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[Hubris]

As a lesson though, you should always have strict rules on everything when you're the host.

[Zooko]

Yes, it's true. Sorry for my laxness.

The remaining team which hasn't announced their first pick should announce their first pick, that's King Lear and Ioticus. After that, we'll go in reverse order for announcing second pick. Stay tuned for more detail.

[Zooko]

I earlier posted:

Zooko and Arc -- Ulm
King Lear and Ioticus -- ?
Tauren and Panther -- Machaka
Griffin of Buerrig and Hacker Pschor (if they are still interested) -- Jotunheim
Hubris and Aku -- Ctis

But I made a mistake: according to the thread history Ioticus asked for Machaka before Tauren and Panther did, and I didn't see it.

So, the current nation choices in the order that they were called is:

Griffin of Buerrig and Hacker Pschor -- Jotunheim
King Lear and Ioticus -- Machaka
Zooko and Arc -- Ulm
Hubris and Aku -- Ctis
Tauren and Panther -- Marignon

If everyone accepts the choices so far, then the next step is for Tauren and Panther to announce their second pick, then Hubris and Aku, then Zooko and Arc, then King Lear and Ioticus, then Griffin and Hacker Pschor.

[Aku]

alright panther/tauren team do your 2nd pick

[Aku]

bump for panther/tauren team to see

what is your 2nd pick? you are up

[The Panther]

Tauren moved off to college yesterday. He has yet to come up on line from his dorm room. I expect it will take a few days for him to get settled in with the school computer.

He does know that he needs to decide on a nation, as Machaka was his pick.

[Zooko]

I'm going to configure the server to send an e-mail message to a list of addresses announcing the availability of a new turn. If you want your e-mail address to be on that list, then please post your e-mail address here, or send e-mail to "zooko@zooko.com" with the string "DOM2" in the subject line. (So that I will notice your mail and not delete it as spam.)

I personally love getting e-mail announcing new turns, so that I don't waste hours of my time compulsively re-connecting to see if a new turn is up.

[Zooko]

Ugh. I just spent way too much of my time trying to choose 10 starting locations on the Inland map so that it would be fair -- i.e. no starting nation is surrounded by enemies and cut off from his ally and so forth. It doesn't seem possible without a lot of work. Hm... I *could* write a computer program to do it...


*Or*, we could have (gulp) random starting locations, or, um, we could take turns choosing our starting location, or something else.

I think I'll go experiment with writing a computer program to do it...