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Old August 24th, 2002, 03:09 AM
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Old August 24th, 2002, 04:37 AM
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Dumbluck, as I said I really don't think it is likely to come up, but if it does I am going to come down hard on the player doing the closing, not the one being closed off. That's not a valid method for eliminating someone in my book.

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Seems its my day to disagree with Geo.

I think this is a perfectly legitimate tactic. If anyone can afford the resources to close down the necessary 23 warp points in my gargantuan empire, they are welcome to try. But I would be utterly astounded if the game went on long enough for any one to try this tactic. If you are so rich and powerful you can afford to build these closers, how did you manage to NOT eliminate anyone?

Instead I would suggest that when, say, 6 or fewer players are left, the lost contact rule should no longer apply.

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Hi Geoschmo

I was on the game site and tried e-mailing the administrator. It came saying "Mailbox not available."

Here is what I tried to e-mail

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I have this "Change Password" icon situated against my empire. I tried upteen times to change it, but it will not change. What do I do?

I am a "hardcopy" man, and absorb things much better if I have a printed copy. Whenever I try to make a printed copy [edit: of the FAQ)I end up with only the icons at the top of the page. Assuming this is possible, I would also like black on white (black letters on a which page), rather than white on black.

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I have a ton of questions (such as "How do I view the shipsets" and "How do I install the shipsets") which I thought I'd try to get answered from the FAQ rather than bug you directly about them (I can only imagine the amount of time you are spending on administering the tournament. )

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Old August 24th, 2002, 07:40 PM
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Hmmm Geoschmo e-mailed me in response to my e-mail.

Yet I have the return notice in the figurative hands of my computer.

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I would like to "upload my empire" to the tournament.

I vaguely remember reading something on how to do this--that is construction the empire (ship-set, empire icon etc) and then uploading the results. Does anybody know where it is.

I can't find anything on site (FAQ's) which explains how to view a prospective ship-set? How do you do it?

The Space Empires IV Gold Manual has 2 pages on "TCP/IP Games. Is the the same as PBW?
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I would like to "upload my empire" to the tournament.

I vaguely remember reading something on how to do this--that is construction the empire (ship-set, empire icon etc) and then uploading the results. Does anybody know where it is.

I can't find anything on site (FAQ's) which explains how to view a prospective ship-set? How do you do it?

The Space Empires IV Gold Manual has 2 pages on "TCP/IP Games. Is the the same as PBW?
To make and upload a new empire for any PBW game, just start a new game (v. 1.78 in this case) on your computer and build your empire as you normally would. You shouldn't have to change any settings since most everthing in this game is default.

Now, save that empire. Where in SEIV folder is up to you. I don't like to save mine to the Empires folder because then I may end up playing a solo game against myself! LOL.

Shut down the game and go to PBW game screen, click on upload empire and you will be led through the rest. Make sure you know the name of the shipset you are using so you can indicate that as others have done with theirs. (All stock shipsets are labled "Stock" followed by the actual name).

Many of the shipsets of your opponents will not be on your computer. Click on each of those shipset (in blue below each empire name) and a zip file will download to your computer. Unzip them and stick these in the pictures/races folder. Different people set these up in different ways, so check that each one you download is in the proper file. You may find some without a folder of its own. Make one and put the files in there. Others will have the folder buried three folders deep. Look for a folder named "pictures" within your "races" folder.

I'm not sure if you can preview shipsets in the PBW files. Those in your own SEIV folder can be viewed with any picture viewer-- or in the new game setup.

Kim

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tbonbot, I e-mailed a reply to your "Change Password" question yesterday.

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Players, Ok looks like Agrakil has withdrawn from game two. So that means he is eliminated and this round is over for the players in game two according to the rules I set down at the beginning of the tourney. We still need to eliminate one player from game one before we can set up round two though.

Told you it would be more of a test of stamina than anything else. Course even I figured we'd get through 6 turns. It wouldn't suprise me if most of you haven't even met anybody else yet.

Those of you in game one keep playing. As soon as someone is eliminated we'll call that one and get started on round two. This is the worst part cause half of you have to wait for a while. Once we get down to twenty players total this won't happen of course.

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OK, so it's been almost a month now. How is the other game going? Inquiring minds want to know!

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