[Newbie PBW] Master of Orion 3

Unknown_Enemy · #1 March 18th, 2003, 01:04 AM

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Final question. If I turn on all ministers and click end turn; Will I win?

If you were at war against me and Alpha Kodiak, like in the original game by Deathstalker, then you would probably win

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But as we are not playing in this one, you would loose

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Alpha Kodiak · #2 March 18th, 2003, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:

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Final question. If I turn on all ministers and click end turn; Will I win?

If you were at war against me and Alpha Kodiak, like in the original game by Deathstalker, then you would probably win .

But as we are not playing in this one, you would loose .

I still have scorch marks on the walls of my office from the abuse my fleets took in that one!

Fyron · #3 March 18th, 2003, 01:15 AM

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What about replacement players?

He meant, "what procedures are you going to have for finding replacements if and when people drop out of the game? What will be done with turn processing while looking for replacements? etc."

geoschmo · #4 March 18th, 2003, 01:17 AM

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Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:
But anyway, there is still a bug in the PBW interface. I cannot accept new players. It is aknown bug due to problems experimented by the server some days ago.

So when we have reached a suffisant number, I will ask the PBW admin to accept all players.

This is not neccesary. You can accept players yourself. You will get a 500 error, but they will be accepted. Once you have them accepted at some point later they will revert to pending if the players don't upload their empires right away. To avoid this after you have them accepted go to the game admin screen and hit the button to "Update Options". You don't have to change anything, just hit the update button.

Geoschmo

[ March 17, 2003, 23:19: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Unknown_Enemy · #5 March 18th, 2003, 01:20 AM

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He meant, "what procedures are you going to have for finding replacements if and when people drop out of the game? What will be done with turn processing while looking for replacements? etc."

DUUUUHHHH !
I will evaluate the position of his empire. If it is hopeless, I will mark it as dead. If not, I would say we'll wait a max of 3 days while advertising to find areplacement. If no replacement come out you'll have another AI to trample.

tbontob · #6 March 18th, 2003, 06:05 AM

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Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:

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He meant, "what procedures are you going to have for finding replacements if and when people drop out of the game? What will be done with turn processing while looking for replacements? etc."

DUUUUHHHH !
I will evaluate the position of his empire. If it is hopeless, I will mark it as dead. If not, I would say we'll wait a max of 3 days while advertising to find areplacement. If no replacement come out you'll have another AI to trample.

Fyron got it right.

Possibly our host hasn't read the postings in the Newbie Galactic Conflict threads.

In a nutshell, the game was cancelled because of 7 or 8 players had the same IP addresses in Russia. Most of them came into the game as replacement players.

The evidence points to one or more players running 2 or more empires. This is clearly illegal.

But there is another aspect of the game which is not normally addressed. The replacement player can be encouraged to join by another player for the purpose of forming an alliance against others. This is not illegal but is considered by most players to be improper. The fact that the two empires are located side by side makes them a very powerful alliance.

I was blockaded in a corner by such a powerful alliance and I really do not want to repeat the experience. And, I wasn't the only one, apparently the Fiery Gekhos found themselves in the same position.

A much fuller explantion of this phenomina is given in the Newbie Galactic Conflict threads.

Unknown_Enemy · #7 March 18th, 2003, 05:39 PM

Hmm...
Most of the time, there will be alliances in the game. It is a vital part of the game.

If an alliance decided in game cornered you and killed you, well I am sorry to hear but that's the game. The only problem I would see is that you could be cornered so easily. Problem of player placement then.

On the newbie galactic conflict problem, I am afraid if it cannot be detected by the email adresses, then it is a game killer. Any suspicious behavior should be reported ASAP.