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I'm interested in organizing a 2.08 MP game. World map, my natural favorite: Possibly Marathon-style, non-stop, but definitely at least on a regular, long-duration schedule: Certainly no less than 4-5 hours a day. I'll be playing Ermor. All other nations currently available on FCFS basis.

Anyone interested?

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I am game.
Either Marignon or Pythium

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Hey, it's you again. Weren't you in my Last game? Looking for a rematch, eh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Got any time preferences?

[ March 04, 2004, 02:17: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nav probably was. I remember his Posts on the subject. Nav's a good fellow. I played in 2 of Zen's blitz games with him.

Nav, go get 'em! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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i would be interested in getting killed again depending on the time frame

4pm-9pm est works for me not sure about anyone elses though

i would be ulm again

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If you really start this, plz post a dayly Summary:)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And that's a bad thing? Anything worth doing is worth doing with excessive force, I always say. If you can't find and make the time to do something, clearly you don't feel it's worth doing at all. Sleep is entirely overrated, anyway. Don't you always find you wake up more tired than when you went to sleep in the first place? Isn't that really annoying? This is why I've taken to avoiding it entirely, and only do so when complete and utter mind-numbing boredom has set in.

Well, anyway, now all we need is for Mivayan to sign up again, and it'll be like Last time all over again. I bet Navrunner's itching for revenge, too.

[ March 04, 2004, 13:02: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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I would like to play too, however this would be my first mp game. If you all are willing to put up with a noob msg me. I would like to play as marignon or aros... the greek guys ^_^. I have to head out to class in about 40 mins, but I can play 5:30-10 mst today, and pretty much all day till 5:30-10 mst tommorrow.

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what are the exact settings of the game going to be? just so i know ahead of time i remember things where not what i expected Last time(not that it would have changed the game outcome even a little)

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Im game, live in CET zone but ill be able to game during the night anyway (seem like most ppl live over in N-America) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Hope to play as R'lyeh

WARNING: I´m also a noob http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Settings are World map, your choice of either Torvak's shiny one or the original Illwinter, as they're compatible with each other:
Sites max, Indies 6, resources normal, rare randoms, rename enabled. This may vary if the guy who runs the server for me forgets anything.

I'll have the guy bring up the server in a few hours when I see him on.

Same place as Last game: kludgemush.com 10811.

Kickoff tomorrow ~1700 MST good for Apep? Game will then run from then to whenever the first guy is about ready to pass out, probably Condors, and then we'll just let the thing run on quickhost until the next day where we pick it up again.

That work for everyone?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Because of his timezone, or because he's playing Ulm? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Both. Plus he was the first to die Last game. Ulmies have no endurance. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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yeah but we got the biggest hammers

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You're not using the bugfix mod? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Oh, how I slave away for you people... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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There's a bugfix mod? What all does it fix?

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Some units have incorrect natural protection, some have incorrect weapons (like the Ulm Black Forest commander), and some (like Rlyeh hybrids) were useless because they had no amdidextrity.

A lot have problems with their weapon order - most mounted units with lances, if given a magical shield, would drop their primary weapon.

These all get fixed. You can get it from Illwinter or my home page; it's quite small.

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Is it a 2.08 mod?

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It works correctly with 2.06 and 2.08.

I'd rename it to 2.081 but there are no additional changes, so...

[ March 04, 2004, 18:07: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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Eh. I'd use it, but something would probably go wrong. The server guy would probably forget to turn it on anyway, or something.

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Okay, ladies! Server is up and now taking sign-in.

kludgemush.com 10811, as I said before. Let's these wagons in a circle!

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Tommorow anytime sounds good, well till 1700 Mst since I have to work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif . Is mostly everyone playing from North America?

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Wait, so you PLAY then, or WORK then? You're confusing me now. Because that's when I was thinking we START.

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Signed up as marignon. Will be back later to check out what is happening.

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On march 5th i work at 5 mst- 10 PM. I am off in the morning. On March 4th (today) I have classes from 2-5 mst. After 5 PM mst for March 4th (today)I am off

[ March 04, 2004, 18:32: Message edited by: Apep ]

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Grah. This may make scheduling the game somewhat more difficult, since you lack a consistent schedule. It's possible you won't be able to play as a result. What's your schedule look like for the 6th? If we postpone the kickoff to then, probably giving more people the opportunity to check it out, can you make it on a more regular schedule for the better part of the rest of the week or so?

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Probably not http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif . Between school and work im booked usually. I can do march 7th all day after 1 MST probably. And on March 6th I can do after 7pm MST. Was hoping game would be just one long session. Wait, just added this, I am usually okay for the mornings Monday wednesday and friday till 12 mst. And at night usally after 5 mst m-f unless I work or give therapy.

[ March 04, 2004, 18:38: Message edited by: Apep ]

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Well, "one long session" is certainly a possibility: We did that Last game. But people started getting tired, cranky, and dropping after their first setback. Kids these days aren't what they used to be. In my day, it was nearly a given that kids would be able to outLast an old man like me, but nowadays they drop like flies, cut down by a combination of being raised in a Sloth-3 dominion and the increasingly endemic attention-span problems.

Whether or not you'll be able to attend the game, I suppose, depends on how well your schedule meshes up with anyone else's schedule.

So there's Apep's schedule. That okay with everyone, or do we push on with the more conventional after-1700, presumably when most normal day-people get back from work?

[ March 04, 2004, 18:47: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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Well whatever you decide just post the time and I will try to make it, If I cant Ill just try again next time. Thanks for trying to schedule the game for me though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif . I have to leave again but ill be checking Posts about 5mst today.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Last time was fun, but 3 hours before first real fighting, and 9 hours or so before I started fighting ermor(you) was a bit too long for me.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Someone used fairy trod to come knocking on his door with a hundred dark vines (which after a mass protection and massive fireflies burned merrily) and a bunch of tarrasques (which regenerated more than they burned).

That was fun. for me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When I got my main army annihilated by your 7-in-all-magic-paths vampire queen with my reatreating commanders dying, it removed any hope of the game being over for a long long time. And I was getting a bit tired after 13 hours.

Hmm.. watching the replay I just now noticed that the vampire queen was not your pretender... how much wishing did you do in that game? Your gem income was almost silly high http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif I wonder what I would have done if you spent all the gems on doom horrors...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I tried Doom Horrors earlier. They got wasted by Pythium. Clearly, Doom Horrors are not all they were cracked out to be, even though they totally own the AI and Indies.

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So....whats the final on the start off?

17:00(5:00 PM) MST? (Around 00:00 for me, gonna check it up)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Clearly? What did you send them against? They are not invincible, you know. And they are weak against afflictions, as are many units whose strength comes from their lifesteal ability. Did you give it a ring of regeneration and lucky amulet?

Note that if you're going to blow 100 pearls on a doom horror, spending 15 more gems on items is trivial. And empowering it in water (for quickness and breath of winter) or air (for mistform and mirror image) or fire (for fireshield) are virtually essential as well. A Pheonix Pyre'd 0-encumbrance life-stealing supercombattant is nearly invincible if Pheonix Pyre works. Only vulnerabilities would be... Drain Life spell and Curse.

[ March 04, 2004, 20:49: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, since it doesn't look like Apep will be able to make that, either....

Let's go with Condors Time: 1600 EST/1400 MST to 2100 EST/1900 MST then.

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Ok, and its still Tomorow? (Friday the 5th)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, I considered those options.

Then I figured if I was gonna go totally balls-to-the-wall with expenses, I may as well go for broke. The Doom Horror project got shelved.

That, and the problem of massing doom horrors is that it basically assures that my lab is going to burn down within 3 turns! As Ermor, this is particularly painful.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Looks that way. Not everyone else has signed in yet, plus I have to go tell the server guy to pull Apep since he can't make it this round.

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Okay, here's the current roll call:
Ermor: Me.
Ulm: Condors
R'lyeh: AztraGoth
Machaka: ?
Marignon: (dropped)Apep - scheduling incompatibility (better luck next time!)

Who's the mystery Machaka? Did Navrunner decide to go Machaka instead of Pyth or Marignon? Did somebody accidentally misclick, or do we have another player? I don't recall anyone calling Machaka.

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Some folk really got too much time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I have not signed in yet, I will try to sign in as Marignon.
Hmmm . . . the server does not appear to be up.

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Nuts. I'll have to crab at the server guy. It should probably be up in a few hours or so, he should be back by then.

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Hmm. So if you weren't Machaka, who was? That's strange.

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Okay, server should be back up, unless it crashes again. Try now.

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Well, Navrunner is in as Marignon. Looking for some revenge against my undead hordes this time, eh?

We STILL don't know who the mystery Machakan is. If he doesn't announce his actual intent to be in the game sometime, I may have to drop him.

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I might not make it tonight on the game so could you kick me out in the meantime.

I got called away about 30 min ago and I dont know when ill be home http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

But if i DO make it I will join, Im not just sure yet http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ March 05, 2004, 16:58: Message edited by: AztraGoth ]

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Sorry chaps, Machaka is me. Hope this isn't too late...

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Welp, kickoff in about 3 hours and 15 minutes. We'll see if AztraGoth makes it back in before then.

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Okay, so here's current roll call:

Ermor: Me.
Marignon: Navrunner
Machaka: Tommo
Ulm: Condors
R'lyeh: AztraGoth (currently dropped, may not make it in time)

We might be getting one more victim.

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Okay, game launches in about 10 minutes. Any time now, the server guy will probably bang the map.

Current Roll Call:
Ermor: Me
Caelum: Tujin
Machaka: Tommo
Marignon: Navrunner
Ulm: Condors

Looks like AztraGoth couldn't make it this round, as there's been no word from him and he hasn't re-checked in.

Let the carnage begin!

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I am here. Not necessarily looking for revenge, I just want to help the undead rest in peace.