*** GAME CANCELLED ***

Welcome to EliitGame.
This is the home thread of 8 Players Epic PBEM game with the rules and settings pretty close to standard. Everyone of those 8 players agree to make their moves daily and to play to the bitter end.

Introducing The Great Leaders of their tribes:
* EliitMees as Caliph EliitMees of the Arabs
* LouLong as King The_Oakster of the English
* portuga as Chairman Portuga of the Chinese
* akots as King Hammer of the Russians
* EL_OSO as Emperor EL_OSO of the Romans
* Rocinante as President Rocinante of the Americans
* MFCamillus as Chief MFCamillus of the Iroquois
* ChrisiusMaximus as King Tweedledee of the Sumerians

The Settings:
- Game Type: Play By Email
- Game Mode: Standard
- Turn Timer: None
- World Size: Standard
- Barbarian Activity: Roaming
- Land Mass: Random
- Water Coverage: 70% Water
- Climate: Normal
- Temperature: Temperate
- Age: 5 Billion
- Difficulty: Regent

The Rules:
- Allow Domination Victory
- Allow Space Race Victory
- Allow Diplomatic Victory
- Allow Conquest Victory
- Allow Cultural Victory
- Culturally Linked Start Locations
- Accelerated Production
- Allow Cultural Conversions
- Preserve Random Seed

turn one sent to MFCamillus

3950 BC sent to EliitMees

we are in turn 2 now :)
good start

3950 sent to MFCamillus

3900 BC to The Oakster

3900 Sent to Rocinante

over to MFCamillus patched to v1.20

over to MFCamillus patched to v1.20 :confused:

I thiink we all need to stop and discuss the v1.2 upgrade before anyone installs the patch.

Since the V1.2 upgrade is not compatible backwards it has to be done by everyone, or not at all.

I know that I have a few other games that I am participating in and so have to coordinate there also. So either we all move to 1.2 or we stay on 1.15 which is what the game was published as.

Eliit - your thread and game.

I guess if someone is alredy upgraded to 1.20 , then we all have to do so in order to load the game. There's also some PBEM fixes in that patch and I believe the whole PBEM world will upgrade soon, so must we.

I had to patch up to play my other PBEMs. I don't have two hard drives so I can only run one version and that will be v1.20--the latest version. It only takes a few minutes to do and the changes are listed at the site--they seem minor but it is best to know what they are. Go for the download here (http://www.firaxis.com/downloads_detail.cfm?file_id=72)

I actually have had it downloaded for a day or two. I just need to coordinate my other games.

I also would rather wait a couple of days.
Just until the other games I'm playing decide to upgrade.

Hi everyone,

Can we decide on a version then as 1.22 is out now?

1.22 fails to load 1.20 saves, so please do not upgrade to 1.22!
We'll stay with 1.20 until Firaxis makes another patch, patching previous patches :confused:

Hopefully the other game I am involved in will follow suit and patch. Otherwise I'll be stuck deciding on which game to drop. :(

If they do patch and I'm able to play we should make sure all parties involved can patch in the future before applying more patches.

~just my two cents.

I believe its possible to maintain several versions at the same time in your computer. Try this: (I'm quoting heihojin)

It is relatively simple to maintain two distinct installations of Conquests. If you haven't yet upgraded, and are still using v1.15 Beta:
1. Rename the Civilization III\Conquests folder to "Conquests v1.15 Beta" or something like that.
2. Uninstall Conquests with "Add/Remove Programs" from your Control Panel.
3. Reinstall Conquests to the default folder.
4. Install the patches for both v1.20

If you have already installed the v1.20 or v1.22 patches, you can follow the above steps to rename your Conquests folder to "Conquests v1.22", uninstall, reinstall, and then install the v1.15 Beta patch. Thankfully, all three patches can still be found at http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3patches.shtml .

If you have not upgraded yet. It is also possible to just copy the Conquests folder (with all of the program files) to a different location. Thus with a Conquests folder under CivIII and a Conquests folder under My Docs, you have two locations. Upgrade one to v1.2 and the other stays v1.15.

Due to disparities in the games that I am playing I am operating under this type of a dual install. You just have to remember which game is under which version.

3850 BC turn sent to The Oakster (v1.20)

Turn passed on to portuga

4 days, no post, where is game?

Can who ever has received the turn please post here so we can try and find it?

I received it from EliitMees, i sent it to portuga and he said he received it......

Now where is it.

Either Portuga or Hammer has it. I haven't received it yet.

I sent it to Hammer on 6th of april. I'll send it again.

Turn sent

over to MFCamillus

sent

turn 5, 3800 BC
received, played and transmitted to The Oakster
:)

I have received turn 5 from eliitmees but i am away from home 'til monday so i cant complete it until then.

Sorry for the inconvenience once again...

It will get done and sent to portuga on monday.

Turn 5 sent to Portuga.

Finally....;)

turn 6 up and running

Super quick turn around - Well Done Guys :goodjob:

Turn 6 winging its way to Portuga!!

turn 7 up and running
just happy to see this game running smoothly :)

Turn 7 sent to Portuga.

Turn sent yesterday

sent to MFCamillus yesterday also

You sent turn 7 yesterday? :confused:

Yesterday I played & sent 3750BC which is turn 6
I guess turn 7 is on its way but hasn't made it here yet

turn 7 over to MFC

Off to TweedleDee.

turn 8 up and running

I regret to inform you that I am going to Russia for the weekend, so I will be away starting Friday afternoon and until Sunday evening. My apologies for slowing the game down for couple of days.

Well at least that's two of us that won't be here. I did send an email earlier in the week to all of the PBEM games that I'm involved in.

I will also be unavailable this weekend from Friday AM through Sunday PM.

3650BC to MFCamillus

Turn 9 is on its way to The Oakster's hands

who's got the turn and didn't send it?

I haven't received it yet.

It has not passed through my hands yet.

Hammer is having some problems playing games in v1.20 an v1.22.
I sent him the instructions to have the two versions installed, so I guess the game will resume soon.

It's 12 days ago now that I received the last file. Still a problem with the patch?

wwhill is unable to play our game anymore. I'll try to find replacement for him

OK ! I will play Russians.

But I hope wwhill just has pbs with the different versions only because he is in grognards too.

LouLong: sorry, but Akots sent private message earlier. I guess it would be fair if I give Russians to him.

Everybody: Akots is now playing Russians. His e-mail: akots AT mail . ru

No pb. I proposed for helping :) (I know what it is like to search for a replacement :( ). Have a fun game !

I sent the last turn to Akots.

Akots--congrats on the superb SGOTM1 victory!

Turn 9 received from Portuga and Eliit, played, and sent to EL_OSO.

@LouLong: Please hang around.

@Rocinante: Thanks but I don't deserve it. I think I played only 10 turns myself. It was a great team and great game.

3600BC sent to MFCamillus

3550 BC sent to EliitMees

turn 10 started

6 days no game

I sent the game 2 times to The Oakster but he's not responding

May be time for LouLong to step in...

Yeah, it looks like we have to drop The Oakster too :(

Still no replacement found?

OK, seems you have waiting for quite some time so I will do the replacement. Don't be mad if I mix diplo with other PBEMs since most of you guys are already in a few of them lol.

So we could go on with the game now?

I got the save from Portuga (turn 10), played and mailed to EL_OSO

3550BC sent to MFCamillus

Turn sent on to Tweedledee

it's alive!
turn 11 started

Sent to Portuga

Turn played.

Unfortunately I'll be away until the 25th of May. Sorry...

Turn 11 dispatched to El_OSO.

3450 BC sent to Eliit

Sent to Portuga.
= no action before the 25th

Turn 12 goes to El_OSO. Where are you guys hiding? Have not met anyone yet.

turn 12 sent to MFCamillus

3400 BC sent to Eliit

turn 13 started

Turn goes to El_OSO

3350 BC sent to Eliit

turn 14 started

Turn dispatched to El_OSO

3350BC sent to MFC

3300 BC sent to Eliit

turn 15 started

turn 15 played and sent to MFCamillus

sent to Eliit

3200 BC sent to Eliit

GPS to Portuga

Dispatched to El_OSO

MFCamillus email has been returned twice so I'm posting the save here.

MFCamillus email has been returned twice so I'm posting the save here.

Apparently he dropped from PBEM of mine (AoW) about the same time... Once he happened to be on a business trip without any Civ access. Maybe it is the same again ?

3150 BC sent to Eliit

Sent to Portuga

3100 BC sent to Eliit

sent to Portuga

turn 20 now started

GPS to Portuga

3000 BC sent to Eliit

turn 21 sent to LouLong

I am going on vacation tomorrow and will be back on 12 July. My apologies for slowing the game down.

Well, who has the game now? I sent it to LouLong on 27th June and got confirmation from him on 28th.

Hi, welcome back!
I received the turn from Loulong and sent it to akots on the 28th of June.
I didn't get a confirmation, but akots doesn't usually confirms reception.
Did you get it akots?

I'm very lucky because I found a new job that was starting today, but now I can not promise anymore to play my turn daily. If the game will slow down because of me I'll look for a replacement, but first I'll try to continue.

Ive played the turn and sent it to Eliit, Ive agreed to stand in for Tweedle Dee so hello to all of you in this game :)

Lets hope we can get this baby moving along nicely :)

Well, I'm trying to re-animate this game. Replacement found for Tweedledee - thanks to ChrisiusMaximus. I hope we can keep it alive now. Turn 21 sent to LouLong.

hi, any room for me by any chance?

3000BC sent to Chrisius.

:bounce: back to Eliit :D

thank you all for supporting this!

turn 22 sent to LouLong

Once more to Eliit 2900BC.sav

Turn 23 started and 2900 BC sent to LouLong :)

GPS to Portuga.

Well, apart from the fact it is 1.20 (arghhh it is the only one), I kind of like my start !

LouLong: as far as I know you are playing in Heihojin's 14th game, which is 1.20 too :)

Yep, my bad ! Just means twice the trouble ! lol

2850BC to Eliit :)

turn 24 started

Wheres this one got to ???

Everybody who did not receive 2850 BC turn please post here.

Sent the turn 24 (2850 BC) and got a GPS from Portuga on the 30th of August.

I was doing OK I think :-(

I sent it to akots on the 30th. But I'm not sure I got a GPS from akots...

I don't even remember what civ I was playing in this game :)

Turn 24 went out from my computer on 8/31 about 1am. Whether the intended recipient got that, I have no idea.

so its with EL_OSO ?????

It's been 6 months since this game started and we made only 24 turns. In fact, I realised that 8 players is too many for PBEM game. I'm participating in 3 such games and all of them are practically not moving. I suggest that we cancel this game, because it's hard to remember what you were doing in the game with such speed and it's definitely no fun.

Anyway, thank you all for trying to keep it alive :)

OK
I agree actually even though I quite liked my position and development.

8-players PBEM are possible IMHO provided you choose the players and even then problems might occur.

But I must say even Gorganrds went further than 24 turns ;-)

OK, I agree. The worst thing that killed the game was patch 1.20 IMO.