kicked from a pbw game, anything i can do?

wilhil · #1 October 28th, 2005, 11:25 AM

Hi

I have been playing star trek evolution for a few weeks, I was number one ranked in the game, and had been doing things in it for absoloutly AGES, I felt very happy as this was only my second pbw game I have ever done.

the game admin kicked me, I am not sure if it is because of late turns as he said "slackers will be kicked" or if it is because of my empire, I will explain in a min, anyway, he has not answered any of my emails, and on the pbw page it says my empire is dead.

I have been really busy over the past 2 weeks as I have been upgrading all my servers here (been reinstalling win 2k3 and changing network topology) basically it has overrun to 2 weeks, as everyone knows, things like this always take longer than you expect.

I sent a email saying let the AI take my turns until I get back as I have done long production queues, but nothing.

The other thing was my empire had klingon tech as well as pirate, as orion, but when I joined the game, I was told I can have this, it was only for a weapon mount much later on, and if I was told, I would not of used it.

I invested a lot of time, and I was number 1, I jus feel like a fool

is there anything I can do? or can anyone recommend another game that needs a player, or a new one starting soon?

Thanks

Slick · #2 October 28th, 2005, 12:30 PM

Everyone has real life issues from time to time. It is considered good form to make RL issues known to other players ASAP so that they are not frustrated by late turns. The player should also attempt to get a temporary or replacement player so as not to hold up the game.

If game rules were stated ahead of time, even gentlemen's rules, and they were broken, the game admin should take action for fairness of other players who did follow the rules. If this was done unintentionally, it's a learning experience. If it was done intentionally, or carelessly not not reading the game rules - which is also intentional, then this can damage a player's reputation. In games that use role playing, it should be expected that the "evil, backstabbing" empire will be evil and backstab - that's not a black mark on the player's name for role playing in-character.

As you stated, since SEIV takes a long time to play multiplayer and people do invest a lot of time in a game, they want to have fun. I even enjoy my own buttkikkins and take them as learning experiences. This community is very mature and pretty accomodating, but be aware that a player's in-game reputation does cause others to evaluate participating in a game. I personally give all players the maximum benefit of the doubt of being a good sport right off the bat - unless proven otherwise in-game; in which case I don't make a big deal out of it, but just don't play in games with poor sports.

Just my 1x10^-2 dollars.

Renegade 13 · #3 October 28th, 2005, 03:08 PM

Well, for the "what can I do" part, the only thing you can really do is what you've already done, contact the game admin. The problem is, once an empire has been declared dead like yours has, I don't think there's any way to bring it back and have a player take it over. So unfortunate as it may be, I think you may be out of luck. Sorry

I know it sucks to invest so much time in something, then have it all for nothing. But think of it this way; you had fun while it lasted, didn't you?

Atrocities · #4 October 28th, 2005, 04:27 PM

This is what you get when you fail to inform the game host that your going to miss turns. Most are fed up with people joining their games just to miss a [censored] load of turns without ever mentioning as to why. I am sure the other players were glad to see you kicked after missing turns.

capnq · #5 October 28th, 2005, 05:52 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
The problem is, once an empire has been declared dead like yours has, I don't think there's any way to bring it back and have a player take it over.

This is incorrect. A PBW admin can change the status of the empire to let someone take it over again.

In this case, we'd need the game host to tell us he was willing to have you reinstated.

capnq
PBW admin

Renegade 13 · #6 October 28th, 2005, 06:41 PM

Oops. Thanks for the correction!

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 October 28th, 2005, 07:26 PM

In case you missed it, Wilhil said he told the game host he would be absent.

wilhil · #8 October 28th, 2005, 07:32 PM

I sent a email to everyone in the game saying that I would be absent for about 1 week, but I have long queues set up, I even got someone to post in the in game forum on my behalf to tell the game admin, but he just does not check his emails and I did not see any reply to the comment made in the forum, but above all that, I did my last 2 turns, been playing for a while, left the game for about 1 and a half weeks, but had it set up to work with lists when I was gone, came back, did 2 turns, then I was kicked.

I hate that person! but I am in a diffrent game with him where he is not the admin, so I am going to hunt him down!

anyway, anyone got any open slots in any other star trek mod game, hopefully with turns above 48 hours prefered...

Thanks

edit - look at my post number!

dogscoff · #9 October 29th, 2005, 02:19 PM

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I hate that person! but I am in a diffrent game with him where he is not the admin, so I am going to hunt him down!

Carrying grudges across games is considered very bad form. Be careful.

Atrocities · #10 October 28th, 2005, 10:33 PM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
In case you missed it, Wilhil said he told the game host he would be absent.

If that is the case and he was kicked then he has every right to be be ticked off. In cases like this, it is often easier to assign him back to his empire. However since the empire has been taken over..... move on.