I'm willing to host a PBEM game for 4 to 6 players in Conquests.

Players should be able to play at least once every day.

I'm planning on a standard or small map with random settings and accelerated production 'on' to speed up game play but I'll go with the majority flow.

Anybody interested?

It will be my first hosting and first PBEM (I just joined another but I don't think it is going anywhere soon)

Send email address to join up.

I'm on the west coast and would like to play against other Americans, North or South.

Please be willing and able to construct full sentences in English--insults and taunts are so much more effective when your enemy can understand them. "All your base are belong to us!"

So are us Australians excluded or may we join? If so reserve me a position. I'll get back to you with more details later.

Excellent news, what kind of setting should we use? I was hoping to use some settings that will make the game go faster, like a small map and accelerated production.

I can often play for short periods mornings, afternoons, evenings, and late night but never know what my schedule will be before hand. I often work 'in the field' during the day but am often at home all day working on the computer.

I'm sure the other game will get going sooner or later but it may be fun to have two going at once with mostly the same cast--the politics could splash over from one game to the next.

Ok, this means i'm in THREE PBEM games at once, but none are even doing jack so.... let's go!

I think the three of us are way active, and just one more is necessary for a good game, especially on a small map. I think 4 is fine, but if you wanna do 6 no problem, it'll just take a bit longer and there is more risk of a stall.

ALso, i'm not a huge fan of AC, but i guess as long as there are no AI to screw us with it, i'm ok.

Okay, a small map, no accelerated production, 4 players and no AI. Sounds like a free-for-all. Pan, arch, random? lots of water, no water...
No one likes to be stuck in jungle but should we go random settings or what? I really don't give a rip about the settings so help me out here.

Rocinante-I'm Egypt in the other game so I'll stuck with it here--can you spell Cleopatricide?
CaptainCommando-??
Kaboth-??

I'll go with Persia, please. :)

Rocinante I recommend opening the conquests editor and select generate map from the menus and try a few different settings, get a feel for the type of terrain each setting will create. The choose whatever you want. Personally I like as many grass/jungle/marsh squares with a modest amount of hills/mountains and pangea 60%. But do as you wish when you've picked settings I'll pick a civ to play as.

I will play if there is a spot left. I play 9:00PM-midnight EST. I want to be random civ. My e-mail is greeneclan AT mchsi DOT com

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and generate the map--I'll post the particulars and then Kaboth can choose his civ and we'll get started. If anyone else shows up between now and then I'll probably let them in the game if they seem okay.

Thanks for joining Dogboy, we play the same hours, cool--I'll set your civ to random.

this may not be the order of play--I'll set the order and give out email addresses as needed:
Rocinante-Egypt
CaptainCommando-Persia (gotta love those immortals)
Kaboth-tba
Dogboy-random

Here are the settings except one--do we want culturally linked start locations?

otherwise it is:
Monarch
no AI
restless barbs
pangea 60% H20
normal climate
temperate
4 billion years
allow cultural conversions
preserve random seed
usual win conditions

these can still be changed so pipe up if you have ideas.

I don't really have much of a preference with CUlterlly linked start locations. I usually put it o njust because it 'makes sense,' but in a multiplayer gam ei don't reall ycare. If anyone has a preference make sure to speak up.

Cultural linked postions don't matter to me. All the other settings look fine. But I didn't see the land size?

I say turn off culturally linked start location; it makes it easier to predict who may start near you.

I'm GMT+10 timezone. email: joshthecybs at hotmail dot com

I shall play as Iroquis. Name Kaboth. Title Lord.

Sorry to leave off the size--small map

No culturally linked start positions

otherwise the same as above

If I don't have to go first I'd like the order to be
Kaboth-Iroquois--Lord Kaboth
Dogboy-random
CaptainCommando-Persians
Rocinante-Egypt

I'll send the game asap

Dogboy, CC's email is captainketchup_ AT hotmail DOT com

The game has been sent to Kaboth.

I had to go first, have a pretty good spot with grassland near a river and jungle ( I hate jungle ). I was a bit undecided as to whether to move my settler or not but since I had thought of going last anyway--I did move my settler.

I should be able to play every day for the foreseeable future. Please let the group know ahead of time if you have to miss a day.

I asked for a chat room for our game but haven't heard back yet.

4000 bc sent to Dogboy

I'd just like to say i'll be gone friday night through sunday, but i'll be back sunday night. UNfortunately i didn't see this one coming, i though i'd be free this weekend, but alas, i'll be gone. FOrtunately, i can play friday afternoon and sunday night, so really i'm only completely losing Saturday so it's not that bad.

Dogboy just posted on another thread saying he has had some problems getting email. Maybe Kaboth should resend the file.

I did get it from him, and I sent it to Captain Commando. I will send it to him again.

Sent to ya, Rocinate.

3950BC (turn 2) sent to Kaboth
built capitol-named it Unity
a good start position gets better
you guys may as well surrender now and avoid the rush

Dogboy, what civ did you get?
I sure hope I'm not between CaptainCommando and something he wants--those Persian Immortals are really tough, I went up against a bunch in GOTM28 and had to give ground before gaining the upper hand
Gonna see how tough the Egyptian War Chariot is-haven't played as Egypt before (against the barbs of course--I would never unleash such a devastating weapon against you my dear, gentle rivals)

Can you say Mounted warriors? :D

Upgrades all the way to calvalry whats not to like.

3950 bc sent to Dogboy.

Originally posted by Rocinante

I sure hope I'm not between CaptainCommando and something he wants--those Persian Immortals are really tough,

Heh, yeah they are badasses, huh? I don't plan on playing warmonger style but if you go tsomething i want in the ancient age better just save yourself and fork it over ;)

Just don't interupt my guy's prayer hour 'cause they get really angry if you do.
These religious civs pray a lot you know--actually I wish they'd train more and learn some tactics but they are usually out praying! Sometimes I wonder what they do in those temples...

Dogboy, please check in each day if you can. Did you get the game from Kaboth?

I got the first save from him, nothing more. Perhaps he could post his save because I check this board about 3-4 times per day. I really can't understand what the problem is. I get e-mails from everybody else. When I sent him an e-mail and he replied to that one, I got it. The only conclusion I can come up with is he might have typed my e-mail address wrong. He could either post the game here, or just respond to my e-mail everytime he sends me a turn.

------------------attention Kaboth------------------------
------please pick up the white courtesy phone------

It's been sent again,

No idea why Dogboy didn't get it last time no problems at my end

I know. Tis' very weird. But like you said in your e-mail. I can't get it from one of your e-mail addresses, but I can get it from your other one.

Ok, Kaboth just sent me turn 2 again. I got this one several days ago, played it, and sent it to Captain Commando. Maybe the problem is not between us. Maybe it is between us. I'm going to send the same turn again and want Captain Commando to reply once he gets it. Something is definately screwy here.

I'm going to send 3950BC to Kaboth again. If he can play it again and send turn 2 to Dogboy then perhaps we can get back on track. I'm hoping Captain Commando can have turn 2 in his in-box when he gets back about 24 hrs from now.

I really don't think that is the problem. Kaboth has sent turn 2 to me twice, I have received it twice, I have sent it to Captain Commando twice. Yet he has not responded to me that he has received it. That's why I'm wondering if he is out of town, not playing the game anymore, or whatever. I'm attaching turn 2 here for him to download just incase he's not getting my e-mails.

I guess I misunderstood your post, sounded like you weren't getting the right file. The game is on track.
CC is out of town until Sunday night and turn two is already in his in-box.

Ok so we wait for CC to return then. I'm glad it wasn't me holding up the game.

Originally posted by CaptainCommando
I'd just like to say i'll be gone friday night through sunday, but i'll be back sunday night. UNfortunately i didn't see this one coming, i though i'd be free this weekend, but alas, i'll be gone. FOrtunately, i can play friday afternoon and sunday night, so really i'm only completely losing Saturday so it's not that bad.

But you didn't take a turn on Friday or Sunday so we are all still waiting for you on Monday.

Well i'm back, so what if my rationalization sucked? :D

Ok Rocinate, it's all you now, turn playe and sent.

Originally posted by CaptainCommando
Well i'm back, so what if my rationalization sucked? :D
Sounded like a good rationalization to me, welcome back!

3900BC sent to Lord Kaboth.

To avoid confusion and to keep our save folders from getting too messy I think we should all use the same file name when emailing the game about. How about 'RockyPBEM.sav"?

Anybody else started GOTM29? It's a lulu!

Anybody else started GOTM29? It's a lulu!

What's a lulu? GOTM29 is still a PTW game right?

3900 sent to Dogboy.

Lulu, wowser, knockout, really wild stuff!

Not allowed to post any specifics about it but I sure had a good time getting GOTM29 started. I can say that you start as the Egyptians and you are on the Nile. This month we are playing at the Emperor level so I'm really getting a challenge.

GOTM is basically vanilla Civ3 but with the new C3C civs added.

Oh, whoops, we're calling it RockyPBEM now? I kept wondering why that weird title was appearing in my mailbox.

3850BC sent to Kaboth


Sent again

Don't think I got this one Rochinante its not in my inbox

Okay 3850 bc sent on to Dogboy

Turn 5 = 3800BC sent to Lord Kaboth.

Okay I'll have to stall the game for about 12 hours. Unfortunately my university I am at atm does not have Civ3 Conquests :D

3800 sent on to Dogboy

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.

Who has the game?

Sorry, my bad, played and sent to Rocinate. My brother has been monopolizing the computer all weekend, and it took a military coup to remove him ;)

Dogboy still I suppose from his message. Everyone should make habit of posting when they send. It takes what 30 seconds to type and send "sent to [next players name]."

Turn 6 = 3750BC off to Kaboth
Looks like Dogboy got off to a great start--he already has more than twice my score.

Sent to Dogboy

Looks like Dogboy got off to a great start--he already has more than twice my score.

Dogboy probably built city on first go and he is an expansionist civ so started with a scout which I believe is +20 score. And it's likely he popped a hut and got a warrior or tech by now resulting in his +30 score above me. But heh Dogboy drew Portugal on a pangea map; I feel sorry for him :)

Actually, you are a little wrong. My scout didn't pop a hut with a warrior. It popped a hut with a... :D

AHHHH Dogboy popped a settler!!!!

I think :confused:

Nice going, Dogboy! Must be nice having a scout. <bravado>I'll catch you up later, wait & see!</bravado>

He got settler?! Aw crap! We're finished! Pack your bags! But really, wow, getting a second city so early is a definite advantage, i wonder if there'll be any far reaching implications or if it'll jus tprove to be a bonus early on....................................crap........ .

He got settler?! Aw crap! We're finished! Pack your bags! But really, wow, getting a second city so early is a definite advantage, i wonder if there'll be any far reaching implications or if it'll jus tprove to be a bonus early on....................................crap........ .

Hey he deserves it after pulling Portugal on Pangea map :)

What? This is pangea? When did that happen? It's all a blur...

Ok, I just discovered the save in my E-Mail, apparently Dogboy sent it but didn't post it here, we gotta make sure to do that, because if i hadnt gone there to play another PBEM i wouldnt've caught this one for awhile. Anyway, sent to Rocinate.

So, did Dogboy's settler eat the game or what?

I wouldn't discount Portugal even on pangaea--could be a lot of coastline and he has alphabet to start with, too. However, I'm not sure I would want to be the early leader--I'd worry the other three would gang up on me!

Thanks CC, good timing, I was just minutes from night-night time.

Turn 7 = 3700BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

Sent to CaptainCommando.

Sent to Rocinate.

Turn 8 = 3650BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

Game sent to CC.

Damn, nice rotation speed team :goodjob: Just popped a nice goody hut and game sent to Rocinate.

Turn 9 = 3600BC sent to Kaboth

That's 'Rocinante' if you please!

Sent to Dogboy

Ugh, sorry guys, but i'm gonna be gone until Sunday night, i know this is short notice. I'll be back on Sunday night to play my turn, if Dogboy send it to me this afternoon i can play one last turn today before i go.

Sent to CC. Hope it was before he went out of town!

Just a heads up to everyone The retail C3C v1.20 patch is out very soon, keep a look out for an announcement on Civfanatics and update asap.

Originally posted by CaptainCommando
I'll be back on Sunday night to play my turn

Rocky 2 underway!
We are looking for a replacement player so we can continue Rocky 1

You might want to post about a replacement in a seperate thread Rocinante ussually only people playing in this game would look at this thread.

I asked a couple of folks, one declined and I haven't heard back from the other. Will post a new thread tomorrow if need be.

Well, the word is out and it shouldn't be long before we can get going again. We can drop Rocky2 if we want or keep it going on a new thread, waddaya think?

I got Kaboth's password but not CCs or Dogboy's--please send your password to me or send it to some other reliable party and then send his/her contact info to me.

Do you think CC is guest of the sheriff or just had his computer priviledges taken away?

okay, i have looked this over and i will play

predesad AT yahoo DOT com

i dont know exactly where i am going to line up in the turn rotation,i didnt look, but i am GMT -6 hope that doesnt slow things down if the game goes form the US to europe back to US or something like that.

from what i gathered i will be taking over for captaincommando who is the persians. i like the persians but i have never really had good "luck" with htem, everytime i take them i get a start that keeps me from doing what i want, i hope i at least get iron so my immortals can hunt down portugal : D

Welcome to the game, Predesad, I will save your demise for last!

I think GMT-6 puts you in the American mid-west and that is fine, I'm west coast and I think Dogboy is too. Kaboth is from down under (where the women glow and the men thunder) so he gets his turn while we're all asleep.

You are last in the rotation and will send the game to me at jmot AT sprynet.com. Your friend/nemesis Dogboy will send the game to you. He popped a settler out of a hut and is still gloating.

I'm off to get this thing started again.

i am not quite in the midwest, but rather in the sooutheast, TN, i think dogboy is in eastern time zone, this should fit fine, he'll probably send it to me in the morning, can you email me the password?



I will save your demise for last!

oh, well thank you fro being so kind, now i can turn myself solely to destroying my nemesis :mad: :mad: :mad:

PM'd password to Predesad.

This rotation should be perfect--a full turn every day (hope, hope).

Yep, the rotation will work out just fine. Glad you decided to join us Predesad. As for Rocky2, let's keep playing it. Nothing wrong with one more PBEM.

Predesad, what parts of TN do you live?

in the middle of nowhere.

basically in TN you have about 5 choices:

Nashville
Memphis
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Clarksville

otherwise you just live in the country

but seriously, i live in northern West TN. if you've ever heard of Jackson or Paris, which i seriously doubt unless you have actually been here, i am near those towns. the town i live in is so small they haven't named it yet ; )

Okay, got it figured out now with help from Dogboy. Sent to Kaboth.
Predesad, you should now be able to set your own password.
I'll start a Rocky2 thread later, gotta go do some work right now (ughh).

I have heard of Paris, TN. My G-Ma lives in Chattanooga, has lived there all her life. I spent my summers growing up there going to Lookout Mtn, Ruby Falls, Rock City, and all those places. I'm back in Georgia now living at Ft. Benning (Columbus) so it's nice to be back home.

Hate to be a downer guys but I'd rather drop Rocky 2 I kinda stuffed up my start and it feels a bit empty with just 3 of us. I'm not averse to starting a new game with different settings in the future though.

Rocky 1 sent on to Dogboy

and welcome Predesad :)

and welcome Predesad

thank you

turn played & sent to rocinante, the previous ruler of persia did something i would not have done, but does not drastically alter or interfere in my usual starting plans so it wont be hard to go with it, however if i get wiped out quick it's because the previous owner played a completely incompatible style that what i played & was simply unable to recover, what with the game being so far along and all :D

sent to Kaboth

Predesad, thanks for sticking with it despite CCs "incompatible style".

in case you didnot realize it, his style was ont really incompatible, unless i lose

Yes I got that touch of sarcasm :D

Well I guess I'll have to resort to blaming my start location when I lose :(

Sent to Dogboy

Predesad, how funny you say something about CC's style, and I just sent you an e-mail about CC's settling style in another game. Here is the link.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78843&pagenumber=7

As for "unless" I lose. Go ahead and change that to "when" I lose.

As for Rocky2, sucks we gonna drop it. I had a pretty decent starting position :( But ya, it does feel a little empty with only 3. It would have made for some interesting diplomacy.

well, to be perfectly honest, at this point in the game there is nothing he did which hurts me, there is a slight depature from what i would have done, but it might not even be memorable within another 10-15 turns.

As for "unless" I lose. Go ahead and change that to "when" I lose.

that's it, prepare for war, oh wait, it's only turn 10 & we don't have contact yet, nevermind

played & passed

Recieved from Rocky played and passed to Dogboy

My culture expansion poped barbs from hut looks like im gonna lose my worker :(

Doh! That sucks. I see another goody hut with my EXPANSIONIST trait. Maybe I get another settler or city, eh?

played & passed

All of you are welcome to join the channel #Kaboth's_pbem by first connecting to the Quakenet US server on MIRC. I'm still working out the nuances of this program so if anyone knows how to leave channels open permanently or something that would help. I'm in the channel as I post this.

Recieved and sent to Dogboy

Looks like the barbs sabotaged my granary production rather than killing my worker. Probably for the best.

sent to Kaboth, sorry to hear about the barbs, I just popped some myself but not near my worker.

turn sent

sent to Kaboth
One barb down--two to go.

Sent to Dogboy wow 3 turns today that's amazing

Oh, I forgot to mention what the goody hut popped. It popped a...

"This is a test, this is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System. This is only a test. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System. It was only a test. Had it been a real emergency you would have heard instructions after the beep. We now return you to the regular programming already in progress."

I can't believe I popped that. You guys are just going to see my score skyrocket now. Anyway, just wanted to make you guys jealous.

(inserting nuclear bomb in goody hut near portuguese, detonation when popped should destroy everything within 15 tiles)

turn sent

Yikes Dogboy got another settler, I shall watch his score with great interest to see if he's not bluffing. 3 cities while everyone else has but one that may be enough to make up for the disadvantages of playing portugal.

take a look at the portugal uu, the carrack, it does not sink in ocean, so when he gets to astronomy, if he lasts that long, he will have a significant naval advantage in addition to what he already has, if that nuclear bomb thingy doesn't work i will have to use these ICBM's captain commando planted in my capitol

3300BC = turn 15 sent to Kaboth

3300 bc sent to Dogboy

Next turn sent to Dogboy

played & passed

turn 17 = 3200BC sent to Kaboth
two barbs down, one to go

Sent to Dogboy

turn 18 = 3150BC sent to Kaboth
three barbs down but no promotions yet, darn it!

Sent to Dogboy

turn 19 = 3100BC sent to Kaboth
Check that--one of my warriors did go veteran.
Weird that we don't get to see the off-turn action.

Sent to Dogboy

turn 20 = 3050BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

Sent to dogboy

Sent next turn

turn 23 = 2900BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

turn 24 = 2850BC sent to Kaboth

I'm patching up to v1.20 before playing this turn so you guys had better too or you will not be able to read the sav file

i patched already and was about to notify everyone else. dogboy i am sure will patch as this will affect several of his games, although more than one is dying and i am not even sure i am interested in trying to administer life support, where's dr k-something?

"Hi everybody"
"Hi doctor Nick"

Dr Karl Kruzelnicki?

Sent to Dogboy

where's the game?

Dunno I'll try sending to Dogboy again.

Dogboy replied to my email so he must still have it I'll send again though

Yep just checked Dogboy, he'd sent that sav on yesterday

Picked up the game from Predesad, thanks
Turn 25 = 2800BC sent to Kaboth

Ok played and sent to Dogboy

Just played and sent. On a positive note, another goody hut just landed me a

"...we're sorry for the interruption. We seem to be experiencing difficulty that is due to no fault of our own. Please stay tuned in and we hope to restore your service momentarily."

I can't believe my luck this game. And I can see another goody hut in the distance. I better use the settler that I have quickly to increase my chances of getting a settler from the goody hut.

AHHHHH!!!!!!

Turn 26 = 2750BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

Turn 27 = 2700BC sent to Kaboth

Sent on to Dogboy

turn 28 = 2670BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to dogboy

Turn 29 = 2640BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

Happy Easter, everyone!

Turn 30 = 2590BC sent to Kaboth

Easty is good mmm chocolate except I'm celebrating it a day late cause my folks are away atm.

Sent to Dogboy

turn 31 = 2550bc sent to Kaboth
running last in my own game, sigh--finally found a hut but only got slaughtered by angry barbarians for my efforts, double sigh.
At least we are up to turn 31--not a bad pace, thanks guys!
Anybody meet anybody else yet? It seems we are pretty well spread out even on this small map.

Nope not a soul in site looks like the Iroquis have the wide open plains to themselves.

Sent to Dogboy

sorry can take turns tonight

Originally posted by DogBoy
Just played and sent. On a positive note, another goody hut just landed me a

"...we're sorry for the interruption. We seem to be experiencing difficulty that is due to no fault of our own. Please stay tuned in and we hope to restore your service momentarily."

I can't believe my luck this game. And I can see another goody hut in the distance. I better use the settler that I have quickly to increase my chances of getting a settler from the goody hut.

okay, i have been watching the score the past few turns and i could be wrong, but dogboy's score has not jumped up by as much as i would think if he did indeed pop anopther settler from a hut. i mean i'm not going to call him a liar or anything, i just think he's trying to psyche us out and basically he is full of...

"...we're sorry for the interruption. We seem to be experiencing difficulty that is due to no fault of our own. Please stay tuned in and we hope to restore your service momentarily."

and yes, as somebody mentioned we do seem to be spread out fairly nice ly, i am prepared top gobble up lots of resources in my area, i will have to post shortly about, oh wait, i already tried that in another pbem

turn 32 = 2510bc sent to Kaboth

i just think he's trying to psyche us out and basically he is full of...

Hehe If I pulled portugal on pangea I think I'd resort to the same underhanded tactics also :D

Sent to Dogboy

I never said I was popping settlers from goody huts. Yes, I did pop a goody hut that gave me a settler at the beginning of the game and my score reflects that. But all the other goody huts I found gave me other things. I kept trying to tell you guys what they were but I kept having communication problems or station identification breaks. Honestly, I was trying to psych anybody out :D

yeah, i know you never said you popped extra settlers, but you sort of implied it, i just wanted to point out to the other players my suspicions / reasoning so nobody panics and decides to take over persia to catch up with portugal

Attack Persia I doubt it not untill cavs arrive perhaps immortals are way to scary

turn 33 = 2470bc sent to Kaboth
Hello, Persia!

Sent to Dogboy

Played and sent. This goody hut gave me a tech. Anoher goody hut in site and it will probably be my last. Can only hope for a settler. I have found I think 7 goody huts so far. Incredible on this small map.

happy tax day

turn 34 = 2430bc sent to Kaboth
I see a purple border, must be Dogboy

Sent to Dogboy

I see a purple border, must be Dogboy
I'm purple also but I didn't see any of your units on my turn.

I didn't see your unit. But you could have been standing on one of the MANY mountains or volcanoes around me.

played and sent

still skirting the purple border, Predesad's warrior is, well, let us say, making himself very wide.

over to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy

turn 36 = 2350BC sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy,

Wow i'm first in productivity and manufacturing and 2nd in almost everything else

Not that any of this means much at this stage

Rocky,
Please send me your e-mail. I need to talk to you.

jmot AT sprynet DOT com

It's a conspiracy ! :confused: lol

Not a conspiracy. It's just that it was my purple border he was skirting around. I wanted to contact him via e-mail to establish a military alliance to destroy some civ. I'm not sure which civ it was now, but it did have a purple color to the units.

turn 37 = 2310BC sent to Kaboth
finally got Dogboy on the F4 screen but I have nothing to trade

Sent to Dogboy

The Iroquis people are good hiders you won't find us for a long time :o

I might have found you by now but my warrior, R.I.P., was waylaid by barbarians.

I'm sorry to hear about your wandering warrior. But I'm more sorry to know that I now have barbarians that I'm going to have to contend with :(

the barbies are set to 'restless'

still skirting the purple border, Predesad's warrior is, well, let us say, making himself very wide

evidently not wide enough, you managed to amke contact, finally :)

the barbies are set to 'restless'

wish they were raging

turn 38 = 2270bc sent to Kaboth

The mighty Iroquis empire has discovered the feeble Egyptions. Will you trade with us in peace and goodwill?

Sent to Dogboy

The wonderfully feeble Egyptians will be happy to make peace and shop goodwill with the Iroquois.

turn 39 = 2230bc sent to Kaboth

Sent to Dogboy,

I'm really playing this game in a risque manner, I should have more defense there are barbs everywhere. NM with great risk come great reward.

Turn 40 Sent to Dogboy,

turn 41a = 2150BC sent to Lord Kaboth

Sent 41a to Dogboy, whats the 'a' mean anyway?

just a numbering convention used in some of the other pbems I'm in. I send 41a to you, you send 41b to Dogboy, he sends 41c to Predesad and finally Predesad sends 41d to me.

Ok guess I'd better start sending them with b on the end

turn 42a = 2110BC sent to Lord Kaboth

So whos met who? I've met only Rochinante so far.

Sent to Dogboy

we all know each other already, you are the last one to the party.

turn 43a = 2070BC sent to Lord Kaboth

And I have a feeling Rochinante is in the middle of this party :D

Sent to Dogboy,

turn 44a = 2030BC sent to Lord Kaboth

44b Sent to Dogboy

turn sent, I respectfully request we play this game with the music off, I keep turning it off every turn and someone keeps turning it back on, can we please play with music off, thank you.

Well I turn it on cause I like it better than silence when I'm thinking about moves for my next turn. Why does it bother you so much Predesad are your speakers scratchy or something?

I'll probably leave it off now but when turns get longer I may put it on again.

45b sent to Dogboy

Originally posted by Kaboth
Well I turn it on cause I like it better than silence when I'm thinking about moves for my next turn. Why does it bother you so much Predesad are your speakers scratchy or something?

I'll probably leave it off now but when turns get longer I may put it on again.

45b sent to Dogboy

nothing with the speakers, just that i dont have one of those super computers, i onlyhave 700 Mhz & 64 MB memory, the music in the game slows it down really bad. i am often takng 4-7 turns at a time, 2 of those games are in the industrial ages, another game takes at least 30 minutes to play the turn, and that's with the music off. it makes a huge difference and i greatly appreciate any cooperation.

turn 46a = 1950BC sent to Lord Kaboth

nothing with the speakers, just that i dont have one of those super computers, i onlyhave 700 Mhz & 64 MB memory, the music in the game slows it down really bad.

Ok I never realised it had such an adverse effect on slower computers verywell I'll keep the sound of or play winamp in the background.

I guess you don't play huge pangea maps with full comps like I do then I suppose Predesad, not that my computers special (2 years old now, 1.7ghz, 256 ram, 64Mb geforce 2).

i am often takng 4-7 turns at a time, 2 of those games are in the industrial ages, another game takes at least 30 minutes to play the turn, and that's with the music off.

So how do you open c3C 4-7 time to play all these turns simulataneously? Or am I misunderstood.

46b sent to Dogboy

no, i dont play huge pangea maps with full computer, i play huge continental mpas with full comp :D i can play for awhile then i'll have to save and restart computer.

what i do is download all my tuns into the appropraite folders. open c3c. load first turn play it, save it, load second turn, hit windows key, send turn, minimize email to go back to game, play second turn, save it, load third turn, hit windows key, send turn, minimize email, you get the idea.

Oh well maybe when civ4 comes out you'll get a new computer to exceed the civ 4 min requirements.

47b sent to Dogboy, 2 turns a day guys good job

not likely, this actually does not meet conquest requirements because conquests recommends 128 MB memory. i can, of course, just get some extra memory and probably will, i could also use a new version of windows, i am using ME and my mother says XP is much faster.

turn 47a = 1910BC sent to Lord Kaboth

Yeh ME is supposed to be a horrid version of Windows with countless bugs and regular crashes. Not that any Windows is much good. I too use XP. But I find exiting Conquests after playing a turn takes a while for the system to recover and allow me to view my prior opened hotmail account and send the savs on. 512 MB Ram is recommended for XP but I only have 256.

48b Sent to Dogboy

49a sent to Lord Kaboth

49b Sent to Dogboy

50b Sent to Dogboy

Dogboy & Predesad--please post so we know where the game is.

I sent it to Predesad on April 28 in the morning, about 4 hours after I received it.

Where's Predesad--not like him to be late, I've been getting the saves about 11:30 every night like clockwork, hope he's okay.

Predesad sent me an e-mail from work saying his internet at home went down. Said he doesn't know when it's going to be fixed but think it will be soon. He apologizes for the delay.

game has been sent, there is still a possible internet delay in the future, sorry for any inconvenience. did not realize you could set a clock by me : )

i think we have all met each other. everyone has agreed to peace with persia for aproximately 50 turns, but everyone seems to say they don't entirely trust persia, they are suspicious of us, they are going to keep an eye on us, etc. etc. etc. we persians are a poor and powerless people beset by barbarians constantly, our settler and worker hovering with fear beneath the table in the palace dining room, too petrified from fear to move out into the wild. nobody should worry about persia.

51a sent to Kaboth
Predesad, I hear ya about those barbarians

we persians are a poor and powerless people beset by barbarians constantly, our settler and worker hovering with fear beneath the table in the palace dining room, too petrified from fear to move out into the wild. nobody should worry about persia.

If I was a paranoid person I would say Predesad is bluffing. Oh well I guess I'm paranoid :eek:

51b sent to Dogboy

52a sent to Kaboth

sorry, i forgot to post sent, will try to remember but might take a reminder here and there to do so

52b sent to Dogboy

sent

53a sent to Lord Kaboth

53b sent to Dogboy

sent

sent

54a = 1675BC sent to Lord Kaboth

54b sent to Dogboy

and sent to Predesad

sent

55a = 1650BC sent to Lord Kaboth

and on to Dogboy.

Predesad any reason I keep recieving diplomacy screens from you on my turn with nothing on offer?

Noticeably Dogboy has highest pop followed by Rochinante, myself and finally Predesad.

Surprised I'm not last considering I was slow in finding any bonus food tiles--I just barely missed seeing them initially otherwise I'd have pounced on it with my first settler. Does that screen count settlers on the loose as 2 pops?

Does that screen count settlers on the loose as 2 pops?

I don't think it counts settlers moving about at all.

I renumbered the save to put us in synch with the game screen

55a = 1625BC sent to Lord Kaboth

55b sent to Dogboy

gps

Is everyone okay with patching up to v1.22--it is, after all, the latest inclusive patch and we will all have to go there sooner or later.

Don't matter to me. What I have discovered is you can play a 1.20 or a 1.22 game using either patch. Very weird.

if this was started as version earlier than 1.20 (like 1.15) then it should not be playable on 1.22, unless it is modded. Even if it just had a map made, though, it is a modded game as far as the patch is concerned. But as far as upgrading, I dont care. As far as the number change, the turn number in the victory status screen is always one turn behind because the first turn (4000 BC) is considered turn 0, the turn actually take place in between what we consider as turns. But the renumbering is fine and i will try to remember when i send it on.

false alarm--no need to change versions

I'd just as soon pass the game around with the same name everytime--rockypbem.sav or something and that way I wouldn't have to keep deleting the old saves when they pile up.--just keep overwriting the same one. But it doesn't really matter one way or the other.

btw, thanks for the great game so far--we are much further along than any other game I'm in.

56a = 1600BC sent to Lord Kaboth

1.22 is buggy everytime I've tried it is unable to 1.20 pbem files so where just gonna have to perservere with 1.20 for now.

just rename the file when you get it by clicking on the old file in your folder and it will overwrite it, i rename saves all the time because i keep a copy of each turn i have recieved and each turn i have sent. i could go back and delete the older ones, but it has come in handy a couple times to have saves from a couple turns back.

btw, i did not get a turn tonight

An elegant solution--rename them on the way in instead of on the way out, simple.

I'm bummed--need my Rocky fix

BTW I will probably not have any chance to play on May 13, 14, and 15--sorry guys but I'm chairing a three-day seminar at a facility only about a half hour from home but they've rented a room for me and expect me to stay there--I'd sneak home and play but I'm sure my wife would have an absolute fit if I did (she no like Civ3 as it is).

I just checked my records and I never got the save on the 6th neither.

Lord Kaboth, please send 56b to Dogboy

56b sent to Dogboy,

Sorry about slightly longer delay, had a lot of university work on my plate yesterday. I have gone back to calling the file name simply rockypbem as suggested. It is much easier.

Where's the game?

I don't have it. But it appears that when the forums went down this weekend most people used that as an excuse not to play the game. Not just this game, but every game I'm involved in (24 total). Very frustrating.

Predesad must have it--I'll email him

Ok, just found out that Predesad is going to be away for an unspecified amount of time. I just pm'd him asking him if he wants me to play his turns for him. If he says yes, and you guys don't have a problem with it, I can play his turns. If you guys do have a problem with it then I won't play his turn. Just let me know.

Ok, just found out that Predesad is going to be away for an unspecified amount of time. I just pm'd him asking him if he wants me to play his turns for him. If he says yes, and you guys don't have a problem with it, I can play his turns. If you guys do have a problem with it then I won't play his turn. Just let me know.

Unspecified?!?--and didn't even say he was leaving. :confused:

I'll be gone from Thursday afternoon to Sunday morning anyway so let's wait until then.

I think we should only play our own civs--if need be I can get someone to play Predesad's turns for a while.

Well, the pm I got from him wasn't from him. It was from a friend of his. His friend doesn't have his e-mail address but can access these forums. He also sent me his passwords to his games but didn't say if he wanted me to use them or not. That's why I pm'd the guy back.

But I understand if you don't want me to play his turn. In a 4 player game like this it could get unbalanced. I also don't know if he wants a replacement because he didn't say how long he was going to be gone for. I will try and find out. I just hope everything is ok with him.

If you still need one, I volunteer.

mantaray [at] club-internet [dot] fr

Just one question : it is for C3C right (if for PTW sorry but count me out) ? And what version ?

Thanks, LouLong, C3C v1.20 or v1.22--both seem to work okay.
Don't know if Predesad will ever return, but if he does he may want his place back--we'll just have to wait and see.
In the meantime, welcome to our game, hope you have some fun playing it. Dogboy can send the password to you and you will be getting the saves from him also. Send the save to me: jmot AT sprynet DOT com