Nighthawk419
Deity
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2011
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It's with sad emotions that I say farewell to all of you fellow civ gamers in this sub-forum. I will be forced to abandon all open games that I currently have. As many of you know, I've gotten insanely lucky to work for a company that I was able to download civ onto my work computer and play a few turns during the day during work hours in my office. Sadly, the gravy train is coming to an end. Over the years I've noticed the IT department slowly locking down many of the sites I used to download the game and its various patches and mods. In the last few years I've been unable to add new mods easily, and anytime I find a site to share files it gets locked down. In the last few months even civfanatics has sometimes not worked if I click a fresh link and don't have it bookmarked.
Well now I am getting an upgraded work computer. Exciting for my job, but that means I'm going to lose civ with any ability to download it or get it going again. As many of you also know, I do have a very busy family life, with 3 kids and now my wife pregnant with twins, jumping the count to 5. I barely have any personal time for gaming and when I do, its maybe a couple hours once a week or so. Certainly not enough to maintain any civ PBEM's at a good pace. And frankly I don't want to feel obligated to play PBEM turns during that time, I'd rather focus on doing whatever it is I'd like to do with that time.
I've been on this site since 2011, have admin hosted many PBEM's, joined many others, helped with replacements, and had a great experience both with playing, diplomacy and writing, the most fun parts of PBEM games. Sadly, I've never actually won a game, it seems my skills aren't that good. Part of that was that I got too involved with too many games all at once and couldn't focus on a good long term plan for each of them. Lately even as games have slowed and the community dwindled, I haven't gotten much better, because my job has gotten busier and I don't spend any time more than the bare minimum playing the turn, and most of the time I just fly through turns for the sake of keeping games moving more than actually enjoying it. My peak was 2011-2014 or so, and since then its been a slow decline in quality and speed for my games. I really hope most of you will see an uptick in speed at the very least with my departure, because I've still struggled to keep up with the few turns that are still coming through.
I didn't want to be that person that just disappears without a trace, so this is me saying goodbye. However many of you know my email and I will still be around. If I have some time I may still lurk around checking in on the games I've left behind to see how my various positions turned out. Anyone who replaces me feel free to email me and as I get time I may be able to give you some thoughts on what little strategy there may have been. The password to all my turns is "ajm" for any replacements to hack into. And any games I'm admining please email me for admin password.
Sorry everyone, but this time had to come eventually. I tried to make it last as long as I could, but my hand has been forced. It was fun gaming with ya'll over the years!!
Regards,
Nighthawk
Well now I am getting an upgraded work computer. Exciting for my job, but that means I'm going to lose civ with any ability to download it or get it going again. As many of you also know, I do have a very busy family life, with 3 kids and now my wife pregnant with twins, jumping the count to 5. I barely have any personal time for gaming and when I do, its maybe a couple hours once a week or so. Certainly not enough to maintain any civ PBEM's at a good pace. And frankly I don't want to feel obligated to play PBEM turns during that time, I'd rather focus on doing whatever it is I'd like to do with that time.
I've been on this site since 2011, have admin hosted many PBEM's, joined many others, helped with replacements, and had a great experience both with playing, diplomacy and writing, the most fun parts of PBEM games. Sadly, I've never actually won a game, it seems my skills aren't that good. Part of that was that I got too involved with too many games all at once and couldn't focus on a good long term plan for each of them. Lately even as games have slowed and the community dwindled, I haven't gotten much better, because my job has gotten busier and I don't spend any time more than the bare minimum playing the turn, and most of the time I just fly through turns for the sake of keeping games moving more than actually enjoying it. My peak was 2011-2014 or so, and since then its been a slow decline in quality and speed for my games. I really hope most of you will see an uptick in speed at the very least with my departure, because I've still struggled to keep up with the few turns that are still coming through.
I didn't want to be that person that just disappears without a trace, so this is me saying goodbye. However many of you know my email and I will still be around. If I have some time I may still lurk around checking in on the games I've left behind to see how my various positions turned out. Anyone who replaces me feel free to email me and as I get time I may be able to give you some thoughts on what little strategy there may have been. The password to all my turns is "ajm" for any replacements to hack into. And any games I'm admining please email me for admin password.
Sorry everyone, but this time had to come eventually. I tried to make it last as long as I could, but my hand has been forced. It was fun gaming with ya'll over the years!!
Regards,
Nighthawk
You do have a great sense of humour!
