you need to click the search icon. and their Steam icon shows there. then drag their Steam icon into the box of big letter
The way to boot Islandia is this:
Check how many skips he has. When it is his turn, put a timer on the game for an hour, and set the skip limit to the same or less than the number of skips he already has. If it has already been his turn for an hour, he should get skipped and booted as soon as the GMR website refreshes. When you see that this has happened, put the timer back to what it was and remember also to change the skip limit back. The last part is important--you don't want to boot anyone else by mistake.
The system wasn't really set up with this in mind, but I've used it this way and it works just fine.
The new player might need to be invited after Islandia has been removed/replaced by an AI.
Thanks Tab. I'm sure Mel will thank you too, less work for him!
Hmmm: hopefully the game doesn't try to add him as Rome...shouldn't be possible as that civ is dead.
Hi Mel. Um...we have a situation hopefully you can help us with.
Tab tried to follow my instructions above, but he did it when it was his turn, apparently when it had already been his turn for over an hour. So, um, he got skipped and then booted (he set it to one hour and one skip max!), and the game disappeared off his list.
Since then it has done the same with anyone who hasn't managed to be there that hour to take their turn, including me; the game is gone from my list too.
I don't know if any of the players are still in the game.
Is this salvageable, can you help get the game back for us? I'm a little worried that if it has gone to all AI it might cycle way into the future and be unrevertable, or just disappear altogether.
Update on this scenario for ya Mel. First, the game ID link is http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#340
Second, I know I personally got an email saying the GMR refused to boot the final player (which would have been me) and instead reverted the boots that were in sequence and removed the timer and skip limit. Great thinking putting that in there!
Third, according to the game site this in fact did NOT happen. Instead, all of the boots except Tab's and Onan's were reverted (though I got no emails saying the others ever happened in the first place), and Islandia, the player we need to boot, is the host! So we're stuck.
Thanks for the help!![]()
P.s. Tab is Russia, I am Arabia, and mblum is the player to be substituted into Islandia's Egypt.
I still can't quite believe what happened...at least it's funny. And as Gamer said, well done on foreseeing this issue and building in a fail safe mechanism!![]()
An update on this above.
Looking more carefully, there are now TWO Islandias in this game. The GMR also used him to replace the dead player Rome, now listed as Other on the GMR.
The new player (mblum) is going to replace Egypt. And the turn is stuck on Rome, the non-existent player. Thanks for the help!
The way to boot Islandia is this:
Check how many skips he has. When it is his turn, put a timer on the game for an hour, and set the skip limit to the same or less than the number of skips he already has. If it has already been his turn for an hour, he should get skipped and booted as soon as the GMR website refreshes. When you see that this has happened, put the timer back to what it was and remember also to change the skip limit back. The last part is important--you don't want to boot anyone else by mistake.
The system wasn't really set up with this in mind, but I've used it this way and it works just fine.
The new player might need to be invited after Islandia has been removed/replaced by an AI.
Thanks Tab. I'm sure Mel will thank you too, less work for him!
Hmmm: hopefully the game doesn't try to add him as Rome...shouldn't be possible as that civ is dead.
P.s. Tab is Russia, I am Arabia, and mblum is the player to be substituted into Islandia's Egypt.
I still can't quite believe what happened...at least it's funny. And as Gamer said, well done on foreseeing this issue and building in a fail safe mechanism!![]()
Alright it was pretty messy but I've got it all back on track with mblum subbed in and everything. The turn is currently Tabarnak's and I've verified that the save file for it loads and functions correctly. Good luck guys and let me know if you run into any more problems![]()