MP Chronicles_EA: Second-pass Signup and Discussion - Page 34

Wrana · #**331** April 11th, 2009, 02:04 PM

I may drop out of the game. No neighbors and slow turns are bad for keeping interest.

Please, include Lanka while looking for subs (if the game will continue, that is).
In case of voting for who'd written the best texts in this project, I vote for Darkwind.

Darkwind · #**332** April 11th, 2009, 03:42 PM

I don't want to give up on this game just yet.

And you have me for a neighbor!

But, I do agree we might want to speed the turns up a little. Stopping half a week for every person who starts dropping out isn't going to help the people-dropping-out problem. Maybe set the turn to early Sunday and try to keep on track after that (obviously if something big comes up we won't be able to, but it's a slow game anyways so there's not much need otherwise to keep people from staling (unless they chronically procrastinate like me, in which case they (and me) should break the habit))(that was an excessive use of parentheses

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Ruminant · #**333** April 12th, 2009, 05:20 AM

Alright, we're hosting in just under four hours and we're gonna keep on every 48 hours. No more stoppage.

I'll try to find subs for Ulm/Maverni and tentatively start looking for a Lanka sub, though I hope you change your mind once the turns start rolling past Wrana

Ruminant · #**334** April 14th, 2009, 02:00 PM

Phew. For a moment there I scared myself into thinking Mictlan was still a human player; ignore this post people, it's merely a by-product of a late night

Will edit the wiki in the morning.

Baalz · #**335** April 14th, 2009, 03:07 PM

So, after a quarter of a year playing we're on turn 14 of this game, have 12 nations left, 3 of whom need subs, and we're playing on a map with 466 provinces. Sorry, but I'm going to have to suggest that this game is dead. Is there any strong sentiment to keep playing by many people?

Incabulos · #**336** April 14th, 2009, 05:00 PM

I think it's dead Jim.

Wrana · #**337** April 14th, 2009, 07:31 PM

I've already voted for winner.

I'd also say that the following are things that went wrong:
1. We started this project at the same time as MA game. It would be better if we looked how it would turn out first.
2. Some confusion with game threads at start. Maybe it was insignificant, but still...
3. The time spent to set up wiki. I don't see that it added particularly to this project, but it took time and took still more while we learned something about wiki (the latter may still prove useful, but it was still time...)
Maybe some other things I've missed?

Darkwind · #**338** April 14th, 2009, 08:00 PM

Well, I'd like to keep on playing, but if the overwhelming sentiment is that the game is dead then I'll live. That is a rather large number of dropouts, too.

Plus, I haven't been keeping up with AARS lately (though I've been meaning too), sine I've been spending my time messing around with the falling sand game.

Ruminant · #**339** April 15th, 2009, 04:42 AM

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed the game at the start I have to admit my enthusiasm is lagging too after all the crap that's going on. We're down to 8 active players on a 466 province map and it's the kind of game that's going to be hell finding subs for. Let's take this thing off life support and let it fade gently away into the night... *sniff* Poor EA Chronicles, you were too beautiful for this world.

Kudos to everyone who participated, and especially those who wrote on the wiki

Edit: And to Agarthan Raider, sorry to make you come in for the last two turns of the game. Thanks again for the sub.

Darkwind · #**340** April 16th, 2009, 06:34 AM

Well, majority opinion seems to be that the game is dead (plus only Tifone and Baalz have turned in their turns at this point) so I suppose it's tie to end this game. It was fun while it lasted

So, with the game ending this early, is there a winner?