SGOTM 01 Maintenance Thread

[ChrTh]

Whoa whoa whoa slow down there ... I don't think we're ready for a vote until we have a pre-meeting.

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

Alan, never tell a joke that others can roll with. You'll always regret it.

 

[bobrath]

I need an agenda before I can even consider a meeting about a council on a vote for this poll.

 

[Thrallia]

And I need a vote before I can put together an agenda for the meeting about a council on a vote for this poll.

 

[AlanH]

Alan, never tell a joke that others can roll with. You'll always regret it.

What's to regret? They're having fun. I can always pull rank and stop the spam ... if I so choose.

 

[Thrallia]

quick question, I missed out on this SGOTM, do you have a timeline for when signups for the next one will start, Alan?

 

[AlanH]

No one has so far come up with a cast iron reason to change from my previous suggestion that we declare results for this game on 8th August. I'll leave it a day or so more, because some of our US friends may still be celebrating their Independence this week.

However, if this deadline stands we'll open sign-ups in the last week of July for a SGOTM 2 start early in August.

 

[Frederiksberg]

I guess we could have a poll at the end for the best spoiler. maybe attached to the Results and Congratulations thread? I'm certainly not going to set myself up as judge and jury for that sort of competition

I came close to suggesting a poll myself - now I'm glad I didn't . Anyway it might be a good idea to wait with this until the next SGOTM. By then we should have the necessarry bureaucracy in place to handle every aspect of this important competition. I suggest in the spirit of the European Union that we require all spoilers to be translated into French, German, Italian etc. Maybe also Albanian - they might become members in a few years. To give you an idea what this would be like I have translated AlanH's comment into Danish:

Jeg tænker at vi til sidst kunne have en afstemning om bedste "spoiler". Måske i sammenhæng med tråden for resultater og lykønskninger? Jeg vil bestemt ikke selv stille op som dommer og jury i den slags konkurrence

 

[ZerrorR]

my 2 cents

Serbian

Smatram da bismo trebali da imamo anketu na kraju za najbolji "spojler". Mozda nakacen na tred Rezultati i Cestitke? Ja sigurno necu postaviti sebe kao sudiju i porotu takvog takmicenja

 

[AlanH]

Yeah! Yeah! Enough of the simultaneous translations, already! It wasn't that memorable a quotation

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

So I should stop doing the redneck translation?

"I reckon ya'll aughtta just raise yer hands when the fat lady sings..."

 

[ruff_hi]

Arrrr - rats, guess I cannot put inthe aussie translation either ...

I reckon we could do a poll-thingy at the end for the bonza spoiler. Howza-about we stick it on the results and congrats thread? Struth, no way I'm gona set myself up as roust-a-bout for that sort of comp.

 

[Frederiksberg]

Yeah! Yeah! Enough of the simultaneous translations, already! It wasn't that memorable a quotation

Then, why don't you give us something memorable to translate?

We are just trying to do our best with the material you give us

 

[AlanH]

I haven't seen anyone raise any significant concerns about setting a deadline of 8th August, so we'll go with that.

 

[bobrath]

So the motion passed! We can chalk that up as a win for Robert's Rules then.

 

[Thrallia]

who's Robert? I move for a motion to rename it Alan's Rules.

 

[AlanH]

I've opened the Final Spoiler thread. Post, and discuss, your triumphs and disasters there once you have completed the game, or given up in disgust.

I'll also take this opportunity to remind you that there are just three weeks left before we declare the award winners from those teams who have completed the game at that time.

 

[Greebley]

I know when the game ends in Civ3 more tabs are shown than just score, culture, power.

One thing that would be very nice for Civ4 is to show the number of towns built. It would be nice to see how other teams handled the expansion issue (where too many and too few towns are both bad). Population would probably be a seperate tab as well.

Number of workers would also be of interest.

Not sure if this is hard to do or not (or if you have already done it).

 

[AlanH]

Yes, the Civ3 system exploits capabilities developed mainly for the QSC to extract data from the saves. I'll see if I can provide some extra stats for this game along those lines.

 

[robboo]

Alan..could you register me with Captain Insano..