News: SGOTM 03 - Sign Up Thread

[Niklas]

It is true, AlanH. We have only four active signups for the next game and will need to take on more players. I convinced our old players not to drop out completely due to time constraints, but to sign on as lurkers instead, and if their situations change they can go active again without the need for divine (i.e. mod) intervention.

 

[da_Vinci]

It is true, AlanH. We have only four active signups for the next game and will need to take on more players. I convinced our old players not to drop out completely due to time constraints, but to sign on as lurkers instead, and if their situations change they can go active again without the need for divine (i.e. mod) intervention.

So there are "official" lurkers (the inactive reserve?) and "unofficial" lurkers (the spectators?)? Do official/assigned lurkers have the same viewing restrictions as players? Has there ever been an issue where a spectator reading various team threads posts something in a team thread that has spoiler information?

dV

 

[AlanH]

So there are "official" lurkers (the inactive reserve?) and "unofficial" lurkers (the spectators?)? Do official/assigned lurkers have the same viewing restrictions as players? Has there ever been an issue where a spectator reading various team threads posts something in a team thread that has spoiler information?

dV

1. Signed up lurkers are subject to restrictions on viewing and posting as if they were playing. I've put brackets round their names fopr convenience currently, but as far as the database is concerned they'll be players when we begin.

2. Probably. If you are asking if I read every post in every thread? I do have a life, and it's now way too short to get that anal about this friendly competition.

 

[da_Vinci]

2. Probably. If you are asking if I read every post in every thread? I do have a life, and it's now way too short to get that anal about this friendly competition.

Did not mean to suggest that you are not doing enough for all of us. I think I speak for everyone in our appreciation for your and the other mods' efforts

Only reason to raise it is might there be some automatic solution (read but not write priveledges in team threads for non-team, policy request for spectators to read but not post in team threads, etc.) that might help if this is a significant problem.

Clearly, there is no way it can be policed on a post-by-post basis.

dV

 

[AlanH]

It hasn't been an issue. We do tend to rely on people's common sense - maybe that's naive, but it seems to have worked OK so far. In any case, if people were determined to undermine the honour code of the competition, there are a gazillion alternative ways to communicate without doing obvious things like posting in a team thread.

 

[Niklas]

Please don't use this thread for discussions about the game. It is purely a sign-up thread, and sign-ups could get lost in other debates.

I strongly agree with what AlanH said. Can we please not use this as a pregame discussion thread. Wait for your own team threads and do the discussion there.

 

[AlanH]

Moderator Action: I've opened a Starting position discussion thread here, and moved the posts relating to culdeus' test save to it. Please take note of my requests re. the (mis)use of this thread.

 

[AlanH]

I have rearranged the signed up players into 21 teams. Please review the revised list in post #3, and let me know, here or via PM, if there are any problems with these assignments. I'll add a Warlords/Vanilla version column to the list shortly, but the version for each team should be self-evident from the player color codes. [EDIT] I've added a Warlords (red)/Vanilla(blue) color code to the team names. There are eleven Warlords teams and ten Vanilla teams.

There are two new teams made up of groups of previously unassigned players. They have the provisional names 'New Vanilla' and 'New Warlords' for obvious reasons. These and any other teams may change names, but the team names must be frozen by this time next Monday.

 

[Kodii]

The color coding of the teams reminds me of the results of a US election.

1. Vanilla Only
2. Monarch/Emperor
3. No
4. SGOTM 2
5. The Real Ms. Beyond

Though our team isn't set in stone, I'm hoping I can stir enough interest to reform an RB team.

 

[AlanH]

You'd better hurry Also, we don't currently have any surplus players to make up your numbers if you fall short. In fact a few of the teams are lighter than I would ideally prefer.

 

[AlanH]

The color coding of the teams reminds me of the results of a US election

Well, I wouldn't know about that. P'raps I should sprinkle some pregnant or hanging chads around to make y'all feel even more at home

BTW. Have a great Thanksgiving, America

 

[leif erikson]

Well, I wouldn't know about that. P'raps I should sprinkle some pregnant or hanging chads around to make y'all feel even more at home

Please, NO!!

Have a great Thanksgiving, America

Thanks, loosening my belt just thinking about it...

 

[steel.stiletto]

Yay for the one day a year when gluttony isn't a sin, and I can eat until I explode!

(and then play video games while the adults watch football (I don't consider myself adult enough to watch foodball yet with them, at the age of twenty))

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Well, I wouldn't know about that. P'raps I should sprinkle some pregnant or hanging chads around to make y'all feel even more at home

BTW. Have a great Thanksgiving, America

When you're enjoying your turkey etc., just spare a thought for the rest of us in the rest of the world, slogging on with work as normal, and without any holiday until 25 Dec.

 

[DynamicSpirit]

Yay for the one day a year when gluttony isn't a sin, and I can eat until I explode!

One day???? Do you guys not have Christmas?

 

[leif erikson]

One day???? Do you guys not have Christmas?

Oh, this just starts Christmas. Isn't it Christmas for a whole month?

 

[Compromise]

Which version(s) of the map can you play (1.61/Vanilla or 2.08/Warlords), and do you have any preference?

Vanilla only. (Unless I get some severe peer pressure to upgrade.)

Which level (noble, monarch, etc.) are you comfortable playing in a solo game?

Emperor

Have you played any Civ4 GOTM games before?

SGOTM2

Have you played any succession games or SGOTM before?

SGOTM2

Do you have a group of players you want to play with?

Well, I'd prefer the Real Ms. Beyond folks, but I think there are a total of two vets and one newbie at this point. So, I'll probably serve as some other team's dead weight.

 

[greggo]

Looking at our members' names:
greggo, g_storrow, Immaculate, marowaker, mikeyredk, pavelthesecond, Prominence, St John

and taking the first initials of each, in alphabetical order, we have:

ggImmpPS


anyone else amused?

 

[da_Vinci]

Well, I wouldn't know about that. P'raps I should sprinkle some pregnant or hanging chads around to make y'all feel even more at home

We have “advanced(?)” beyond the chads to Diebold hackable computer voting machines with no paper trail … ain’t “progress” wonderful?

lief_erikson should be an expert on Thanksgiving , being from its birthplace …

When you're enjoying your turkey etc., just spare a thought for the rest of us in the rest of the world, slogging on with work as normal, and without any holiday until 25 Dec.

Speaking of Plymouth MA, Thanksgiving ought to also be a UK holiday, seeing as how it was actually invented by British subjects … ?? So complain to your MP and get it on the calendar!

dV

 

[Iainuki]

1. Vanilla only.
2. Prince/Monarch.
3. No.
4. No.
5. Yes, the Real Ms. Beyond Realms Beyond team.