PBEM Multiplayer Game: No new positions (was "New Multiplayer Game") - Page 11

rabelais · #**101** February 25th, 2004, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by von_Schmidt:
Sounds like you have quite an interesting MP game going. How about a game progress report for us bystanders?

It's not that we're lazy or secretive.

Score graphs are off, we have no idea what's happening globally, so we REALLY can't tell the board.

Rabe the Magically Myopic

von_Schmidt · #**102** February 26th, 2004, 10:58 AM

Fair enough. Loose lips sink ships , after all.

How about doing an AAR afterwards? I'm sure other readers on the board would appreciate it as well.

I just loved the Dom1 Blitz AAR's on usenet...

Best of luck in your game!

ywl · #**103** February 26th, 2004, 04:50 PM

It's only turn 8. Not much to talk about yet.

rabelais · #**104** March 3rd, 2004, 08:50 AM

Did anyone else inexplicably get a stale turn (yes I sent in a .2h!) or am I just the really lucky one?

Rabe of the Mysterious Blackouts

rabelais · #**105** March 4th, 2004, 04:22 AM

I'm told my stale turn, though ridiculously accidental, is irreparable.

It further appears I currently lack the frustration tolerance to play network games of this sort.

I actually get angry (and depressed) when things go awry, which they inevitably do.

Scale bugs, disadvantageous upgrades, random stales... Xavier's game taking a month to start...Pillin's game evaporating with a HD crash.....I'm just too discouraged with it.

It's all beyond stupid and theoretically trivial, but still not worth the stress.

Therefore I think I will withdraw from the game. If someone is interested in taking over my position (It is quite healthy I think, though hard to tell with graphs off) pm me for the password.

Otherwise I will send my resources to my immediate neighbors as compensation for trouble (to be) caused and put it on computer control.

And then get some therapy.

Regards,

Rabe the Entirely Enervated Control Freak

EternalSpearman · #**106** March 10th, 2004, 07:17 AM

I've gotten many stale turns because my main computer (the only one that runs Dominions) has been infected with a virus, and I've ony recently gotten an old computer working.

I probably will not be able to play my turns for several days, at the least. My loss, I suppose.

Anyway, sorry for any inconvience that may have occured, for all involved.

Patrik · #**107** April 1st, 2004, 01:35 PM

So, will this game continue anytime soon? I think Last turn (n. 15) was more than a week ago.

Tals · #**108** April 1st, 2004, 07:20 PM

Rabelais

I think you'll find the network games aspect much more to your liking. Very similar to pbem (that being you don't need to sit for hours playing through a game).

But has the advantage, you can see whose turn is outstanding, it updates real time - so if you are th eLast to submit, if quick host is on it gens then and there, you see when the next planned host is and it requires almost zero bandwidth. The game i'm playing has set the host to also email on turn gen so is pretty perfect. Pretty much convinced me that the network side is the way to go if people are happy to leave there machines on 24/7

Tals

rabelais · #**109** April 1st, 2004, 07:35 PM

Yes. I'm playing in argitoth's War of Orania nextwork game over on DomX. Much less stressful.

How did machaka do in the game after I AIed it?

I think I had a LOT of land although not of terribly good quality. Apologies to ywl if it proved a nuisance when I bailed.

Rabe the IP Partisan

ywl · #**110** April 1st, 2004, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rabelais:
Yes. I'm playing in argitoth's War of Orania nextwork game over on DomX. Much less stressful.

How did machaka do in the game after I AIed it?

I think I had a LOT of land although not of terribly good quality. Apologies to ywl if it proved a nuisance when I bailed.

Rabe the IP Partisan

Not much happened after that. The game is stalling.