Bastian-Bux
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player 5 is still ok for me. ^^
Lets set up a PBEM!
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Ace of Spades
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I would like to play Player 2 then. It's the only one I can do reliably.
Best Regards,
Ace
Best Regards,
Ace
Bastian-Bux
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Oh yeah, as a warning: between the 28th of july and the 1st of august I'll be in some time constrains. As I said before, I'm freelance, and only one week in the month I have to be at the organisation I work for. Then I'll be unavaible from 0530 to 1400 GMT. Hope we can somehow handle this. Its as I said just 5 days a month (and on friday I usually can be home as early as 1000 GMT).
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
Bastian, so may be you should play Russia instead for it lies outside your working time for the week? But it's up to you.
Draft list:
1) Germany, Italy, Hungary
2) Japan, Manchuria and Thailand
3) Russia and Mongolia
4) Britain, India, Australia, Canada
5) America and Mexico
Player 1 (GMT 1300 - 1800) - Genghis Kai
Player 2 (GMT 1800 - 2300) - Ace of Spades
Player 3 (GMT 2300 - 0330) - Joshua67
Player 4 (GMT 0330 - 0830) - borgg
Player 5 (GMT 0830 - 1300) - Bastian-Bux
Other than Joshua and Bastian who have flexible hours, the rest of us can only commit to play within the set hours. So, in terms of hours, there aren't much flexibility. In terms of days, I suggest we start with playing 6 days a week, (Friday night off?), so every fortnight we can finish one game year. If any of us need to be away or want a longer break, Please email notice everyone.
Draft list:
1) Germany, Italy, Hungary
2) Japan, Manchuria and Thailand
3) Russia and Mongolia
4) Britain, India, Australia, Canada
5) America and Mexico
Player 1 (GMT 1300 - 1800) - Genghis Kai
Player 2 (GMT 1800 - 2300) - Ace of Spades
Player 3 (GMT 2300 - 0330) - Joshua67
Player 4 (GMT 0330 - 0830) - borgg
Player 5 (GMT 0830 - 1300) - Bastian-Bux
Other than Joshua and Bastian who have flexible hours, the rest of us can only commit to play within the set hours. So, in terms of hours, there aren't much flexibility. In terms of days, I suggest we start with playing 6 days a week, (Friday night off?), so every fortnight we can finish one game year. If any of us need to be away or want a longer break, Please email notice everyone.
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
Oh btw, please PM me your personal email for communication. I will send out an email to everyone once I receive all.
Bastian-Bux
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Could you also add ICQ and Genghis, can you redistribute the complete list via PM so that we can work out our mischievious diplomacy? ^^
Btw, Russia isn't my kind of pivo, thats even worse then the so called american beer.
Btw, Russia isn't my kind of pivo, thats even worse then the so called american beer.
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
I don't use ICQ these days. I use MSN but I don't log on very often too. Email is best for me. Anyway, you guys can PM me what ever contact info and I will PM/email them all back to you guys.
Some users are having CTD with GEM v5.1. Can we all make sure we can run all the scenarios for the new version?
I've started the PBEM game about 1 hour ago and I've just completed the moves for Germany. I still got Italy and Hungary to go and so I won't be able to finish by 1800 GMT.
Since the first turn is always taking a lot of time to move and that tomorrow is Friday, may I suggest we just take our time to complete the first turn and keep to our schedule at turn 2?
Ace of Spades
GEM Fanboy
Fine by me if we extend the schedule a bit for turn 1. Kai, as you have my mail already, you are of course free to give it to everyone else in the game.
Best Regards,
Ace
Best Regards,
Ace
Ok seems i got the Britain Part. Well. I will try to stay on this scedule. But i cannot guarantee i can do this ever. In the other pbem i play we just try to do as fast as possible and also get 1 turn per day. Due we live in several time zones it should work even better here since we have only germans in the other game. Might be its better to squeeze all germans into the evening time zone based on GMT+1. From my point of view this is better
Ok i talked to Bastian. He is fine with drawing over the day. But i would like to split the german evening time between me and ace. because i cannot draw each day in the early morning.
Any way to do like this:
Player 1 (GMT 1300 - 1800) - Genghis Kai
Player 2 (GMT 1800 - xxxx) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 4 (GMT xxxx - 2300) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 3 (GMT 2300 - 0330) - Joshua67
Player 5 (GMT 0830 - 1300) - Bastian-Bux
(yes i know the civs might be changed due this. But...)
Any way to do like this:
Player 1 (GMT 1300 - 1800) - Genghis Kai
Player 2 (GMT 1800 - xxxx) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 4 (GMT xxxx - 2300) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 3 (GMT 2300 - 0330) - Joshua67
Player 5 (GMT 0830 - 1300) - Bastian-Bux
(yes i know the civs might be changed due this. But...)
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
borgg, can you be Player 3 (Russia) instead? Jousha, can you be Player 4 (Britain)? Actually, I think thats more like the original preference now except Ace and Joshua got swapped.
For the time, let me suggest this:
Player 1 (GMT 1300 - 1800) - Genghis Kai
Player 2 (GMT 1800 - xxxx) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 3 (GMT xxxx - 0300) - borgg/Ace of Spades
Player 4 (GMT 0300 - 0800) - Joshua67
Player 5 (GMT 0800 - 1300) - Bastian-Bux
So borgg and Ace, both of you get a shared 9 hour period. Joshua, I hope you would be ok for GMT 0300 - 0800 (your local time 2300 - 0400)?
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
I am still waiting for Joshua's PM for his personal contact. Hope he isn't dropping out (he hasn't join our discussion since page 2 this thread).
I can accept this (also to play Russia). I think i can find a way to split this 9 hour period with Ace.
Further (from my point of view) this time schedule is very compressed. If you _very_ strictly demand each day a turn i should point out that i cannot guarantee that. Also with these more comfortable timings for me. Apart from holydays ( will be from august 8th for 5-10 days) i can make a move each 2nd day for sure. Mostly i can hold the dayly rhythm. And maybe sometimes i wont get it in the evening and than do it in the morning. Compared to other PBEM this turns will take really time and you cannot do this briefly in 5 minutes.
In short: this schedule should be a general advisory that is referred in most days. But i dont want to have serious discussion if someone is failing the timetable from time to time. I think this should be for advantage for everyone here. Goal should be to hold the deadlines, but in end i am also happy if we make it 1 turn in 2 days as long game is not going to sleep in.
Another suggestion : Maybe it's more efficient to setup a pitboss server with a 24h clock-timer. So we are more free in the timing. Just a suggestion, if anyone has the oppertunity to setup such.
Further (from my point of view) this time schedule is very compressed. If you _very_ strictly demand each day a turn i should point out that i cannot guarantee that. Also with these more comfortable timings for me. Apart from holydays ( will be from august 8th for 5-10 days) i can make a move each 2nd day for sure. Mostly i can hold the dayly rhythm. And maybe sometimes i wont get it in the evening and than do it in the morning. Compared to other PBEM this turns will take really time and you cannot do this briefly in 5 minutes.
In short: this schedule should be a general advisory that is referred in most days. But i dont want to have serious discussion if someone is failing the timetable from time to time. I think this should be for advantage for everyone here. Goal should be to hold the deadlines, but in end i am also happy if we make it 1 turn in 2 days as long game is not going to sleep in.
Another suggestion : Maybe it's more efficient to setup a pitboss server with a 24h clock-timer. So we are more free in the timing. Just a suggestion, if anyone has the oppertunity to setup such.
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
Agree. I guess the schedule is only a guideline. If there is any delay, we obviously can't exercise any punishment.
Having that said, I would recommend everyone to try following the schedule as much as possible. At least, it should be something in the back of our mind.
For holidays, lets deal with it case by case. The most important thing is to get the game started first!
I don't how the pitboss works. Can you tell us a bit more?
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
BTW, I just realise I have to make another additional change to GEM 5.1 (some files from Solver's unofficial has not been included yet). It will be a 5.1.1 release. I will release it tonight and please everyone synchonize your version with it asap.
Bastian-Bux
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Any news from Josh? Or are we back down to 4 players again?
Genghis_Kai
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Still haven't heard from him yet. I lefted a PM to him.
Generally it is like a synchron multiplayer civ. There is anywhere in the world a server runing civ all the time. Anytime any player can login into the game and make his move. After each 24h the turn is ended. All the same if all players have drawn after 5 minutes yet. The turn-clock ticks in a hard intervall ( like 24h).
yes it is possible to make doublemove in form of following:
1400 player A draws
2200 player B draws
2359 -> next turn
0100 player B draws
0300 player A draws
you can say its ok and can happen, or you say as long a and b are in war the should confirm they draw i fixed turnset. ( like a before b ).
But e.g. In our szenario usa could draw whenever it wants due its not involved to any war yet. in this pbem we are very fixed to any (whatever) order.
a pitboss server needs following condition: a 24h online pc. must not be any hardcore machine. i read aboud normal pc's running like 12 pitboss games the same time simultanously. most of cpu-usage is caused be the client we use. this pitboss is only a backend without any graphic engine.
Genghis_Kai
GEM modder
Sounds quite flexible!
However, I don't have a computer that I can run 24 hrs a day. Lets keep using PBEM unless any of you has a PC that can do the job.
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