player list:

me
sumthinelse
essexloony2
KD
sabo10
gunning1
meldor
wildfire444

Just one thing - accelerated production is a must. Otherwise the game will take foreeeeevvvveeeerrrrrr. :)

Preferably pangaea map. AIs to max of 4 (8 max for MP games :(). No other preferences.

Rules - so far no rules but I guess common sense and common courtesy shld prevail (?).

I'd like to claim Japan as my country. Pls customize as : -

Name : Knight-Dragon
Country Name : Dragon Cult
Noun : Dragon Cultists
Adj : Cult
Title : Cult Leader

:)

I will claim the Arabs.....

Name : Meldor
Country Name : Melodorous Swarm
Noun : The Swarm
Adj : Swarmimg
Title : High Swarmi

mmmh..already have a player list...... :(

stalin, wildfire444: if you want you both are in!


I will go as the Scandinavians :D

everyone: capital city name please! A friend will set us up with one size 3 cities (Palace, Barrack, Temple, Granary) and 3 untis (1 worker, 1 warrior, 1 Spearman) each to accelerate the start. He's trustworthy and won't screw anyone, btw ;)


also: patch 1.14 OK?

oh thanks lt. killer m. ^_^
ill be germany
Name:stalin006
country name:sovietika
noun:Neo-Soviets
adj:Neo-Soviet
Title:Premier
capital city:Berlin

gunning_1
meldor
Killer
Knight-Dragon
????? sabo10 ?????
wildfire444
stalin006


GAME FULL!!!!!!

When we gonna start and is the above thread the game order?

Capital: Duneworl

what dificulty? if it is human players only lets play regent or monarch........i want to play aginst enemy civs, not unhappy populations, but ill go w/ anything

Civ: Celts
Name: Gunning
Country Name: The Gunners
Noun: Gunners
Adj: Gunning
Title: President
Capital name: Gunningheim (real original ;))

Ok, you decide on the barbs and everything else...:)

Capital name can be changed, not? ;)

Mine would be Sturmhold.

Looks like we're set for a customized civs PBEM. :D :yeah:

Well, except for me ;).

Again, when we gonna start?

Sorry I"m late getting here, we had a holiday yesterday here in the US and I was at my sisters. Am I too late to join?

What civs are left? I wanted Germany but Stalin took it :(

I believe that i have the Persians so u can have the Ottomans or anyone else that you find good.

OK, I'll have the game set up now (I'm lucky Lars is still working this late on a Friday ;)

sabo10: glad you can join us!!!!

What is the game order?

WildFire444: we will see. i don't think i can set one....


Wilfire444, sao10: please specify civilization of choice and names (if you want custom).

taken:
Germany
Japan
Scandinavia
Celts
Arabia

sumthinelse may join us - it's gonna be packed then!

Is it not working for you? Are you unable to host/start it?

I'll take the Ottomans if thats' still open.

Make my cap city "Hell's Kitchen"

sabo10: I will then name your timbe the Bowmen - OK?

WF444: did a test run and it worked- just don't know what happenes if I use custom things....

ah, will send round an e-mail with everyone addy . suggest this rule:

If you do something the other player would get to see in Civ3, but will not due to PBEM limitations, write him/her a mail!

example:

2750 BC - killed your warrior on the hill with horseman who lost 1 HP and got promoted. Ran past your Spear on mountain with scout - now out of view again. Started Pyramids.


remember: there will probably be NO wonder start notices! So please include this info and give the game year! email this directly to the person you did it to and all others who should have been able to see it!

:sleep:
never mind, happy playing!:

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
sabo10: I will then name your timbe the Bowmen - OK?

WF444: did a test run and it worked- just don't know what happenes if I use custom things....

are you naming them "Bowmen" because you know my last name is "Bowman?" :lol:

Originally posted by sabo10


are you naming them "Bowmen" because you know my last name is "Bowman?" :lol:

Well I COULD name them the Otto-men ;) and Otto is probably the worst German comedian you cna imagine ;) but i thought I'd save you from that fate :)

Killer we better use my regular email address for this and not Hotmail. I"m at

sabowman10@msn.com

Originally posted by sabo10
Killer we better use my regular email address for this and not Hotmail. I"m at

sabowman10@msn.com

roger, Otto! :p

mines stalin006@hotmail.com

lets make the order w/ time zones in mind, like all the N americn players ane after another and night-dragon (japan) at teh beggining or end or something

stalin: good idea - if I could set an order :( I have serious trouble since in all MP games the stupid, s*hitty thing makes em choose a new nick, as it claims Killer is already taken, so is Lt. 'Killer' M., so I have to go by e.g. Killer_M and then I am in the game twice and can't kick myself :aargh: :mad: :aargh:

mmmh......i would do it but........i am simply sick of the PBEM screen, i had an idea for a WWII PBEM scenario jsut like cgannon, so i worked 2 days on it, i had it done, and i tested it at stages, and it worked, but at the and i didnt ! it kept crashing while loading and i had to restart my comp and try again, turns out it works but u start on the ancient age, and have to start from the begginning of the tech tree, so it was bad, i go ttired of trying 100 times and gave up :'( i miss the old CIV3 scenario maker.........(weird but true)

I'm in, but think it would make more sense to decide the map size, water %, and difficulty before we pick civs.

Never played egypt before, so:

Civ: Egypt
Name: sumthinelse
Country Name: default
Noun: default
Adj: default
Title: Fay-row
Capital name: default

peebles@grandecom.net

WELCOME SUMTHINELSE!

Rules suggestion:

Experience:

increase hit points for each level X 2, e. g. conscript 4, regular 6, veteran 8 etc.

the idea is to make combat results a little more realistic.

oh and lets play the game at regent plz

What are the barbarians going to be set at? Personally, i would like roaming or sedentary.

who does NOT agree to the following?

- doubled HP

- regent level

- accelerated production (it IS a tiny map for so many players, btw, we might NOT need this)

- barbs at low level (again, tiny map, might not make a difference).

everything is ok, but a tiny map for 6or 8 players? isnt that too small? keep the accelerated production anyways.

Shouldn't we at least do a standard map for that many people?

It is standard, just with so many civs everyone has as much room as on tiny (making for early contact and trading = fast game)

You guys haven't started yet? :p

I'd prefer std map, with std rules, and std hitpoints, and everything standardized, but generally anything is fine. Let's start this. ;)

trying to... I set it all up with a smart player order - and then the bix was corrupted :aargh:

oh ****!

what am I doing wrong????????


I try to get the game set up. So I host it, selcet PBEM, boot all the idiots who can't read, then select 8 human players and the AIs, then get

a) the wrong player for me

b) the right map, but wrong start (sstandart units, not the set-up scenario)

c) game over right away

:aargh:

if I customize *anything* the game crashes. I hate Firaxis!!!!

Now I have to re-boot since PTW crashes when I select 'host'. What a screwed up program!

OK, after a LOT of fignting my PC and gamespy I got the game set up and started - and despite selecting starting units 1 and 2 as 'none' i still get a setler and a worker - in someone elses starting position :( :confused:
I alos get my town and , oh, btw, on startup the gmae says 'game over'.....


anyone out there who knows how to fix this???????

OK, I think I worked it out - when i un-selected starting units I alsso deleted the starting pos. doh!

gunning, meldor: please give us your e-mail addresses! I will send them around to all players, you should have the other players addresses by now (sent via forum mail).

posting the game here for meldor (you seem to be player two).

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads2/KILLERPBEM1.sav

if a password is asked for: tomcat

Good job Killer, glad to see you won. Just one quick question....whats the game order?

yeah i need that i hope we start soon

got it, who is next?

e-mail johnb@brazoria.net

[EDIT] BTW, I didn't get the e-mail for anyone else.

Killer, the file you posted didn't have your turn in it. It wanted you to move.

Heiner, something is wrong with this game. There seems to be only one human civ. Could the problem be that it got created on a non-us version of PTW and meldor has the us version of PTW?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Originally posted by meldor
got it, who is next?

e-mail johnb@brazoria.net

[EDIT] BTW, I didn't get the e-mail for anyone else.

you should have gotten a PM :confused: jsut checked , it is in m sent folder....




as for the game: no idea. I'll try again, I hope we do not need to go to gamespy all 8 at the same time...... :confused:

KD: how did you set up the other PBEMs you are playing?

I'll try again right now.

Originally posted by sumthinelse
Heiner, something is wrong with this game. There seems to be only one human civ. Could the problem be that it got created on a non-us version of PTW and meldor has the us version of PTW?

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:


nope, all US version here, civ and ptw :confused:

maybe I may not rename?????

I tried starting a normal PBEM game. right after the start I get the message
'good, the games is like, over'

and can choose to end it or play on. playing on means ingle player :(

I cannot start a game for several people without it quiting right away :confused:

I tried: I can play normal MP now if I do NOT use gamespy program

well u wont get through that, i really hate this gamespy "thing"

IT WORKED!!!!


I re-installed EVERYTHING, including my OS - and now it works!!!!!!!!

player order:


me
sumthinelse
stalin006
KD
sabo10
gunning1
meldor
wildfire444

everyone please watch out - if you use Ctrl-l this may turn the game into single-player, so please don't!

if your fingers slip, quit, press ESC when prompted to save, then choose load from the PTW main menu....

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
as for the game: no idea. I'll try again, I hope we do not need to go to gamespy all 8 at the same time...... :confused:

KD: how did you set up the other PBEMs you are playing?

I'll try again right now. If we play a normal game (i.e. w/o modifications, just plain PTW Civ3), why don't you let me set it up? I had already done one for the game I'm playing with donsig. ;) Also familiar with the customizing aspects....

OK, Heiner. Everybody appreciates the effort you are putting into this.

If your friend makes the .bix file, maybe he should create the game and test to make sure that all 8 human civs get a turn.

This is how I create a pbem game:

1) Must have internet connection.

2) Start PTM unless it's already started

3) Multiplayer

4) Host

5) Check box by 1st name and click "Launch"

6) Select Game Type -> Plat by Email

7) Select Game Mode -> Scenario, select .bix file from list

8) Select all human players by selecting "Add human player" from the drop-down list for each player, then select all civs to the right of each player name.

9) Select rules under players box

10) Click Launch button

Is that how you do it? What do you mean by "normal MP game" ?

stalin006: I agree. Why do we have to connect to gamespy to create a pbem game, which is really like a hotseat game with passwords? I suppose the idea is to make development and program maintenance easier, but I'm not sure firaxis is going to be happy with this way either.

KD: we start with a nive size 3 town each to even out starting pos differences (especially available shields) A friend set it up so it should be OK. Random starts give so ****ty positions so often we might have to start again several times....


I recall a start where I had 21 tiles of jungle on that was the entire island - on pangaea game :(

Originally posted by sumthinelse
OK, Heiner. Everybody appreciates the effort you are putting into this.

If your friend makes the .bix file, maybe he should create the game and test to make sure that all 8 human civs get a turn.

This is how I create a pbem game:

1) Must have internet connection.

2) Start PTM unless it's already started

3) Multiplayer



need to selcet local first - and somehow the game didn't accept that! It stayed on internet despite showing 'local'. So when I started (despite PBEM selected) it saw no other players since nnone had joined :(
4) Host

5) Check box by 1st name and click "Launch"

6) Select Game Type -> Plat by Email

7) Select Game Mode -> Scenario, select .bix file from list

8) Select all human players by selecting "Add human player" from the drop-down list for each player, then select all civs to the right of each player name.

9) Select rules under players box

10) Click Launch button

Is that how you do it? What do you mean by "normal MP game" ?

non-scenario one

stalin006: I agree. Why do we have to connect to gamespy to create a pbem game, which is really like a hotseat game with passwords? I suppose the idea is to make development and program maintenance easier, but I'm not sure firaxis is going to be happy with this way either.

OK, I fianlly realized what it was:

there wer two bugs:

a) clicking local showed local - but stayed internet. That's why I had to kick people despite thinking they shouldn't be able to join (that one had me wondering - until I finally saw the solution was there all the time: I seemed to be on the net because I was on the net :lol: )

b) selecting PBEM did NOT change the game to 'local' in the background, thus I had a PBEM for which you had to sign up via net. Since you didn't, I couldn't add human players and get them 'ready'......

Originally posted by sumthinelse
stalin006: I agree. Why do we have to connect to gamespy to create a pbem game, which is really like a hotseat game with passwords? I suppose the idea is to make development and program maintenance easier, but I'm not sure firaxis is going to be happy with this way either. I dimly remember setting up a PBEM w/o going to Gamespy or accessing the internet. You have to specify the location as 'local'. ;) IIRC.

Anyway, the point's moot, let's roll. 4 pages of posts and haven't even started the game is a bad sign.... :)

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
You have to specify the location as 'local'. ;) IIRC.



exactly, but it didn't accept it... man I am getting kinda uset, have crashes all the time and other apps frozen when I quit PTW :(


but read again: we finally started :lol: :blush:

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
KD: we start with a nive size 3 town each to even out starting pos differences (especially available shields) A friend set it up so it should be OK. Random starts give so ****ty positions so often we might have to start again several times....I'd prefer a normal game and if you started out bad, well, it's just isn't your day.... :p

joespaniel and I are playing a PBEM which has an obscene amt of jungle betw our capitals and elsewhere.... :rolleyes: I foresee millenia of jungle chores... :lol:

KD: that is OK if you are two or three, but here, with 8 players, some human is gonna waltz over you very soon...... Imagine playing on and on and on for month then finding the others are in modern times and you on your island are still in despo :(

Well then, I'd appeal for 'foreign aid' and act the role of a Third World nation. And there'll always be other PBEMs... ;)

And in an all-human game, I don't think people will be that trigger-happy, since anyone involved in a war will fall behind the rest (incl aggressor). Can always appeal for 'aid', since the rest of you too probably won't want my attacker to 'get too powerful', if you get my drift...

Anyway, let's stop spamming this thread before CT comes along. Who has got the game?

Also, can you pls put the players list in the first post (using edit), so we don't have to scroll around to look for it? Thanks. ;)

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon


Also, can you pls put the players list in the first post (using edit), so we don't have to scroll around to look for it? Thanks. ;)

Sorry, will do so right now.

OK, I have the game and it seems to work now.

But I don't understand why Knight Dragon (singapore) is between USA players.

But will move and send to stalin006 anyway....

sumthinelse: somehow ma friend must have screwed up in the palyer order, assigned him wrong, or I gave him the wrong civs for the order :(

KD: You really are in Singapore, right?

well it's not too bad, after all I will be the biggest problem, will be very busy in the near future :(

Yes I am in S'pore, but I am jobless. Available at odd times of the day but offline on weekends. Even now, playing PBEM online with donsig. ;)

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.


you should have gotten a PM :confused: jsut checked , it is in m sent folder....
No PM from you, maybe you should try it again.

Originally posted by meldor

No PM from you, maybe you should try it again.

did you get the emails?

OK, now I see what you mean Killer! :)

I can create a pbem or hotseat game without going online by disconnecting the modem before I start the Multiplayer option (in that case it automatically goes into "Local". I didn't know that before.

Thank goodness, I thought I had to use Gamespy. I was wrong about that.

But does anybody else find the email game creation kind of confusing?

I got the email.

i got the email but who do is send it to? i dont know waht the order is....

nm i send it to knight dragon right?

order is in first post:

me
sumthinelse
stalin006
KD
sabo10
gunning1
meldor
wildfire444

HEY I JUST PLAYED AND SENT MY GAME TO KD..........BUT I NOTICED THAT WILDFIRE444 STARTS W/ 2, YES TWO CITIES!!!! OK THAT IS REALLY UNFAIR!

Really, SWEET!! Haven't got the game yet, but that is fine ;). How can you see me already?

WHAT??????? SOMEONE HAS TWO CITIES???????


can't really be......

ah, if so, wildfire, there was a mistake assigning cities. just abandon one, please, and the units that come with it (the one where there's NO settler in it).......

:blush:

i did my turn and a friend's 11 year old boy kep presing continue game and when i noticed it said is wildfires turn and baam u had 2 cities.............

so how are we going to make sure he does that? it is pretty temting to abandon city adn keep extra settler or something

stalin006: I trust him!

yeah is just taht i have been in a few PBEM games where people cheat :( nothing against wildfire :)

If we find someone cheating, then they don't get invited to play in the next game. Otherwise we trust.


If you find someone is cheating, email one of the moderators.

The Dragon Cult - Turn 1

Started the game with 1 spear, 1 warrior, 2 workers, 1 settler. Is this correct? City holds granary, barracks and temple. Culture at 20-something.

Stormhold is favourably terrained. :yeah:

Game will be emailed.

Add : I have renamed the game to Killer01.sav. Killer, each time the game passes back to you, pls rename as +1, so that we know which turn it is and don't mess up all the files. ;)

Originally posted by meldor
If we find someone cheating, then they don't get invited to play in the next game. Otherwise we trust.Indeed. In this small (?) PBEM community of ours, a player's reputation will not be limited to only one game. If he's found out, word will get around quickly and his reputation will be ruined... ;) He'll find it hard to join another game, esp if the mods are into it. And some posters have very long memories.... :evil:

Besides, stalin, you know where his position is, so I'll say it's one down for Wildfire. ;) :)

Lets all be paranoid. YAYYY. I will abandon the city, even though i haven't even gotten the game yet :(. Thats nice to start out with though KD. I hate building granaries ;)

Just want to make sure I didn't start out with more (or less) than what was intended... :)

I dislike this kind of start, but at least I got a good first city (in a less-than-desired world position)...

KD: this is correct, everyone should start like that.

next game we can start 'pure' ;)

Sorry I didn't see that you needed my e-mail earlier. :( I would have been second too wouldn't I...Well, you could have clicked on my profile and gone to click here to e-mail gunning1...Well, here it is:

mgunning@charter.net

Who's playing the game? :confused:

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
I dislike this kind of start, but at least I got a good first city (in a less-than-desired world position)...

I think I know why Killer tried to give each of us a reasonable starting position.

When you play against the AI, it sometimes gives you a break even though it has all the coal or oil. That is, sometimes the AI plays weakly and you can take the resource away. Competent human players should be tougher, and therefore a dominant resource advantage can be very unbalancing in a human-vs-human game.

Also, I think he didn't want the start of the game to go too slowly. Just my opinion. :)

I don't know who has the ball. Not me.

i'm last and i do not have it (yet)

it should be on the way to gunning, sabo10 had some email problems....


sumthinelse: I didn't fully think it through, just based the start requ on my MP experience in CIV2, Civ3 and other games. But basically what you wrote fits!

I can't find gunnings friggin email, anyone know what it is??

I found it never mind, sorry about the delay guys but I've never done PBEM before, how in the heck do we trade??

we have to meet fisrt
read the little manual. ;) i cant explain it better

Ok, I just got it. :)

I finished my turn but need the email address of wikdfire444 so that I can send it on.

meldor: check PM. somehow my mails don't seem to reach u :(

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
meldor: check PM. somehow my mails don't seem to reach u :(

Killer, the email you sent me didn't have wildfire444's address.

I got the email and I got the PM, neither one has wildfire444's address in them.

wildfire4848@yahoo.com or Tous@excite.com

:)

I sent the game to Killer to pass on to you, if he didn't wsend it then let me know and I will get it to you as soon as I get home from work.

I sent it this morning. :blush:

I got it but i am at school so i can't play it right now.

I got the game and abandoned one of my extra cities. I now only have one. I also disbandened an extra spearman, warrior, and workers. Also, the hitpoints are modded right? So an elite will be a 10 hp? or 8 hp?

EDIT: Oh, and i sent it to Killer. :)

Originally posted by stalin006
we have to meet fisrt
read the little manual. ;) i cant explain it better

you mean there are things in the manual that are accurate???
;)

The PTW manual is pretty accurate, on most basic stuff anyway. ;)

Let's get this game going faster. A turn only once every 2-3 weeks is going to kill it, eventually. ;)

Stalin006, step up to the plate please! :)

welli am afraid i cant continue w/ this PBEM, my computer had gone bad and i cant start the game since theres something wrong w/ the CD-rom on the computer adn cant get any CD to work, i might only need one of those disks taht clean the lens off, but not sure, so i cant play PBEM or PTW or any other game at all.

sorry

Originally posted by stalin006
welli am afraid i cant continue w/ this PBEM, my computer had gone bad and i cant start the game since theres something wrong w/ the CD-rom on the computer adn cant get any CD to work, i might only need one of those disks taht clean the lens off, but not sure, so i cant play PBEM or PTW or any other game at all.

sorry

I guess you don't want to drive up to Austin to play it on my machine? :)

Well, keep trying....

Is this game cursed??

well u can replace me w/ an AI or somthing, thats waht administration paswords are for arnt tehy?

Originally posted by stalin006
well u can replace me w/ an AI or somthing, thats waht administration paswords are for arnt tehy?

Do you want for another (new) player to take over for you?

yup, i mean i dont think ill be able to play (if at all) for a quite some time, so continue w/out me

Anybody have any friends who want to take over for stalin006? Whoever it is will need the password from him.

Killer (as host) shld make a post in the PBEM registry thread, stickied at the top of this forum. ;) We can make the plea there.

stalin006: I am sorry to hear this!

I'll see if I can find someone to step in. Until then my roommate here can play (he doesn't know the game but the first 5 or so moves should not matter much as he knows Civ2 very well)......

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
stalin006: I am sorry to hear this!

I'll see if I can find someone to step in. Until then my roommate here can play (he doesn't know the game but the first 5 or so moves should not matter much as he knows Civ2 very well)......

Killer, I think stalin006 should send his password to your roommate? How else can he play?

Also if you tell me his email address I will send the game to him.

I would love to play in his place.

Please send the password to neil.window@btinternet.com.

essexloony: welcome :D

stalin006: pass on the password, please.

essexloony. you can try: maybe he didn#t enter one!

Sent saved game to neil.window@btinternet.com.

He needs stalin006's pw I think.

if stalin used one - yes.

I PM him about it already!

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
if stalin used one - yes.

I PM him about it already! Didn't he say his home computer is down....? Let's hope the guy will log in somewhere else. :)

the password is
lenin007
go back one historical name, go forward one number! easy uh?


not 100% sure, but most likely yes

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
Didn't he say his home computer is down....? Let's hope the guy will log in somewhere else. :)

I think just the cd drive is broken but email (and other internet access) is OK.

stalin: thanx! and a good idea on the password ;)

KD,

Gonna need your email matey, so as I can send you the save.

Sent you my email via a PM. ;) Check your PM box pls.

sent :) You are up

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
stalin006: I am sorry to hear this!

I'll see if I can find someone to step in. Until then my roommate here can play (he doesn't know the game but the first 5 or so moves should not matter much as he knows Civ2 very well)......

yep and if you can read between the lines what killer is REALLY saying is he will be taking two turns for a while, right killer? ;)

sabo10: nope, this is the guy who did all the wonderfull maps for us (the zerkers map, for example) He and I really are two different people - I swear!

Dragon Cult - Turn 2

Classified. :p Actually, nothing much to do.

Game will be emailed to sabo10. :)

got it... sent it... ;)

(ps.. kidding killer )
:lol:

OK, Killer got banned but now is back. What happened to the game?

Don't know aboout the game but why did killer get banned?

EDIT- Oh, whoops :rolleyes:

WF: I PMed a mod and in that PM was something he didn't like.

WHERE IS THE GAME???????????

Sorry for the spam, but I have started the 4th Agent Orange PBEM game (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39352).

Happy playing :)

Originally posted by sabo10
got it... sent it... ;)

(ps.. kidding killer )
:lol:

"kidding" :confused:

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
WHERE IS THE GAME??????????? I don't think this is going to work. 8 human players is a bit too many. As the old saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth; I think the optimal max level shld be 4.

At the rate of 1 move per week, this will take forever....

sumthinelse: he was kidding me above, it's not about the game.

gunning1 - are you there???????

gunning1 is still on the forums, he is playing a civ3 democracy game today:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38230&perpage=20&display=&highlight=gunning1&pagenumber=2

I gave it to gunning the other day

tx, sumthinelse. I PMed him

I haven't gotten anything from him yet....

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
I don't think this is going to work. 8 human players is a bit too many. As the old saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth; I think the optimal max level shld be 4.

At the rate of 1 move per week, this will take forever....

wow, is it really going that slow? well i got my computer working again, and started a new PBEM, i guess i shouldnt had said that my comp was broken, i could had come back and noone would had noticed :P, any ways i need someone to play persia on my PBEM, if u have teh time go check it out

Originally posted by stalin006


wow, is it really going that slow? well i got my computer working again, and started a new PBEM, i guess i shouldnt had said that my comp was broken, i could had come back and noone would had noticed :P, any ways i need someone to play persia on my PBEM, if u have teh time go check it out

Maybe you can take over for gunning1 if he doesn't want to play....

Oh, crap...I didn't realize that I had it, I don't check my mail to often...I tried it but then my Civ.3 crashed, I'll try to get it out by the end of the night...Sorry. :(

Ok, I sent it. BTW, is there something wrong with the goody huts? I got 2 of them and they both had warriors...:(

I would say that's unlikely. I think we are playing on regent and you are non-expansionist, so I think odds of getting a warrior are about 5%-10%, but it's still possible to get 2 in a row. You got 2 huts in 2 moves?

I guess it's lucky you didn't get barbs twice. :)

Well, that's what I mean, I got two barbs, and (stupid me) had sent my workers to get them, so next turn...:(

Originally posted by gunning1
Well, that's what I mean, I got two barbs, and (stupid me) had sent my workers to get them, so next turn...:(

That's different. With non-expansionist I get barbs about 35% of the time on regent level, so your result is not too surprising. Maybe we should play on chieftan next time? ;)

Without expansionist I hardly get any goodie huts at all, those warriors are just too slow.

Taking more than a week for 1 turn. This game could set some records.....

yes I"ve been playing three weeks now and I'm going to be starting turn 3, I hope we get done with this game before my great-great-grandchildren wonder where 'papa' is..
:D

Originally posted by sabo10
yes I"ve been playing three weeks now and I'm going to be starting turn 3, I hope we get done with this game before my great-great-grandchildren wonder where 'papa' is..
:D

I only have I city. How slow will it get if we all have 30 cities? Will it take a year for one turn?

:lol: :( :( :lol:

Game has been sent to Wildfire444

I'm winning!!! Prolly cause of that extra city, but still :p. Anyway, sending game to Killer (YAY next round) as i type this!

Well, I've got 2 cities and a third on the way. :D

I hope I can remember my password now....

;) ;) ;) just kidding.

widfire444: NO GAME HAS ARRIVED! No email no nothing :eek: :eek:

Hey I only got one city, you guess are going to stomp on me

:(

I couldn't send it Killer. I was on a little more than i should of been last night ;). I am not certain but i think i have been banned from the comp for today and possibly tomorrow. Of course, all i need to do is send the game since i have already played it :)

Originally posted by WildFire444
I couldn't send it Killer. I was on a little more than i should of been last night ;). I am not certain but i think i have been banned from the comp for today and possibly tomorrow. Of course, all i need to do is send the game since i have already played it :)

How are you posting to the forum if you can't send email?

One word- School.

And i can't send it since i am stuck here w/ out the game.

here is the game Killer

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Meldor_of_the_The_Swarm,_3950_BC.SAV

OK, got it.

Sent 3900bc game to Killer's roommate essexloony2 (next player).

Killer, you may want to update the 1st page to show he replaced stalin006.

:lol: he isn't my roommate, there never was need for him to step in as essexloony popped up fast enough. And tx for reminding me, sumthinelse, I always forget these things!

Sent on to KD

I am taking a Christmas break guys. I have to go visit my mother, who doesn't have a computer. I will be back around Dec 27.

Turn 3

Game emailed to sabo. :)

let's see that we can get the game to sumthinelse by the 27th ;)


happy holiday and a merry xmas everyone!

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
let's see that we can get the game to sumthinelse by the 27th ;)


happy holiday and a merry xmas everyone!

But if I get it before the 27th I don't think I will have a computer.

I'll send it off to GUnning tonight'

I got the save but when I tried to open it I got the msg "not a valid sav file" I sent a note to KD telling him to resend it.

I have resent it. Normally I would zip the file before sending it out; you need to unzip it first. ;)

KD it came with a SAV extension.

KD I got the second email with the game but it was the same thing, I kid you not!! This is what I get...

ps... try opening the game yourself first before you send it to see if it's ok.

I can open it fine.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/kdstrange.jpg

Now... how do I get out of that screen w/o clicking on that OK button (and then seeing at least where someone is).... :)

I have uploaded the file to the uploads server...

www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/KillersPBEM3.zip

If this still doesn't work, then I am at a loss too... :confused:

Ok that worked, this time the file was about twice as big so I knew it would probably work. I wonder what happened, that was wierd.

Anyway, I zipped it up and sent it off to Gunning, ((** gee I hope I can remember why I moved that worker where I did next move **)) ;)

It looks like right now I'm in the lead! :D (Probably the only time that will ever happen...:) Plus, it's sent.

gunning, can you send it to meldor_civ3@hotmail.com.

That way I can get it and play before the 4th of Jan.

Thanks.

I'm back and ready to PTW. Looks like the game wouldn't have gotten to me anyway.

Well, I won't be able to send it until tonight.

Well, it should be sent.

Passed on to wildfire.

Killer, did you set the difficulty level in the editor or the MP screen?

both, IIRC (i.e. I set it in editor, but it was available for change in MP, but said Regent there).

Grrrr. PBEM games are always cheiftain, at least that is the difficulty my latest game defaulted to...

There are bugs reported in many hotseat and PBEM games:


1) the difficulty level displayed keeps changing

2) the actual difficulty of the game is wrong

3) the MP screen won't let you set the difficulty level.

This game does not seem to be affected by 1) and 2) and I think the reason is that Killer set the difficulty level in the editor. However, any time I create a MP game from a .bix file, even if I select "any" for the difficulty level in the editor the MP screen won't let me change the difficulty level.

And when I didn't create custom player data in the editor the MP screen let me choose deity but set the actual game difficulty to regent. :(

Killers turn.
Since i am too lazy to email it here it is killer

Happy New Year guys!

3850BC sent to essexlooney

And off to sabo. :)

GOt it, and sent it to gunning. Well I got TWO cities now guys WATCH OUT ;)

one of you guys (don't know who) I'm trying to make a deal with...

:hmm:

I did have two cities, but illegally.

And yes, i did abandon one and its units on the city.

Gunning, are you playing?

Sent.

I've got two cities and a third on the way. :D BTW, did you make it to when you build a city, it produces a warrior with it?

????? it does what????

Well, when I built a city, a warrior appeared.

??? this is weird!

I gotta say I've never heard of free warriors in new cities either :confused:

you didn't pop a goodie did you?

Okay here is the game for the next player.

Interesting though, i beleive i can see gunning's second city :hmm:
Any good luxuries that you want to trade earlier? If so what? I got furs, if not, i won't tell you the direction i came from :p

Also in the pic you can see my second city that i abandonded my first turn.


http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/gunning.JPG

Also, how is stalin006 gonna continue this game? He said that his comp crashed and he can't play PTW anymore...find a replacement?

if he cannot play i will be willing to fill in. If he can play then i will not play.... :p

Originally posted by stalin006
ok my comp has been attacked by a stupid virus........ so i cant play PTW since my CD drive doesnt work :( sorry

This is from Stalin in one of my games with him. If you care to search. It was the advanced PBEM game.

Oh whoops, i see that he was already replaced by essexlooney2.

My bad :rolleyes:

Sent email to Killer reminding him. Wildfire posted the save in this thread on page 11.

Actually, is Essexlooney2 still around?

Sent to essexlooney (player 3), 3800BC

KD have you received a move from essexlooney2 yet? I posted to remind him on another thread where he posted...

I don't know if he is around anymore.... In another one of my PBEM games, someone said that essex(looney2??) had quit the games.

Originally posted by sumthinelse
KD have you received a move from essexlooney2 yet? I posted to remind him on another thread where he posted... Nope. Didn't see anything fr him...

?????? htis one seems lost forever...... how long should we wait for essexloony2?

Your game Killer so you decide if you want to replace him.

Or replace him with an AI... I think it'd be cool for an AI to play against 7 humans; the overwhelmingly normal case being the other way around... :mischief:

Wouldnt take long for the AI to parish most likely.

:lol: you mean to 'perish' I take it?


one more day and I'll replace him.

Shld someone send him an email or PM him? Maybe he's in hospital or on vacation or something.

From now on, let's make it a small rule that anyone expecting to be gone awhile shld inform the rest of us...

essexlooney2 has not been around in our game either (Agent Orange 4)

His last post on cfc was the 23nd December in our thread.

We have almost given up hope....

Edit: Scrap that. I was getting him confused with another missing person (Black Waltz)

Originally posted by anarres
essexlooney2 has not been around in our game either (Agent Orange 4)

His last post on cfc was the 23nd December in our thread.

We have almost given up hope....

Edit: Scrap that. I was getting him confused with another missing person (Black Waltz)

Do you want to take his place in this game?

If you ever need a replacement, I'd be interested to join you. :)

KD: I thought that was clear anyways ;)

Sashaddin: you are in! Welomce!

last game turn to me please, sumthinelse.

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
KD: I thought that was clear anyways ;)

Sashaddin: you are in! Welomce!

last game turn to me please, sumthinelse.

essexlooney2 just sent me email saying resend game in non-zipped format. I'll send game to you, Killer, and essexlooney2, again.

Originally posted by sumthinelse
Do you want to take his place in this game? It appears the position has been and gone. Maybe 8 PBEM games would have been pushing it anyways...

anarres: that's what I expected ;)

also, he said he'd take it before you showed up......

Originally posted by sumthinelse


essexlooney2 just sent me email saying resend game in non-zipped format. I'll send game to you, Killer, and essexlooney2, again.


:confused: now who is what and where and when and why??????????

If essexloony2 doesn't pass on the gmae this time tomorrow, he's out.

essenloony replied to my mail saying he will try to go faster, the problem is him being away for work often. He says he never takes more than 48h even then. Let's hope we have more luck with timing in the future.....

I read the posts above and I'm a bit confused. Is there someone for me to replace ?

Sashadddin: sumthinelse offered to let you play for him, but I woudl rather start a new PBEM with fewer players. You'd be in on that if you want. OK?

If you post an OK to that here I can start a game thread right away

....OK....! :)

Sashaddin: please confirm here:


http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41809

My turn is played in this game guys.

Also, I dont post for long periods because I have spells when an internet connection is several miles away.

Thanks for waiting though, I really do appreciate it.

Game played and sent to sabo... :sleep:

I'm last in points so far... :)

Sent to Gunning, I just got offered to sell masonary for 10gold..
hahahhahaha Yeah, right