Deathstalkers PBW game

[Deathstalker]

'Withdraw' basicly means you quit the game, your empire is removed. Not having used it myself I don't know if the empire is still there and you are absent (leaving it open for another player to fill) or completely gone from the game.

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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[Deathstalker]

Whoops, forgot to mention (assumed but did not specify exactly), the turns will appear by email automatically, same with reminders if you have not taken your turn yet and everyone else has.

On another note, who else has special shipsets?? anyone??

If your are curious (or just lazy like me, forgot to download a shipset once), if you don't have the correct shipset for an empire then the game will randomly select one for the pictures each time you play, so you could see your opponents as one shipset and then another next turn and not realize it.

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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[capnq]

My first piece of advice for newbies is: if you haven't played much using Strategic Combat, set up a solo game with Tactical Combat turned off to practice on.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Deathstalker]

AND THERE OFF!!

First turn has been generated and should be recieved quickly. If my corner of the galaxy is any indication then planet mix is fairly good.

Enjoy!!


This posting section will be left open for general chatting as most people post on this board vs. the actual pbw posting board. (heck, this is set as my homepage ).

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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[Rubinski]

We would appear to have a little problem.

After downloading the file, I clicked logon and realized that I had open the first empire. The Imperial Emire. I checked the other empires and found I can also open the Tredazi Collective as well as my own the Waldo Clan. I can also open the four computer empires.

My guess had been I would be using the password from the PBW site, so I didn't setup a password with my empire in the game. I am betting my guess was wrong. It's clear to me now that I have have to stop hitting my head with a 2x4.

I believe we are going to need a restart. At the begining of the game I don't want to know about the other players. I can avoid the computers players but could end up forgetting to click my player position before logging in. Plus the fact I have an idea where the other players are doesn't help.

So Deathstalker can you setup a new game? This time I will setup my password with my empire. Anything else you can think of to help avoid beginer mistakes would be great. 2x4's leave a lot of swelling on the brain.

Thanks

Rubinski

[LeTharg]

I don't mind a restart but would point out that you can change your password without one. Just use the empire option. In a game I hosted we had 3 players who forgot passwords and they simply changed their empires to use the password they gave PBW.

Don't know what to do about the AI though.

[Rubinski]

Thanks LeTharg.

I change my password. I don't mind playing the game as is if that what the other players want.

Rubinski

[Deathstalker]

Hmmmm...Will see if I can change the AI passwords. As to a restart, only if everyone agrees. Personally I think we can continue from here. It's easy, just don't look. Most games run on an honor system, 'cheating' in this game is fairly easy, and sometimes hard to catch. (also 'cheating' is hard to define, ie. are emails between players cheating?, to some yes, it gets around that 2 turn delay for Messages ingame.) I have even heard of some people changing their components.txt, buildin a ship type and then changing it back hoping no-one will notice the changes for supply use or weapon tonnage used.

I am playing a game with 'Puke' right now, I have changed empires and it would be fairly easy to look into my old empire, but I don't, just spoils the fun for me/everyone else.

Besides, knowing something (starting position, ships position, etc) is one thing, but doing something about it is another thing entirely

Well, anyone for a re-start??

If not, happy conquering!


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"The Empress took your name away," said Chance.
Owen smiled coldly. "It wasn't hers to take. I'm a Deathstalker until I die. And we never forget a slight or an enemy." -Owen Deathstalker.

[capnq]

I really don't think it's a big enough problem to warrant a restart. Once all the human players set passwords, you'll only be able to get at your own info plus the AIs, and since they're listed Last, you'll see your own empire first, so accidentally clicking the wrong empire shouldn't be a problem.

I think Deathstalker can set passwords for the AIs, as well, but I'm not sure of that.

You can pretend your knowledge of where the empires you could see are on the map are legends of "ancient asronauts".

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Rich04]

I agree we can continue. I will set my password at the next opportunity. I made the same assumptions reguarding the password being the same as the site one, oops. This being my first pbw game also.

Later
Rich, aka Tal of the Tredazi.