TheEndofTime - started

[JimMorrison]

So, what's up with Calahan? I had kind of missed it happening, but he passed off Ermor to Micah, because he couldn't put in turns? I'm just asking, because he is signed up for a new game, and I thought that was odd. And not that I even would care at all, just that the game is almost entirely full of real newcomers (6 months or less on the forums), and now LA Ermor seems to permanently be in the hands of the winningest MP player in the forums, who has defeated much better than us with that same somewhat unbalanced nation.

[johnarryn]

Calahan actually did come back, but preferred to let Micah keep Ermor, as Micah had played far more turns.

And yes, Micah is ridiculously good. So, i'd keep an eye on him =)

[JimMorrison]

Welllll, I have heard nasty rumors of an anomalous empty area in the NW portion of the map. The whole thing is just starting to look really silly, with an extremely good player playing the strongest nation in the game, with a distinct advantage in room to grow, while a bunch of newbs duke it out with eachother, waiting to be destroyed.

I guess I really just want to be the first to congratulate the winner, Micah.

[Revolution]

JimMorrison said:
Welllll, I have heard nasty rumors of an anomalous empty area in the NW portion of the map. The whole thing is just starting to look really silly, with an extremely good player playing the strongest nation in the game, with a distinct advantage in room to grow, while a bunch of newbs duke it out with eachother, waiting to be destroyed.

I guess I really just want to be the first to congratulate the winner, Micah.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. I for one am glad to have Micah playing with us.

[Calahan]

JimM and All

When I signed up for this game my computer and Dominions were both running fine :-) But I only managed to make one turn before the 3.17 patch came out, and for me the patch came with problems. The combo of new patch, new windows XP SP3, and new Ati drivers, was more than my faithful old video card could handle, so it promptly decided to quit the show all together while I was fumbling around with drivers and settings trying to get Dom 3.17 to work. This sadly forced me out of the 2 MP games I was in at the time :-( while I sorted out a new video card.

I managed to find subs for both my MP games, Micah in this game, and johnarryn in Glory. I was hoping that both subs would be on a temporary basis, as both games were going to be my first real taste of MP :-) so I was eager to play them. It unfortunately took me about 2 weeks to get my computer fixed, which was far longer than I'd hoped for :-( (crappy delivery service at fault)

Once up and running again, I contacted Micah and johnarryn to tell them that I could resume my games :-) But in contacting them, I also gave them the option of continuing the games if they wished to do so. Both of them expressed an interest in continuing to play, so they both then became permanent subs for me in these games. I was happy to let them do this, as I felt it was only fair on them. Since they had both subbed me on turn 2, and all the hard work done in the game so far had been done by them. I had done nothing except design the Pretenders (which might not exactly have been a bonus for them!).

I'm grateful to both Micah and johnarryn for subbing me (thanks again guys!) I guess in an ideal world I would have found subs who had the same ability level as me, so as not to unbalance the game. But this isn't always possible due to time and the nature of subbing itself.

Sorry for all the rambling, but thought I'd give some background on why I needed to be subbed in the first place.

And my apologies to all those Micah is using, and will use, his (considerable) Dominions skill against.

Cal

[JimMorrison]

Was just curious Calahan. Would have rather my first game involving Micah had been under other circumstances, but I'm not mad, or going to stop playing because of it. Good luck in your other games.

[Calahan]

Cheers JimM :-)

Just started 2 new MP games, so looking forward to 'finally' getting my Diminions MP gaming underway :-) after several false dawns. (walks round house touching every wooden object in sight)

Up til recently I had the fantastic MP experience of :-

'Glory' - 1 turn then re-start.
'Glory2' - 1 turn then my computer died.
'EndofTime'- 1 Turn then my computer died.
'Huntsgame' - 2 Turns as sub, then server (lch/GP) died.

4 games, 5 turns in total. Can anyone beat that introduction to Dominions MP-ing! :-)

New games running smoothly so far, although I'm finding time is tight at the moment since I'm bloody playing PSI-5 all the time now! :-) (downloaded it from Underdogs and running it on Dosbox)

Fecking Skronts's are doing my head in!

[Micah]

Hey now, Atlantis is doing better than I am, he's even beating me in dominion, of all things. Plus I got stuck with this absurd drain scale. Props to Pangaea for doing an excellent cockroach impression as well, I've been having a much harder time than I expected squishing him.