PBEM game: The first step (Running)

[Alneyan]

Alchemising gems into gold early on can be a solution, if you *need* that money (if it allows you to build a Mystic for example, or if you need just one more gold coin to build a fort on this turn, and so on). I would probably not use the gems to buy a regular army, unless the situation was truly awful.

On the other hand, fire gems are not necessarily important in the game, as they are of limited use to most nations. Earth gems are likely more useful, and they give less when alchemised to gold, so you will probably not want to alchemise those. I would also stay away from alchemising astral pearls to fire pearls to get more gold, as astral pearls will be of use to all the nations. Even if you are no Astral nation, astral pearls can be converted in gems you need, like Death or Nature.

[Shmonk]

Thanks! I have learned yet another thing about Dom2. Here I was only doing the one way (fire or earth to gold, and everything else to pearl), not getting the part that it works the other way as well. This clears up a lot of things.

[Molog]

Turn 5

Made some agreements and deals.

I don't like the dom2 messaging interface, there is no way to see what messages you send or to who you send them when typing. I'm afraid I might send a message to the wrong person and reveal my secret alliance with Ermor.

Hector Stark(15 knights) is available for purchase at a 220 gold starting bid. Or 412 gold if you are Pangea.

Gynther Blukraft could be stolen from Aeroscale.

[Alneyan]

Oh, thanks for reminding me I should give a list of all players and their mails. It should be made available tonight or tomorrow morning (GMT). It would be much better to handle messaging by mails: it allows for easy reference, and is much faster... plus, good luck for correcting typos in a Dom 2 message.

[En Forcer]

No kidding! The email list would be quite handy.

[Agrajag]

As long as you don't post them in a way that they might get into some spam list...
Somehow every Email I have ended up flooded with Junk Mail, even those I took special care not to give out anywhere.
My current account is the only one I have left that is free of Junk Mail so far.
As for the latest turn, it seems to have gone pretty well.
The only thing Im worried about is that others seem to do way better than I do (as far as the statistics go atleast).

[Alneyan]

The roster with mails will be sent in a mail, as posting mails is a risky move.

[RibbonBlue]

"Secret alliance with Ermor" is he trying to double trick us and say he has an allaince when he really doesnt? does he really have an allance? who knows?!!

[Alneyan]

RibbonBlue said:
Who knows?!!

I do! I am mister know-it-all, you know.

[Agrajag]

Just so everyone knows, my computer got infected with a nasty virus, I think I managed to overcome it (Yay for Norton + Task Manager!) but just in case I suddenly vanish, you'll know what happened.
That was a tough one to handle!
I had to AdAware it for all of its friends, I had to update my Norton Antivirus, I had to manually delete several files via cmd and I had to kill several proccesses so that I will be able to delete the master virus file.
If I was a bit smarter It would have probably taken only an hour, maybe half an hour, but it took my almost six :\.
So if your homepage is suddenly a spyware searchpage, your google results are sqewed (Lavasoft's AdAware replaced with Yavasoft's adaware) and your desktop suddenly changes, you'll know you got what I did, and that it can be defeated with Norton Antivirus.
Hooray for Norton!
*No, this is not a commercial for Norton*

EDIT: Interesting, even reinstalling the Google Toolbar after the virus was removed didnt fix it...
Maybe its something in the registery that the Google Toolbar doesnt delete when uninstalled...
Well, I hope this doesnt mean the virus is still here, and I can live without Google Toolbar...