Krill
Deity
DaveShack gets back today, so if the server is down he can reboot it in short order (hopefully, anyway)
Turn Discussion
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Lord Parkin
aka emperor
None of us at Saturn can get in either. I hope if the game's put up again then we'll get sufficient time to play, as we have a fairly limited window.
Yeah, he should have been there a turn earlier. Bummer (who kills Paris btw??
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Yeah, he should have been there a turn earlier. Bummer (who kills Paris btw??
He runs away from Troy...and the trojans are neevr hear from again
Krill
Deity
Rule: 4.1 -- Turn Timer
Disclaimer:
Ok so Let's have a look:
If a team is unable to play in time, they may post a request for an extension in the turn-tracker thread, and state the reason they believe it should be granted .AFTER the extension request and rational have been posted in the turn tracker, that team may then pause the game.
Now what to me isn't fully explained is this:
AFTER the extension request and rational have been posted in the turn tracker, that team may then pause the game.
So 2 Cases:
Case #1 is Obsolete:
Case #2 is going to be happening:
So to me a more robust rational needs to be given here. If team participation is low, slowing down to more than 1 turn a week isn't going to help increase it. In fact we will find many teams starting to lose more players.
Spoiler :
Disclaimer:
Spoiler :
Ok so Let's have a look:
If a team is unable to play in time, they may post a request for an extension in the turn-tracker thread, and state the reason they believe it should be granted .AFTER the extension request and rational have been posted in the turn tracker, that team may then pause the game.
Now what to me isn't fully explained is this:
AFTER the extension request and rational have been posted in the turn tracker, that team may then pause the game.
So 2 Cases:
Case #1 is Obsolete:
Spoiler :
Case #2 is going to be happening:
Spoiler :
So to me a more robust rational needs to be given here. If team participation is low, slowing down to more than 1 turn a week isn't going to help increase it. In fact we will find many teams starting to lose more players.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
I was thinking the same thing actually. Is it not possible for MS to get one (or several) backup turn player(s)? Seriously guys, delaying the entire game due to one team member being away isn't going to help participation levels one bit. 
For once, I actually agree. I think it should be perfectly fine to pause the game because you need discussion over something, but isn't the whole reason that this game has a turn timer exactly that a low-participation team shouldn't be able to hold the game up?
Do we need to go on a recruitment spree to get more people to MS?
Do we need to go on a recruitment spree to get more people to MS?
I think we do. If they don't have the players there's nothing much they can do.
Krill
Deity
Advertising threads in the other fora? At other sites maybe?
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
Hmm, I paused the game for MS as they'd asked us to do so (well Husch did) but Memphus has unpaused it.
They are obviously having turn player problems. We can agree that this situation needs to be resolved and they can't hold up the game because of lack of participation. But I don't think punishing now is the way forward.
I think we should let them pause.
(I can't login now though, so hopefully someone can pause before turn roll)
They are obviously having turn player problems. We can agree that this situation needs to be resolved and they can't hold up the game because of lack of participation. But I don't think punishing now is the way forward.
I think we should let them pause.
(I can't login now though, so hopefully someone can pause before turn roll)
Yes, I agree,
Kaleb said:
None of us should pause for them
MS had players around today (I pm'ed some of them telling them the situation, only to be ignored). If they couldn't get into the game (like many of our team's players) Then those players could have posted:
Sorry having connection issues please pause for MS
Or
I am on MS we have no turnplayer who can get into the game. It is our turn, please pause.
Edit:
Spoiler :
They were in the MTDG forum reading the posts (and these threads)....And in their own forum reading I don't know what because I can't see the thread titles.
If the mods request a reload after the turnover occurs...Dave_Shack (an MS player!) could do the reload...but if he can reload it before HUSch gets back, why can't he play the turn?
Also the mods have been around reading this, they have yet to comment. They knew it was MS's turn and they could of paused for them if they felt it was justified.
In this case, I could have paused it (or played in HUSch's absense), but I opened my work computer to check my meeting schedule first thing after getting out of bed (0730 MST, 1430 UTC), and from that point just plain forgot until now. RL is just too much right now to participate as much as I'd like.
I have terrible luck with picking teams. Not a single one has had high participation all the way through.
And I can't predict when RL will slam me. 
Edit: GA might only know to do something if a PM was sent or a post reported. We mods don't typically read every post...
Edit2: You might ask why I can post but not play? 25 miles from the comp that has civ.
I have terrible luck with picking teams. Not a single one has had high participation all the way through.
And I can't predict when RL will slam me. Edit: GA might only know to do something if a PM was sent or a post reported. We mods don't typically read every post...
Edit2: You might ask why I can post but not play? 25 miles from the comp that has civ.
IamJohn
(was)?
If it comes down to it do we want to pull people from other teams? Sure it isn't the perfect solution, but if it comes down to that or having problems like this every other turn...
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