Join my marathon game

[bitula]

Open game:
marathon huge gathering storm + corporation mode + random leader.
Rules: Any planned inactivity for more than 2 weeks must be reported here in this thread. If you are new introduce your forum user and steam user so I can contact you (on this forum) if you forgot to make a move. (For post text eg.: "Hello I joined xy game with steam id xy).
Suggestion: Maximum inactivity 1 month. Minimum 1 move per week. When possible: 1 move per day. Random leader - don't chose leader. (I can't enforce this ofcourse, but if you know in advance that this is too much, please don't join ).
Join code: NAr9m
Player status: 3/8 - waiting for players.

Ongoing game:
Non abuser RL game (marathon huge)
Join code: YWVkq
Player status: 5/8 - game started. (one player quit for unknown reason, two players removed for inactivity of more than one month)
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Ongoing game:
Join code: GQDrn
Player status: 5/6 - game started (one player removed for quitting without reason other game)
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Ongoing game:
Join code: MB6Wp
Player status: 5/8 - game started. (two players removed for inactivity of 1 month, one player vanished)
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Ongoing game:
Join Code: YqyWp
Player status 2/8: game started. from 5/8 -> 2/8: (two players accidentally quit. One player removed because of pangea.lua bug.)

 

[megadruido]

i have different version from you (

 

[bitula]

i have different version from you (

Ah sorry, I forgot to mention, that my version includes all expansions GS (Gathering Storms and R&F), and all dlc, leaders pack etc if that matters. There are no modes checked (because of bug: game with modes not appearing in list), so not sure that dlc stuff matters, I guess just the expansions.

 

[bitula]

Hi Ant, thanks for joining. Now lets wait a month or so, and if no one else joins I guess we'll start it! Btw anyone joining please select random leader if not a problem, let all leaders be surprise. Note, I just moved to home office, so from my point of view I can do my move probably every day, but for others one week is OK from my side.

 

[bitula]

Hi Plaidman, thanks for joining (we are now 3 players). Now lets wait a month or so, and if no one else joins I guess we'll start it!

 

[Noble Zarkon]

I'm in - random leader selected but Troy06 has chosen Germany.

 

[bitula]

Thanks, we are actually 5 now. 3 more needed. Let's wait 3 more weeks, and if remains so, I'll set the remainder to AI. Well I am not categorically against someone choosing a leader, but would have preferred random (Troy if not a problem for you plz change to random).

 

[stdrag]

I joined game. How about to established discord communication?

 

[Noble Zarkon]

How about to established discord communication?

Why use Discord when we are all on here???

 

[stdrag]

Why use Discord when we are all on here???

Discord is better communication tool. Are against of using Discord as chat room?

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Discord is better communication tool. Are against of using Discord as chat room?

Just don't see any need for it when we are here at CivFanatics.

 

[bitula]

I joined game. How about to established discord communication?

Thanks. I edited the initial post to reflect that random leader choice is preferred (but not mandatory).

 

[Noble Zarkon]

random leader choice is preferred (but not mandatory)

I think we should either all choose or all random personally

 

[stdrag]

Let's all choose

 

[bitula]

Well I won't choose for sure, since I want at least my leader to be a surpirse. But if someone insists on choosing, I can't do anything about it, still better than having less players.
Oh we are 7/8! Just one more player needed then!

 

[stdrag]

How about to activate this game modes?
- Monopolies and Corporations
- Heroes & Legends
- Dramatic Ages
- Barbarian Clans

 

[stdrag]

I can not change my leader. Selection is not active. Do you know how to do it?

 

[bitula]

Hi stdrag,
I would like myself to activate those modes, actually all modes, but there is a know bug, which prevents doing this:
I reported it here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/play-by-cloud-game-with-modes-is-not-listed.683160/
I think Firaxis will never fix this unfortunately, they don't seem to care about these kind of "cosmetic" bugs (though it is funny why then they added those checkboxes there at all)...
Regarding: selection is not active. I have no idea, maybe try to quit and then join again?

 

[stdrag]

If I exit/enter then I get same leader. And selection is still unavailable. Can you change your leader? Could it be related to ready flag (it is set already for all players)?

 

[bitula]

Yeah you are right, seems to be a bug: it is not possible to change anything. I can't unready myself either or change my leader. So let it remain as it is now. The biggest issue is though, that I am not able to set or remove the 8-th open slot, so now we need to wait for an 8-th player... Otherwise it seems the game will never start... I guess there wasn't too much development effort put into this "staging room" LOL.