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Game delayed 8 hours by request

Re: Cripple Fight! - And the Lame shall inherit the earth!
 

Well, fire gems may not be too good but you can always alchemize to S and since fetishes cost half as much as pearls it amounts to the same thing in terms of forging cost. Though I'd imagine it's a lot more of a micromanagement hassle than pearls.

You've also been making good use of some of those F gems using fire snakes as chaff. They're really not bad at all, with both a fire and poison attack. I've lost more than one Sidhe Lord to them when I lost track of which forces you were casting Haste on and didn't have both Elemental Fortitude and Resist Poison cast by the time they reached my thug.

It was actually kind of demoralizing seeing you summon them so quickly and realizing how many fetishes that indicated you had.

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Ermor hereby declares war on the next nation (hereafter to be known as 'nation of bastards') that wishes for Armageddon. As such an act will result in Ermor unleashing their undead horde(1) upon this nation of bastards, leading to their very swift defeat(2) and ultimate retribution(3) for the, literally, fallen warriors of Ermor.


Notes

(1) Ermor are only able to unleash a single undead horde upon the nation of bastards, as Ermor does not possess anywhere near enough resources to unleash undead hordes. We apologise in advance for any feeling of disappointment the nation of bastards may experience at the lack of Ermor's undead hordes, or indeed the underwhelming size of Ermor's single undead horde.

(2) The speed at which the nation of bastards will be destroyed is entirely dependent on outrageous good fortune for Ermor, and total incompetent decision making by the leaders of said nation of bastards. Ermor dissolves itself in advance of any responsibility with regards having to positively contribute in any way to the defeat of said nation of bastards.

(3) While the wishing of Armageddon will undoubtedly lead to the swift defeat of the nation of bastards at the hands of the undead horde of Ermor, the resulting arrival of Armageddon will instantly null and void any agreement between Ermor and said nation of bastards, regarding the latter's swift defeat at the hands of Ermor's undead horde, and the temporary or indefinite postponement of Ermor's ultimate retribution. (clause 1.1)


'Thank You' for your time in reading this death threat. Failure to read this death threat, and thereafter any attempts to claim ignorance of it, shall not in any way be acceptable as an excuse for trying to prevent the unleashing of Ermor's undead horde upon any nation of bastards that decides to wish for Armageddon.


Clauses

1.1 - "Should all of Ermor's mages yet again disappear into the unstable and cavernous Ermor Andreas Fault, then all agreements shall instantly be cancelled and / or suspended, until such time that Ermor can once again fulfil its contractual obligations to destroy the offending nation of bastards."

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Game delayed 16 hours by player request.

It's the late game folks, so the required thinking and MM time are both starting to get very high. I may be suggesting the move to a 72 hour hosting schedule soon. Any opinions anyone has on this would as always be appreciated :)

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Abysia will join Ermor in the crushing of any such nation that wishes for armageddon, not that it really hurts Abysia, but because we want to crush some people (or more likely fish). I won't mind a 72h scheduale, but i'm also able to keep up with the current scheduale. but considering that several of the last turns have been delayed multiple times, maybe we are ready for it.

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Really? I find my required thinking and MM time goes down with each armageddon. I'm about ready to go back to 24 hour hosting. ;)

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Tir na n'Og hereby declares that we are in fact the nation of bastards that wished for Armageddon. We challenge you to respond!

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LoL, I did actually check earlier out of curiosity, and I had more troops and mages on turn 23 (Ermor's peak:shock:) than I do now. The past 50+ turns hasn't been kind to the Ermorians at all :(

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So, you're going AI? Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

But yeah, same story here. Fun facts about Tir:

* Roughly the same number of provinces as commanders

* Capitol province has an income of 14 gold (no unrest)

* No gem gens + no gold = no chance

By the time Machaka's unkillable black sorcerers get around to finishing me all I'll have left is my army of sea trolls (who are holding up quite well). Sadly there will be no mages left to lead them.

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I am okay with 24hr hosting as well!:)

In this game my turns have never took longer than 45 mins to do and as far as fever fetishes go, I really do not have alot, I doubt if I even have 1/3 the fever fetishes that other nations have clams which are far better.

I would be only too happy to finish Tir Na Nog off, sadly any time I attack him with anything, armies, SC's mages and all combined, a couple of sidhe lords turn up and slaughter everyone!:(

Go AI?!! I am on the verge of victory! :D


I'll leave the hosting schedule at 60 hours for now then, and just grant extensions to the top 2.5 nations whenever they need one due to late-game stuff. Since they seem to be the ones most in need of the extra time, and are the usual delay requestors. So the schedule will stay at what it is now, which is basically 60 hours + regular extensions for those nations with actual resources left to use. If regular delays are ok with everyone that is.

Apologies for the disturbance TNN and Machaka. You can now go back to your private little war until the next council meeting :)

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Game delayed 12 hours by request.

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Ok, well that problem is definitely resolvable. Sidhe Lords are in increasingly short supply and new ones will most certainly not be arriving. Though Atlantis could have helped move things along if they had continued with the Armageddon castings. A little disappointing there weren't any the past couple of turns.

Well, that was planning ahead! :) Seriously, I think everyone's fine with moving to 72 hours and it will save you and Zeldor the trouble of going through this every turn, so I would just change the hosting. Meglobob and I are just playing a different game than the rest of you. Hosting should be set to what works for the top 2.5 nations not the two playing a blitz game. ;)

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I was not requesting anything, for a change :)

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Oops, sorry. I just wanted to say that I think everyone's fine with the time frame that works for the leading nations so if 72 hours works better for you guys feel free to change it.

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It was me who needed the delay this turn. The deadlines of practically every game I am in fell at some point this evening, so needed to push this game back until tomorrow to give myself some breathing space (plus some non-Dom time to stop my head exploding).

I'll switch the game to 72 hours from next turn on then. Since it probably does make more sense to accomodate the leading nations rather than trying to get a 'one size fits all' schedule. Shame we can't vacuum seal the Spider Elv war to the outside world, and then let you two blitz it out on a separate schedule :)

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Don't worry, me and Aby should be over with our war in 50-60 turns max. At least I hope so.

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I'll have wiped the floor with the both of you long before then :p

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Turn has just hosted, so I've now bumped the hosting interval up to 72 hours.

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Zeldor decided to come out and play finally! i see with my little burning eyes a few seraphs!

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I will be probably going on holidays soon [19-30 September] and it may be impossible for me to find a sub for that 3 turns - description of the game and situation scares even the bravest players. So if I can't find one, I may really need to request a pause for the game [as we had one for Abysia earlier].

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Well, I'm sure you're all eager to hear Tir's opinion so I'll say that I think you're at the stage of the game where you really want to make the decisions yourself. Even if you could find a sub I think it's better to wait so that you get to decide the fate of your nation.

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Ah, how I wish to be a fly on the wall now. The Cripples are now carrying some pretty big sticks. This thing ain't Cripple Fight no more, perhaps more accurate term would be..

Mortal Cripple Combat?
Crippocalypse?
...??

Damn, I really need to think up a punchline before making the joke.

On other news, MA vanheim just won a game. This leaves us 10 nations without MP wins and 9 nations after this game has reached its thrilling conclusion. What can I say? The number of Cripples are going down by the minute.

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I'd have absolutely no problem as either admin or player with the ~10 day delay for Zeldor. As like he says, we've already had one for Abysia, so only fair that Atlantis also be allowed a similar pause.

Plus I'm a very big fan of the point Valerius has made, in that players should have the right to decide the outcome of their own fate once the game goes past a certain stage. And not have to trust that a sub would keep things under control in that players absence. Which is even more imprtant a point if the nation in question is fighting for the win.

So unless anything changes, the game will be getting put on hold while Zeldor is away. Unless of course I can beat Atlantis and Abysia in the next two turns. Hhhhmmmm, let me see what I have available........ :)

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All stand ready for.... THE LAMEPIRE STRIKES BACK!

Okay, I know its already been said earlier in the thread, but I just had to say it again :D

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I, of course agree completely with what Valerius / Calahan have already said and the game should be paused until Zeldor gets back, hopefully refreshed and ready to pit tart vs tart, seraph vs chayot etc...

Btw the only really annoying thing about those armageddons was it killed nearly all my scouts, so I will not even be able to watch all those titanic battles:(

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A delay is of course ok with me since i recieved one earlier.

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I am leaving on Saturday morning, early morning. I don't think I will be able to do next turn before that - too many things to do before.

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Do you mean next turn as in turn 80, or the current one as in turn 79?

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Current one. Oh, it hosts on Saturday. I think I will be able to do it. I am leaving Saturday morning.

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Give me a shout if you can't get the current turn done Zeld, and I'll do the necessary to pause the game until you get back. I'm pretty sure I'll be around tomorrow evening if you want to do a last minute decision thing (and I'll put the pause in anyway if you don't get back to me and you get too close to staling).

But be cool if you could squeeze your turn in before you go though, as then I can plot yours and Frozen's demise during the pause :)

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Game delayed 12 hours. 6 hours were by Firey request, the other 6 hours are to ensure that I am awake when the deadline hits, so that I can pause the game if it looks like Zeldor didn't manage to get his turn done (before going away).

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Ok, it appears that Zeldor did manage to get his turn in before he left, which is great. So once the current turn hosts, I will be pausing the game until he gets back at the end of the month.

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Sorry to do this, but i'm just really burned out tonight, and i won't get my turn done. could i get 24h?

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No worries Frozen Lama. I've added 24 hours for you. You also have over a week to play with if you want more time. Since no point rushing this turn only to then have around 10-12 days for the next one. So if you want that time split evened out a bit between this turn and the next then give me a shout.

If I had your position right now, then I know I'd rather have two 6 day turns rather than a one day turn followed by a 11 day turn.

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Ok everyone, the turn has recently hosted, so I have now added a long delay so that the game is effectively paused while Zeldor is away.

Current hosting deadline is October 1st at 23:55 (llamaserver time). I'll take a wild stab at saying Zeldor will probably need an extension when he gets back, unless he can get his turn done in ~24 hours. But will sort that out when the time comes.

Enjoy the second intermission folks, and get yourselves well rested for the epic conclusion to Cripple Fight :)

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I just got back, but I'd like fresh 72h from now [or from tomorrow, best], as I just turned on my computer and I have lots of things to do. There are some problems with my other game, where game admin did not change email to a sub and let my nation stale 3 turns.

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Ha, just got a chance to see my turn. I guess Abysia may count that storm attempt as one of the worst attempts in the history :) I hope it is a sign of the fall of false Abysian pretender.

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Burnsaber, I just noticed you updated the first post a while back. LOL.

I'm a little concerned, though. I'd like to reprise my role as Tir but llamabeast is doing worringly well in Crusaders. Speed it up, Atlantis/Abysia so we can begin this before Crusaders ends! Worst case scenario, I guess I could apply for the role of Eriu...

The good thing is, Cripple Fight II is down to only 8 players so it should play quickly. BTW, I assume it will be CBM 1.6 (i.e. no clams)?

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All jokes in the post are by Calahan. I decline to take any kind and/or sort of credit from their comedic value.


Yeah, certainly. The map will be a bit smaller too (about 12-14 provs per player).

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@ All/Zeldor

Myself and Zeldor are back from our respective trips, so this game is now up and running again.

I've set the hosting for the current turn to this Saturday, 3rd October, at 23:55 llamaserver time. So gets those turns in! I actually did this yesterday after noticing Zeldor's request during a flying visit to the forums, but it's only now (that I'm home) that I'm having the time to post about it. So apols everyone for not keeping you all up-to-date with delays as is my usual admin MO (although I do have a resonably good excuse :))


@ Zeldor - I was going to set the deadline for this game to late Friday evening, but know you (and myself) have a turn due in Pasha's RAND game then as well, so bumped it forward another day to avoid the clash. Since I know the pain of having 2+ games with deadlines at similar times, so took the wild guess that with both games on 72 hours schedules, it wouldn't take long for duel deadlines to cause one of us a problem.

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I could be interested in playing EA Abysia in sequel, assuming I have free time :)

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Just a few hours to go until hosting, and the top two are still without turns submitted. For Zeldor this is not unusual, but Frozen Lama mostly has his turn done by now, so it's strange not to see his turn sent in this close to the deadline.

@ Zeldor / Frozen - I should be around this evening until the current hosting deadline hits, so just give me a shout if you need a delay. (and even if I'm away from my computer for the next hour or so, I'll make certain to check back for delay requests before and around the time of the deadline.)

I'll also probably throw in an automatic delay if the deadline gets too close and any turns are still missing. You all know how much I hate seeing stales at any time during a game, but even more pointless at this stage and with so few players left.

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I'm totally in the next game in the series if there's room. Preferably as a non-water nation since i've *played* most of those already. (And don't be too fast, some people need to hurry up and finish killing me in some other games)

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Oh Frozen where art thou. Zeldor's the king of late turn submission not you.

@ All

Fair chance I'll be delaying this game in the next few minutes. Probably add 24 hours, as I'm expecting to be out of the office tomorrow for most of the day. So won't be able to do my usual preference here of delaying the game until the morning and re-checking the status then.

Although only Frozen's turn missing, so it will obviously autohost when he submits it.

Edit1: In fact better delay it now due to the screwy llamaserver.
Edit2: Ok, game delayed by 24 hours for Frozen Lama. Guess his racing addiction consumed all his free time this turn :)

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oh.......oops. totally forgot it was due today. sorry guys. thanks for the save Calahan. i will get it in tonight i promise.

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No worries Frozen. I'll mostly be on the case with heading off any stales. Even more so now with this being the only game I'm admining. Less deadlines to watch :)

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@ All

I had to throw on a hasty 12 hour delay for myself yesterday, and will probably need a few extra hours again for today. Work has been the total opposite of kind the past few days. I've even had to come in on a Saturday :(

So I've added another few hours for myself just in case the current deadline is too tight (50/50 that I'll need it). But I should be able to get something sent in once I finally get home.

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I will be traveling without internet acess from Oct 19th-24th. i know the game has been delay way to much lately, but i'd like to ask to delay the turn for me since most likely i would only need a sub for 1 turn.

thanks!

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Oh, you are not going to give up before that? :(