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This game is awesome.

Sorry, I had to post something to get 400. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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So...who wants to disclose all their information about their empire to me? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Well, someone (or maybe two someones) just opened two warp points into my systems. Good thing I'm somewhat ready!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Very interesting. I guess I should be unmothballing all of my thousands of baseships then for preperation, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

For your sake I hope they are peaceful, Renegade!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nothing cuts a star's life short like thousands of baseships. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Karibu should be back any day now, when that happens we will go to fully automatic turns once more. yay! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually... I'm going to be away from 7/23 until 8/1, but it's fine with me if we go with auto turns. My empire is automated enough to handle the 3 missed turns (just don't attack me during this time, since I turned the AI off http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

What ever happened to the forecasted two weeks of PBW downtime?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh...well in that case I suppose we can stay on LPU a little bit longer. If I gave Karibu this time off then it is only fair that I allow everyone at least one span of vacation time during the summer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I dunno, I thought it was supposed to have moved by now. I guess plans changed, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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And then the Primitive one will be on vacation from August 01 to 23rd http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
I will be able to do some turns but not at the regular pace.

Then again; I don't mind missing a few turns as long as the wars don't start. What about setting the game to 72 or 96 hours during vacation time ?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think that would be a good idea. I think I currently have it at 72 hours but perhaps bump that to 84 or 96 would work until summer vacations start slowing down. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Wow. Tag-team vacationing!

Like I said, I don't mind missing turns as long as we have a gentleman's agreement not to attack someone who is away (especially me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think we will take auto turns to 84 hours and then settle on a agreement between everyone that no wars are to be fought during this time, and no taking advantage of the situation. Perhaps more detail could be laid out so I can send out a news item to everyone in the game letting all know about it?

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Sounds good to me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Karibu is back with regular updates. Thank you all for your patience. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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The game is on auto turns set to 96 hours. The turn will automatically run tomorrow morning at 7AM.

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I'm back too, and it looks like I didn't even miss a turn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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So are there any battles being fought at this time?

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I've had a couple smallish battles with the Noon Empire (Chairman Mao). 125 of his dreadnoughts against 96 of mine....he ended up losing all his, and I lost 26 of mine. Not to brag, but... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ August 06, 2004, 22:58: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

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Cirvol,
If you are reading this thread please responde to the email I sent you. Thanks!

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I have had a few small battles with the Noon as well now. Losses are about equal on both sides I am guessing.

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I haven't had any battles yet, but I am due. I am interested to see whether my ship designs are successfull or not.

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I have really stunk it up this game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I tried a different approach then the tried and true fashion but it has failed me. Ahh well, there is always RTH3! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Done a turn, and the Horde will run fine 5-6 turn without a leader. Its good bye from me, but hopefully someone will come along to take over before the Horde crumbles http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

Anyway, I have the password and some info to whoever. E-mail me or post here.

GL everybody http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif It is still shocking/sad to see you leave, Primitive!

But I will email Fire and see if he wants to take over your empire.

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It looks like this Last turn failed to process.

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I think it failed due to the AI running player 2 turn... When the horde gets in they should check to make sure AI does nothing is checked.

If it fails again... The game admin needs to download it and run it off line to see what the errors are

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Yeah I noticed the turn failed but I didn't have access to SEIV until today to do anything about it. I will allow Primitive to get his turn in before running it so he has some extra time to get aquainted with his empite again. Although it should run when he uploads.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif
Do my eyes deceive me!?
Has the Primitive one returned?

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The great unwashed has indeed Returned to Hell. Shocked he sees the vermin infecting the nurseries of his cute little hordlings.
Woe betide enemies of the Horde: for his mind is fresh, his arm is strong and his rusty (yet pointy) spear is ........ eh, rusty (yet still pointy). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Turn crashed again. Its been close to the 20 minute mark for the Last few turns so I guess it has to be taken off PBW to run http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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we have a peaceful agreeement ... as you can see i have not touched your devices....

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looking into turn

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It seems to have ran on its own afterall. I got up early this morning to run it manually but it was done already. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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I ran the 3.5meg puppy offline

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3.5 megs! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

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Does it mean that PBW server is not able to run the game anymore? That it must be run manually?

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Look like the turn failed again. We must be too big for our own good.

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this one had a few ai errors for the race in the a directory... and it took 20 minutes to turn over on a fast computer...

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Any idea when the turn will be run?

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Heh, I just posted the same question on the PBW game forum.

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Happy turn 100!

What's everyone been up to? I understand that the Primitve Hoard is giving the HRV a run for their money.

The Spoo Empire has avoided any conflict so far. I've just been building and building...

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I too have avoided combat where possible, and continue to build more and more and more....though I'm probably only 10% the size of the rest of you guys. Besides fending off some attacks by Chairman Mao, I haven't had any fighting. I obliterated about 250 of his ships in one battle, and lots only 25 of mine http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I guess I must be doing something right!

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The great statues of Karibu are nearly built. They include planets dragged in line to impersonate my name, my looks, my horns and - of course - my humble personality. Great celebrations are about to begin and tickets are soon available. Only requirement for access is the citizenship of Errtu Clan. Everybody are welcome! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif &amp; [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Martini.gif[/img] available! Also good [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img]!

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Has there been any progress in finding an alternate PBW script so that the turns can auto-run? As it stands, the game is running sooooo sloooowly.

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I PM'ed Ruatha and he said he was going to look for the script on his computer over the weekend but I still have not heard anything from him.

The only script of his is older and does not automate the turns so it would be of no benifit to switch to that.

I will run the turn tomorrow while I am at lunch if I cannot get to it this evening.

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One question: why is this game called "Return to Hell"? What was the (original) backstory?

Will there come a gamestory thread on this?

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The original game was also called Return to Hell. One day, along time ago, I decided I wanted to create a PBW game that was different than most. So I thought about it some and came up with the idea of making the game full tech, 5K racial points, max everything else. Each player would start in their own 'cluster' of systems that was not connected to any of the other clusters where the other players resided.

There were not many rules to follow except that you could not 'turtle' in your cluster. You had to leave at least one system available for someone to warp in with a warp opener to attack or make peace. The game got so big eventually due to players staying in their clusters as long as they could that PBW could no longer run it.

This game has now reached that point but we are determained to continue on.

I created RTH2 because I missed the first game and wanted to try it again. Here is the back story I created for RTH2 to tie it in with the first one:

Millennia ago your race was once the center of the galaxy. You spent decades building your empire within the privacy of your own cluster of star systems that the Ancient Ones had placed you in. The Ancient Ones had left great texts that spoke of other races in the universe that were doing just as you were; building a great empire. These texts also spoke of a day when all races taking a great journey out of their clusters.

Your race had finally decided that this was the time period in which to embark on this quest of universal conquest. You designed and built great technology that enabled you to create artificial warp gates that would allow you to take this journey and link your clusters wither other clusters.

Little did you realize that these other races were ready for this day. They too had built massive empires within their clusters. Many races made first contact and many wars had broken loose. There were few treaties made during this time, no one wanted to become unprepared for the inevitable.

For decades wars raged on until one day two prominent races stood out above all others. They had grown to such a point that they could not be stopped. Over the next few centuries they nearly exterminated the other races that once ruled in their respective clusters.

Once it reached this point the Ancient Ones decided it was time to intervene. They stopped the wars in time to spare a few of many of the races. Some of the races once known, however, were destroyed and would never rise again. The Ancient Ones decided it was time to start again, this time to see if peace would be possible.

They restored the universe to what it once was before the wars broke out. Despite the best efforts by the two races that dominated the universe at this time the Ancient Ones overcame them and plundered much of their empires. Never did these think their empires could fall so quickly.

The Ancient Ones returned you to another cluster and limited you to just a handful of planets. You kept much of your technological data but lost much more. In the case of the few empires that lost everything the Ancient Ones brought in other races from different universes' to replace these ones. They knew that one day the universe would return to its deplorable state of war and conquest… yes, they knew one day it would Return to Hell!

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this should really be rth3 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

but i think ragnarok blocked that out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Has it really been 3 years http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Has anyone else noticed that the combat replays no longer work (is it just me)?

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why would you do it... man that would take hours... imagine hitting watch every ship move ...

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That's odd...in another game a player told me they could not view replays anymore. And this was not a large game by any means. I wonder if something's going a little wonky over at PBW.