it enough to have any idea what nation I would play best.
Now if it was CBM and random nations then it wouldnt matter :)

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Yes, but for next game I don't want randomness. I want each player to bring to bear what he thinks is the most bad-*** nation. No nation would be banned b/c of balance reasons. You want LA R'lyeh go ahead and grab it, just take into account that you'd be facing the meanest, toughest nations on the block.

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I feel no gem generator kills the purpose of some nations, Patala, C'tis...