Spiralus PBW discussion thread. - Page 7

Dragonlord · #61 August 4th, 2001, 01:01 AM

Rollo, King of the Space Vikings, seems to have disappeared today. He was holding up all the games I was in, and finally I decided to execute the turns manually since I knew that by that time it was 2 AM where he lives, and he was unlikely to meet the upload deadline.

Rollo · #62 August 4th, 2001, 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
Rollo, King of the Space Vikings, seems to have disappeared today. He was holding up all the games I was in, and finally I decided to execute the turns manually since I knew that by that time it was 2 AM where he lives, and he was unlikely to meet the upload deadline.

That is too bad, because I was just about to send my turns in

.

I think if we play 24hrs per turn, you should give 24 hrs to meet the deadline.

Dragonlord · #63 August 4th, 2001, 04:57 AM

Yes, I agree we should stick to the deadline.
Rollo and I sent some emails back and forth and it is straightened out.

From now on, I will use the "probation" system for games that I host. This means that if you are late with your turn I will simply wait for the deadline, and the AI will play for you for one turn. Then, on the next turn, if you are *again* the Last person to upload and some hours have passed, I will execute the turn manually. In the interest of moving things along for the rest of the players. If you miss your turn 3 or 4 times in a row and don't respond to my emails, I will "dead" your empire, i.e. turn it over to the AI.
Sounds fair to everybody ?

Shoujo · #64 August 4th, 2001, 02:33 PM

Does late mean 24 hours have past since you Last turned in your turn, or X hours have passed since everyone but you turned in their turn?

I hope it's the first and not second because I tend to occasionally receive a nag while I'm playing my turn or just as I'm about to upload. Short of skipping sleep (big no no) I can't upload any earlier because I have to (and want to

) eat breakfast at 6:00...

Phoenix-D · #65 August 5th, 2001, 05:28 AM

24 hours means 24 hours since the Last turn ran.

Phoenix-D

Dragonlord · #66 August 5th, 2001, 05:38 AM

Maybe I should clarify. If you miss one turn, for whatever reason, that's fine. The AI will handle that turn. But if, after that auto-execution due to time-out, everybody else has sent in their turn and you are *again* the Last person we are waiting for, I will not wait many hours till the expiration time. I'll probably wait till about 10 PM EST (convenient time for me) and execute manually. I will also email the Last player before I do this.

I suggest this because I often see 6 people uploading within 3 hours after they get their turn, then waiting up to 21 hours for the Last person. We'll wait that long once, but not two days in a row. (Unless you notified me beforehand that you would be unable to play, when you'll be back, and everybody agrees to wait that long).

BTW I intend to use the same policy on the "Isobreak" and "Diplowar" games, so I want to make sure you all understand and agree with this approach.

Phoenix-D · #67 August 8th, 2001, 11:25 PM

Dragon, I've got a problem. Switched the cable internet and guess what- it doesn't work right now. I'm doing this from a library computer, which doesn't have SE4. I'll try uploading my turn, but I'd apprecite disabling the auto-turn change for a few days.

Phoenix-D

Dragonlord · #68 August 9th, 2001, 12:29 AM

Phoenix,

You're lucky I saw this just in time, 30 minutes before the turn expiration ! Perhaps email would have been a more reliable route.
I have postponed the turn for a few hours while I email you. Are you suggesting we postpone the game for a number of days until you get your Internet back? I'm not sure everyone will want to wait that long...

Phoenix-D · #69 August 9th, 2001, 01:54 AM

Uh, Dragon, I have no email at the moment

Thanks though.

anyway- we've got a tech comming tommarow. If HE can't fix it, I'll just put my DSL modem back in and use it. The annoying part is that I have the turn, I just can't do anything with it.. I'll try something else, maybe, but it probably still won't get in ntil tommarow.

Sorry.

EDIT: OK, it's in. Still no idea on when my machine will have access, and I can't exactly use this one all the time, soo.. see above.

Phoenix-D

[This message has been edited by Phoenix-D (edited 09 August 2001).]

Phoenix-D · #70 August 9th, 2001, 05:27 AM

OK, it's running..

sorta. Would you belive hooking the modem, via ethernet, to another computer helped? (it's connected to my server via USB)

Phoenix-D