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Awah yeah!
 
It's in Joe's hands. I will be up early, so continental players should watch for it.

G'night all!

Still no contact...

R.III
 
Things to do while waiting for the next round of a PBEM game:

1. sit ups/push ups - just thought of that! I will have killer abs before the Middle Ages!

2. watching TV- currently watching David Cross: The Pride Is Back on HBO Comedy. Hilarious! Earlier enjoyed Eagles surviving against Chicago.

3. Unspeakable activities... haven't gone there yet but you just know its gonna happen one of these long waits...
 
Yeah!
 
Originally posted by Sultan Bhargash
Things to do while waiting for the next round of a PBEM game:

3. Unspeakable activities... haven't gone there yet but you just know its gonna happen one of these long waits...
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:groucho:

I prefer the groucho smile. :D
 
Pioneer is on to grandmasta as of five minutes ago. Tiny Hellions is on to Maui. I am on to bed! Thanks for the fun guys. I am glad to have gotten to play a gig as the "Pete Best of Pioneer PBEM"!

And I'm sorry I didnt have puke or a groucho for the unspeakable - I always reply out of QUick reply. By unspeakable I of course meant working on my dissertation!!!!
 
Sorry, Joe - Maui had said he wouldn't complete the round in time. It's in your box now (8:20am EST).

(Are you there, joe? Wake up, Joe?)

Getting more and more interesting; I'm quite happy with developments - but still no contact.

R.III
 
Originally posted by Cruise
What date you guys are in now? :D
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:lol: We're midway through turn 13. It's about 3400 BC (??), and I have one city with a small pop. Looks like the others may be doing a bit better than that, with maybe a settler in play for one or two of them at least. Once we had everyone together last night, we made it through about 3 turns an hour, and the bulk of the time in my turn was taken up by loading the damn game. Part of the problem for the bulk of the weekend was guys like me and C "The Cannon" Gannon being away for prolonged periods.

I am suddenly a big fan of expansionism, since rumor has it that I'm the one player to have explored more than a 10 X 10 area and I've latched onto a goody hut or two. As noted above, there have apparently been one or two players who did the same and had some skirmishing in the process.

I don't regard this as a substitute for a real bang-em up game of Real-time Multiplayer, but it looks like it will be good as what I would call a "policy game." Once we reach each other, I fully expect most players to be playing with rational foriegn policies, deceit, declarations of territorial soveriegnty, intelligence gathering, trickery, and alliance building galore. I suspect you'd lose a bit of that flavor in a turnless game, for example, since everyone would be focusing on hitting deadlines instead of on the bigger picture.

And how do I know that flavor will be there if it's only 3400 BC? There's already been a bit of backchannel diplomacy, and consequently I am already aware of forces gradually moving toward each other in a couple of parts of the globe. The anticipation is, um, tingly. Once we have added things worth bartering over to the mix, yum yum.

So, painfully slow though it might be, I am already finding SP boring and hard to play by comparison and I haven't even seen anyone yet .

R.III
 
Thanks for that update Queen Richard!

I've been following some of these PBEM threads intensely, as I can't wait to get PTW myself so I can join in on the fun. It really is quite amusing to read through the progress and the struggle for 'first contact' - only I wish you would all post more pictures (especially as it becomes difficult to remember what is happening in each different PBEM game).

How come you can only get in 3 turns per hour when everyone is together? How large are the savegame files? If you zip the file it shouldn't take up more than 100 kb at this stage at the most, so unless someone has email problems it should be possible to move from person to person within a minute or two. And these early turns can't take more than a minute at most either I figure (alt-tab to avoid spending time reloading). So, in total a max of 3 minutes at each 'stop'... Where am I miscalculating? If I remember correctly, you are 5 players? That's 15 minutes or 4 turns per hour at the very minimum (in theory it should be possible to run 1 minute between stops).
 
Originally posted by ironduck

How come you can only get in 3 turns per hour when everyone is together? How large are the savegame files? If you zip the file it shouldn't take up more than 100 kb at this stage at the most, so unless someone has email problems it should be possible to move from person to person within a minute or two. And these early turns can't take more than a minute at most either I figure (alt-tab to avoid spending time reloading). So, in total a max of 3 minutes at each 'stop'... Where am I miscalculating? If I remember correctly, you are 5 players? That's 15 minutes or 4 turns per hour at the very minimum (in theory it should be possible to run 1 minute between stops).
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Beats me. In practice, it just doesn't work quite that smoothly. We haven't been zipping files (no need), and if we did, it would probably slow things down more, since it's the "chores" that are the slow part: saving the file somewhere, loading it, saving it, getting the next player's attention, and so on.

I would post more screenshots, but right now doing so may tend to incriminate me... I think I might have good reason to post one in a couple of turns (e.g. at the weekday speed, probably tomorrow morning).

R.III
 
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