Casual EA for busy schedules (now underway) - Page 13

Immaculate · #**121** December 22nd, 2009, 06:21 PM

okay, forcign the turn right now so this doesn't die.

sorry loup, sorry abyssia; you had plenty of time... i understand RL gets in teh way sometime but you need to get in touch with us or make arrangements for a sub...

please understand...

Louppatient · #**122** December 22nd, 2009, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Immaculate

okay, forcign the turn right now so this doesn't die.

sorry loup, sorry abyssia; you had plenty of time... i understand RL gets in teh way sometime but you need to get in touch with us or make arrangements for a sub...

please understand...

Hi,

I just had some connection problems, it should be OK now ...

No problem for the hosting, the game should go on

Immaculate · #**123** December 22nd, 2009, 07:43 PM

thanks for your understanding - i felt a little bad- espcially after i totally invaded you- Just jokes

LDiCesare · #**124** December 23rd, 2009, 09:30 AM

Regarding Abysia:
Abysia had been dead for 3 turns now. After he lost his pretender and all his remaining mages while his capital was under siege, he had no chance to survive, so forcing the host was reasonable.
I think once you are eliminated, you're supposed to send in your turn too in order for the game to host, although I'm not sure, so make sure that the game doesn't hold because it's waiting for a .2h from a dead nation.

I also think Abysia was a bit unlucky in initial placement. Too near T'ien Chi and Helheim, which resulted in a crowded southern continent.

Hoplosternum · #**125** December 23rd, 2009, 03:18 PM

It is best if you concede by turning your nation AI but sending in that last turn. Then there are no hosting issues and the AI can (incompetently) handle your last troops. Assuming your position is not viable.

GrudgeBringer · #**126** December 24th, 2009, 12:31 AM

Are we going to get this turn in and then delay the game, or are we extending THIS turn?

I would like to have us all get this turn in and then delay till whenever we agreed upon.

What say you kind souls

Hoplosternum · #**127** December 24th, 2009, 02:23 AM

I can probably get my turn in this evening.

Mardagg · #**128** December 25th, 2009, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by LDiCesare

Regarding Abysia:
I think once you are eliminated, you're supposed to send in your turn too in order for the game to host, although I'm not sure, so make sure that the game doesn't hold because it's waiting for a .2h from a dead nation.

Looks like this.
Abysia has been permanently vanquished,and is still listed as waiting for 2h file.
So,either a force host after tirnanog has played its turn or the admin setting Abysia to AI will solve the problem...otherwise we would have to wait for wednesday.

Immaculate · #**129** December 25th, 2009, 02:18 PM

I'm afraid to say this page is a trick, since in fact there is no way to automatically set a nation to AI.

The procedure is this:

1) Ask the player playing the dying nation to set themselves to AI. Many players fail to do so simply because they don't realise they're meant to set their nations to AI when they want to stop playing. If you ask them to, there's a good chance they will.

2) If that fails, you need to either do it yourself, or ask some trusted member of the community to do it. The disadvantage of doing it yourself is that you will see the position of the dying nation and its neighbours, which is a bit dodgy. Finding someone else to do it is a hassle though. I recommend asking someone else from that game who's already been knocked out, or else someone random you've played with before. If you always ask me or Gandalf, we will go mad.

3) Having found someone to set the nation to AI, you need to get the player's turn to them. To do that, change the nation's e-mail address to that player's address, and request a turn resend from the main game page. They then need to open the turn up in Dominions, set the player to AI and e-mail the resulting 2h file back to the LlamaServer.

Phew!

ummm... mojo- can you please just set yourself to AI.

GrudgeBringer · #**130** December 25th, 2009, 03:32 PM

Actually its realy not that hard...find a vet that has done this a number of times (POST in the MP forum you will get someone right away) about the time it hosts (or force hosing) and put his email in. turn hosts and when the next turn comes the nation is AI.

I have myself done this a number of times for games.

And YES it isn't good for anyone in the game to do it for reasons already stated

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