Deathstalkers PBW game - Page 3

Deathstalker · #21 July 9th, 2001, 10:10 AM

Oops, made a boo boo myself. Didn't set the game password correctly, getting 'master password incorrect' turn execution errors, looking into it.

I have manually processed the turn, your files should be waiting in your email for turn 2.

Sorry about the inconvienience.

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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.

LeTharg · #22 July 9th, 2001, 03:24 PM

Deathstalker,

You will not be the first game host to do that nor probably the Last. I speak from experience. The admin folks at PBW are very nice about getting things going--when I did the same thing, they had it fixed within seconds of my posting on the Boards.

PBW is marvelous.

capnq · #23 July 9th, 2001, 07:20 PM

I haven't been able to connect to the PBW site in the past six hours. Is this the server downtime that was warned about on Saturday?

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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"

geoschmo · #24 July 9th, 2001, 07:55 PM

yep.

Geoschmo

Deathstalker · #25 July 10th, 2001, 08:24 AM

Processed next turn manually (again), hopefully after the chaos of the move the PBW staff can get this fixed.

Till then I'll be awaiting your turns!

(so far my feeling is that this will be a good game, one to remember!)

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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 · #26 July 10th, 2001, 08:41 PM

We seem to be back on track now, password seems to be working correctly (got a turn processed successfully message).

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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 · #27 July 17th, 2001, 08:06 AM

Well, we seem to have had our first turn processed without a player recently, thought I'd bring up the 24hr time period. Does everyone think this is a good period to wait for turns to get in? Or should it be lengthened? I am pretty reasonable, and I know how the AI can screw up an empire good in a few turns. Response is appreciated, but if no real objections are brought up (or no one responds) the 24 hrs wait will remain. Other than that I hope everyone is having fun, personally I havn't met any human players yet, but the AI's I have met are pretty tough!

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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 · #28 July 17th, 2001, 10:33 AM

It would be nice to get a few turns in day, but understand that someone can have something come up and miss a turn.

I would like to stay with the 24 hour turns.

Rubinski

LeTharg · #29 July 17th, 2001, 07:13 PM

I also would like to stay with 24 hour. In another game we went to longer periods and I found it hard to stay interested (and remember what was going on). Short attention span I guess.

Exceptions can be made for anticipated problems. In addition to waiting as we did Last week-end, players can get someone else to play their turn. Or if you choose the 'AI do nothing' setting and fill your queues, you can let the AI play one turn without too many dire consequences.

capnq · #30 July 17th, 2001, 07:50 PM

I'm happy with the 24-hour limit; I don't mind taking breaks when real life interferes with someone's game.

quote:
if you choose the 'AI do nothing' setting and fill your queues, you can let the AI play one turn without too many dire consequences.

If you're referring to the "AI doesn't makes changes in simultaneous games" option, that's known not to be working.

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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"