Pioneer Admin Thread

[Richard III]

EDITED

This is the Pioneer PBEM Administration thread, for such chores as announcing next player, etc.

If you are an observer who wants to follow the game through screenshots, stories and other events reports, please go to the "We Were Pioneers" Events Thread elsewhere in this Forum.

Thanks,

R.III

 

[werdhertz]

haha sounds good, next game dont forget to include me!

 

[cgannon64]

Interesting, RIII, I always supspected you like to play dress-up!

Were those names you posted in order? Because if they were...Sultan you are up! Sultans online now, I'm positive, so RIII you should find him. I hope we can get several turns in today.

Oh, and RIII, a reminder: when posting screenshots, make sure to cut off the minimap, or else we will know where you are!

CG

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by cgannon64
Interesting, RIII, I always supspected you like to play dress-up!

Were those names you posted in order? Because if they were...Sultan you are up! Sultan's online now, I'm positive, so RIII you should find him. I hope we can get several turns in today.

Oh, and RIII, a reminder: when posting screenshots, make sure to cut off the minimap, or else we will know where you are!

CG

No, I do NOT like to play dress up.
No, I do NOT like to play dress up.
No, I do NOT...

The names are in order. I just heard from Sultan, and he's at work (an outrage!) but thinks he can get a turn in at 1:30-2:00pmish and start from there, so you'll just have to have a nap to pass the time.

Re: minimaps, that is in fact how I screwed up; I was painting over the minimap, had forgotten to save the pic, and suddenly found I'd done more damage with the paint than I could undo.

Anyway, please get that worker of yours ready, since he's already scheduled to do some maintenance work on my road system .

R.III

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by Richard III

Anyway, please get that worker of yours ready, since he's already scheduled to do some maintenance work on my road system .

R.III

I refuse the deal in advance! Oh, and I just realized, this thread is going to be miles long: at this rate, we'll have about 2000 posts by the end!

Just wondering, is this the place for 'official' diplomatic negotiations? Or do you want to do it by PM, email, etc?

CG

 

[joespaniel]

Woo-hoo! [dance] Here we go!

I will be back from work around 2-3pm (Central US), and I'm off til' Monday.

"God Save the Queen!"

 

[KaNick]

Hey maybe I'll be able to get in a turn or two before I have to leave at 3:30 CT, talk about conflicting schedules. Don't worry i'll be home before 5, and if anyone is on the comp I'll just have to knock them unconscious. Other than that I am unemployed and have no friends so i will be open most of the time. Say it with me class "PBEM before real life!"

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Guys I am sick to my stomach. I have been trying to attach the game and send it to Joespaniel for an hour, but it crashes my system. I tried hotmail, it crashed. I tried my wife's .edu adress, it crashed. I tried zipping it, it crashed. I cannot do attachments for some reason, a total horror.

I am going to run a virus scan to see if this is a viral problem and otherwise you will have to pioneer without me or have RIII (whose name does come up as RichardIII in the game, by the way) play my turns till I can get in there...

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by Sultan Bhargash
Guys I am sick to my stomach. I have been trying to attach the game and send it to Joespaniel for an hour, but it crashes my system. I tried hotmail, it crashed. I tried my wife's .edu adress, it crashed. I tried zipping it, it crashed. I cannot do attachments for some reason, a total horror.

I am going to run a virus scan to see if this is a viral problem and otherwise you will have to pioneer without me or have RIII (whose name does come up as RichardIII in the game, by the way) play my turns till I can get in there...

Sultan: Why don't you post it? You could trust the others here not to download it, we'll know if someone did anyway...or you could PM it to Joespaniel.

Something HAS to work...

CG

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Here comes my first reply, which I am writing to say that I will try to post it here, you know it doesnt actually matter if anyone else downloads it since my turn is password protected and so what if they did play it out?

I can't post on PM, they dont allow attachments.

I will try to attach it to the next post, I want to post this in case it crashes again when I do the next attachment. If you don't see another message pop up here right away with the attachment it means that I crashed again and it really is a virus in my computer and not some ploy to get me to buy more hotmail space...

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Well, guess what? I cant attach to the forum either without my computer crashing. I am now pretty sure that means it is a virus since not only the SAV file but photos dont post either. I am going to do a complete virus scan and see what comes up. If you guys are eager to start, Richard why don't you make a new game with me out of the loop and mail directly to Joe. If you guys can wait another hour for a further report, it takes a while for me to do virus scans.

This really, really, really, really, really sucks. How long will I be denied multiplayer fun of every kind?

 

[KaNick]

We've already waited for a couple of days, a few more hours isn't that big of a deal.

 

[Richard III]

Well, sh***y. I have yet to hear from Wildfire either. Let me run an errand, and I will get back by 4:00pm or so. If by then I haven't heard of any change, then I will restart without either Wildfire or Sultan , and maybe they can stir up a second game tonight.

(what if I'm the source of the virus? oh well, keep your scanners on...)

Cgcannon, re: negotiations, I would follow the same policy used in AH diplomacy games: anything goes. If you want to negotiate here where we can all see it, that's fine by me .

R.III

 

[Richard III]

(Nick, shhhhhh!)

 

[WildFire]

For future reference: wildfire4848@yahoo.com (NO SPAM)

Sorry, but i already have a good game going with my two brothers (hotseat), so maybe in a week or two i'll try. Or i'll see you in the republic game if it gets started *chieftess*

 

[KaNick]

With wildfire and sultan(maybe) out maybe we could include werd hertz. I'll PM him.

 

[KingSponge]

If you guys need another body I'll jump in. I haven't played a lot of Civ3 but I used to play Civ 1 and 2 quite a bit and I've played tons of Warlords 3 and AoW1/2 PBEM style.

Now with PTW I'm ready to give Civ3 MP a serious look.

 

[Richard III]

Well, as you can see above, Wildfire is in. I will e-mail Sultan and see if we can't figure out what the trouble is, but I will warm up a new game just in case.

R.III

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

I dont know what you guys status is so far, but I am about to try and email the file to Joe again. It said there was no virus, and I cleaned up my disk to make some room, so hopefully it will go through...

 

[joespaniel]

@ R III - Look at wildfire's post again, it sounds like he has dropped out.
I am led to believe we can set his civ back to AI control, but I'm not sure.

@ SB - Post the saved game here, I will d/l it.