MP Game - RewriteHistory - 18civ EARTH map historical start position

[bamf226]

Well midnight is doable is it not, I usually don't sleep before 1-2 in the night myself.

That might work for you but not everyone. If I was in a situation where I had to play at midnight, I couldn't do it.

 

[Provolution]

I think with a global coverage of players, we can reduce the number of hours per turn.

 

[bamf226]

I think the "Epic" production and research times are so long, we may even dare to make it a bit quicker, like 12 hours per turn. I just see some buildings, tech research and so on lasts forever.

I think with a global coverage of players, we can reduce the number of hours per turn.

There's no way I can play a 12 hour timer. If that's what everyone else wants, I'll gladly step out for someone else. I'm not sure where you get that everyone can play on a shorter timer. I doubt many of the players have the availability to play while at work.

 

[adyyc]

The 20 h timer it's anyway kinda quick. It should be left at 24h. I dont think there is any bugs with time play right now in this version of pitboss. The time don't get paused when i login.

 

[Provolution]

Then we should leave it at 20 H, since we can forecast the game somehow. I will personally be on autopilot for a long while.

 

[Ulfang]

I'd be happy to join a session but I don't really get on the computer for gaming until after 12am GMT. I could possibly get online for an hour or so in the week between 4-5pm GMT but I don't have that much time available (except after 12am). Reason I'm playing PBEM and Pitboss is because I have problems finding a MP game that requires an hour or three in the timeframe I need

I'd also disagree with the 12 hr timer. I'm happy to play as many turns as possible in a day but sometime I might not be able to get on within a 12 hr period and am sure there are a few players like that so it doesn't seem logical to me.

 

[slaze]

I think the only way a session would work is if we compromise the outliners, being me and Classical Hero. One weekend, I would get up at 6:00 or 7:00 AM, and he at 10:00 or 11:00 PM, with everybody in between. That's about the best we could do it, with the spread being mostly Eastern US & Europe.

I'm in, this epic speed is killin me already

 

[Provolution]

Maybe we even should alter the speed itself, Epic is way to slow for a multiteam game.

 

[Levgre]

i would prefer to keep the epic. It makes the game lag very noticeably right now... but, without epic, later on when wars are being fought, tech will change to quick with other speeds, by the time someone crossed the Atlantic to fight the defenders would have new techs.

Epic is only 1.5 times normal speed... I guess it just doesn't seem like that dramatic of a difference to me, cutting out every 1 in 3 turns. It would still be slow on normal.

 

[Levgre]

i would prefer to keep the epic. It makes the game lag very noticeably right now... but, without epic, later on when wars are being fought, tech will change to quick with other speeds, by the time someone crossed the Atlantic to fight the defenders would have new techs.

Epic is only 1.5 times normal speed... I guess it just doesn't seem like that dramatic of a difference to me, cutting out every 1 in 3 turns. It would still be slow on normal.

 

[adyyc]

Zen please NOTE: adyyc = Adrian. Please palcce my leader at civstat.

 

[IanDC]

The 20 h timer it's anyway kinda quick. It should be left at 24h. I dont think there is any bugs with time play right now in this version of pitboss. The time don't get paused when i login.

If you check the timer when your logged on you'll see that it is running slower than real time & it all stops when a player is in the process of logging in. This turn has lost 34 minutes (at this time) & people are only logging in for short periods.

On the other matters, I'm happy to keep with Epic & I can't see much chance of a live session nor to be honest am I that keen on it.

 

[Ulfang]

I'm happy with Epic. I normally play MArathon so it's still kinda quick for me. I know it's a MP game so it does make it feel slow but the game is slow anyway I don't think changing from Epic to normal will make any difference to the speed.

I don't think this session will work either. Don't think everyone will be able to get on at the same time and if you don't have 100% agreement it won't work. Would be nice if it could but I don't see it happening.

 

[oyzar]

You knew what sort of game this was when you signed up for it... If the host wants a live session he have to mention it BEFORE people sign up or there really is no way it is going to happen with 18 people in the game... Game speed and turn time were both things that were in the game settings and should not be that hard to understand that if you want to play with different settings just host your own game...

 

[karayanev]

Epic is great!

If people want to make the game faster just log in as soon as possible and take your turn

 

[Amask]

i don't see a problem in not being able to do a session
imagine how slow everything will seem after it?
one thing that's good about pitboss is that you have time to think your plans through, and time for diplomacy

 

[zenspiderz]

Ok we are staying with epic.

Turn timer will not be less than 20hrs.

Sessions.. I knew this would very difficult and perhaps impossible to organise. But this game is going to take forever without them. Just 1hour session would certainly take 1 month off the total game lenght especially at the beginning of the game when a turn mostly comprises of 1 warrior move then hit the big red button...

I really think we need to make a bigger effort to organise a session.

 

[zenspiderz]

The only possible time is Saturday or Sunday morning for US which should be mid day Europe and night Australia

Yes this looks like our best shot. Perhaps saturday would be easier than sunday if the +8 gmt guy has to get up monday morning. Could we not do this?

 

[oyzar]

As i have aranged several meetings with people from all over the world(20+ people) i know that it really isn't that hard if you try... Just have everyone state the latest possible time they could play and the earlies possible time they could play on saturday/sunday and you can easily find if there are any matches(basically america / europe / asia(australia) get one of morning day evening each...). Of course the problem is if anyone have anything happening(plans) specific weekends or work at those times, this is why you should have people signing up based on if they can participate in a given live seission or not(if you really want to have one to save a few months that is). If you do have a live session you can expect there to be troubles with people who might not be able to login while the server is full or people who have troubles from too many logging in at the same time. It is also very likely that someone will play rather slow so you can't expect to get off too many turns in say a 2 hour window, but as every turn saved is pretty much a day it is well worth it even with only a small amount of turns done...

 

[mikeyia]

Unfortuantly I'm the odd man out, I work weekends, my days off are normally Tue and Wed. Sat or Sun am will not work. Best days for a morning play would be Tue or Wed, can play for and hour or so any time during the evening.