SGOTM 05 Maintenance Thread

[TDK]

Last time it seemed like most teams just didn't care about finishing and left the rest of us waiting for month on the results. We have our deadline, let's stick to it.

TDK at OSS.

 

[Lexad]

We're for sticking to deadline as well.

CRC

 

[BLubmuz]

Agree with who? No-one else has proposed starting a sign-up thread as there is no game to sign up for

With LowtherCastle, the post right above the one you quoted.

And i like the proposal od Daviddesj about show a "final" when a team has completed the game.

 

[KMadCandy]

I think too long a finish deadline for the SG takes away from the fun. As Big Pig has often mentinoed in our threads, when there's too much lag between turnsets, people tend to lose track of the progress and drift away from the game.

GOTMs are deadlined, I don't see a big problem with deadlining the SGs too.

deadlines can take away the fun if they make someone feel pressured. GOTMs will never have the "i don't want to let down my team so i'll play this now rather than wait until i'm in the right mood" so i do see the situation as different.

but ... part of the fun is comparing results to other teams, and if they finish much later you don't get that fun as early. lurker comment: part of why i stay a free-roaming lurker is that i get a kick out of watching multiple teams during the game, not just reading other threads all in one chunk afterwards. so i'm not sure which side of the fence i'm on, and i don't have any right to vote on the fence in the first place

 

[culdeus]

We're for sticking to deadline as well.

CRC

How come you get to look into other teams threads? I see you posting in other teams threads all the time in the right column.

 

[LKendter]

How come you get to look into other teams threads? I see you posting in other teams threads all the time in the right column.

His team must have finished there game. Once the game is submitted as over, you can look at other teams threads.

 

[da_Vinci]

How come you get to look into other teams threads? I see you posting in other teams threads all the time in the right column.

There are only two possibilities, and only one within the rules ...

dV

edit: cross posted with Lkendter

 

[dutchfire]

For someone new to the SGOTM world, could anyone explain how the progress and result page handles victories? (Or, in other words, can we see if anyone has finished?)

 

[DaviddesJ]

(Or, in other words, can we see if anyone has finished?)

All of the save files are displayed, except for the last (winning) save.

You can't see whether a team has finished, except by noticing that they have stopped posting new saves.

 

[da_Vinci]

All of the save files are displayed, except for the last (winning) save.

You can't see whether a team has finished, except by noticing that they have stopped posting new saves.

Or by noticing them invading (posting in) the threads of other teams, which indicates that both teams are finished.

Or a post by AlanH or Gyathaar may be the congratulations (or commiserations) post and might suggest completion ... but sometimes those posts are other business.

dV

 

[LowtherCastle]

***spam deleted***

 

[dutchfire]

Or by noticing them invading (posting in) the threads of other teams, which indicates that both teams are finished.

Or a post by AlanH or Gyathaar may be the congratulations (or commiserations) post and might suggest completion ... but sometimes those posts are other business.

dV

That's another thing I wanted to know (are you telepatic or what? )
People can only post in other threads when they're finished, and the teams they're responding to is finished too?

 

[Erkon]

That's another thing I wanted to know (are you telepatic or what? )
People can only post in other threads when they're finished, and the teams they're responding to is finished too?

Yes, both teams have to complete the game. The staff will then post a "congratulations, you have won" or "congratulations, you lost" (as in SGOTM4). I think there is an unwritten rule that you wait to post in someone elses thread until the staff has confirmed victory/defeat. One reason is that the staff will remove the final save as was explained earlier, and it's better to wait until that is done before revealing the fact that said team has completed.

 

[culdeus]

So basically we either really suck or we rule. There's no in between.

 

[Erkon]

So basically we either really suck or we rule. There's no in between.

I think you will have to wait until you finish the game until you pass judgment on either yourself or the rest of us It would not be appropriate to neither confirm nor deny any speculations. All I can tell is that we in Murky Waters had great fun and learned a lot.

 

[Big Pig]

All I can tell is that we in Murky Waters had great fun and learned a lot.

....not to let Erkon be captain again for example. Ah well, you live and learn

 

[Civicide]

I dunno about that. We could be mediocre in the face of greatness. Or we could be mediocre in the face of extreme suckiness. Though something tells me the latter is not the case.

 

[culdeus]

I said this in our thread that there will be a negative correlation between finishing time and the time it took to get all the AI to give peace at the beginning of the game. This more than anything I think will determine success/failure on a macro level.

 

[LowtherCastle]

***spam deleted***

 

[AlanH]

Please stop spamming this thread. It's intended for important notifications for all players. It is NOT for discussion of the game or the relative merits of other teams.

@dutchfire:

Not only are you forbidden to post in other team threads until you've finished - you're not even allowed to read the other threads. PLEASE read the rules of this competition!