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Does anyone else think this sound really dodgy? He wants you to leave all of the pretender files unpassworded. No reason is given. He expects you to just tell him your password instead, even though he has the master password and doesn't need such a thing. Once again, no reason is given. Combined with the secrecy of just about everything involved in the game, including even what map is involved. Plus he expects that people will then immediately drop.

Does this sound a bit suspicious to you? Experimental is one thing, but this sounds like an outright scam.

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16 pretenders sent.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hehe. It took you much longer than I expected to come up with this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

It may sound 'dodgy' but there's a reason for this, and you and everyone else will understand when the game & victory conditions are made public. At this point, you'll be free to quit if these conditions don't suit you. Meanwhile, you have nothing to loose bar the time it takes to design a few pretenders and send them to me.

And I remind you rule #1: I won't play in this game.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That should be fine. The problem is you used a format I'm not familiar with (.ace). What kind of tool do I need to unpack this? If none is available as freeware, I'd like you to send them in zip format.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That Last point is the one that really matters. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Oh, sorry. I always use winace ( www.winace.com ), since it usually has a better compression than .zip

Btw. some scam indeed. Stealing our precious pretenders, lol. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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No, it sounds quite reasonable and good-willed. I even have an idea of sort of what he has in mind, and it sounds interesting. I would have signed up if I didn't already have too many games going and way too much work to do and other stuff to do etc.

As for why people might drop after learning the rules, that's understandable, since he means to do something unexpected that some players might not like. Many players only like certain kinds of games and certain approaches to play. I won't speculate, since I wouldn't want to influence the experiment that way.

PvK

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">THANK YOU! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I'm in! Just sent my list of preferences and pretender files. I'm still very new to the game, so I hope I don't embarass myself TOO much, but either way, I'm ready to have some fun! Plus MP is always the best way I know to learn more.

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Ok, I couldn't resist at least giving it a shot. It was interesting picking a god for everyone. There sure are a ton of nations I've not tried yet!

PvK

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I'm in- 17 pretenders sent!