Just a quick hello to everyone. As I have taken over someone game. I thought we could have a communal thread for general stuff.

Has there been any talk of a session were we all play?

Is everyone else having problems with civstats I am assuming.

Cheers
George

Wellcome

There was thread there befor, but it is not to mach down.
We could use this one.

I lost contact with Civstats about 3 days ago.

The official thread will always contain news (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4362696&postcount=29) if the civstats server is down. Although after this situation is resolved, there should't be any more downtime.

I got so busy yesterday I had actually forgotten about this game. :crazyeye:

I wasn't on the Turn Notifier yet as I hadn't entered my email into the details, so didn't get the notifier reminder about the turn. Luckily I had things on pre-programming, so didn't really miss a beat by missing that last turn. :D

News:

Today TELawrence civilisation stop to exits.
After I took his unprotected worker with my choking warrior he decide to cyicide his only warrior on my warrior. My warrior won but left with 0.2 str.
I was forced to raise city, as 2 Taok near by quecha and a german warrior garanty that I will loose it if I try to keep it. Worker was disbanded 2, as 2 quexhas were preventing it from living.

Total profit for my civ = 47GC for taking city and a lot fo space for other civ on our continent to expand.

Anyone that has forgot or lost their paswword to register their Leader at Civantics please email me or leave message here. The diplomacy feature on Civstats can only be used if you register.

China is away on holiday, and I agreed to feed his cat....

Les

I can't connect to the server.

No problem found and appears to be responding OK. I have noted on ocassions that I can not connect when cerctain players are already connected, and I as the connecting player I only get a timeout. (no 'trying to connect to xyz message'). But I am sure that you have retried several times?What time GMT did you try?

Les

Did the player i replaced register on Civstats? (I am playing as Spain btw).

If not, please pm me the admin password so i can register. :)

Funny, I just 2 minutes ago emailed lplayer to send me the admin password for mine so that I could register as well. :D

I can connect now. I was getting the "Connection to Host Timed Out." Not a peer problem. I get this about 40% of the time I try to connect to this server.

The only thing that I can determine is that I use NoIP and it was quite busy changing IPs at a more than usual rate, but this normally only takes a few seconds to reconfigure itself.

portuga hasn't logged in for the past 3 turns. Anyone know what's up? Another turn or two like this and we may have to have him booted to AI. Otherwise his Civ will just sit stagnant and be an easy conquest for whoever is lucky enough to be closest to him.

He is on vacation. I run one of the games he is in, and he emailed saying he was queuing up turns and such. I can't imagine he would do that for mine alone.

On the 11th Portuga advised me that he was away for a week, so this was expected.

A nice 'feature' for Pitboss would be for Players to be able to 'Pass' on their turn and use automated orders (as happens on the turn time expires) if all others player have completed their turns.

Les

Is the game down? I can't connect.

I checked it at 0925 BST with remote logon and all was well

Hopefully portuga will be back soon. He keeps holding up the game.
I think from now on, if someone is going to be away for a few week they need to either find someone to play their turns or let the AI play the turns during that time.

What happend to the Japanese?

I can't connect to it either, an hour ago or now. It might be one of those funky periodic things...

Cannot connect now.

Well it seems one of Civ that was not played for first 10 turns were conqued and city keept.

I consider it unfair, as One who did it benefit unfairly from the fact that civ was not played.

What happend to the Japanese?

Snotty was outside my city with 2 warriors and there was only 1 defending. i am gutted it took me ages to get onto a pitboss game and it is over already. Never mind it has taugt me a lesson.
Good luck everyoen with wiping snotty out!:D

Still can't connect, guess I'll skip this turn. :(

Edit: Is pitboss.servegame.com still supposed to point to 81.156.162.103?

You're not the only one. I still can't connect either.
He's going to have to do a reload once he gets the connection working again, since I won't be home before this turn ends.

Also cannot connect.

can not connect.

Potboss encountered probkem on Internet- whatevever that means. Save and reloaded at 20 BST.

Les

You are going to need to go back to an older Save. You don't have enough time left on the timer for most of us to get in before the time runs out. I personally won't be home tonight until around midnight EST (05:00 BST). So I need almost 9 hours to be left on the timer. If the game had been up this morning before I left for work, I'd have been able to get the turn done.

can not connect.

I just tried connecting, I could contact the pitboss server, but it told me that your firewall blocked me. :(

OK I have reloaded to previous 24 hours as it seems something blocked most connections.

Les

To confirm that I used the last available save which was 2200 BST 17/08 This was the last Autosave file available.

I would suggest everyone to log in and check there civs, as civstats does not reflect correctly current state.
We had some rollback.

Forwarded

Hey man,

in case you dont get my group message, I took george storrows during the last turn as is shown by the civstats tracker, and when I started the reload the random number genrator had moved so I failed to take the city!
understandabley Im not too happy with this. is there any way we can resolve this without having to reload?

Lee

My proposal is to take control of Japan and kill off the offending surviving unit and kill it, allowing Lee to take his city.

Les

Well I know in other games when there has been a server crash, or pitboss problem, or other network problem when a previous reload has had to be done and things changed then that's just how it happens. Technical difficulties will occasionally change the outcome if a reload has to be done.
Personally, I actually don't truly care if you guys decide to have Snotty "get control" and then killing the offending unit off. But I also sorta feel that things should just play out in this new alternate reality that was created because of the required reload.

Unfortunately I threw away the troops trying to take the city again, so I cant take the city quickly.

I can understand if the other players dont want to reload. I wouldnt have even mentioned it except losing an extra city at this stage of the game obviously makes a huge difference to my game. That and my accomplishment is recorded unequivocally in big red letters on civstats so its not like Im trying to pull a fast one.

You are not suppous to have the city on the first place.
This was in active player city and should be raised to provide a fair play for all other players.

Why am I not supposed to have the city?

we should have put city elimination on if razing was the rule. I made an early aggresive gambit with my aggresive civ, so my strategy + a bit of luck gives me an advantage. Thats whats civs about :)

Because no one was playing civ you attacked for 2 weeks, not the fact that you attacked.
If I remember correctly it was you who was voiting to wait longer to replace players. That is not sportsmen like behavior, that has no place in fair game.

I dont know how to look further back in the civstats log, but G storrow replied in this thread very shortly after I killed him, so he had an eye on the game at least.

I dont remember voting to replace players :)

He took over from inactive only 2-3 turns ago.

As far as i see it Snotty took the Japanese fair and square. H was 'forced' to give up the city by diplomatic pressure from others.

I have put the Japanses to AI.

Can you please change the name of it from your name to AI or something like that? To help avoid the confusion of having your name showing up as two different Civ's?

Thx

How do I change the Player name. It is set to AI but it still retains my name as the player. I dont see how to change other than logging in and I dont want to do that as its set to AI.

I think the only way probably would be to log in with your name being 'AI' and then Retiring.

I'm going to be exiting out of this game. If anyone knows of someone (or an interested non-player is reading this thread) that wants to take over my civ permanently, please let me know (PM is good), otherwise I'll find a replacement myself.

You're in first place. Why you wanna leave?

EDIT: I saw your post in one of the other threads, so my quesiton was answered there.

You're in first place. Why you wanna leave?

EDIT: I saw your post in one of the other threads, so my quesiton was answered there.

Damn, missed my chance to say "I want to quit while I'm ahead" :lol:

From Monday I will be on holidays til wednesday 6. september, i cant play my civ in this time horizon. If you want, you can switch my civ to AI from next tuesday, but i would like to continue playing after i return home.

If it is good enough for you,i can queue my builds and moves for that time.

You can actually set it to AI yourself.

All you would need to do is Queue up a bunch of stuff and then "Retire". That will set it to AI. Then when you return, you just log back in and reclaim your Civ.

I'm not positive that the AI will keep all your queued items, but if you're going to be away for that length of time with the civ not being set to AI as then it would cause the turns to always run to the end of the timer and frustrate the rest of us. :)

Server hung for few hours why I slept.
Reset router: no effect
Reset Pitboss: no effect
Reset Computer: resolves

I can't connect again.

I connected few minutes ago and all seems O.K. :mischief:

I was able to log in now thos morning too, so I'm all good now.

ok, i am setting my civ to AI now and will be back playing on wednesday 6. september

Hmmm ... now I couldn't connect to server ... :(

Server reset at 0945 BST

Server is down again ? :rolleyes:

It has been several days since I have been able to log in.

It has been several days since I have been able to log in.

Are we talking about the right game? Civstats shows you as having completed your turn 30minutes ago.

http://www.civstats.com/viewgame.php?gameid=57

Which was after I made that post. It had been a long time though.

I'll be away until Monday or Tuesday night. I've set myself as AI, since I wasn't able to queue up what would be built next turn, so I'll let the AI move it for the couple of turns that will pass by until I get back.

Are we talking about the right game? Civstats shows you as having completed your turn 30minutes ago.

http://www.civstats.com/viewgame.php?gameid=57

Ok, so I'm attempting to take over for IglooDude (who PMed me the passwords and contact IP/address), but thus far I'm unable to connect to the host - just tried now 1am ET. Timed out. Now this is my first attempt to connect to a vanilla pitboss game, though I have had a successful Warlords pitboss connection to my name. Thoughts? Advice? Something I might need to change? (and yes, I DID change back to the vanilla CD).

Or is the server just down? :lol:

Server up.
You need to connect running Vanilla civ. You can do that if you Use original CD from Vanilla.

Ok, I'm in and did my turn. :D

Hmmm ... I tried this morning ( my time ) to connect to server twice, but I couldn't do this ... :(

Any problem or I just need to retry ?

Regards

I was just able to connect... and a new turn JUST about to start.

I just did my turn without any problems....

Router / Server reset at 0806 BST 5/09/06

Argh - that's two times straight that I'm getting the server timing out. I have a lot of stuff queued up, so it won't kill me, but I'd like to get back in! :)

You're not the only one. I can't connect again either. The connection seems to go down quite often...

Is it just me, or is it that at about 0300 GMT it goes down every day?

Seems so ... ;)

Hmz, I still cannot connect :(

Same here... its been a few days now.

The normal reset does not cure.

I have 8M BT broadband, via WAG54GX2 Router, Dell 8200 Wireless.

All firewalls checked (I tested with all off)
Connection is good

All ports set correct anredirecting to local IP

Using NOIP, but test with direct IP.

The result is the same: Pitboss will not answer.

The computer uis used for nothing else bu pitboss aand nothing appears to have changed. So soory server is down. I spent the last hour trying to fixand must go to work now, and will try again. I will leave set up in case it decides to answer.

I have note a huge amount of unexplained traffic through my router overnight and need to investigate that.....

I think you problem does not come from pitboss itself, but from your connection.

In my expirience many ISP tand to drop connection if there is no trafic on it, especially at nigth.

To figth it people useally use rundom internat access program to keep connection alive.

The router shows connected time and does not indicate that connection was dropped.

OK The last thing I troed resolved the situation. I restored my router settings from a backup and all worked well. So something / someone changed a router setting that prevented it from passing the port 2056 UDP to 192.168.1.100. Anyway the restore seems to have fixed, and so we may continue....

Well that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem for me. I still can't connect as of right now.

Me too.

Right after I connected to another PTBS game.

I was trying to log in and can not connect to host.

While trying firstst time today to connect it didn't work, but after a couple of minutes I could connect without problems. Strange. This has happened sometimes before in this game, too.

I actually got in first try this morning, finally. I've made sure to queue up next turn's move as well, just in case I have trouble over the next day.

hmm... I was able to connect 5 hour later. Have no idea why such instability.

I'll try again tonight - lucky I queued up quite a few turns...

About 2-4 hours ago (cant remember exactly) I couldnt get in.

EDIT: Cant get in now either.

I would suggest to Host to use connection maintance programm.

I suspect connection from outside droping and it is not registred with host.

This programm solve simular problem in OOB second game.

OK I will find and install a 'maintain connection; program- but therouter log does not show any disconnection. As you see the Uploader has no problem uploading- its just the incomming that has problems. I will try anything to resolve as this game is starting to become interesting.

On another subject. Is it deemed 'fair' to communicate outside the game. ie If I hav eno contactact with a player in within Civ, are excannges of maps and other info (eg via email) deemed acceptable?

In my opinion I think it is unfair and agains spirit of the game.
One can not trade maps befor paper or trade parts of maps in game, so such actions probubly should be pronhibited.

No one can connect this turn, I tryed 10 times in different times.

I havent played a turn for the last week.

Sorry, but the server was left unattended for a few days and went dead about mid day today. I have therefore reloaded Sundays game (ie we lost 24 hours) as so many of us could not get in.

I will continue to host this game but can not resolve the technical problems, so if anyone has a better chance of hosting then I wiould be willing to foster Avalon out. If not then I will continue as best as I can.

Is it BT? Is it Linksys? Is it me? Possibly all three!

Les

I have had many problems getting my Civ IV game to work. It freezes after about 2 minutes of play. Nothing has changed on my computer, so I dont know what the problem could be. It only is a problem for Civ IV. I can play Warlords fine. I tried reinstalling, changing settings and even taking apart the computer with no positive results. Unfortunately, I am going to have to withdraw from this game. Please find a replacement player for me.

Taok

sorry to bust in but I would to advertise myself as a sub for Taok ;)
Email: nerull@mail2usa.com

First come first served! I suggest that Taok supplies you with his login so that you may take on immiediately.

easiest way would be for you to just boot Taok to AI. This way agemo can log in making up his own password.

I have sent an email to Taok for the ip and password

I was able to get in last night, finally.

Sorry guys. Im not at home and the server has died yet again I wont be home until Friday evening (Im away working this week) and so cant reset it until then. I will then reload todays save. My apologies.

Les

Pitposs did not die, it is your connection die, unstable.
Please, finally, do as all the favor and just download and run program I was talking about.

All this problems will dissapear.
It does not matter if you do not undestand why it's help, just DO IT!

I have noticed that the IP behind the DNS changes like mad. One minute it points to some IP, the next minute it points to some other IP and soon after that to third IP. Is this normal?

That obzervation confirm my suspicious.

What happening:

Your computer connected to your ISP. You ISP assigned it IP adress.
Now, ISP monitor connection and if there no trafic he will drop you IP adress from his roputer. YOu ARE STILL CONNECTED TO YOUR ISP and never notice the difference. When you computer want to access net again ISP router simple assign it new IP adress and from your side it looks like connection allways was there.
But all of us have to wait why your new IP adress propogate try Net, and when it finally does you migth change your IP address again.
So, from our point of view your computer simple drop connection.

Simple program that rundomly access some web site every few minutes prevent your ISP from droping your current IP adress, keeping it constant and removing all this problems.

From your computer you will never notice the difference, exept if you write a little program that save your current IP adress every hour.

I have one BIG request ...

My graphic card is dead ( almost dead ) - and I receive my computer with a new one just next Mondey evening. Could the game administrator to turn my civ into AI control until then ? I have pre-queued something, but I don't feel this is enough ... :(

Regards and thanks in advance ! :)

The IP changes because I am using NOIP.

DO NOT POINT AT THE IP NUMBER BUT DO POINT AT THE SERVER NAME WHICH NOIP KEEPS TRACK OF

What is this simple 'maintain connnection' program that everu mentions but never gives a name or source. I downloaded a program but it had a built in virus. Please give ma name and source.

Mitiu Ioan: Switched to AI as requested

Power Cut during the night caused Router to go off line! Unfortueately my hightech singing and dancing router does not auto start on power up and needs a human finger to poke it into life - which was not avaiale in the early hours of the morning.

Ignore the Civstats reports of Eliminations. These player are NOT eliminated - well at least Pitboss doesnt seem to think so, and this must be an error with Civstats.

Please someone suggest the 'maintain connection' program

That obzervation confirm my suspicious.

What happening:

Your computer connected to your ISP. You ISP assigned it IP adress.
Now, ISP monitor connection and if there no trafic he will drop you IP adress from his roputer. YOu ARE STILL CONNECTED TO YOUR ISP and never notice the difference. When you computer want to access net again ISP router simple assign it new IP adress and from your side it looks like connection allways was there.
But all of us have to wait why your new IP adress propogate try Net, and when it finally does you migth change your IP address again.
So, from our point of view your computer simple drop connection.

Simple program that rundomly access some web site every few minutes prevent your ISP from droping your current IP adress, keeping it constant and removing all this problems.

From your computer you will never notice the difference, exept if you write a little program that save your current IP adress every hour.

NOIP (recommended by FOSSE I think) works well and should detect this chanhe of IP normally within a few seconds of change. NOIP has connection to the NOIP server at notifies the NOPIP server of the change of IP- however despite this connection- which accordong to the NOIP log is consistent- our incomming connection problems persist.

Pitposs did not die, it is your connection die, unstable.
Please, finally, do as all the favor and just download and run program I was talking about.

All this problems will dissapear.
It does not matter if you do not undestand why it's help, just DO IT!

Mutineer. What and where is thisconnection program? You never say!

I just connected without any problems :)

I found a maintain Connection option within NOIP. Lets hope it works

Taok did not respond to my email nor pm. If the position is still available, Iplayer can you pls pm/email me the ip/dns and boot the civ to AI so that I can take over?

I did not see your email. It would be best for admin to set me to AI then you can log in a take it.

Taok

Sorry, but I am away from home until Thursday (unexpected) and cant reset Taok to AI. Only Taok knows his player password.

Fortuneately the server id behaving since I set the NOIP option to maintain connection.

Les

Taok gave me the password so its all good now
THX

I'm back in game now - played yesterday evening my move.

I just want to say that I hate AI control !! :( The stupid AI cancel production of a worker and start to produce ... an obelisk !! Desipte the fact that Frederick of Germany is a Creative Leader !! :mad:

Taok/Agemo - did you kill one of my axeman ? He just dissapeard ... :mischief:

i think one attacked my city and lost after killing a defender last round... now i get a little break and will probably recover :D

You guys were at war? I didn't know there were any warring nations besides Snotty and the Jap AI....

You guys were at war? I didn't know there were any warring nations besides Snotty and the Jap AI....

Hand raised.

:king:

Hand raised.

:king:

:cry: Leave me alone!

I'm off on vacation from today through Oct 3rd, but I have a friend who will be logging in to take my turns. And he understands the current situation and intentions. He won't be checking my e-mail or messages though.

Drums and the beat of hooves are heard from the west.

I'm off on vacation from today through Oct 3rd, but I have a friend who will be logging in to take my turns. And he understands the current situation and intentions. He won't be checking my e-mail or messages though.

Drums and the beat of hooves are heard from the west.

I'm glad I was able to give you such a good start. ;)

The Elstraun/Spanish Emipre will maintain a state of war with the Treacherous Persians until either nation is dead. Whilst I doubt I will be living for much longer, I hope to cause as much damage as possible to the brutal Persians. Any assitance with the war will be rewarded should I get out alive.

What spanish? What persians?

What spanish? What persians?
You stole the words right out of my mouth. :crazyeye:

What spanish? What persians?

DONT PRETEND YOU DONT KNOW!!!! I KNOW WHERE YOUR PEOPLE LIVE!!!!!

Stupid scout killed my stupid warrior, stupid me.:mad:

Well I'm supposing I'll know who you guys are sometime soon. I got a scout heading to one of the few dark spots on the map. Unless you guys are on a different continent...

Hmmm, I can't connect to the game again.

EDIT: I just tried again and was able to connect. Guess it's just that random non-connectivity thing. Trying after waiting a bit works.

I gived up on this game, replace me when you can.

9/25/06 7:05 am Uploader timed out

Offcourse that is my 7 am, (GMT +2) which is 4 minutes ago :(

Yeap ... the server seems to be down again. :(

Regards

Man I feel bad... the server crashed while I was doing my turn but now MIA moved. So can I finish my turn? It would seem like a double move (in the same turn) against someone I am at war with...
Do we have any rule regarding this situation?

I think this was the first down time in other a week ever since I found the Maintain Connection in the NOIP program.

The NOIP logs the IP change and on average the IP changes 3 times a day - less ever since 'maintain connection' is set.

Mutineer: Rather than complain about the service I suggest you set up a Pitboss game and see what result you have. I am more than happy for you to foster thius game if you feel that you can do better.

Shouldn't Mutineer's Egypt be thrown to AI control since he's not playing anymore? And maybe L0B0's Arabia, too? Seems he hasn't finished a turn for nearly two weeks either.

Mutineer and Lobo Kicked. I will advertise the positions

Arabia
Egypt
Japan

Apply here!

Am I dead yet?

Should you be?

Are there wars?

There are no wars in our part of the world.

I'll take one of them.

You can put my name down for anyone.

Well, you shouldn't just say "anyone". You should choose which of the three Civ's you want. Then you just log into the game when given the IP, choose that Civ, then set a password. And there ya go.... :D

OK, then I will take Japan and hope nobody is at war with him.

Actually, I believe someone is at war with him. Though how active that war is, I don't know, since it's been going on for a very long time. I know it was started when it was still controlled by a player.

Hi Guys. I have taken over Japan and look forward to a long and interesting game however from reading the thread there seems to be some battle hardened veterans playing as well .
Before anybody picks on me please give me a few turns to find my feet.

I'll ask again... Am I dead yet?

Are you supposed to be? :D

Are you supposed to be? :D

If my capital wasnt on a hill, I would be.

The server seems to be down again ... :rolleyes:

Server was running OK but 'Network error' had caused Pitboss to freeze. Could not save move. so had to reload Sundays Savedgame.

Ok, I'm back from Paris, and can't wait to see how azzaman is doing. ;)

(But just got a connection timeout at 7:10pm ET)

Ok, I'm back from Paris, and can't wait to see how azzaman is doing. ;)

(But just got a connection timeout at 7:10pm ET)

Hurry up and kill me! :p

Hurry up and kill me! :p

I'll give you the old Ghengis Khan - "surrender or die" ultimatum.

:coffee:

I'll be outside waiting.

Looks like the game is down. I can't connect and even civstats is offline...

I'll give you the old Ghengis Khan - "surrender or die" ultimatum.

:coffee:

I'll be outside waiting.

I surrendered at the start of the war! You give me peace I'll take it!

I surrendered at the start of the war! You give me peace I'll take it!

Ghengis preferred capitulation, actually. ;)

India has resigned and does not wish to play anymore

I will put to AI

Man, it sure does suck when you take a little bit of a risk to try something and your settler gets gobbled up by a barb warrior.
:cry: :( :blush: :sad:

Or you could say:

Man, it sure does suck when you FOOLISHLY take a a risk to send your settler unescorted into the fog, even for one space, to predictably be eaten by a barb warrior.


;)

I surrendered at the start of the war! You give me peace I'll take it!

If you didn't play anymore - why didn't you give back control to AI, in order to speed up a little the game ? :rolleyes:

Regards

If you didn't play anymore - why didn't you give back control to AI, in order to speed up a little the game ? :rolleyes:

Regards

Well, I never retired because I am still hoping for a peace treaty, and I'm certain the AI will intentionally kill itself. And I've been busy over the past few days, restricting my ability to log in.

Aaaa - O.k., I belived that you want to "kill yourself" to other player. ;)

If you still need a sub for this game..let me know. I would be intrested in playing. Thx

ah see what happens when I dont log in for a few days :L(

Yeah, I had kind of noticed that. It seemed a bit odd to me when he was able to capture that worker that I could see on your border unprotected, when normally you would have had more than enough time to pull him back and out of danger.

I didn't even know he had troops moving into your territory. I saw that one Archer, but I thought it had actually returned home after snagging that worker. I gather you didn't have more than just a single warrior in your capital....that was probably the primary mistake with you being at war with someone.

I think Egypt is open...?. Cant find info for game addy or game password. Thx

Both Egypt and India are open actually.

Snotty,you have not logged into the game since 29 Sept. I looked through the whole thread and saw no absence messages from you so I assumed that you were no longer playing. I have been advancing on your city since 3 Oct so you had ample time to respond I actually waited 24hrs after each turn waiting for any responce but none came.

IMHO if you are fight a war, even against the AI you should log in.

I think you misread the Civstats log, not that it makes much of a difference. He had actually logged in every turn except for the last 2 turns, and one about 4 turns before that. So he certainly had enough time to make his defenses such that you couldn't just waltz in and capture his city.

He missed the turn on the 3rd, but played on the 4th, 5th, and 6th. Then missed again on the 7th/8th, and then was eliminated on the 9th.

I had built my infrastructure, I had just started building my military but I should have left a queue. Had I been logging in I could have whipped some defence out and connected up my resources. cest la vie

I knew the japo-franco lands were meant to be united to win, I was just hoping I would be at the head of it. best of luck

Hi, I would really like to join your game as Egypt...if someone could pm me the game address and password. Thx

I think I just finished the first turn in the history of this game BEFORE the turn clock was over.... :D

Hi, I would really like to join your game as Egypt...if someone could pm me the game address and password. Thx

I'll do it when I get home tonight, since I don't have the address with me here at work. Unless someone else PMs it to you before then.

Ok, thanks. A couple of questons...Is this a Warlords game or VanillaCiv4 ?, (I have both). And are you playing a MOD or the standard game?. Thx

Standard un-modded Civ4 Vanilla game.

Login details for Egypt sent to Conquistador45.

We are still looking for replacement Player for India.

For the future: 5 missed moves unless pre-warned will result in a kick and contry set to AI and made available to others.

Hi, I have joined...taken control of Egypt and registered my leader at civstats. My first thing to do was to except a peace treaty...:). Thanks

Hmm... connection timing out. I'll try again in the morning, I guess. :P

Same here. I've been trying all night. Guess I'll be trying in the morning as well. :(

No moves lost

Hence why I was able to get in this morning... :)

Hence why I was able to get in this morning... :)

Peace? :please:

We are getting a few quicker turns now this is good. :)

sorry Fosse you would have doen the same to me :blush:

Peace? :please:

Ok, I have an offer.

Your city in exchange for permanent peace. :king:

Ok, I have an offer.

Your city in exchange for permanent peace. :king:

Ummm.... no. :p

1 more missed move and Spain will go to AI.

1 more missed move and Spain will go to AI.

Wait, how many have I missed? I was away unexpectedly over the weekend (2 turns), and didnt have the time to log in earlier today (3 turns missed). Did I miss the turn before as well, making it 4?

I just looked at civstats and you have only missed 3 turns so far (650BC, 625BC, & 600BC) and 525BC started about 3 1/2 hours ago.

Damn.

I could sucker punch the AI, but you're a tougher nut to crack.

;)

OK you are right you get a reprieve- and good luck!

sorry I left my civ DVD at work and the works firewall is stopping the connection sorry :(

You can play CIV at work? :crazyeye:

I play on my works laptop sometime when I work away.:blush:

Do I detect that this game is actually speeding up. Possibly because its getting interesting.....

It's rather boring for me, since all I ever do is fortify another Archer every few turns.

It's rather boring for me, since all I ever do is fortify another Archer every few turns.

I think you need to send them out exploring instead. MUCH more interesting. ;) There's a whole continent outside of your city walls just waiting to be seen.

:mischief:

azzaman If I knew where you were I would send my English fleets ....

Do I detect that this game is actually speeding up. Possibly because its getting interesting.....

True. If JMaltman will make his/her move quickly we would have a move after just half of maximum time. ;)

I have one question - is possible to know ( even that tech trading is disabled ) which techs is known but other players :rolleyes: ( probably a dumb question ... but this is ... ) ?

True. If JMaltman will make his/her move quickly we would have a move after just half of maximum time. ;)

I have one question - is possible to know ( even that tech trading is disabled ) which techs is known but other players :rolleyes: ( probably a dumb question ... but this is ... ) ?

Unfortunately I'm at work, and will be out all evening. I can't get on until about 11pm GMT-5. :( I wish I'd checked before I left in the morning, but I was rushing to catch the bus.

Sorry guys.

As for the tech thing - I don't think so. Just careful observation and deduction based on what you see.

IIRC, you can see what your enemies could trade if it wasnt for the no tech trading rule.

IIRC, you can see what your enemies could trade if it wasnt for the no tech trading rule.

That, of course, is what I meant as well - under our current setup for rules, deduction is all you have.

I see that Giulio Cesare, playing india, is AI. Is this temporary or do you need a sub? I have some spare time...

Well - that is, let's deduce then ... :P

Unfortunately the server seems to be down now. :(

Regards all

I am too having connecting problems for the first time in a long while....

To much traffic lately I guess ;)

Unable to connect at the moment

I had to Save Game and restart at 8.00 GMT.
The heavy rain here last night maybe :)

On the Tech question. You simply ask your allies what they have, and they answer truthfully. I would admit just about to complete underground Nuke testing.....

There certainly is a way to see if your opponents are ahead in tech. At a certain tech level, tech trading becomes available. Of course if no TT is checked in options, its not allowed......but the tech trade screen still shows who will trade what techs,( you must have contact). You can see if your opponents are adavanced in tech, and what paths they have taken......but you only see the next available tech you can get...not the ones after it,(you can`t see how far advanced they are ahead of you). Thx

I see that Giulio Cesare, playing india, is AI. Is this temporary or do you need a sub? I have some spare time...

Private email sent with joining details...

There certainly is a way to see if your opponents are ahead in tech. At a certain tech level, tech trading becomes available. Of course if no TT is checked in options, its not allowed......but the tech trade screen still shows who will trade what techs,( you must have contact). You can see if your opponents are adavanced in tech, and what paths they have taken......but you only see the next available tech you can get...not the ones after it,(you can`t see how far advanced they are ahead of you). Thx

Are you sure about that?

From what I saw, when no TT is checked, then the diplomacy tech screen shows nothing but:

"Tech Trading is not allowed".

End of story.

Yes im sure about it....can`t remeber right now which tech you need, to tech trade......but when both parties have that tech and have met...the screen will show tradeable techs and say no "Tech Trading is not allowed". :)

Yes im sure about it....can`t remeber right now which tech you need, to tech trade......but when both parties have that tech and have met...the screen will show tradeable techs and say no "Tech Trading is not allowed". :)

Should be Alphabet. I thought I've seen it in other games at that point and NOT been able to see their techs.

Anyone? Anyone?

Should be Alphabet. I thought I've seen it in other games at that point and NOT been able to see their techs.

Anyone? Anyone?

I'll discover alphabet in few turns and I'll check then. ;)

Regards

For how many turns Fosse didn't log in ? :rolleyes:

Fosse is on a business trip until the middle of this week. He posted that he was going to be away. I think he might have stuff queued up. I know for some of his games he was able to find substitutes to play his turns. He must not have been able to find someone for this one.
But he'll be back on Wednesday I believe.

He actually started a "Official Absence Thread" for people in multiple PTBS games. Which I think is a great idea. But haven't had a need to use it yet.

I'm getting the host timing out, and can't take my turn... which is important. :( And the next turn will happen before I get up in the morning. This sucks. I'll hopefully get a chance to go before namliam when I get up in the morning, otherwise it could be a rough double turn for him. :(

What, is something happening in our corner of the world? Cool. This long 'JMaltman has 4 immortals around my capital' thing was getting kinda old.

I can't connect either, with 4 hours left in the turn and its a pretty important turn so I don't want to miss it.

Uploader had dissappeared and Pitboss not reacting! Reloaded and all appears well. I uploaded save game from 0800 GMT and turn time now extended 2-3 hours. No player turns were lost.

Uploader had dissappeared and Pitboss not reacting! Reloaded and all appears well. I uploaded save game from 0800 GMT and turn time now extended 2-3 hours. No player turns were lost.

Mine will be lost, I was unable to log in earlier and won't be home from work until this turns finished. I'm in the middle of a battle so effectively I've lost out on a turn.

Mine will be lost, I was unable to log in earlier and won't be home from work until this turns finished. I'm in the middle of a battle so effectively I've lost out on a turn.

Me too. :(

Damn. I should have brought my CD to work... I have access to two laptops now and could have snuck in a turn at lunch. :mad:

That's that's of us confirmed that haven't played, any chance we could have an earlier reset.

OK Due to several requests the game turn was extended again (now by a total of 9 hours), which should be sufficient for most players to get in again before the end. No moves were lost by those that did log in.

Thanks les, good luck Maltman ! :)

Thanks les

I'm trying to connect and it's not working...did it just go down? I see two of you logged in only about an hour or so ago...

EDIT: Scratch that. Guess you always just have to keep trying. 3rd time trying after doing this post and it went through. :D


Though I'm a bit annoyed....the reload screwed me up, since I did something this morning before work before the turn ended and that got reverted. So now things aren't going to work out the way I needed them to for this turn. :(

Did it go down again? I'm getting a timeout - after 3 tries in the last 20 mins, and Civstats says the uploader is not connected. :(

My other pitboss games work on either the first try or the second within 30 seconds or so.... this one is being the most flaky. :( Which is too bad, because things are pretty interesting.

No way to delete double posts? Uhm, well this was one and I "deleted" it... :D

I am unable to connect as well...

Intresting indeed Maltman :)

Appearently the uplaoder died about 4 hours ago...

I got through to the set up screen choose my civ and then it hung on the beginning scrren where the entire game was set up. very stange. Didnt get their again.

Problem appears to be with my Broadband line and not my hardware or Software. When working the normal fast connection (8M) is degraded to about 2M. at times. I will complain to BT....

Problem appears to be with my Broadband line and not my hardware or Software. When working the normal fast connection (8M) is degraded to about 2M. at times. I will complain to BT....

works fine now

Very interesting indeed :sad:

I managed to get in this morning before work. Finally!

And the error that g_storrow mentioned is similar to something I saw a couple of nights ago. I started to get in, then it hung up, and when I tried to reconnect later it kept timing out. :P

But let the fun continue! ;)

I got through to the set up screen choose my civ and then it hung on the beginning scrren where the entire game was set up. very stange. Didnt get their again.
I had a simular experience some time ago in another game... posted about it here (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=181842), post back if it looks anything like that....

Regarding Fosse. I will set him to AI, as he has missed 5 moves, and last moved on 19th. He is not playing his other games either so is delayed somewhere. Even his own server appears to be down at the moment. He is welcome to take back fro AI should he wish.

You shouldn't have done that. He is back today and would have been logging in this coming turn. Now the AI has done his turn for him and there is something that he needs to do as the AI is going to screw it up (I know from discussions with him).

Please reload the turn and turn him back to Human. I guarantee he'll be logging in this turn.

I am back, exactly as I stated I would be. The AI did bork my move, but not horribly.

I reported that I would be absent for those several days, and the missed turn policies on these games addresses turns missed without notice or explanation. I will travel again in the future, for my job, and hope that I will not be booted again.

To minimize the number of subs I have to get (it is a huge hassle for communications and I play Civ for fun, not work), I ask people to sub for me only in games that are in a delicate situation or have a very quick turn rate. This game fits neither of those categories at the moment.

While I was logged in the game seems to have gone done and it still shows me as logged in ??

Why has everybody decided to pick on me. Is it kill Spike week?

You were just unlucky enough to take up the Civ I was planning on attacking way long ago...back when it was AI.

And that only got delayed when Fosse attacked me. And after a couple rounds of back and forth, that cleared up so I could return to my original path. That path being right through you. :D

Yet again... civstats uploader showing disconnected, and host not responding... :(

Yeah Timing out as well... :( Gota love BT I guess... :mad:

Hmm... I'm wondering what to do about this game. I can't dedicate the time to trying to get in repeatedly - while my other games start smooth. If there was anyone interested in continuing the fun state of my game, I'd work with them for a smooth transition.

@JMaltman:
If you're sure about this, I'd give it a try...
You can e-mail me the details.

Yet again... civstats uploader showing disconnected, and host not responding... :(

Same here ... :(
Go to work now - hope this will be fixed until I come back. :)

I am back, exactly as I stated I would be. The AI did bork my move, but not horribly.

I reported that I would be absent for those several days, and the missed turn policies on these games addresses turns missed without notice or explanation. I will travel again in the future, for my job, and hope that I will not be booted again.

To minimize the number of subs I have to get (it is a huge hassle for communications and I play Civ for fun, not work), I ask people to sub for me only in games that are in a delicate situation or have a very quick turn rate. This game fits neither of those categories at the moment.

Sorry Fosse, I was tol dyou woul dbe back Wednesday. Glad it all worked out for you.

Well, I got in this morning. Maybe I should always try mornings... I seem to have better luck than midnight.

Johnhs - send me a PM and I can start filling you in on the situation.