I am looking to start up a game for up to 8 human players. Huge world, no holds barred full on battle.
2-4 moves a day, more if we can.

Let me know if you would like to be in.


I am the Ottomans, So you cant have them!


my email is salts_pikey@hotmail.com

I am GMT so best play evening GMT standard time.

I like random.

greeneclan@mchsi.com

will place you in the 'random' hat.

will let u know when game is ready + we have enough players.

post any rule requests


The Pikey

So far we have two players...

Salts_pikey - Ottomans

Dogboy - 'random civ'

I'll play. Portuguese.

i'll play, w/ a huge world this game is likely to take forever, with 8 players we'll be lucky to get 1 turn / day. I'll take Americans, but only if this does remain a huge map & 8 players, if either of those change i will want to change my civ.

predesad@yahoo.com

GMT -6

4 players so far so were half way there!

salts - ottomans
dogboy - 'random'
purvisixiii - portugese
predesad - americans

so far, huge world.

any prefs on any other parameters let me know.

untill then , keep civving!

NO A.P!!!!

NO A.P!!!!

Shucks, i was going to vote for AP :(

I'd like a normal world, i.e. temperate, 4 billion yrs, normal climate.
Either archipeligo or continents, no pangea.
60 or 70 % water coverage.
prefer no respawn AI in case we dont get 8 humans & end up w/ AI civs.
prefer no culturally linked starts
prefer allow cultural conversions.

Note, these are preferences, not demands.

Um...anyone else?

Yeah I'm up for a huge world challange! I'll try Maya. I don't mind what settings, it's all good for me. :cool:


Just one question, will we install the official v1.15 patch when it comes out?

salts - ottomans
dogboy - 'random'
purvisixiii - portugese
predesad - americans
kiwiandy - mayans

these are the players so far.

2 more and we are there!

I will play!! With the persians. My E-Mail is jescar2atweb.de

welcome aboard blocki.
purvis, how set are you on no AP?
salts_pikey, i'd also like raging barbs:D

Setting:
continents 80% water coverage
AP means in german beschleunigte Produktion is that right? Then I say no to AP.
no culturally links
and monarch

I have the german version of conquest also I can´t play with the patch 1.15b!

I'm not married to no AP, but it looks like I wasn't alone...it's not a dealbreaker issue for me, just a preference.

I'm running 1.13 still.

Hey, I'l play :D
Hmm might go in as the zulu.
Id vote for pangaea or continents and AP, but i'l play wotever the prefs are :)
Also im runnning 1.15 but i'l uninstall if we choose to use a different version.

by my count we only need one more to get 8, guess i get outvoted for AP, just as well, to me game has more purity at regular pace.

Sure, I'll join. Make me the Babylonians. (I'm in GMT-8)

viccougarsfan@hotmail.com

salts_pikey, not trying 2 take control or anything, but looks like we have our 8 players, here's the list and their information:

1) salts_pikey
salts_pikey AT hotmail dot com
GMT
ottomans

2) dogboy
greeneclan AT mchsi dot com
GMT -5 (0100 - 0400)
random

3) purvisxiii
purvisxiii AT cox dot net
GMT -6 morning / evening im guessing (1400-1800, 0000-0300)
portuguese

4) predesad
predesad AT yahoo dot com
GMT -6 (0000 - 0600)
United States of America

5) kiwiandy
andy AT laptopz DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk
GMT (1900 - 730)
maya

6) blocki
jescar2 AT web dot de
German time zone, whatever that is in GMT (1300 - 2100)
persia

7) fanste
fanste_28 AT hotmail dot com
GMT +9
zulu

8) vancouver2010
viccougarsfan AT hotmail dot com
GMT -8 (2330 - 730)
babylon

if blocki would post time zone then he would b able 2 put the players in a proper turn order

thanx guys

I play at 0100-0400 GMT. Let's roll!

hey salts_pikey, do you want our time zones, or our available playing times converted to GMT?

Just in case you wanted our available playing times:

Mon - Fri: 2330 - 0730 GMT
Sat - Sun: 1600 - 0730 GMT

all right! we have lift off!

andy AT laptopz DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk
GMT +0 (London)

or

Mon - Fri: 19:00 - 07:30 GMT
Sat - Sun: 07:30 - 23:00 GMT

Bring it ON! :cool:

My Timezone is 13:00 - 21:00 in german time!

purvisxiii@cox.net

I'm GMT -6. I play more in the morning hours here, with the possibility of another turn or two in the evenings provided I get it. Very flexible WRT play times. Mid-late afternoon is the only down time, usually at work.

my emails: fanste_28@hotmail.com

Timezone is GMT +9 (down in south australia) , i usually play in morning and evening, and check throughout the day somtimes, thruout the week.

OK, so it seems this would be the logical order (and I'm not trying to take over, salts_pikey, just trying to speed things up):

1. fanste - Zulu - fanste_28@hotmail.com (GMT+9)
2. blocki - Persia - jescar2@web.de (GMT+1)
3. salts_pikey - Ottomans - salts_pikey@hotmail.com (GMT)
4. kiwiandy - Maya - andy@laptopz.fsnet.co.uk (GMT)
5. dogboy - Random - greeneclan@hotmail.com (GMT-5)
6. purvisxiii - Portugal - purvisxiii@cox.net (GMT-6)
7. predesad - America - predesad@yahoo.com (GMT-6)
8. Vancouver2010 - Babylon - viccougarsfan@hotmail.com (GMT-8)

actually, w/ salts_pikey hosting he is automatically first player, so, IMHO, we need 2 go:

1. salts_pikey - Ottomans - salts_pikey AT hotmail.com (GMT)
2. kiwiandy - Maya - andy AT laptopz.fsnet.co.uk (GMT)
3. dogboy - Random - greeneclan AT hotmail.com (GMT-5)
4. purvisxiii - Portugal - purvisxiii AT cox.net (GMT-6)
5. predesad - America - predesad AT yahoo.com (GMT-6)
6. Vancouver2010 - Babylon - viccougarsfan AT hotmail.com (GMT-8)
7. fanste - Zulu - fanste_28 AT hotmail.com (GMT+9)
8. blocki - Persia - jescar2 AT web.de (GMT+1)

here u go, salts_pikey, all the information is ready 4 u, set up, play, send when ready

thank you

Oops. Forgot about that little detail.

Ok, great :D
ty for setting that order and info up predesad & vancouver

Just 1 question , will it matter if we are using different versions? coz i think some of us are on 1.12 as well as 1.13 and 1.15, not sure tho.
Looking forward 2 it :D

We must play with the patch 1.12b because I have the german version and 1.13 or 1.15 only for the us version.

When we can start?

ok fellas,

give me time to set it up.

but i warn you, i am a busy man so please be patient.

I doubt this game will ever get going. And if it does get going it will never last. We have a player from this game in another game and he never takes his turn. In fact, he just dropped out for this reason:

i will have to drop out of this one.

too many real life commitments.


besides, we will be here next year trying to finish it.

really


cant

be

bothered


Have fun, and get out more.

If everybody wants me to start this game, I will be happy to. Or if somebody else (who knows who really won't play their daily turn) wants to start it, feel free to do so.

I can go ahead and start it (after I eat dinner, of course).

Vancouver, check you private messages. Let's get this game rolling.

History has begun.

I codenamed the game "CIA" for "Civaholics International Association". It was the best codename I could think of, and I didn't want to use some long name.

Game sent to fanste.

Thank god for that I thought this friggin game would never get underway. :goodjob:

On to Blocki :goodjob:

-->Kiwiandy

Right, loaded the SAV but it came up: "Not a valid SAV file". Blocki, please can you replay your turn and resend me the save?

this is version 1.12b

Ok, this is getting crazy. It has been almost a week and we are still on turn 1.

Um, what is the turn order, anyway?

The posts in this thread don't remotely suggest either of the orders above.

I'm using version 1.12b. I can load other PBEM's no problem. Blocki I can only suggest that you replay your turn and resend it. Sometime this year would be nice.

purvisxiii, the turn order is on the previous page, and we have been following that order.

Um...how does turn going fantse->blocki->kiwiandy match this:

1. salts_pikey - Ottomans - salts_pikey AT hotmail.com (GMT)
2. kiwiandy - Maya - andy AT laptopz.fsnet.co.uk (GMT)
3. dogboy - Random - greeneclan AT hotmail.com (GMT-5)
4. purvisxiii - Portugal - purvisxiii AT cox.net (GMT-6)
5. predesad - America - predesad AT yahoo.com (GMT-6)
6. Vancouver2010 - Babylon - viccougarsfan AT hotmail.com (GMT-8)
7. fanste - Zulu - fanste_28 AT hotmail.com (GMT+9)
8. blocki - Persia - jescar2 AT web.de (GMT+1)


?

It mirrors that exatcly. Since Vancouver started the game, he is player one. Then he sends it to fanste, then blocki, then it goes up to the top. Since salts_pikey isn't included, it goes to the next person which is kiwiandy. Looks good to me.

Well, the no. 1 player took too long to start the game, then it emerged that he often holds things up so it was decided to proceed without him. So 6. Vancouver2010 started and sent the turn to 7, who sent it to 8, who sent it to me at 2. When I get a correct SAV I will play it and send it to 3, who will then send it to 4, who will then send it to 5, and the cycle will begin again.

I still haven't received blocki's second attempt at giving me a correct SAV.

Right, loaded the SAV but it came up: "Not a valid SAV file". Blocki, please can you replay your turn and resend me the save?

i have had this same exact problem b4, it occurs when the other player saves or attaches the file as something other than a SAV file. i have always had to have the player resend the turn. so unless someone knows how to convert a file into a SAV file, blocki u r going 2 have 2 resend him the turn making sure u send it as a SAV file, u might not have 2 replay, my opponents didnt, but then again, u might.

Ok, this is getting crazy. It has been almost a week and we are still on turn 1.

tell me about it, i haven't even seen the game yet. this is a huge world, right? unless settings were changed @ which point i'm going 2 b a little upset because i had stated if the world did not stay huge i wanted 2 change my civ, dont want 2 try the americans on anything but a huge world. anyway, got off track, this is a huge world, going to take a long time, & there's 7 players.

Not trying to rush you, but blocki, if u have not done so already, please resend to kiwiandy.

Originally posted by predesad
tell me about it, i haven't even seen the game yet. this is a huge world, right? unless settings were changed @ which point i'm going 2 b a little upset because i had stated if the world did not stay huge i wanted 2 change my civ, dont want 2 try the americans on anything but a huge world. anyway, got off track, this is a huge world, going to take a long time, & there's 7 players.

It is a Huge world.

To fix it is really quite simple. A valid save file will say something like "game.SAV" An invalid save file will only say "game". This happens sometimes when you try to save the game using other than the default such as "gungho of the germans3500BC.SAV". Just go to the file and rename it to have the .SAV on the end. Let's get this going!

y didnt i think of that :confused: :confused: :confused:

okay, kiwi, rename the file, play, & send, i still gotta wait on what 3 other people 4 my 1st turn

I'd already tried that chaps and no joy. The file he sent me was named: CIA4000bc[1].sav - I tried renaming it to CIA4000bc.SAV but still got the below.

I still have not received another SAV from blocki.

-->kiwiandy

I have still not received it. Please check you sent it to my correct address.

Got it finally. Worked fine this time. Played turn and sent to Dogboy.

I feel like celebrating with a shot of whiskey or 10.

Farks sakes, now I'm getting 'could not deliver' emails. I have tried to send the SAV to Dogboy twice (greeneclan AT hotmail.com) with no luck.

Do you have another address Dogboy?

I cannot believe how difficult it is to get this friggin game going!

That's not my e-mail. My e-mail is

greeneclan AT mchsi DOT com

So substitute mchsi for hotmail

oakily doakily.

Turn sent.

Sorry 'bout that mess-up, guys. It's all my fault. I misread the original list and typed hotmail.com instead of mchsi.com when I created the new list.

The game lives! Just played my turn and sent to purvisxiii. Let's see if we can keep this rolling.

on the next two day i´m not here. sorry!

The game lives

yes, but it would b nice if we could get it off life support

It is. Played and sent. Your turn.

3950 BC sent to fanste.

We're finally on the 2nd turn! :)

On to Blocki

w00t. So, Vancouver is host?

Can't we just verify these turn receipts via return emails? I only ask because I'm not in the habit of logging in here daily (as my signup date/post ratio over
<--
there can attest.)

vancouver, sorry bout no turn sent post, was busy taking turns in other games, then forgot, then remembered, then u had already passed it

the Americans, hearing some rumor about a once lost American settlement, (Plymouth Rock, Roanoke, sadly my history is need of refreshing) have decided to remain nomadic 4 a turn of the century or 2 in order 2 find a suitable site and not suffer the same fate

Received from Blocki and on to Dogboy.

received, played, and sent

ditto

3900bc Sent.

To Blocki

to andy

to Dogboy

played and sent to purvisxiii

turn 2 vancouver

the Americans still remain nomadic

3850 BC sent.

PLayed & Sent

Received from Blocki

Sent to Dogboy

Good to see we have some momentum here!

Received from Dogboy, on to pred.

Let's hope it's not Joementum!

Turn sent. And judging from predesad's amazingly high score of ... 7 ... </sarcasm> ... I'm guessing the Americans have founded their first city.

Also, let's hope we don't have moomentum either. I bring this up because the momentum tests that I had in Physics 11 and 12 were all cow-themed (or cow product-themed). Seriously. It wasn't as funny as the teachers thought it was. Luckily for me, I just finished Physics 12, so I don't have to worry about cow tests anymore. (Unless my Chemistry 12 teacher decides to be cruel and evil...)

Sent to Blocki.
Nice to see the americans have settled :P

... I think we have MOmentum :D

under protest of their leader, the american people decided to put up shop, no longer fearing their settlement would vanish

Nice shop predesad. I'll have a ham and pickle thanks.

--> Dogboy

sorry, but the American people r a mixed breed of religious groups, among whom r some Jews, no ham available, the emporer himself is having a hard time dealing w/ the abscence of bacon

Sent to purvisxiii. That was one day turn around on that turn! Let's keep this one rolling.

played and sent yesterday, BTW.

didnt get turn from purvis, will send him an eamil 2, but last turn i got / played was on the 2nd, Monday

sent

played & sent

sent to kiwiandy

--> Dogboy

played and sent. I hate not being industrious!

may / may not have limited availability Sunday / Monday, ISP issues

score is now in double digits, rest of world look out i smell victory just around the corner

on to vancouver

hmmm..we seem to have gotten stuck somewhere :(
anyone have idea where the save is?
last i received was on Feb 6th

You mean I haven't sent that yet?!? Ah CRAP!!!!

I've been up to my eyeballs in Jr B hockey, school, homework, university applications, etc., etc., etc. that I obviously forgot to send it!!!

I'll make sure I play it before I go to bed (which will be in 2-3 hours).

Signed, sealed, stamped, and stapled.

Sorry³ about that. I've just been sooo busy with hockey and school and homework and university scholarship applications and ... *** descends into illegible, unintelligable, untranslateable (is that even a word?), mindless drivellish ranting about utterless crap that no one cares about, inserting a considerable concentration of four-letter words (you can use your imagination for those) and so on and so forth as this supposed placeholder turns into that rant mentioned earlier in this placeholder *** ... and, to make a long story short, I forgot all about this PBEM.

Again, sorry³ about that.

No probs about that vancouver :)
played & sent to blocki

no problem vancouver!

sent to kiwiandy

~~> Dogboy

to vancouver

American citizens have fully convinced their dictator after much pleading, luxurious gifts, and the betrothal of many fair maidens to allow the settlement to remain where it was founded instead of packing up and moving

The citizens of the Babylonian Empire are desperately trying to convince their Emperor to not change the Empire's name to the Canadian Empire and rename all existing and future cities accordingly. Results to be determined in roughly 50 years.

Turn Sent.

(Yes, I do know that I can't rename the civilization. But I can still rename the cities!)

Yes, I do know that I can't rename the civilization. But I can still rename the cities!)

i name all my cities after myself:

predesad, predesadopolis, predesadville, predesadton, predesad city, los predesad, san predesad, st predesad, predesad valley, predesad beach, predesad bay, mount predesad, lake predesad, predesad forest, predesadtopia...

then of course my favorite, once i conquer a rival's city and keep it --> predesad oppression

Well, that's ... uh, ... different. I think I won't name them all after myself. After all, I can't have a nation full of Vancouvers. (Well, I could, but then I'd have to leave out Toronto ... on the other hand, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea!)

well, it takes someone w/ a really big ego to name all his cities after himself :D :worship: :worship: :worship:

-->andy

and on it goes to Dogboy

played and sent

The Babylonian people have failed in their attempts to keep their Emperor from renaming the Babylonian city. The citizens of Ottawa are not pleased.

Turn sent.

on to Vancouver, interested to see how that whole Canadian transition thing goes, will they remain Babylon or will they somehow miracously transcend culture groups and thousands of miles to be Canada.

the American peasants are concerned about the rest of the world having such a head start on their empire. However, emporer Predesad has reminded them the original American nation is one of the youngest, yet rose to be a super power, and the emporer is very capable of doing the same.

Originally posted by predesad
on to Vancouver, interested to see how that whole Canadian transition thing goes, will they remain Babylon or will they somehow miracously transcend culture groups and thousands of miles to be Canada.

The Canadian transition will be completed once all remaining citizens accept their new identity. 50-100 years required.

I'm in a new PBEM and I need to run 1.15.

Doesn't it work for european versions now? Can we upgrade?

I believe it does. I'd also like to upgrade.

I have the german patch 1.15b now.

sent with the patch 1.15b to kiwiandy

Thanks all.

Luvly jubly, played with v1.15 and sent to Dogboy.

played and sent. a 1 day turnaround!

yeah, we either play a turn in a day, or a turn a week, nothing in between.

turn to Vancouver

the American tyrant looks around to observe the table of leaders and is very pleased to have the Canadians sitting there as well.

Turn sent.

Sent on

gotten from Bocki and fired off to DogBoy

played and sent

on to the Canada...

The Americans have heard some rumor of cultural influence or something and again are in fear, as everyone's cultures should surely be growing right about now, our's is still stagnant and again the people cry out against the dictator and accuse him of foolishly forcing them on a long journey for no real purpose other than to fulfil his whim.

Synchronized Play-by-EMail Sending: One e-mail, Two gamesaves (this and Heihojin XII).

AKA Turn sent. (And for fanste's benefit, Other turn sent.)

Hehe, was pretty cool
Unfortunately on one CIA Pbem sent on to Blocki :D

Nnnnoooooooooo! I'm losing synchronization!!!

turn sent to kiwiandy

--> DogBoy

Culture? pifff..

on to Vancouver, Emporer Predesad has no time for observations at this time

What??? The long-winded, verbose, comments-on-everything, Mr. Observation himself has nothing to say? :D

The Exalted Premier Ministre of the Canadas stares at the leaders across the table with a distinctly foul look, which was caused solely by the failure of synchronization of two of his play-by-email games.

(I had to post something semicreative to make up for predesad's lack of observative rambling.)

3450 BC Sent.

sent to kiwiandy

Originally posted by DogBoy
What??? The long-winded, verbose, comments-on-everything, Mr. Observation himself has nothing to say? :D

it's not that i had nothing to say, i just had no time in which to say it

:lol:

--~~]> DogBoy

Who or where has the save?

Not I. I received it and sent it to purvisxii on the 23rd.

I have yet to recieve the new turn, so it's either purvisxiii or predesad that has it.

not i, that leaves purvisxiii

Ok, is the game stuck with pursivxii? Did he mention if he was going out of town or anything like that? I sent him the save again asking him to reply to me once he gets it so we will know that everything is ok.

okay, i got it from purvisxiiii today and sent to vancouver

Sir Predesad of the Americans will continue his ramblings at this time, to the chagrin of DogBoy :D

Being thoroughly disappointed with the current efforts of American scouts, I am sending my own son out into the wilderness with the charge of bringing discoveries to the gloriuos American people.

The Prime Minister is also disappointed with the scouting efforts of his military, but as RealGoober is not nearby to be whacked over the head, the PM will shut up and stop complaining. Hopefully. Or maybe he'll apologize for 3 hours straight, like the good Canadian that he is.

Turn sent.

Recieved from Blocki and sent to DogBoy

turn sent

The crown prince of the Americans is not doing any better than the peasant class scouts and is in danger of being disinherited if does not soon learn to contribute.

The citizens of Ottawa revolt against their definitely-not-duely appointed leader. The Prime Minister now realizes what steps he should've taken to retain his high standing in the popular opinion polls.

RealGoober shall be punished for these actions.

Turn sent.

And sent on to Blocki

I will be out of town this weekend. I will play my turn Friday night before I leave, and I will be back Sunday night. So basically I will only miss Saturday night. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No worries, the turn is waiting for your return tomorrow. :cool:

I just received word from DoyBoy, his cable modem is down, cableman coming to look at it tomorrow. I think he is going to save some turns on a disk at work, play them at home, then can send them the next day from work, but i cannot guarantee that. He can't post here because this site has the word "fanatic" and his web at work has banned sites with words like that.

Ouch. That has got to majorly suck.

After further discussion with DogBoy he says as long as this problem continues he will play each turn everyday by downloading it from his mail at work, taking it home at night to play, then mailing it from work the next day. But the delay in this game is not his fault, he does not have the turn.

oh dear! well then let me send the turn on again to DogBoy.

please supply me with DogBoy's work email address and I'd be glad to oblige. ;)

[edit - in the meantime i've resent the turn to DogBoy's usual email address.]

he can get it from work at the same email, and he sent me an email confirming he just got it and will play it, but he might have played that turn already because he played turns Sunday night

Ok, I'm back online! I live in a new subdivision and houses are still being built. The construction workers hit the cable line, but the cable people came today and fixed it. Hopefully they don't hit it again.

BTW, I don't have the save.

re-re-sent

to Canada

This morning I was sitting in my throne room, enjoying the beautiful view out my window, the nice river running adjacent to the palace property, abundant cows in nearby pastures, a wheat farm over there, sugar next to the wheat farm, a vineyard growing next to the sugar, an excellent supply of wine, forest nearby for the children to play, as well as a good supply of furs, those elephants next to the forest giving us a nice supply of ivory, a horse ranch just beyond the pastures, our iron mine in distant hills, other forests from whence the women collect silks for weaving, and then dyes to enhance their work, and finally that one spot of almost useless property which nicely supplies incense to our priests, I surveyed all of this and I thought, "Life is good."

I shake my fist at ye who has 2 Strategic Resources, 6 Luxury Resources, and 3 Bonus Resources. (Not counting duplicates, naturally.

Now, if only I went home for lunch, so I could actually play my turn. Instead, I'm in my school's library, desperately avoiding studying for my last block Chem test. Oh well; I'll just have to play my turn after school.

lol, now thats a nice start :D
played & sent to blocki

:lol: classic stuff predesad!

--> DogBoy

to Vancouver like several long hours ago.

Emporer Predesad leaves his throne room and retires to His Royal Chambers on the other side of the Palace. From there he looks out that palace window and enjoys that magnificent view. From here he can see more forest, home to the precious spices which enhance the flavor of the royal meals and the wild game which occassionally serves as the main course. A couple hills supplying gems to decorate his crown and gold to make him wealthy. Just beyond those hills is a nice piece of grassland, home to the tobacco, he uses this often. And then of course is the lovely view of the sea, oh how he loves to watch the waves crash against the beach, he cannot wait for warmer weather so he can enjoy a good swim. Of course no matter the weather, he enjoys the excellent supply of fish year round and the whaling business has also been very profitable.

Ok, where is the save? It has been 4 days since I saw it last.

I'm absolutely sure that I played that, and I'm mostly sure that I sent that. (I'll resend it to fanste just to be safe though.)

Yep, received and sent on maybe a couple of days ago, i played and sent it on again to blocki anyway

I haven't received it from Blocki - the SAV has been with him.

Still nothing from Blocki. I have a replacement if everyone agrees...

Enough pissing about people! ;)

Yes, put the replacement in. I don't want to screw Blocki, but if he's not posting or playing the game, and nobody knows where he is, let's replace him and get the game going again.

Agree, but i am generous, i will email him to let him know he is being replaced if no response by thread or email in 24 houirs if no objections

it has been well over 24 hours now since i emailed blocki, basically we have posted here, sent him the turn twice and an email, i think we should go with the replacement. my suggestion is to send the save to vancouver who can use the administratvie password to set a new password then send the turn to the replacement, along with what his password is, unless someone has a better idea.

I agree with Predesad. Find a replacement and have Vancouver use the admin password to enter a new one.

Or, just retire his civ.

I have to say that's the best thing to do. Or at least the necessary thing to do.

kiwiandy, who is your replacement? have him get in touch with vancouver

Replacement is Mickeyj - I'll get him to email Vancouver today. :)

We need to get this game going again. It has been 14 days since I last saw it.

Vancouver, have you recieved an email from Mickeyj? I emailed him with your address on Thursday and he said he was keen.

If he hasn't then feel free to replace Blocki with someone else.

He clearly wasn't that keen. I'll give him until the morning (for me), and then I'll try to convince RealGoober to take over.

Any progress on finding a replacement?

I'll see about convincing RG to take over, but I'm not sure if I'll be successful (he seems to think that he's got enough PBEMs as-is).

whenever i get the turn again, i have patched to ver 1.20 so at least from that point on everyone else will need to patch

although for some reason i think it is irrelevant to this game because it is dying, bring out the shcoker thingies, charging, clear, (zap) sorry still no pulse, almost ready to pronounce...

Ok, what is the deal on finding a replacement? If it's going to to take this long, we need to just retire his civ. All you have to do is send the turn to the game host, he logs in with the admin password, retires the civ, and passes the game along. This is getting ridiculous. This game had so much potential except for one player. Now that the one player is gone, we need to get this game rolling along again.

Also, we need to be using the 1.20 patch. The 1.22 patch doesn't work.

I'm definitely keen to carry this game on, it's been going sweetly until now. I don't know why Mickeyj never showed up, he's usually good like that, but there you go.

Lets just retire Blocki's civ then unless someone else is found within 24 hours?

Also, I've heard there are issues with both the 1.22 and 1.20 patch with respect to multiplayer. It might be best to stick with 1.15 until Friaxis has sorted this patch debacle out.

The only problem about the patch is most everybody has already upgraded to the 1.20 patch. It would by silly to require everybody to go back to using the 1.15 patch and having two versions of civ3 on their computer. But since nobody is using 1.22 patch (impossible if they have been playing PBEM), then it makes sense to use the 1.20 patch.

I haven't upgraded yet, as I read there were MAJOR problems with 1.20 and multiplayer. Therefore what's the point in playing with 1.20???

Yes, 1.20 has problems, but it is playable. The "point" in playing with 1.20 is almost everybody (I know not everybody) has already patched to 1.20 before we knew it had bugs in it. Since most people have already upgraded to 1.20, it would be easier for the remaining few to patch to 1.20, then it would be for the majority to delete the game, reinstall it, d/l the 1.15 patch for this game, and the 1.20 patch for other games, and run two versions of civ3. Other than that, there is no benefit to running 1.20. It simply makes sense because most people have already got it.

there are good fixes in 1.20, the major problems are in multiplayer, not PBEM, but in multiplayer, though there are problems as always but not major that i know of, if you are going to play multi you should go with 1.22, but not if you want to continue with curretn PBEM because it wont load games from 1.20. I dont really care as far as this game is concerned, i am at 1.20, if you dont want to go to 1.20 retire my civ or get a replacement for me, like that is going to happen we spent 37 days trying to get a replacement for the last guy, emporer predesad is tired of staring off into the distance and seeing nothing anyway, just put the Americans out of their misery.

I will not wait any longer for a replacement for Blocki.

I'll email fanste and get him to send the save to me, so I can retire Blocki's civ.

Ok i'll email the save back to vancouver when iget home in a couple of hours.
Btw, i think a joint patch is coming out 1.20 and 1.22 together, maybe we could use that? It better solve all thse damn patch problems :mad:

PBEM Administrator Action: Blocki's civilization has been retired.

Recieved the SAV.

I'll play it tonight once I've worked out how to have dual installations of Civ3 - I'm in several other PBEM's where we've all decided to hold off upgrading.

Glad to be underway again! :)

Here's how you do it. If you have 1.15, just copy your entire conquest folder. Now you have a folder called conquests (you always had this folder), and a folder called copy of conquest. The copy of conquests folder will be your 1.15 folder. Now download the 1.20 patch and install it. Your regular folder will be your 1.20 folder. Pretty simple.

Thanks DogBoy. Turn will be played and sent in 5 or so hours.

That seemed to work okay. 3250BC --> DogBoy, v1.20.

DogBoy, did you get that? did it work okay?

Yep, it worked just fine. Purvisxii played and sent it along also.

I have also sent it to Vancouver.

The American Emoporer is outraged, it seems while he was sleeping and the game rested someone came along and stole all those valuable resources he bragged about just a couple turns ago.

hmmm.. No SAV for a while.. Vancouver are you there? Lets keep this game moving!

As a flowerpot said once: "Oh no, not again." (Mmm... relatively obscure HHGttG references...)

Turn Finally Sent.

Very nice way to return to the cia pbem:
scout pops a goody hut, i get a free city, and uncover 6 wheat next to eachother in the city's radius! :D

played and sent

so is that where all the luck in this game has gone! ;)

Turn to DogBoy

scout pops a goody hut, i get a free city, and uncover 6 wheat next to eachother in the city's radius!

American Emporer realizes who stole his resources, thinks he spots recently popped undefended city in the distance, time to take back those resources.

Well we've stalled once again. What's going on this time?? Where is the save?

*sigh*

not me

i passed to somebody and posted above when i did have not seen it since

I haven't recieved my turn since 6 April.

yeah, that's the last one i got and sent to you

shall someone further on in the turn send to get it going again? kiwiandy or dogboy one of you maybe?

I sent it along again to try and keep this game alive.

Hey, I finally got to play my turn!

Emperor Vancouver2010 of the Babylocanadians is tired.

Horray!

3150 BC sent to DogBoy.

3100 BC Sent to fanste.

Received and sent to DogBoy.

gps

Ok, the game has not stopped. Predesad has given me his password and I have found a replacement for the game. Purvisxii needs to send the game to:

civaddict2002 AT yahoo DOT com

He has agreed to take over his games. I have already e-mailed the password to him.

i played my turn and sent to viccougarsfan but his hotmail kicked it back saying his box was full so i post the save here.

Ok, let's keep this game rolling. Who has the save?

Right, what is going on with this game??

There seems to be a distinct lack of enthusiasm for it, evidenced in the amount of time it takes for us to complete a single turn, and I am this close to chucking in the towel. :rant:

We’ve had to make a few changes to the players, but from what I can gather the turn order is now this:

Vancouver -> fansite -> kiwiandy -> dogboy -> purvisxiii -> CivAddict.

So people, lets now decide if this game is worth carrying on:

1. Can you spare 5 minutes per day? (to check your email, play the turn, send the friggin thing on).
2. Are you willing to post on this thread once you have sent your turn? (so we can all see where the turn is, who is dicking around, and so we can ultimately avoid more weeks of wasted time).
3. Are you willing to let us all know if you won’t be around for a while? (obvious I know but sadly needs to be mentioned).

If we can all answer yes to the above, then great, lets rock.
If you can’t commit to the game in this fashion, then tell us now.

I'm in, and from now on I will be posting the save on this board in addition to sending it via e-mail. That way if the person after me says he never got it, it will be here for everyone to see that I sent the save. I have never had a problem with purvisxii as he is reliable, but this will show the problem is not with him, or with me.

Im in , and I'l do the same

Ok, what we need to do then is somebody needs to post their last save. Perhaps the game host can do that?

Yeah, probably.

Hey Vancouver, who do you send the game to? That one download was me downloading it to make sure I wasn't the one holding the game up. Whoever you send the game to either doesn't know he's supposed to download it, or doesn't come here anymore. My recommendation is this: find out who is holding this game up and retire their civ. I know it's fun to have more people in the game but not at the expense of not being able to play the game.

Vancouver, it is my recommendation that whoever you send the game to needs to be dropped from the game. I recommend that you do the following:
-Retire that person's civ because he's not checking his e-mails and he's not visiting this board.
-Send the turn to the next person and also post it here.
-Put out an updated player list with e-mails with the replacements. The only replacement I can think of is civaddict took over Predesad's place.

Just my recommendations to keep this game moving.

sorry if i held the game up, my internets been down the past two days :(
i sent the save on to kiwiandy just then

(wont hold it up again i promise ;)

I've also had a few internet problems. I'm in the process of changing ISPs. In the meantime, my temporary email address is:

kiwiboyandy AT hotmail DOT com

3000 BC --> DogBoy

Sent the game to purvisxii. Also going to attach it here.

Sent on to kiwiandy

Got it thanks fanste, played and sent.

Not bad guys, a turn completed in 3 days! :)

Unfortunately however a few of us still aren't posting when they've played and sent. To reiterate - this needs to happen so we can all see who has the turn. If it doesn't happen, then we won't have the coordination necessary to make this a worthwhile game and it will fizzle out into nothing.

Please lets keep this very promising game going!!
Post when you've played people!!

:)

played and sent

I am going out of town Saturday afternoon and will be back Sunday evening. Times are east coast USA. Have a good weekend.

But I know where the game is at so I probably won't be missed.

The save has been with purvisxiii for about a week and he hasn't bothered to post his absence or anything.

Lets delete him. DogBoy, please can you resend your turn to Vancouver so he can retire his civ.

Enough pissing around.

alright the save has now turned up.

apologies for the pissed off tone of my above post, but i really can't understand why some of us are so reluctant to post when they've sent. it would certainly help a lot in keeping this game moving.

--> DogBoy

I agree. Played and sent. Now we will see who doesn't post or send the game in a timely manner.

I sent the game over 24 hours ago and no response. Hmm...

i just got the game from purvisxii and sent it along to vancouver.

Apparently... :mischief:

Now if I were in Windows right now, I'd play and send it immediately. But I'm in Linux (fulfilling my need to write PHP code), so I'll send it by the end of the day.

Vancouver, I'm guessing you never played your turn because you never posted here that you did. Also, you haven't posted in our other game where you are the host that you ever played your turn even you have had it for the last 4 days. If you can't or don't want to continue with the game, could you please retire your civ and send the game along?

Well excuse me if I don't always post when I send the game...

I sent it two days ago to the email address of fanste's replacement (speckyrules@hotmail.com).

The problem is we are trying to figure out who is stopping the game. This game has been so crappy because everybody swears they are not holding up the game. But obviously somebody keeps holding it up and the only way to figure out who it is, is to post "played and sent" and we can track who holds the game up for days, drop them, and keep this game going.

Specky: Did you ever get the save?

I hate to say it, but this game is probably dead. It is for me at least. It's a shame too because it had such potential to be a good game.

My following comments are not directed at everybody in this game. If you know I'm not talking to you, you should be ok with them. If I happen to hurt your feelings, then chances are they are directed at you.

I really don't care if I hurt anybody's feelings here, but some people are just (fill in the blank) when it comes to playing these games. They show complete lack of respect for the other players. They are lower than (fill in the blank) in my book. But wait you say, "It's just a game!" That's true, it is just a game. But it's also more than that. You have people that are expecting something from you based upon your word. You gave your word to check your e-mail once a day, and if the turn was there, play it and send it along. If you were going to be gone, i.e. out of town on business or vacation, you would post that here and everything would be ok. So that's why I think some of these people (fill in the blank). They give their word to do a simple task, and they can't even do that. Their word is (fill in the blank) and the only thing they are good for in life (fill in some menial task). (I used to do that so if I hurt your feelings, so what.) If you can't be trusted to do one simple task like playing your turn and sending the game along, how can you be trusted to do complex tasks like teach my kids in school, police the highways in your patrol car, sell medicine at a pharmacy, or any other job that (fill in the blank). The answer is, you can't. You should feel embarassed if you signed up to play this game and don't check your e-mail, go out of town without giving the rest of us notice, or are simply too lazy to play your turn. Hey, if you are busy with work because the boss is riding your back, or if you are busy with school because finals are coming up, or if you are taking a vacation with the family now that the kids are out of school, no problem. Just let us know. And going back to the arguement of "It's just a game!" Well if it just a game, then play it. And if you don't want to play it, retire your civ and let the rest of us play.

I will get down from my soapbox now and play my other PBEMs with (fill in the blank) than there are in this game.