New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[Alneyan]

The turn has run, either shortly before or after your message; I was the one unexpectedly away for the day, but now it should be fine.

[PashaDawg]

Hi All:

I am back and can take over hosting at Alneyan's leisure.

Pasha

[Cainehill]

*sigh* And apparently we are once again waiting on someone, for turn two, something that should only take someone a minute or two at most.

This reminds me why I normally avoid 17 player games like the plague.

[PashaDawg]

I received the turn for only one player for turn 2. Perhaps, all others have been sent to Alneyan, and so, I have forwarded it to him.

Pasha

[Alneyan]

ALneyan here, not on my computer, so I'll keep it short (that thing will crash any second now): I cannot host anything right now, and won't get back online until tonight at the earliest, in a few days more likely. I'll see once I can get that network up and running.

THere's a problem here though, and a big one: one player told me I put the fatherland by mistake in one of the zip files... which is about the dumbest thing that can be done. I can't check right now, but if it is indeed the case, it may warrant a restart. If I could do it right now, I would probably restart the game and redo the whole turns 1 and 2, but that would be difficult with no stable computer under my hand.

[Huntsman]

Yup, the ftherlnd file is in the zip. Why is that bad?

[Cainehill]

Because with the fatherland, people can host a copy of the game for themselves. This lets them see exactly what independent forces there are, what magic sites are in provinces (example : run the game out 30 turns researching conjuration; then cast Akashic record on provinces, which then lets them know exactly where to search in the real game), etc.