MP Game For whom the bell tolls ---- Started

[Cainehill]

Lepakko said:
Is machaka going to play the game... he is soon missing turn 2

Feh. Knudsen / Machaka apparently didn't understand what "immobile / human pretender" meant.

So, Cohen - what is your protocol for dealing with the inevitable pretender screwups in your flaky games? Frankly, all possibilities I see suck.

[Cohen]

Why? What pretender he's?

We should confine him to the capitol probably and site searching in provinces, and turn AI if he uses for combat purpose.

[Cainehill]

He's got a Lord of Fertility sitting right on my border - hardly human, and hardly immobile.

Edit: And given that I've never seen a Knudsen posting here, who knows if he reads this forum at all. Presumably he wouldn't have used an invalid pretender if he did. I'll let you message him in game or whatnot, since it's your game and your rules.

If you do more variant games, I'd suggest you start enforcing that people have to post here to make sure they know the variant rules. Then again - if they aren't anonymous, you can't kick them anyway.

And setting him to AI would hardly be wonderful, since then I definately have an SC right on my border.

[Boron]

Cainehill said:
Edit: And given that I've never seen a Knudsen posting here, who knows if he reads this forum at all. Presumably he wouldn't have used an invalid pretender if he did. I'll let you message him in game or whatnot, since it's your game and your rules.

Cohen wrote the rule in the description of the game on mosehansen too . So it is only Knudsen`s fault .

So perhaps Moses could include a kick player xy command too for games with special houserules cause as you said otherwise you can't kick someone who has already registered .

I guess that Knudsen just joined the latest restart and there Cohen wrote only Human or Immobile so probably Knudsen just misunderstood it .

[The Panther]

The solution seems simple to me. In order for Knudsen to be allowed to continue in this game, the Machaka lord must go into his capitol and never again leave its home except by casting travel spells (could be difficult with a nature pretender), thus becoming an immoble.

[Boron]

Using his pretender as SC gave him already an advantage .
And by the time he recieves the ingame msg this creates 1-2 more turns delay . Worst case he even attacked Cainehill then once or twice already .

Boron's right in a sense; he already has received an advantage from his SC. But it's too late to do much about that, beyond kicking the player which seems over-harsh. I think Panther's suggestion is the right one.

On a different subject, I know YellowCactus is home and hurricane free. Are we going to switch back to 24hours soon?

Mark

[Cohen]

Yes we'll be back to 24 quickhost asap I see in the board that Yellow has come back.

How do you know that Mark?

[Cainehill]

Mark the Merciful said:
Boron's right in a sense; he already has received an advantage from his SC. But it's too late to do much about that, beyond kicking the player which seems over-harsh. I think Panther's suggestion is the right one.

Overly harsh? Having just been in and lost a battle with his army and SC together, I don't think so. If someone can't be bothered to check out and obey the rules for a game, why should they be allowed to play?

Cohen - did you send Messages to him?

[Boron]

How can you kick a registered player ?
Cohen can only turn him ai with masterpassword or can he kick him too ?
If Cohen sets him ai the ai will continue attacking Caine probably .

We should restart i think and everybody participating has to post here on the board that he understands the houserules .
On the other hand once someone registers like knudsen but doesn't read the forum i don't know how you can kick him then . Just everything that could went wrong seems to have went wrong here