Ultimate Civ Tourny!!

[Pongui]

NickM? OK, I'll see your NickM with the FrankK I have in my pocket. But I'll take it back if the two of you lock horns in grim battle from the start.

 

[Narz]

Haha. I don't need any allies . If you really have a FrankK who'd like to join thats cool with me. So then its official, 3pm start. This is good, so far, 4 people so far. I guess we'll use ICQ to keep in touch, is it possible to make a "chat room" on ICQ so we can all get organized and agree when to start?

Players (thus far)

AnarchyWrksBest : ICQ# 161684853
Narz : ICQ# 162893046
NickM : ICQ# 17162364
Sean Lindstrom : ICQ# 159075313

Start 3pm EST

I figure we'll play until 5 or 5:30pm and then save of course and decide if we want to keep the 3pm start for the following week or create a new one.

See you all Sunday!!

Also, if anyone else wants to join please let it be known now!

- Narz

 

[Pongui]

I never bluff! I'll see if FrankK can be on call for game balance. If it looks like a 5 player on that map, he can join to make it a fair 6.

 

[GenShwartzCough]

I wrote Narz an E-mail saying the same thing that I'm gonna write here......I'm good for 3 pm start and can play til 5:30 at the latest. But starting next week I will have to be done by 4:00, so perhaps we can start earlier??

 

[Narz]

Cool. Five players! Sean, if you really have a FrankK you better invite him cause it'd be a shame for our 6th player to be an AI. But Frank or no Frank its on!

Players (thus far)

AnarchyWrksBest : ICQ# 161684853
Narz : ICQ# 162893046
NickM : ICQ# 17162364
Sean Lindstrom : ICQ# 159075313
GenShwartzCough : AOL=GenShwartzCough

The sixth and final spot will remain open until, lets say 11:59pm Eastern tonight. Otherwise the contestants are as stated about and there will be two AIs.

This is gonna be fun!

But starting next week I will have to be done by 4:00

After the game we can work out whats the best time for all of us the following week.

 

[ldebrot]

Good question. When I'm hardly playing civ I begin at 11 in the morning without having breakfast, then (maybe) at 6 in the afternoon I eat my first and only thing during the day. And 2 o'clock in the morning I normally give up and decide to continue the next day. But these days are rare, too busy, too many other things to do.

In 8 hours and a half I will get up and fight up to my end. So, Narz you can take me up into your list and count me in. 3pm EST.

my yahoo-messenger-id: ldebrot
(I got trilian now, but haven't test it yet)

PS: I vote for normal production and movement too.

 

[Pongui]

Whoever has a cable or DSL connection should host. Of course Narz should host unless he uses dialup. Mine's DSL. IP address can be sent via ICQ. Whoever volunteers to host, we'll all need to know your path for save/autosave, so we all have the same path on our computers. I suggest a unique path like c:\games\civ2multi\save\narz101, but for those who aren't so uptight as me, we can use the default path, whatever that is.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Whatever the path is it must include C:\mps\civ2\.......
Because my MGE won't work if I start messing about with folders.
Also I have a really dodgy connection at the minute, its at 12000bps but goes as low as 9600bps. I can get it up to 24000bps if I fiddle about with my phone line.

 

[Pongui]

Create directory:

C:\mps\civ2\narz101

Everyone, be sure to use that path.

 

[ldebrot]

Just registered an ICQ Number.

ICQ#(ldebrot)=163679865.
YahooIM=ldebrot

To tomorrow 21:00 GMT + 1
or
PM 03:00 GMT -5.

PS: I only have the pure Civ ToT Version without any patches. I hope it will function anyway.

 

[Pongui]

I have MGE. My guess is TOT will work, since I see lots of "TOT multiplayer" posts out there. TOT has some fantasy/sci-fi options that won't work with MGE.

Glad you're in, Idebrot. Stock up on coffee!

 

[Narz]

Final Players...

AnarchyWrksBest : ICQ# 161684853
Narz : ICQ# 162893046
NickM : ICQ# 17162364
Sean Lindstrom : ICQ# 159075313
GenShwartzCough : AOL=GenShwartzCough
ldebrot : ICQ# 163679865.

Whoever volunteers to host, we'll all need to know your path for save/autosave, so we all have the same path on our computers. I suggest a unique path like c:\games\civ2multi\save\narz101, but for those who aren't so uptight as me, we can use the default path, whatever that is.

Paths? Isn't the IP address enough? Also, I have a Macintosh, so I don't know if this matters in the hosting process. I have Civ II Gold V1.1. I do have a DSL connection. I hope everything works out. If someone else needs to host thats fine with me, I just hope everything runs smoothly. If you have an old version of Civ please download the newest patches, etc.

Looking forward to the fight!

- Narz

 

[Pongui]

I'm not sure about this, but...

I've got a PC and have hosted for a Mac user. We needed the same path (or Mac equivalent of "path") to restart saved games. Everyone must save at the same time, with the file in the same place, when calling it quits. Everyone must have the same file available, in the same place, for the game to successfully restart. At least, that's what I've been assuming.

Palehorse76 is right, we need a FAQ for these things!

 

[ldebrot]

Now, there's just one problem. I don't know if I can use my ToT-Version. Sean, you spend me hope with your guess, but when I try to start a CivII savegame, there's always the same message: "Loading failed, probably a too old version"

So I don't know if If should download the big patch for CIVII Gold.

Maybe there's a difference between CivIIGold-savegames and CivII but isn't there a difference between CivIIToT and CivIIGold too?

Who can help me?

 

[Pongui]

I'm ready.

 

[Narz]

Congrats all! You are all part of what will be one of the best Civ Multiplayer games of all time!

While everything did not go quite according to plan (not everyone is on an island), I think the game is still pretty balanced and may even be more interesting this way. Thanks to all for showing up!

To outside viewers... we just began a 7 player MP game (was gonna be six with one AI but this is better). We're at 2350BC right now, just getting started really, soon everyone will start putting their grand schemes into action, switching governments, building triemes, starting Wonders. I'm looking forward to this, I hope everyone can make it each Sunday. The early afternoon seems to be good for everyone so we'll probably keep it at two or three PM for consistancy (unless someone has a better idea for start time).

Keep in touch through this thread. Take care all, c-you next week!

- Narz

 

[anarchywrksbest]

What Narz didn't mention was that im going to win!

But seriously this is gonna be fun once we get our civs off the ground and I hope that what people read here will encourage them to start there own games and keep Civ2 MP alive..

 

[Pongui]

(Host) Great fun. An excellent group.

One complaint, though. Please don't keep chatting after I've saved & retired, it puts my computer in limbo 'till you stop chatting.

 

[Pongui]

Does anyone know what happened? After 30 minutes, I terminated the program.

 

[Mignonne]

im enjoying to be part of this... thanks!!!... just in case, my contact addy is mignonne_ny@msn.com...
mignonne