Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Sept

DrP, Grudge, Immaculate all requested delays. Lingchi noted a delay of up to 4 days was customary, and I don't think the delay was ever explicity stated.

I'll shut up and support ya whenever you tell me to, but otherwise, I'd suggest setting getting involved in a blitz game and waiting on this one till monday = )

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Um, the only explicit/specific delay request I received (with a set time and date) was from Pyg. We stopped the timer on Tuesday at around Noon and we are going to restart the timer on Saturday at around Noon. That is a 4 day delay. I've got to take into account the needs of those not living in the US and/or not celebrating the holiday. I must consider what is fair to all and I think I've been fair.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Not to throw fuel on the fire, but most of us think of the 'Thanksgiving Holiday' to begin weds evening and end Sunday evening.

If I hadn't had people in town and staying with me, instead of traveling as usual to stay with them, I would have read the 'extension' to go to Sunday and never giving it another thought.

I agree that most of the normal early game attrition has taken place, and we certainly don't want to run off anyone over a 1 day misunderstanding.

Lets just let everyone get their turn in by Sunday and don't have anyone Stale.

Christmas is coming up and THAT will be another time with folks living and celebrating (or not) in different fashions and times. If we light the fuse now it will explode in another month.

Just my opinion.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Yep, Wednesday was what I was shooting for, but the hosting timer got shut off a day earlier than I had anticipated. Still no one staled and the turn didn't budge till late Friday night so no problems so far.

Still waiting on:

caelum
kailasa
lanka
mictlan
pangaea
sauromatia
tirnanog

For the current turn. Let's get those turns in.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Sauromatia here.

I won't be home until late Sunday US Central time. I could potentially submit a turn before i leave to return home, but it would be kind of rushed, and coordinating with allies while having limited time to do turns is kinda hard.

So I'll try to submit sometime after I get home on Sunday, and I hope that's not too terribly inconvenient for people. (If this weren't a team game it would be in already, but team games complicate things).

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Note that llamaserver appears to be broken right now (and for the last 12 or so hours to my knowledge), and that I'm not sure if turns are getting logged or admin orders are getting read. Turns aren't hosting until it comes back, and I'm not sure what it will do in what order when it gets back.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Thanks for that info Stretch. Luckily our game hosts via the Dom3Minions server so we shouldn't have any issues.

Sauro and Pan, you two are the last to submit but you should have plenty of time left to get in your turns by Sunday night (preferably) or Monday morning.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

Hmm, lets see what we've got:

As of turn 17, 33 provinces were still in the hands of the AI Team, but that number appears to be dropping.

7 Independents left, wonder where they are?

No need to thank and praise me for this info. This information is being provided free of charge as a service by your kind, caring, considerate, admin. I am too humble to accept such praise anyway.:D

Now, get those turns in!

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

A few of them are about to become mine. I had a number of units tied up clearing an AI out of my corner that are free now to finish taking the few indies left behind my lines.

Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.
 

This seems like a good place to drop this..
http://www.scriblink.com/

Team Captains might want to play with it. Let me know your impressions please.
Its a WhiteBoard. So far its the simplest I have found which allows (A) uploading an image and (B) saving the board to an URL you can give out. This should allow a team to upload the map image and scribble on it.

Its one of my jobs to have an idea of whats available and for wht purposes. And altho I dont work for Shrapnel anymore I will probably make a recommendation to them to upgrade the CHAT we have on this forum to some sort of a WhiteBoard. Possibly with VoIP abilities also (voice chat). It just seems a good idea for a strategy wargames company that has team games.