Re:Game restarted!!!
I always thought that you could tell a lawyer was lying because his lips moved! Or maybe it was Graham Grassbahl who is spreading these bald-faced untruths about the peaceloving nation of Caelum who is getting UNMERCIFULLY invaded by his aggressive neighbors!
Anyway, I see that the server is back up. So I restarted the game and it now seems to work. This also had the HUGE advantage of resetting the timer to 24 hours so that the four people who had been unable to move will not stale.
It would be very bad if this fine game were be ruined by Pasha Dawg or Deccan or Pickles getting a stale during such a critical time with their ongoing unprovoked invasions of a peaceloving neighboring nation.
So - you warmongers get your turns in!
As for peeking at peoples turns, as host, I have the master password in this game so I believe that I could conceivable look at other peoples turns. But if I had to stoop to that in order to win, then I would either have to shoot myself or become a lawyer due to the shame of it all. Besides, since I have consistently failed to predict where Deccan or Pasha and even Arco (his attack on my capitol was a huge surprise to me) were moving their armies during their invasions, so they can easily attest to the fact that I have never looked at anybody's turns. Nor will I ever do this.
So, my point is that I would have no problems trusting an honorable person hosting even though they could peek at other peoples turns. Someone needs to have a master password anyway in case something goes wrong and a turn file or two needs to be sent to Illwinter or to convert a missing player to AI.
I will also say that I had forgotten to assign a password in my Mictlan game and on two occasions, I saw stupid things in my turns that I simply could not remember actually doing. While it could be due to my increasing age, it also could be that my opponent whom I was at war with peeked and did something to me. I prefer to believe the former, much as it pains me to admit that memory is the second thing that goes.
I just hope my daughter in pre-law at the University of Caelum (formerly known as the University of Oklahoma) never reads this thread!
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