Abandon planet!

[geoschmo]

Sure it's viable. And I recomend it.

I can host the game if you'd like. I don't really need to play in it. You two can play each other, and invite others if you want.

First thing you have to decide is game settings. Then you have to create and send me your .emp files. I would then generate the first turn and send it back to you and you would play it. fter each turn you would send me your .plr file and I would send you back the next turns .gam file.

Easy.

Another good way to learn fast is to play a simultaneous turn game by yourself against the AI on your own computer. Then you can play each turn and do the host part and process the next turn with no waiting on anybody else. That's a quick way to learn the differences between sim-turn multiplayer and standard single player turn based SEIV.

THe two major differences are your orders don't happen the secoond you give them, they wait until the host process the turn. And there is no tactical combat, so you have to adjust the way you design ships and the makeup of your fleets.

Geoschmo

[Growltigga]

G, this is extremely decent of you. Please dont worry about your speed and availability, I do not think the game (even the practice) will kick off until later on in February as (for Gryphin's benefit) I am spending the next week and a half overseas for work (taking a laptop so can still surf the forum)and am then in Arizona for a week and then Madrid for a week. The practice game will kick off after then.

Any suggestion that this delay is because I need to work out how to play the game will be fiercely denied and treated as libel

Geo, you are a gent for offering

[Growltigga]

Gryphin
Thanks for that - I am really looking forward to Arizona - in no way seeking to offend any Arizonans out there (Alpha Kodiak, Wardad etc), I wasn't looking forward to it at all when I got the wedding invite from my mate - hardly my first choioce of locale - but having bought a rough guide, checked it out and spoken to friends who have been there, I am really excited -there seems an awful lot to see (still shocked about the cost of car hire $300 to hire a Grand Am for one week - robbing swine!!) - Madrid will be cool, I have been before and think it is a great city - Shryka - if you read this, you are a lucky girl indeed to live in Madrid - great place

Just booked my summer holiday as well - two weeks in Bali in September, 1 week in Iclenad in October and looking at 2 weeks in Australia in December - ggod thing about my job is the amount of holiday I get

I too will take full advantage of the time to practice - I have just started a simult game and it is very very different

QUESTION - using the load cargo order, is there any way to limit the amount of cargo your freighter actually picks up (save manually using the transfer cargo order) other than a full load?

Again, Geo, you are a gent and should be entered in the SEIV annals as St Geo the first

[Gryphin]

Growltigga, I lost count of then number of days you have off, I get a total of 15, ant the Last 5 I have to beg for. I was adding up your airfare in my head and wondering how you can growse about the cost of a car rental. I have photos from hikes I have taken in the area around Tucson. I grudgingly admit my X the pic of the sunset.
http://www.windingstream.com/arizona.html

Looks like I better start a simultaneious game. Thanks for the suggestion.
Happy landings.

[Growltigga]

Gryphin, I get 35 days off a year but I have 26 to carry over from Last year and 17 from the year before that so it gives you an idea of how able we are to take them - I lose all accruals if I dont take them this year so provided that the global recession does kick in, I intend to spend as much time as possible lounging around on a foreign beach looking at bikini clad girls

Is that a picture of you on a rock or a snapshot of a small furry woodland creature, I couldn't tell

After 9/11 the airfare was cheap - I have airmiles so flights for two cost me $100 - how is that for a deal?

great photos - not a line dancer in sight which is just what I like

[Gryphin]

Still I suspect you work 60 plus hours a week. I only "work" 40, but a lot of that is "play" to me. Hmm, like right now when I should be installing software. Yes that is not me, though you could mistaken me for a wolverine,porqupine, and owl if you get to know me.
Enjoy the girls, I'll settle for one I meet on a mountain trail someday. Beaches bore me. There are a few pics of my face on the Comments page. Ok, now enough Off Topic

[geoschmo]

Oh, Febuary. I though you wanted to start something sooner than that. I should hope PBW will be back up by then. You won't really need me to host it. Of course if you have any questions about how to start it, or still want a third party to be the game owner, let me know.

If PBW is not back up by then, well I'll be sad.

Geoschmo

[Growltigga]

Geo
I personally would still like you involved on the 50 turn practice session - your input as an old pro of SEIV would be much appreciated.

I have no idea how to start a game off, what is a ".prl" file anyway

you must understand that me and computers have an arrangement where generally we dont bother one another

[Gryphin]

geoschmo, Growltigga,
I'm ready to try a 50 turn game if you are, BTW: my email is: gryphin@windingstream.com if that makes communication easier. I also have
ICQ (forgot my number)
Yahoo Messenger: stream54
Looking foward to playing human or Growtigga.

[Growltigga]

quote:

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Looking foward to playing human or Growtigga.

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ouch, that hurt!!