Casual PBEM (Full & playing)

[Baalz]

I don't know, my thought is for nice casual game a 10 day break (or whatever) should be fine, no big deal. The idea of having a set hosting schedule is to keep the game moving along at a reasonable pace whenever there is not a reason not to, but we can be pretty flexible as long as we're not just wondering if we're ever gonna hear back from somebody. FWIW, I second the suggestion for a 3 day max turn window without an excuse/reason. I'd also suggest that everbody try to take their turns as fast as they comfortably can whenever they don't have a reason not to...which is to say it'd be nice if some turns took less than 3 days.

[RicoRico]

redoing it with gmail account right now.. hotmail was EXTREMELY slow...
I really should sleep now so if this does not work I'll do it in the morning.

[johnarryn]

I did get your test, just not any files(my email is johnarryn@hotmail.com).

[FAJ]

I got your "test" e-mail this time

[Baalz]

ew, you don't want to post your email address like that out in public, bots scan the web for email addys and add you right to spam lists. Its usually a good idea to post something like:
My address is johnarryn at hotmail dot com...humans can read it but bots can't.

[Sorlakind]

RicoRico said:
redoing it with gmail account right now.. hotmail was EXTREMELY slow...
I really should sleep now so if this does not work I'll do it in the morning.

Received your test email (the one from hotmail) but nothing from gmail.

What do you mean by slow? When sending a file via hotmail, what happens is that the file is uploaded to the server and then delivered to all accounts. If you have a low upload bandwith it will be slow no matter you use hotmail or gmail (or any other method by that matter). But I suspect you know all this.

[RicoRico]

Yup I know, but my connection is quite fast.
I've now sent the 5 MB file using gmail again, this time it worked. Turn files won't be so large so we should be fine.
Have fun!

[Agrajag]

I got your Email with the 5mb attachment.
You don't need to send all the .trn files, just the one for the specific nation that player is playing.
If someone didn't setup a password, then someone could use his .trn file to access his nation and get free intelligence. (though I suspect the criminially minded could also do this to a passworded file).

I can see however why it would be easier to just zip it all up and send everyone the same thing. (And since I'm password protected, I'm not that worried )

[RicoRico]

hmm... It's quite a lot more work to send 16 emails, each with a different attachment, than just one email to all of you, with one zipped attachment. I'd quite prefer to keep sending all of the .trn files.
You all did use a password, right? And you're all sort of grown up enough not to want to cheat, right? :-P

Note to all: please put the game name, nation name and turn number in the subject line, makes it a bit easier for me to keep track later in the game. Thanks! (for lazy people, abbreviations are also fine, e.g. 'Casual arco 1')

[Agrajag]

Well, I'm no grown up, but I'm also no cheater