Department of General Musings

[Tubby Rower]

If you overwrite the original save all you have to do is go out and re-download the save from gmail. That's why I'm keeping them in the "folders" in case someone wants to go back and look at something.

 

[Kickbooti]

@Soul Warrior

I'm with you. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Hey, isn't St. Crispin's Day coming up???

 

[soul_warrior]

@Soul Warrior

I'm with you. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Hey, isn't St. Crispin's Day coming up???

St CRISPIN Aka Crispinus
Memorial Day - 25 October

he was a Roman noble. Brother of Saint Crispian with whom he evangelized Gaul in the middle 3rd century. Worked from Soissons, they preached in the streets by day, made shoes by night. The group's charity, piety, and contempt of material things impressed the locals, and many converted in the years of their ministry. Martyred under emperor Maximian Herculeus, being tried by Rictus Varus, governor of Belgic Gaul and an enemy of Christianity. A great church was built at Soissons in the 6th century in their honor; Saint Eligius ornamented their shrine.

martyred c.286 at Rome by torture and beheading

Patronage - cobblers, glove makers, lace makers, lace workers, leather workers, saddle makers, saddlers, shoemakers, tanners, weavers.

 

[Kickbooti]

Sounds like a noble chap worthy of vengence. Since there are no Romans around whom shall we blame?

Pick the target and the diplomatic corp will come up with the rationale

 

[soul_warrior]

the INJUNS done dat.... who else?

 

[Kickbooti]

I tried opening a previous save to play with in CAII, and it required a password. I tried the gmail password but that didn't work.

Am I doing this wrong or did I miss something in the mists of the distant past?

 

[Bede]

Save has its own password for Team Kiss.

It will cost you 100Euros.

 

[Kickbooti]

Awww Crap. Why couldn't we have started this two years ago - the conversion was much better.

Thanks Bede.

 

[Tubby Rower]

I'm wondering if it is good to be expanding so much faster than the other two teams. Since any 2 teams could take out a 3rd, I'm kind of concered about getting ganged up on after (or before) expansion phase is over. I guess that we really only have to worry about our neighbor since continental invasion is hard to do with galleys unless they are REALLY motivated.

Nevermind....

 

[Daghdha]

I'm wondering if it is good to be expanding so much faster than the other two teams. Since any 2 teams could take out a 3rd, I'm kind of concered about getting ganged up on after (or before) expansion phase is over. I guess that we really only have to worry about our neighbor since continental invasion is hard to do with galleys unless they are REALLY motivated.

Nevermind....

I think you answered the Q yourself . No ganging up will be effective until Galleons are available. crazy expansion but with a sound military back-up is the way to go methinks.

 

[Kickbooti]

Indeed. To quote uncle Joe, "Quantity has a quality all its own." And until they can reach us I'll quote Machiavelli, "Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Of course its easy to talk big when we don't know where they are or if they can reach us...

 

[Tubby Rower]

Rik started a thread called Renaming units & cities in the main forum about renaming cities/ units and guess who the first to respond was...Our buddy Provo

 

[Tubby Rower]

I wonder if we should give a time quota allowance to each teamfor exceeding 24 hours, based on Team Doughnuts persistent delays some of these turns, that would be only fair.

I wonder if we should be patient.

Since I'm trying not to respond in the main forum I thought that I would respond here.....I know Provo likes the rolling eyes smilie

 

[Tubby Rower]

I think that I have good news. I have a laptop that I believe I'll be able to access the internet while I'm away at the end of Oct - mid of Nov. I can put on it as well as CAII. So theoretically I should be ok. The only difference will be that I won't have 2 21 in monitors like I do at work and have to deal with a laptop sceen....

 

[Whomp]

I am just making sure we are not getting an exclusive warning when TNT goes over the limit one day. So far we are the only one.

When did we delay a save?
K's calculating D'nuts average time to play a save (17 hours I guess). I would like to post our average time because it's got to be under 3-4 hours but I'll stay away from that hornet's nest.

I would like to respond to this 24 hour rule. I think it's perfectly reasonable that team's ask for extensions. As the game progresses I think we can start extending it to say 36 then 48 or whatever it takes. What do you all think?

BTW I think the reason DaveShack has asked for a delay is D'nuts have met someone and they are discussing how they would like to respond. A MAJOR discussion is ensuing in Doughnutia. It's the only reason I can think of the delay to game at this point.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Yup we're the only team that has never gone over a time limit. There was one time we sent the wrong save and couldn't send the correct one right away but we still had plenty of time to remedy the situation without going over 24 hours.

Provo (that's what I like to call him ) is just trying to get under people's skins I suppose.



Re: Doug H. Nuts: I think that you have hit upon something Whomp. That's scary that they have hit another civ. I wonder when we will do the same..... If they met us how will we know?? will they show up in our foreign advisor screen?

 

[Whomp]

Yup we're the only team that has never gone over a time limit. There was one time we sent the wrong save and couldn't send the correct one right away but we still had plenty of time to remedy the situation without going over 24 hours.

I would like to clarify this point to Ginger Ale and RegentMan then. Maybe best to discuss by PM instead of flames coming through my computer.

Re: Doug H. Nuts: I think that you have hit upon something Whomp. That's scary that they have hit another civ. I wonder when we will do the same..... If they met us how will we know?? will they show up in our foreign advisor screen?

If they know us they will open the diplo screen and send us a PM to set up a time for a discussion. This is where IM will be needed.

 

[Daghdha]

Unfortunately I'm trapped far far away from my home machine so it's not just a matter of sending another email. Also for unexplained reasons the save in the email is named correctly which means if it is actually the wrong save, it is corrupted and will have to be replayed. I left an explicit record of what was done so it won't be any problem if that has to be done.

You might be right, but just a few days ago Dave posted this. Since it seems he's the spider in that nut it could be logistics causing the delay.
Regarding delays I say we stay out of that discussion as much as possible. If we're forced to vote, I have full confidence in Whompsies opinion and would be delightede to see Bugs point on "destroying a stupid team" posted in main thread...then again maybe not. Let TNT pi55 everyone off and let's use that to our advantage.

 

[Whomp]

We're all good. I pm'd Ginger instead of posting anything.

Team K.I.S.S is doing excellent in the turnaround of saves. No problem with you guys.

 

[Tubby Rower]

O/T...Well is anything off topic in here???

Diplomacy in PBEM.... I decided to take a half day from work. I came home and thought I'd start a new PBEM game with jsut 2 civs and no barbs or AI. I saved it just prior to the meeting of the two civs. Open the following save (no passwords were set) and just move the scout 1 SW. Then hit Shift-D. The 2 civs (Russia & America) will have met. You'll see what can be done.