MP: STACKERS, newbie game, (started)

[Gregstrom]

Hacking .trn and .2h files has been done before. Normally on a player's own file, but there's no reason not to extend the principle. And if you aren't hacking a file to do anything obviously advantageous to a player, then the inbuilt cheat detection might well miss it entirely.

[Gandalf Parker]

Dom3, or the topic of direct-connect vs pbem, dont make this a new subject. Pardon a netcop lecture but it still boils down to having a password and choosing one that is at least laughingly unguessable. I feel that I can safely say that if everyone puts a password on their pretenders that is even jokingly reasonable then this is becomes as unlikely as any other password secured service on the net.

Part of the problem is actually unique to this forum. Some of the people here are actually told NOT to password protect their pretenders for IRC blitz games, and sometimes for PbEM games. So even though I try to specifically SAY that pretenders should have passwords (see post #2 of this thread) there are still people who have no password, or it matches the nation, or the players login. In such cases, I have trouble feeling any shared responsibility for what happens.

So far it seems the smoothest (even if not best) course is to allow the AI of Rlyeh and allow everyone to decide for themselves if they wish to continue playing. So for now, consider that to be the action unless there is a definite group agreement otherwise.

[Nauquan]

ahhh. Things are clearer now.

OK moving forward.

Can we vote please?

1) Stop the game

2) Play on with R'leyh set to AI, look for a substitute

3) Play on with everyone out of the water, R'leyh set to AI.

Please let me know as the Ashdod war machine has a large investment in the water at this point.

I vote for #2

[Jorus]

Where do we stand on this, in particular ashdod? Agartha says he is staying out of the water, but I have not seen this confirmed by the other players.

I just want to be sure we all are on the same page.

Too bad BG quit, he still has a very powerful position.

Originally Posted by Nauquan

ahhh. Things are clearer now.

OK moving forward.

Can we vote please?

1) Stop the game

2) Play on with R'leyh set to AI, look for a substitute

3) Play on with everyone out of the water, R'leyh set to AI.

Please let me know as the Ashdod war machine has a large investment in the water at this point.

I vote for #2

[Nauquan]

I am playing as normal - going into the water. As far as I know R'leyh is attacking Argatha too, and they did not want to stay out. I figured there was enough other players going AI and stale-ing turns to make it even-ish.

R'leyh should not have quit, the only thing that he lost was a whole bunch of gems that he could have made back. I think he would have won if he stuck it out due to his gem income and research.

R'leyh is giving me some trouble due to the items and scripts that BG left behind.

As it stands C'tis is taking the lead, with stong globals, gem income, research, and quiet borders.

[Greyjoy]

I wasn't REALLY expecting you to stay landbound and felt like a bit of an *** for even casting the vote. ^_^

I'll be taking a pretty reasonable hit in the next few turns. My main southern army has Bandar Log's cornered in a fort, so something's gonna give.

It's gonna be pretty epic.

[Nauquan]

I wonder if the AI will cast BOT

[Gandalf Parker]

AI is a one way trip. Once the game hosts with Rlyeh set AI, it cannot go back to being a human player.
So its either AI, or substitute. We cant go AI then sub later.

[Greyjoy]

I vote for 3, naturally.

[cwkjc]

I vote for 1.