got dsl, wanna host full game, super map(30000 sq.) everything optimized by expert

That is right, as i now remember, and I just looked two seconds at the game out of loss of memory, and that's when it hit me that i remembered the graphics fluke, sorry Narz, I myself was suspicious of you having such a great lead which would've put even the famed Atawa (famed by word of mouth, since his game against me didn;t impress upon me such a fame) to shame in that last game we played, and I'm sorry for forgetting those trivial things, since it is details like that which can make the biggest differences.

I saw your empire, and it is quite generously plump and healthy, though I still think I could've matched it come a bit more time to build up just a simple cavalry army. I am looked at the game and rushed over here to clear your name (if you are indeed honest, your bigness still surprises me, considering I was expanding at the almost maximum rate despite one city building a wonder, though you may have been supremely lucky with growth in this game,) but alas, you had already written this piece. I feel slightly ashamed but it is only out of frogetfullness and not an impulse to join the mob that made me question you. I hope it is forgiven, but please! let us start anew, hopefully with your blessings that i did not spoil the game out of a loser's sore pride, for I am awfully curious to see if you can repeat this growth extravanganza you pulled on me last time.

However, I still do want you to join in my game tonight, if you are available, since you carry power im eager to challenge if you indeed built the zulus like that with your own hands. Please, let us not discuss this issue to a post-mortem like everything else since I hope you will see that it is nothing more than a misunderstanding and let it be as some surface blemish that has since been removed!
 
For the participants in Nicosar's game soon to begin, I want to wish you all the best of luck. As my excitement grows, so does my desire to meet you all in game.

Is everyone familiar with IRC? I am hoping so that we can all enter a channel to ensure continued communication when setting up the game and in the event of a crash. It will also allow us to chat freely while waiting for the slowpokes :)

My CS clan and my MMORPG guild use IRC and its a must have.

Post if you have IRC and are familiar, for those not familiar its easy, free and I can help you get set up.

TF
 
just a final question timezone wise - are you in daylight savings? and if so is it -8GMT before or after ds is applied?


IRC is a good plan, father could you set up a room for everyone to join?
 
will do .. brb

ok IRC channel:

Gamesnet

channel: #nicosar

If you need IRC go to www.mirc.com and install it. Its free, so the first window that comes up asking you to register with the creators face on it just hit the X in the top rt corner to close it. Select a nick, etc.

Then select gamesnet from the drop down menu for the irc servers. Once connected type "/j #nicosar" without the quotes.
If anyone needs more help just post.

I will be idling in the channel til gametime.

as for gametime, the game starts in 1:20 ..... for those that are confused by time zones.

TF
 
I will be there. My ICQ # is 162893046
I assume all players will be able to chat during the game itself however.
 
Yes I assume we will Narz, but IRC will be immensely helpful in getting the game started, no doubt. The good Dr. and I are there now, look forward to seeing you.
 
If you need help setting up this scenario on your machine, here's what you do, it's quite simple:

Go to the civilization II multiplayer folder under program files\microprose and go to the scenarios folder. From inside here, choose to create a new folder and call it BEAUTY, no spaces, just that.

For the scenario to work properly you must have the following contents inside this folder:

BEAUTY.SCN
SOUND FOLDER, containing in it 9 sounds for extra units
RULES (text file)
RULES.BAK (program file)
TERRAIN1
TERRAIN2
CITIES
UNITS

All these files should be changed to match exactly the names above, respectively, if they are not already so.

Use all the files that I sent you two weeks or so ago, which you should all already have (but if not let me know) EXCEPT:
UNITS, and CITIES. the new UNITS i sent to you all a few days ago and the new CITIES i have just sent to you now. I know that i sent you all a CITIES file simultaneously with the UNITS a few days ago, but disregard that and use the CITIES file from today, the one just sent, since there was indeed one last problem , a single flag which was obscured, but now it really is perfect.

If there are any more problems, please contact me with haste, since the game is upon us, and i actually have delayed it for far too long with my procrastinating habits, but it is a simple procedure and there should be no major problems.

If you need replacement files or did not receive any components let me know.
 
i tried to go to that contraptionated irc, oh well, anyway:

THE IP# IS:

66.32.61.199
 
but father, it says on my screen that i have you, is there still a problem? i cant log on to that irc but did you post your ICQ somewhere, im going back to look for it butposat it up again, if i cant get irc at least ill have its inferior (but working) version to talk with
 
i am hanging at "waiting for game machine to connect" or so it seems to me :/ my icq is 1576051
 
were about to start, if you have icq pls post your UIN so we can add you to the chat.
 
i am very glad the game didnt start without me...im sorry i have been in sydney running erands and stuff but i am here please keep me posted my icq is 147437878
hartster
 
*sigh*.....I really hope we can start playing this beast when we next meet. It's a shame that Narz may have to bow out due to his Jackson Pollack map. I will keep an eye on the posts for the next start-up attempt.
 
Yes, the NArz issue was quite disheartening... I did some research and the best I can find is advice to change graphics and sound files - I sent NArz a link to the page with a program explaining how + why to do this, hopefully it will work. As everyone else had it work okay we can only assume it is a mac issue. {even though Macs can understand .gif and .bmp, it seems they don't use them in the game}. Best of luck Narz, would love to see you in there!
 
I myself was suspicious of you having such a great lead which would've put even the famed Atawa (famed by word of mouth, since his game against me didn;t impress upon me such a fame) to shame in that last game we played,

Not quite to shame, although it was a good game by Narz :goodjob:

I am researching Mono while Narz goes for feud., Totaly different playing styles, he was planning on a landwar while I was planning on going rep, massdeliver caravans to my off-shore colossus and just bribe the world :D

And off course the large map helps ;)

But we should duel sometimes Narz, will be fun :)
 
I will play you sometime Atawa! My e-mail is tony@narcity.com (this sends the e-mail to my AOL & RCN address) and my ICQ# is 162893046. I really hope this graphics issue can get ironed out...

- Narz :king:
 
Minor, meaningless, just setbacks, not boundaries. Minor, so very small.

Ive looked at the website the Doc so quickly found and searched some others, but I downloaded the mac read me from there and finally got it to work with some text program, (i have dozens, all worthless except for this one reason) and it looked like the most comprehensive troubleshoot to this problem. Of course, there are a million ways for something to go wrong but i hope that covers the problem...

I said a week, PAH! Sorry Narz, when it comes to the internet i have distrust, but maybe im right and its only the online civ community that is so thourough and devoted; and i might as welll leave the link to the site out since you got it from doc.

Well be playing very soon, and with bigger numbers, because the poor harster needs to get a small and discrete chain to keep his wallet from leaving his pants, since this was the said reason for his having to delay his coming home from Sydney on time, but I am sure he'll be here next time. PLUS! Deity wants to join, another aussie, which is fine by me, though I would start to worry about backdoor outback-alliances, if you follow me, since their numbers grow, it seems. I just have to send him the schedule, as i still havent got around to fixing this contraption, (something having to do with the scanning light going dim, needs new bulbs maybe, but where to get em for a 7 year old geriatric machine) so he can see if he can match it or not, but will send you the info quickly nonetheless, since we are all wired in this house and that's not the only scanner anyway.

So, we could have 7 humans! And that's all to the good, no matter what all those impatient sugar-headed people may say: even if we all had armies of 100 units to move each turn and 20 settlers thats only about, maybe, 220 seconds to accomadate for lag, (though to be reasonable I should say 260 or so seconds for all the little time fragments inevitably wasted inbetween pressing the movement keys), but even so, 260 secs. is a few minutes and a half, and if everyone is watching their screen intently and focusedly, which they better do if they wish to stand a chance, they should know EXACTLY where to move, since they will have PLENTY, TONS of time to think on the off-turn if they are not watching cartoons while bouncing their heads to metal, which though is indeed long, will relatively be very short turns (relative to a full MP game), at around 20 minutes or so (BUT REMEMBER, THIS IS IF EVERYONE HAD 120 UNITS TO MOVE, WHICH WILL BE MUCH RARER THAN TURNS HALF AS SHORT ), and so even in late renaissance time when everyone is moving many cannons and musketeers, hunters and cuirassiers all across the board, being built by 40 or so cities, I think the average turn time should only be then around 15 minutes or less, which though may seem long is quite generous considering it will be the most complex and involved game youll ever play!

BESIDES, AND I SAY THIS AS A GOOD HOST WHO DOESN"T WANT ANY PLAYERS LEFT MISINFORMED AND CLUELESS, YOU WILL NEED ALL THAT TIME TO PLOT AROUND THE PLANS OF OTHERS, SINCE I KNOW ALREADY OF A COUPLE CUNNING 'WEAVERS' WHO LIKE NOTHING BETTER THAN TO DECEIVE WITH OBVIOUS SUTBLETIES, IF THOSE WORDS PENETRATE YOU ENOUGH, WHOM ARE IN THIS GAME AND WHO WILL PUNISH YOU CRUELLY IF YOU SHOULD BE SO NAIVE AS TO TAKE YOUR MIND FROM FIGURING ALL THE POSSIBILITIES AND CONTINGENCIES, FOR THESE, IF ANYTHING, ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
 
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