Announcing heihojin's 18th PBEM game!

[heihojin]

Password? There was no password for my turn. I loaded the game on the first turn and there was my settler, no choice to enter a password.

Isildurs Heir is correct - I didn't specify one for you, since you didn't give me one. You should be able to change your password by pressing Alt-D to edit your Player Details.

With regards to the automatic e-mail sending, I've been using it - and apparently the client has sent my file without the .Civ4SavedGame extension, forcing Isildurs Heir to rename the file each time. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[Kevinicus]

And now come endless turns with "Press Enter" being the only action

 

[heihojin]

And now come endless turns with "Press Enter" being the only action

I hope you mean only that your next several turns are going to be boring, and not that there is another bug that prevents you from doing anything else during your turn. (Game 10, the only one of my PTW games to have a player using Civilization III: Gold Edition experienced a bug exactly like that in the first turn.)

 

[Kevinicus]

I meant that of course...

 

[Big J Money]

I'm not in you guys' game, but I wanted to mention that when I did some testing, I could not get the smtp authorization to work, either. It works perfectly for me with the exact same settings in Outlook Express, but for some reason it fails every time in Civ IV. Go figure.

I am looking to get into a PBEM game though, so if anyone here who got left out would like to try one...

=$= Big J Money =$=

 

[DaEezT]

I'm not in you guys' game, but I wanted to mention that when I did some testing, I could not get the smtp authorization to work, either. It works perfectly for me with the exact same settings in Outlook Express, but for some reason it fails every time in Civ IV. Go figure.
=$= Big J Money =$=

Ye, I know and I already posted the explanation for that in the bug forum. I wonder if it'll be fixed with the first patch next week

 

[heihojin]

Yet again, my Player Details mysteriously changed. Please send me an e-mail if the name "Michelle" means anything to you with respect to this game. I have a hypothesis as to the origin of the bug, but I need some feedback to validate it.


heihojin

 

[xenikos]

Only 2 turns have gone by and I'm already behind in the scoring! Oh, woe is me. *swoons*

A turn every other day...not a bad clip. Although it'll be a month or two before anything interesting happens!

 

[Kevinicus]

I have finished my turn! All hail Russia!

 

[DaEezT]

I just played my turn and noticed that I was there twice again. And again it was the red (heihojin I think) one who was named like me.

 

[Dakhor]

With regards to the automatic e-mail sending, I've been using it - and apparently the client has sent my file without the .Civ4SavedGame extension, forcing Isildurs Heir to rename the file each time. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was messing arround with that and i found that if I send the save game to *@yahoo.com then i do not get the file extention and the file name is cut in half but if I send to *@hotmail everything works fine. So it must be something with the recieving side not my smtp server.

/DaK/

 

[DogBoy]

Just played and sent my turn. Heihojin, you came up as DaEezt again, not Michelle. Very odd bug I must say. Are you going to tell us what civ each person is? I thought that was the purpose of us sending you our civs. If you posted it or e-mailed it out I must have missed it. Or does everybody prefer to keep it a secret?

 

[DaEezT]

All playes and their civs where listed in the first e-mail:

1. heihojin (Tokugawa of the Japanese)
2. Isildurs Heir (Mansa Musa of the Malinese)
3. Kevinicus (Peter of the Russians)
4. DaEezT (Napoleon of the French)
5. DogBoy (Julius Caesar of the Romans)
6. xenikos (Huayna Capac of the Inca)
7. ceiph (Alexander of the Greeks)
8. stagnate (Hatshepsut of the Egyptians)

 

[DogBoy]

Yep, I see that! When I read that e-mail I just looked at the people but not their civs.

 

[heihojin]

I was messing arround with that and i found that if I send the save game to *@yahoo.com then i do not get the file extention and the file name is cut in half but if I send to *@hotmail everything works fine. So it must be something with the recieving side not my smtp server.

/DaK/

Interesting, thanks. That is consistent with my own testing, where turns sent to my personal (non-Yahoo!) e-mail account were just fine.

 

[xenikos]

Interesting, thanks. That is consistent with my own testing, where turns sent to my personal (non-Yahoo!) e-mail account were just fine.

Yahoo and Gmail have SMTP settings that are currently incompatable with Civ4's. I imagine that will be patched soon.

 

[DogBoy]

Game played and sent. It seems Stagnate is in the lead...hmm Does anybody know how the scoring system works in this game? A friend and I are playing a 2 player game and he did NOT settle on the first turn but I did. He settled on the second turn, and he immediately had two more points than I did. Their are two things different between our civs. He is producing more food than I am. We are both on fresh water. He is producing 3 food and 1 hammer, but I am producing 2 food and 2 hammer. We started with different techs due to being different civs. Could he just have higher beaker techs and that's why he has more points?