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I'm also up for a 72hrs hosting cylcle!

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I have returned from Iceland. While there my Soul was Shattered and I went crazy and destroyed both thier temple AND thier lab. It will be years before thier economy recovers!!

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Ugh! If the movement to 72hrs actually gains momentum, someone please just come and execute me. IMO, once games go to that time length, they just stale from disinterest anyway.

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oh no ironhawk is right! this game is the most exciting one i ever played i'm changing my vote to vote for whatever ironhawk votes for

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We're both screwed Ironhawk. Our mutually well fought war hath ruined us. My troops are pulling back to make their last stand in their capitol. I toldja we should've gone for Marignon!

Your sub did much better than mine btw!

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My turns take 10 minutes, lol. I'd vote for a 24-h schedule if I could.

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Hey! Me no like this idea...

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Wow, thanks for that brilliant commentary, namad.

On a more constructive note: I wanted to actually say that, all my own catalog of mistakes in this game aside, it's probably one of the most interesting I've ever played. I've never seen so many wars stalemate in all my times in Dominions. It's really just crazy!! Personally I'm chalking it up to the skill level of all the players in this game.

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maybe i wasn't clear... I WAS NOT being sarcastic... ironhawk's argument totally swayed me.. and all the games i've been in that went to 72h immediately got less fun for me and i thought maybe it was a coincidence because i was losing but i think win or lose it was just the schedule


i thought my post was important because in case we're voting i've changed my vote

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Oh, my bad - I thought you were being sarcastic, yeah.

Yeah when games go to 72hrs they just lose all urgency and thus fun. I know that its hard to play bigger games under a 48hr time limit when we all have busy lives, but it really is for the best.

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

anyone able to sell me some bracers of protection? I would probably have to pay in DSN or trade a third party for the earth gems... I also might be interested in a few non-frost brands


PM me

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can we turn off quickhost for this turn? I'm going somewhere for most of the rest of the turn so i sent in a turn early and rushed just so i don't stale... but if the quickhost is turned off i can probably take one more look at it right before the deadline ....

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Oy, I just realise I made a stupid mistake. For some reason I counted on having three days to submit my turn (even though I knew full well hosting wasn't changed to 72h, must have been some fried brain circuit) and thus wasn't in any particular rush to finish it yesterday. I'm just about to leave town though, to babysit my sister's little girl (6 months old now) while she's off to have fun at a wedding party all night long. I won't be back home before sunday afternoon.

Long story short, I'll have to ask for a 24h extension. With my sincere apologies for everyone who voiced his objections to a 72h schedule. (Which I can sympathise with, though I don't feel strongly on the subject either way. )

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Extended.

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I believe I am back in the game, as Midgard. Please PM me any diplomatic relations, and any war declarations. I will take over next turn. DonC has kindly offered to do this turn.

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Oh ho!!!

DC, your morale finally broke eh?

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Hehe, I must have had one of those flukey morale rolls, you know, like when in the first round, ten hydras turn and run from 20 deer tribe warriors. :)

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I request a slight delay (24 hours), while I try and figure out Midgard, and re-formalize nation pacts and NAPs/

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i need 30-40 earth gems and 20-50air gems in the next 1-3turns preferably


i have SDN to trade (maybe a few blood or fire but not much)

feel free to PM me if you have gems you wish to trade 1:1

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OK. Midgard turn is submitted. No need for a delay.

thanks

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Welcome back to the game, Lingchih!

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Thanks! Let's see if I can kill off this nation too. :D

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Oops!!

I thought I had until I got home from work tonight to do my turn. But I just got the reminder that the turn is hosting in 6hrs. I wont be home by then. Would anyone mind if I extended for 4hrs? Just enough time to get home and play my turn out.

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Not hearing any dissent I have extended by 4hrs

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Greetings fellow pretenders,

Caelum forges are now open for export.
Caelum offers one of two packages:

Casual package: - Forging of earthware items and artifacts for a total price of up to 20 E gems in return for either A,D,W,N gems. For this package there's a 10% discount, meaning for example that for one marble armor the compensation will be 9 gems.

Trader's package: - Forging of earthware items and artifacts for a total price of more than 20E gems in return for either A,D,W,N gems. For this package there's a 20% discount, meaning for example that for three marble armors the compensation will be 24 gems.

Hey, consider the latter package as really close to forging with hammer :)

PM me if you're interested.

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

Wow. Llamaserver has gone berserk. It keeps sending me this mail "artifacts: Revised turn 49 received for Caelum".

Stop it llamaserver! Be a good server now and stop clogging my mail box.

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

Tien-Chi claims it's capitol region and select regions around it to be it's retirement village. Transgression will be costly!

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I'd like to trade SorDorN gems for E gems please i'll need 30-60 or so please PM me with offers and details and such

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anyone have water gems they can't find a use for want to trade them to me at a ratio of less than 1:1? pm to negotiate?

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Just want to remind everyone that Arcane Nexus is banned in this game!

I don't want a rollback because of that! ;)

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Someone cast Astral Corruption, instead. We need to spice things up a bit.

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Anybody heard from Llama about the server?

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It's dead. May be a few days till it is back up and running.

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Bummer. Hope llama can get it pieced back together soon.

Guess we should distribute our games onto more servers rather than leaning on Llama so heavily.

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Our plot to retain our ancestral retirement lands is succeeding far past our expectations (and desires..)!

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Llamaserver appears to be back up. Game is set to host this coming sunday, but thats a ridiculously long time to wait given that everyone has already had a full week to do a single turn. I'd like to host tonight if we can...

Jomon
Midgard
TC
Ulm

Send your turns in ASAP. For everyone else - it probably wouldnt hurt to resend your turns, just in case. Lets get this game going again! Wooo!!!

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You've probably all got the email about the game crashing. Not sure what this is. Additionally, the game is *gone* off the server page. This is likely bad. I have mailed Llamabeast, hopefully he can correct the situation...

i have astral gems to trade i'd like to receive earth/water gems in exchange (i may or may not consider a small quantity of death/nature/air as payment as well) please send me pm's i have spare astral gems i needa unload at 1:1

anyone selling blood? if so how much gold/gems ratio? not sure i'm willing to pay a fair price for blood or not but feel free to haggle with me

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

I noticed the weirdest thing with the restart. Well, perhaps not the weirdest but.. Upon doing the turn one of my scouts had 2 astral gems appear in it's gem slots. Shrug.

10 blood slaves for sale, 100 gold obo

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doncorazon, in a different game, after the restart, had a bug where astrals appeared on bane venom carriers. were these scouts carrying anything?

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That's precisely what happened.

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Will the current owner of the Chalice please contact me? I would like to work out a rental agreement. I won't make your identity known if you want to keep it that way. Send me a PM or email.

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10 blood slaves, 7 skull mentors for sale cheap! I used to have more but my sub sent them out to war...

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i think everyone knows who has the chalice or can guess?

anyways.. i still have some spare pearls and i need some earth gems! also nature gems... maaaaybe a few water please PM me please!

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

since my demand for earth gems is high and the offer of astral gems isn't working i'll offer other gem types in limited quantities for earth gems just pm me.. (plenty of fire and small quantities of mostly anything)

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

Mentors and slaves are sold! Thanks for the extra turn or two of upkeep/life!

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I just had another weird thing happen. As of last turn I was down to one province with an income of 19 or so. I had an upkeep of approx 441. Fortunately (or so I thought) I had saved 531 gold so as to be able to hold out a bit longer. I had arranged to sell some things last turn to gain a total of 400 gold.

This turn I get the messages that my gold has arrived but instead of the approximately 500 gold I expected to have in my treasury I have only 146.

I haven't looked too deeply at the numbers to figure out what plus what equals what and so be able to determine if I didn't actually get the $ or whether there is a screw up in something else but I thought it interesting.

On another minor aside I found out that one cannot cast Iron Walls if one has any turns remaining from a previous Iron Walls spell.

Turns available if needed!

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

I'm away from 18th-23rd nov (without internet). I'll try to find a sub but can we also go for a temporary 72 hour hosting cycle for this time?

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

Rathar, I turned off the taxes in your capital so that you would get no income from it. Given that your walls are currently impenetrable, I didnt really have another choice. While that still doesnt makes sense given your overall numbers, it might be a factor you hadnt considered?

Re: The Artifacts Game - [ running ]
 

Hmm... so sieger's tax setting also affects someone that is besieged? I though taxes are counted separately for that [even when you can't change it when sieged].