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ghostwes · #**191** May 24th, 2008, 07:22 PM

Anyone need water gems? I have a source of them now and am willing to trade for death gems or cash.

Kind of a funny event: a very large group of militia joined my cause. This would be great if it weren't for Ermor's little problem with people dropping dead from lack of resources. They'll all starve to death before I can use them for anything, heh. It does inflate my army count, however.

hunt11 · #**192** May 25th, 2008, 06:21 AM

you can still use them as suicide troops

lch · #**193** May 25th, 2008, 01:01 PM

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Omnirizon said:
time remaining is in the negative, so its is passed the hosting. never hosted, and is now going into negative time. very weird. i don't know what to do. i wish jomon would do their turn, maybe that would fix it.

The server was rebooted for a system upgrade. The turn notifications script doesn't read the actual game timer from the networked game, but just operates on the time of the last hosting. If the server timer gets reset, it gets confused.

Other than that, nothing crazy should have happened. Or did it?

Omnirizon · #**194** May 25th, 2008, 01:37 PM

nothing weird game-wise. the server was just counting into negative time.

lch · #**195** May 25th, 2008, 01:56 PM

Yeah, that's nothing to be afraid of. But since it is upsetting people regularly I should really address it. I'll add something to my server startup scripts that will reset the counter when I start the game. Quite an obvious solution, actually.

Xanatos · #**196** May 26th, 2008, 06:13 PM

ive played a few games, more than 2, but im still pretty noob - i can take last spot if you guys want me too...why is ermor allowed and not rlyeh?

Omnirizon · #**197** May 26th, 2008, 07:02 PM

i'm afraid the game has already started.

i don't know why ermor is allowed and not r'lyeh. the logic i've heard is that ermor's domkill severely limits them, or something. to be honest, i've never played either nation (because they are typically never allowed) and so don't really know much about the qualities of either.

also, because we've had a good handful of people drop in and ask for a position in the game, I suggest the OP modify the name of the thread to include the word "started". I think the lack of that signifier and the relative lack of pages in this thread leads people to assume the game is still open.

and lastly, why is there so little chatter in this game? i'm even having issues with people not responding to PM's. everyone is so quiet. this game is also quite slow, which may have something to do with that. i've always said slow game kills the enthusiasm.

ghostwes · #**198** May 26th, 2008, 07:28 PM

I'm not experienced enough with Ermor to be a big threat. Or experienced, period. This is my first multi-player game.

I have to wonder, though... if so many people think that some nations are too overpowered to play with, does that not suggest that there are some balancing issues that need to be addressed? Seems kind of wrong that we can't play against each other using what comes in the box...

James243 · #**199** May 27th, 2008, 01:11 AM

I've played Ermor in SP. I think basically you're able to mass troops very easily. Priests make a pretty easy counter, but Ermor's neighbours need to mass those, while non-Ermor neighbours get to stick to their regular (and more likely successful) strategy.

No idea whatever about R'lyeh...something about lots of wish castings or something?

hunt11 · #**200** May 27th, 2008, 03:22 AM

the reason why Ermor was allowed because their are easy counters (priests and magical supplies), while R'leyh is a completely different story. Any leader that is in their domain is going to be insane, making troop movement hard enough as it is, when combined with the fact that it is a water nation (Atlantis does not count because it starts out on land) making R'leyh more difficult to reach. This is just my personal experience that R'leyh would not work well for a newbie game