MP: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI. Game Over. Team ACGHHS wins!

[Septimius Severus]

We are moving forward! Onward! Upward! I say. We can and we shall live with the results of the double host. It really is not a big deal. Now lets get our turns in and concentrate on future actions. Current turn = 37. There is blood to be spilled and a victor to be declared. Let us look forward rather than back. And for those of you who don't quite know what to do with your extra gold, you may send it to me, care of Fomoria. I will know how best to use it. If anyone needs a replacement turn 37 (the last .trn in your inbox) or is unsure of something, ask Gandalf or myself and it will be sent to you.

With regard to cutting the middleman out (me) well that sort of weakens my over all control of things and can result in a nightmarishly confusing situation where every player in the game sends a delay request to Gandalf, resulting in the need for clarification from Gandalf on the total delay or else in turns running on forever. We need to balance liberality of delays with the need to actually keep the game from getting mired in endless delays and rollbacks. As admin that is generally my job.

Gandalf is working on a system to get me direct control so this may be a moot question. Failing that, yes, we could work out something where the delay request comes directly to Gandalf from say the Captain's only. But as I say, it will probably not be neccessary, I am online enough that if I have direct control of the server I can handle most delays myself without bothering Gandalf.

[rdonj]

I have no problem with just forging on ahead

[Gandalf Parker]

No offense people but if I had wanted to run another game I would start a thread and run a game. A long time ago I got out of that. I much prefer to host other peoples games.

At any time I have from 20 to 60 Dom3 games running on my server. Presently 4 of those are larger multiplayer games like this one. Besides that the server also does webhosting, email accounts, personal logins, and two online worlds. All of which I take a personal hand in. And all of that is besides my #1 job which has total unconditional control over my time 24 hours a day.

I am the server running Septimius game the way he wants it.
I am also willing to run your games the way you want.
http://www.dom3minions.com/HostingGames.htm
In fact, I hope some of you decide to run your own game. *evil grin*

[Septimius Severus]

Hurray for Gandalf! I now have direct server control via e-mail and can implement delays and force host myself. So no need to bug him. Let us give him thanks in the above post. He is working on other commands/controls for this and or future games.

And now I perceive that is time for another installment of the Thread Bumper Interview series:

"Recently, I had a chance to sit down with the legendary DrPraetorious, veteran Captain of the mighty Deva's Darlings. The Dr. was kind enough to take some time from his busy killing spree to answer a few questions for us."

"Q: Doctor, the Deva's are clearly a powerful team with strong nations helmed by experienced and skillful players. Perhaps because of this, and for other reasons, there are some including your arch rivals (ACGHHS), who say that the Deva's are evil and must destroyed at all costs lest they corrupt the world entire. What do you have to say about this? Also, can you tell us what this 'slay-o-matic' thing is?

"A: I'm merely notorious, not legendary. Team ACHOO view us as their primary rivals, so their opinions are hardly unbiased. I say that ACHOO is much closer to a tartarian factory than we are, and need to be killed before they can launch it. That said, neither the Mysterious nor Blessed Ones should do anything that isn't to their own advantage. Everyone still has a chance to win. But hitting the most immediate threat (us) so that the long term threat (team ACHOO) can build Tarts without being challenged is exactly the wrong way to do things. Easy-slay(TM) is a whole new way of marketing violence. It cuts down on all the red tape and just butchers people. As a long-time savagery enthusiast myself, I'm very excited about the synergies that the easy-slay(TM) approach brings to the entire enterprise."

"Q: Have you found the position of team Captain difficult or challenging in any way? And if so how?"

"A: It's more work, certainly. The players on my team have really risen to the occasion, they're playing very well with excellent flexibility and teamwork. If we're doing well, the credit goes to them. If you've got a good team, being a captain isn't that hard, really, although you have to play well enough yourself to be taken seriously. I think I'm playing better this game than I usually do, with that extra motivation."

"Q: On a scale of 1-10, (10 being most likely) how likely do you rate your team's chances at winning?"

"A: 10! Seriously? Less than 50%, but more than 25%. 4? It's hard enough to predict the future, harder still when your prediction might change the outcome."

[chrispedersen]

Thanks gandalf =)
When do you put it on the server page = ).

[rdonj]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

I am the server running Septimius game the way he wants it.
I am also willing to run your games the way you want.
http://www.dom3minions.com/HostingGames.htm
In fact, I hope some of you decide to run your own game. *evil grin*

I've actually run several of my own games, so I know what kind of headache they can be.

[Septimius Severus]

Pyg, now I know what Cacrolinaas is. At the time I thought perhaps you had gotten into the moonshine on that small farm of yours.

If anyone needs me to update the opening post to more accurately reflect your team's current roster of active and alternate players just let me know.

Team update:

The Mysterios have decided that we will fight on to the finish, until we are victorious or are the only team still standing, or else we are defeated.

Game update:

3 hours till host, 5 turns still outstanding:

Arcoscephale
Caelum
Helheim
Mictlan
Tienchi

Strangely no requests for delays have been received yet.

[Septimius Severus]

Well, not knowing whether these 5 stales are purposeful or not, to give people some more time, and to test out the new e-mail control (yipee) I am going to extend the current turn by 10 hours just in case.

Edit: Done, hmmm, though should say +12 hours till hosting rather than -10, hmm, somewhat odd results. Maybe I should revoke my thanks from the previous post. Anyway, Gandalf has been informed of the delay and the display thing.

[GrudgeBringer]

I just checked the site where all the info is and it says 12 hours. This morning at 7 Am CST USA (five hours and fifteen minutes ago it more than ample time for me too get a turn in....

Then I get a message from Chris that I had 3 hours to get a turn in at approx noon my time.

So I ask...How long do we have from turn to turn in hours and minutes. I don't want an approximate or an about... I want an exact amount of time from the time the turn is sent out to when its supposed to be sent in. All these problems about stales and different amounts of time is making this a royal pain.

I have a business to run and don't sit around a computer all day.

I am also in 3 other games and don't seem to have problems getting those turns in.

If you think I am Bi******, you are absolutely correct.

[Septimius Severus]

Sorry Grudge, me and Chris are on EST, so sometimes I forget that everyone is not in the same time zone. Like in the above post I said 3 hours till host, I should have said 3 hours EST or 6 hours PST. PST is more accurate as it is the actual server time. Same thing applies with Llamaserver (except the server time is GMT not PST). But in any event it was getting rather close so I gave everyone an extra 10 hours just in case, though I'm sure you'll probably not need to use it all.

The current hosting interval is 56 hours/0 minutes.

At turn 41, depending upon your vote, this will either change to 48, 56, or 64 hours.