WOTM ... and Hot Seat. Authorised?

[jprc]

I would like to know if what I/we do is correct or not.

I try to explain:

Under the name "jprc", we are sometimes several as I am often accessing the forum when making a break with my team, or when in a dead time. I am always the writer/translator (hum! ) for all posts, but ideas or posts are mostly shared among us before it is posted, and we have great discussions even before posting.
We don’t have enough computers for playing individually (most of our computers are configurated for special use), and I am the only one with a public internet connection.

As the team leader, and addicted to civ since Civ1, I just found it is a great way to relax with a team, and do an external fun activity that is keeping us entertained while some part of our work is not so fun.

After trying myself at wotm1, I started playing wotm2, but had to care about a mission, no time for relaxing. The second half was then finished by one of my guys and I am sure he did it “by-the-book” (no reload, no preview on the site: no internet any way and I am the only one knowing my login)
For the wotm3, this was even better (with regards to team spirit and fun together), as I defined the strategy: monks monks monks (and I am the chief! ), and played the 1st third, then a team mate did the 2nd third, and the 3rd one finished it.
BUT:
- we were during all the game together (a long boring week end on duty, waiting for some action that never came&#8230, and each move was a collegial decision, with the one at the keyboard allowed to decide whatever he/she wished (excellent for learning how to take a decision after consultation of a team… and supporting the consequences when it was bad … like trying to attack Rome!).
- Game started in my computer (a laptop), and I went away for a while: I copied then the game/warlord folder into the 2nd computer, allowing them to continue the game. Again, I trust them 100% and I am sure no reload. (They were also informed by me that HOF is tracking all moves and this would be seen anyway). As it is like a team test, they took it seriously!

Now the questions:
1- Is it allowed to play “hot seat”, and receive advises from a group of person (then the player is not alone, and this can be unfair to those who are fighting alone against the machine)
2- is it allowed to transfer a wotm into another computer and continue the play from the last autosave (all turns are autosaved, up to 1000)?


If 1 or 2 is “no”, or If players answering this thread feel that it is unfair, so then please withdraw my/our wotm2 and wotm3 games.


(for the displeasure of seeing who is guilty/innocent, http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4818743&postcount=81)

 

[ainwood]

I don't think we really have a huge problem with this... provided that its played as one game, and you don't have people who play-ahead of the others (in short, as long as you don't do anything that violates the "no-reloading" rules.

As far as the forums go, you really should have one account / person (From the Forum Rules:

Your account is for YOU only.
You may use your account to post your opinions, your thoughts, and your views within the guidelines stated on this page. You may NOT use your account to post for people who are not members or have had their posting permissions removed. You also may not grant others access to your account.

You could even then set-up your own SGOTM team!

 

[jprc]

I don't think we really have a huge problem with this...

Thank you.

provided that its played as one game, and you don't have people who play-ahead of the others (in short, as long as you don't do anything that violates the "no-reloading" rules.

... which is the case, it is played in 1 computer at a time, following the natural sequence of events, and I am responsible for this and supervising it.

As far as the forums go, you really should have one account / person

Yes, I know this rule and understand it.
If you see my post into another thread (link in my 1st post), they would never register on their own:
- they barely speak English, let alone write in English!
- they are too scare for going further than registering and would never dare adding a post...
- the only access to Internet is through my computer only. At home, they have barely electricity! (It is Mozambique, and things are not so rich). Nothing is typed on it by them, and I am the only one typing.
- What I write is most of the time from me, or related to a question from them I can not answer. I am simply doing like you, when you talk about a subject with your girlfriend/wife, and then have your ideas modified accordingly when typing your post. I am also at the end the one who says "yes" or "no" for what to say...
- When all this is gone (project finish), and I move on to another country, I will still be "jprc" as anyway I am around with Civ since the start, and it won't stop soon!!

I think the spirit of the rule is to avoid someone using someone else's account, bringing trouble, then withdrawing with the regular user facing all problems! Not the case here, and it is on my shoulders.

For the fun, did you ever stepped in an internet shop in Manilla, Bangkok, Hanoi, Tirana, Lusaka, Lagos... and stayed for a while watching around? They are 20 (minimum...) behind a login!!!! School day or not...

You could even then set-up your own SGOTM team!

Do you know that it is a great idea???!!!
Ok. Next wotms will be from me only, better like this and certainly fairer to other players.
Loosing my best advisers, it means a probable defeat :suicide: (if it is like wotm3) as I discovered that they have much more common-sense, much less "calculation" that me: while I am scare in civ/warlords to do a military move, they are much more warmonger than me, and Warlords seems to be just for them, so much for the "white-supremacy"!! pooooor me!....

 

[ainwood]

I think the spirit of the rule is to avoid someone using someone else's account, bringing trouble, then withdrawing with the regular user facing all problems! Not the case here, and it is on my shoulders.

You're right. I thought from your post that it was all of you using this account for posting.

For the fun, did you ever stepped in an internet shop in Manilla, Bangkok, Hanoi, Tirana, Lusaka, Lagos... and stayed for a while watching around? They are 20 (minimum...) behind a login!!!! School day or not...

Out of those, I've only been to Bangkok (I have been to portuguese Lagos, but I presume you mean the Nigerian one )

Do you know that it is a great idea???!!!
Ok. Next wotms will be from me only, better like this and certainly fairer to other players.

No - if you want to carry on with your team-consensus games, then that is fine by us.