mid_Unlucky game on Gandalfs server (started)

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I connected and downloaded the turn file, then exited immediately. It took me a few attempts to connect.

Can we go back to a 72 hour clock on this game while we are waiting for the 308 patch updates to be sorted out?

Edit: On another note:

The Nation of Mictlan tires of wasting the blood of our virgins, protecting our nation from the misfortune that oozes from the dominion of the False God of Lanka. We hereby declare open war on Lanka. Friends of Mictlan in the North, we would not presume to acquire an unjust share of provinces from the monkey demons. Mictlan marches to engage Lanka's army on the glorious fields of battle. The weak Lankan colonies are up for grabs.

-- Zotz, Prophet of Mictlan

[thraveboy]

Dear Nations of the World..

Currently, the humble nation of Lanka has an alliance with six other nations and wishes to find one more to create the majority alliance in the land.

The people of Lanka have been a peaceful nation with very few borders and have never initiated war with any other nation. We ask for you support against the Mictlan invaders as they attempt to breach our borders. They will be weak in the Southern and Eastern borders that they leave unguarded as they initiate an attack to their North on our peaceful nation.

Any nation who joins us in the fight against Mictlan and attacks their weak borders will have our bond in blood with us for many years and we will split all of the treasures that we gain from the vanquishing of the Michtlan forces. We have many nations that can vouch for the generosity of the Lankan Nobles.

Please call out your bond with us and know that we are the more trustworthy ally.

Our counsels have said that they would especially honor the great nations of Helheim and C'tis to make our pact a supermajority.

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Ah, this must be the "dangerous super-alliance" the Niefel Giants warned Mictlan about. But are they not included in this alliance themselves?

Pray tell, whom have the great Lanka allied themselves with? Do you know what happened to the previous group of nations who joined forces with Niefel against Ermor, only to find themselves betrayed? Your other friend, C'Tis appears hard pressed to hold on to the provinces they rule, and is fleeing into independent lands. We would welcome them to hasten their own destruction by entering into the lands of Mictlan.

Mictlan counts four nations among Niefel, Ermor, C'Tis, and Lanka. Who are the other three in your unholy cabal, since you claim six allies? Or is it that Niefel, Ermor, and C'Tis are so big compared to Lanka that you count each of them twice?

Know that the free nations of this Unlucky world are honorable, fair and noble! Lanka's weak attempts at bribery will not succeed.

OOC: Anyone know if we're going to be able to submit a turn, and what version to use?

[Eressil3]

- I've just completed my research in the conjuration's school at level 9.
- All my mages are well equipped with all kind of magic boosting items.
- They're all in communion together and spend all my gems in a desperate attempt to summon a legendary creature : I name Gandalf Parker ! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon40.gif[/img]

Please tell us what is the state of the server ! What should we do ? Play our turn with 3.06 or 3.08 ?

[llamabeast]

My suggestion: Play with 3.06. That's the standard thing to do at this stage, and it can't break the server. In fact, keep playing with 3.06 until the server sends you a turn that you can't open using 3.06 - at which point you know you have to upgrade.

Actually I've been thinking quite hard about this stuff in trying to sort out my own server, so I'm pretty certain that's the correct thing to do.

[jimkehn]

It's too late...I already patched up and didn't make a copy. I think there are others in this boat as well. I will either have to wait until the server updates to 3.08 or go AI. And with the trouble I am having logging on, I may have to go AI.

8^(

[Blofeld]

Ermor had no contacts with Lanka nor Mictlan. We'd rather nobody implied that Ermor is in alliance with either of them.

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llamabeast said:
My suggestion: Play with 3.06. That's the standard thing to do at this stage, and it can't break the server. In fact, keep playing with 3.06 until the server sends you a turn that you can't open using 3.06 - at which point you know you have to upgrade.

Actually I've been thinking quite hard about this stuff in trying to sort out my own server, so I'm pretty certain that's the correct thing to do.

It's possible to have both 306 and 308 working together on linux:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&Number=517876

[Saint_Dude]

What is this chatter about Niefel being allied with the monkeys? It is insulting. We have we have not had any contact with Lanka, and in fact have been warning Mictlan about Lanka's claims of a super alliance.

We are very interested to find out if this super alliance is in fact a reality or merely a smoke screen put up by the monkeys to deter aggressors. If real, it poses a significant long term threat to all the other non-allied nations and steps must be taken to counter that aggregation of power.

We hereby declare: Assuming that there are indeed other nations allied with the Lanka, but they too cowardly to come forth and admit their devious agreements. We fully support Mictlan's efforts to wipe this earth clean of the monkey filth. Any nation that intercedes on Lanka's behalf in this struggle will be considered to be part of the hidden super alliance, and will find themselves the enemy of Niefel (and hopefully many other conscientious non aligned nations).