Feohtan - Game started! Uploading pretenders.

[IndyPendant]

Patch v3.14 is out, and llamabeast has set the game up. We are good to go!

Once pretenders are uploaded, the first turn will be set to 48 hours, and then it will be 24-hour quickhost until at least Turn 20. Once three people request it, I can extend the quickhost to 48 hours.

With llamabeast's endorsement (and a big thank-you to him too!) in the Valhalla forums, I'm going to set up an EA game played on the Llamaserver. Shooting for 12 players--10 land + 2 water--so we can use my starting locations in Edi's Cradle map.

All setting standard, except Graphs Off and Renaming On (Note: there will be independents in this game, for those that know this map from Forseti.) Worthy Heroes v1.8 will be the only mod.

If you stale twice in a row without contacting me or posting in the thread, you will be put on AI immediately.

The map will be Edi's modified version of Cradle, to which I have added fixed starting positions, to prevent unbalanced random starts (as much as possible, anyways). Here are the changes I made to Edi's Cradle Map:
--The starting provinces are: 76 (Oceania or Atlantis), 78 (R'lyeh or Atlantis), 18, 38, 37, 103, 99, 207, 172, 196, 148, 131.
--All the land nations will be assigned random starts from the above list when the game begins.
--For start 37, provinces 37, 41, and 54 are no longer Waste, 41 becomes a Border Mountain, and 25 becomes a Forest.
--For start 38, provinces 38 and 39 are no longer Waste.
--For start 103, province 93 becomes a Forest as well as Farm, and 94 becomes a Border Mountain.

Let's get signed up, pretenders in, and have some fun!

Players:
Mictlan - IndyPendant
Sauromatia - Digress
Fomoria - FAJ
Ermor - DryaUnda
C'tis - Wraithlord
Marverni - Aethyr
Vanheim - Valerius
Lanka - Parcelt
Oceania - klagrok
R'lyeh - Meglobob
Niefelheim - Jurri
Pangea - Baalz

[Digress]

Could I give Sauromatia a run.

[FAJ]

I would like to try Fomoria

[AlgaeNymph]

I'll give Ermor another try.

[Cerlin]

Gah I really want to join another game, but I dont know if I can handle it.
Also Ill be going to Japan and I dont know how often I can do turns, its up to the girlfriend. :O

[WraithLord]

I'd like to take Ctis.

[Folket]

I would like to play EA Mictlan.

[Aethyr]

Marverni please.

[IndyPendant]

I've updated the original post to cover who's joined so far. We're halfway there! Still need two water nations, though.

Folket, I took Mictlan, sorry. Did you want to try another nation?

[Valerius]

Vanheim please.

[parcelt]

I'll be Lanka.

[klagrok]

Ill be Oceania http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Meglobob]

R'lyeh please.

[IndyPendant]

Only two land nations left! Hopefully Folket gets back with a new nation before two more sign up...

[Jurri]

I'll play! Let's say... Niefelheim.

[Baalz]

Er, I'll play if Folket doesn't want to pick from the remaining nations, but by all means I'll bow out if he wants to play. Say Pangea...

[IndyPendant]

Well, I can't set anything up for another 12 hours or so. I want another look at the Cradle map before I hand it over to llamabeast.

Let's say we give Folket that much time to respond, and if he doesn't, Baalz is in! Either way, I'll be PM'ing llamabeast in half a day's time with the details.

[Thrawn]

If anyone drops out, I'd be interested in Arco or T'ien.

[IndyPendant]

Thrawn, we'll make a note in case anyone doesn't upload a pretender. Folket, I'm sorry but you haven't gotten back to us to change your nation. Baalz, welcome to the game! (And...*yipe*. ; )

I've uploaded the .map file we'll be using in my original post above (I decided not to make any additional changes for now, other than those I have already listed). I have PM'd llamabeast to give him the specs for the game, and let him know we're ready to go!

[WraithLord]

rumor says next patch is imminent. would it be a good idea to start the game with it and save all the hassle of upgrading while in game?

[IndyPendant]

Hmm...we could wait until Friday and see. I don't want to wait longer though, for risk of losing players. And for all we know, the new patch could wreck Worthy Heroes 1.8, although I suppose it's not a big deal to play without it.

llamabeast has already created the game, but it doesn't look right. It's currently saying "Invalid Age" and "Max Players: 0".

So unless people object, let's delay until Friday (or the patch comes out) before we start.

[Jurri]

I'm fine with waiting until the patch: certainly it's always nicer to avoid patching midgame.

[Aethyr]

I agree

[AlgaeNymph]

IndyPendant said:
[W]e can use my starting locations in Edi's Cradle map.

Where is said map?

[Meglobob]

Yes, lets wait for the patch, its supposed to fix dominion spread, which hopefully fixes the scales bug and thats good because on 2 out of 2 test games with EA Rlyeh I got the scales bug!

[WraithLord]

Ahmm, I'm starting to regret suggesting to wait for the patch.

The rumor was not accurate and the patch hasn't come last week . I'm now afraid if we keep on waiting that players will start to lose interest. I prefer the hassle of upgrading to new patch than the possibility of losing this game.

[Meglobob]

Its being betatested at the moment, so it should be soon.


Kristoffer O said:
Means some bugs has been found by the beta group and fixed. They are testing the new version already. If only small bugs remain after this it will be shipped as is.



New Patch 3.14 out now so no problem! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[AlgaeNymph]

Meglobob said:
New Patch 3.14 out now so no problem! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Now we need an in-thread link to the map we'll be using and we're set!

[IndyPendant]

Patch is out! I'll PM llamabeast again, asking him to restart the game. Hopefully everyone is still in! ; )

Keep in mind it may take him a few days; he's no-doubt going to be busy making sure llamaserver transfers safely to v3.14...

DryaUnda, the map is uploaded in the original post in this thread.

[klagrok]

patched and ready http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[IndyPendant]

Hmm, well llamabeast PM'd me and said everything's already set up and ready to go. It looks like we can start uploading pretenders now!

I'll edit the original post appropriately. I'm hoping for 2-3 days to upload pretenders, then I'll set the first turn to 48 hours, then 24 hours from then on.

Let's play! The world will drown in oceans of Blood. ; )

[WraithLord]

What is the procedure for uploading pretenders?

[llamabeast]

There's an explanation in my FAQ.

[WraithLord]

Thank you. Ctis pretender uploaded http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[klagrok]

done and done http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif was about to explain as i just checked the FAQ http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[FAJ]

Fomoria sent

[Aethyr]

We're still using worthy heroes mod, yes?

[WraithLord]

Yes, according to first post.

[IndyPendant]

8 joined, 4 to go! Now all we're missing is:

Sauromatia - Digress
Fomoria - FAJ
Marverni - Aethyr
Vanheim - Valerius

And yes, we will be using the Worthy Heroes v1.8 mod.

[FAJ]

I sent my god to the e-mail address, with the name of the game in it. I don't know why I would be missing.

[IndyPendant]

Ah, you aren't missing anymore. Your pretender was probably just received and updated after my post. No worries.

3 to go!

[klagrok]

Make it 0 to go....looks like 12 to me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[IndyPendant]

Yep. I PM'd llamabeast early this morning. All up to him now, and then we'll get the email.

[parcelt]

allrighty.... so when do we start?

[IndyPendant]

Hmm...almost two days now, and llamabeast has made some other posts. That's not like him; maybe some wires got crossed or something.

I will *poke* him and see if anything happens.

[llamabeast]

*eep*, I seem to have been poked!

Sorry, I have been a naughty llama. I did actually get your first message but I think I was feeling flustered with work at the time (I probably shouldn't read my PMs *at* work, particularly when feeling flustered) and so it failed to record in my memory properly, if you know what I mean. I'm just teaching in a couple of hours so have to do some emergency marking (and in fact learning!), then I'll get on the case.

[llamabeast]

Apologies for the further delay, I was a bad llama again.

However, the game has now started! Hopefully you'll all have received your first turns. The first turn has 48 hours on the clock, and subsequent turns will have 24 unless/until IndyPendant changes the timer.

Enjoy the game!

[llamabeast]

Oops, did a restart, since the first time I hadn't set it up to use worthy heroes properly. Use the turn file from the second e-mail you receive.

[WraithLord]

This turn something very strange has happened to me.
I was attacked by Vanheim in one of my provinces. This is not surprising since we're at war. What I find very strange is that I was attacked at the heart of my kingdom in a province in which all the neighboring provinces are controlled by me. Of course, if the attacking army was the usual Van stuff I wouldn't have found it strange but that army contained, among else, eight elephants. Now, last time I checked elephants didn't have glamour, nor any stealth ability so I'm really puzzled. How come???

[Jurri]

Sailing maybe? Or is the province completely inland?

[WraithLord]

Yes, its probably sailing since its not completely inland.
Thank you Jurri for the explanation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[klagrok]

or maybe they were 'dumbo's' and just flew in...........

[WraithLord]

LOL http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[parcelt]

I just found myself travelling abroad with a broken laptop (hence the stall, actually sending this message from an internet cafe in spain). I won´t be able to get another turn in until wednesday (eastern US). I´d greatly appreciate if we could postphone hosting until then.

I apologize to everybody for the stall and this late notice.

[IndyPendant]

Okay, will do unless there's any major objections.

[klagrok]

Sounds good to me

[WraithLord]

NP.

[Digress]

I am heading bush next weekend - probably heading off Wednesday evening US time - for three or four days of fencing fun. Had some storms at the family hobby farm/block-o-weeds and some fences are in need of urgent repair.

I will try and rustle up a sub before I go so the game won't stall for an extended period (I have no problem with waiting until parcelt has access to a working machine by the way).

Edit: Have secured the services of a sub for later in the week. So once parcelt is back up and running the game will go on. Will contact game admin with details for making the switch.

[vfb]

Greetings, nations of Feohtan. The Queen of Sauromatia (sorry Digress http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif) has gone on vacation, and our people will be under the administrations of The Head Cannibal vfb for the next few months (game time). The Head Cannibal (that's me) has been briefed on the current events of the world.

If you need to discuss anything with Sauromatia, please PM vfb. This is just a temporary stand-in, so of course I will be respecting any and all treaties, deals, pacts, bargains, trades, and purchasing agreements.

THC (The Head Cannibal)

[Digress]

The Queen of Sauromatia has returned and has picked up a really nice feather boa and a staggeringly skintight sequinned dress that shows off all my curves, shoes that do my calves justice remain elusive. It is really suprising what you can pick up once you travel the Australian countryside.

Sauromatia remains the good neighbour she has always been and will continue to honour all NAPs and other agreements entered into by our sub vfb.

I would like to publicly thank vfb for subbing for the last little while. He has provided sterling service to the Suaromatian nation and will be rewarded in the traditional manner ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Jurri]

Did... Did Oceania just spontaneously combust? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/redface.gif

[FAJ]

Looks like the AI squeezed out his dominion. I don't know how, but it certaintly is unexpected. I hope it isn't a bug.

[Digress]

I can confirm that it wasn't a bug and do not feel it is fair to be referred to as the "AI". I am not as competent as AI..

[WraithLord]

Digress pushed his dominion so strongly that he killed Oceania . I've been following this for quite some time now.

Nice play Digress.

[klagrok]

yup killed me good http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif only had one spot with dominion last turn---but didnt really have a chance anyway---at least on land you can have a buffer zone ---in the sea had none, and digress had a temple right next to my capitol--even with building temples and lots of bishops......Digress has it made now as will take all the sea zones---good fight though!!!

[WraithLord]

Ahmm I think Fomoria have some strong UW armies as well. Will be interesting to see who gets the spoils.

[Jurri]

Hehe, I wonder... I mean, Fomoria has actual recruitable (and badass!) amphibious troops, which isn't something Sauromatia can say about itself. So I sure hope Digress has a plan http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Thanks for the game klagrok!

Edit: great minds think alike?

[WraithLord]

LOL Jurri, probably twisted, evil minds think alike http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

And yes, thank you Klagrok for the game - tough luck there with your positioning.

[FAJ]

I thought it was Rlyeh that did em in. My mistake.

In other news, I have completely switched production to amphibious troops http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[klagrok]

No Rlyeh gave up a week or so ago---he said he had no time, but I noticed his god kicked the bucket--good luck think I finally took Rlyeh's home province this turn---Im just glad I got into a MP game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Had to pick the water nation--sure is different than playing moronic computer...

[Digress]

The end for Oceania occured more rapidly than even my most blood drenched priest had thought possible.

Oceania's start site did klagrok no favours at all. Hope you sign up for some more MP games - once you try them you can't go back.

Sauromatia is preparing to stake its claim on some portion of the newly available provinces but intends to continue to act in a peaceful manner that has for so long characterized our activities. We need to secure some provinces that aren't blasted wastelands and depopulated swamps - we see them under the waves.

[IndyPendant]

Argh! Jurri, fight me already! I'm throwing down the guantlet! Let's get this over with.

The suspense is killing me. ; )

[IndyPendant]

Uhm...actually no, I meant go fight someone else instead. Yeah, that's it...

Hee. I am utterly destroyed, with Fomoria and Lanka now fighting to see who will get the best parts of my corpse.

Best of luck you two, and have fun! I really don't have much to fight over. I had some of the *worst luck imaginable*, this game. If there's any interest, I may scrape up a brief AAR for it. I mean, gods but it was bad! ; )

--IndyPendant.

[Jurri]

Hehe, you get what you wish for http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Fomoria and Lanka will also come for a piece, will they? Hmmm, Fomoria isn't in too great a position for that, so maybe you're just mixing up your giants http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

An AAR would be fun!

[FAJ]

Fomoria is confused.

[IndyPendant]

*cough*

I DECLARE WAR ON FOMORIA FOR INVADING MY TERRITORIES! DIE! DIE!!

(Yeah, should have typed Neifelheim; just got confused, posting that last night while tired and sick with a cold. *shrug*)

I do declare war on those evil Fomorian giants though! You look too much like Neifel giants for my tastes! (Why not? I'm going AI anyways...; )

--IndyPendant.

[Aethyr]

Hey folks,

With things heating up a bit I'd like to suggest we give some consideration to shifting to a 48/hr host. Thoughts?

[Jurri]

I support the notion!

Relatedly, do you wanna keep on doing the hosting duties, IndyPendant, or do you want to shuffle them to someone else?

[IndyPendant]

Doop. I completely forgot I'm covering as the host of this game! Ha!

I can keep hosting it if no one else wants to--but I would probably need PMs or I might miss key requests. If anyone else wants to take over though, let me know. The 'duties' are really quite simple; the important thing is to be reliable about following through with requests. ; )

If I get a 'third'--or at least, no objections--I'll change the hosting time to 48 hours after this turn.

[Baalz]

I can take over hosting, just PM me the admin pass.

[IndyPendant]

Then it is done! Interval set to 48 hours as of this turn, and I've PM'd Baalz the password. He is now the game admin.

Best of luck, everyone, and have fun! If I can find the time within the next few days, I'll get around to some sort of AAR...

[FAJ]

I could not find a sub for the week I will be gone. I have set myself to AI. Let the land grab begin!!

[WraithLord]

Wow, server is upgraded to 3.15. Very nicely done, comparing to the hassle that usually accompanies patching a game in progress.

I'm impressed, again, with the LlamaServer.

[Digress]

Has anybody noticed the fact that it has started raining Golems ?

Baalz has noticed, or shortly will, that in getting my turn done in five minutes I neglected to remember that:-

1. Harpies can fly
2. Harpies comprise a portion of Pangaean PD
3. Harpies are capable of killing completely unprotected mages

I thought the thread could do with a little bump. I can't be the ONLY one noticing the changed weather patterns.

[Baalz]

Sauromtaia is unfortunately not known for it's meteorological knowlege. It is in fact raining ghost riders, Jarls and Ice Devils with a slight chance of wraith lord. :/

[Jurri]

You're both wrong, in actuality the brown stuff dropping off the skies is Minotaur Lords. It's an easy mistake to make, I know.

Me, I'm more worried about the satyrs migrating out of season, and in unprecedented numbers. I wonder if it's a sign of a bigger change in the climate.

[WraithLord]

You're all wrong. Its stones that are actually raining from the skies by evil black hearted dwarves, killing poor ctissians by the hundreds http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Digress]

Baalz said:
Sauromtaia is unfortunately not known for it's meteorological knowlege. It is in fact raining ghost riders, Jarls and Ice Devils with a slight chance of wraith lord. :/



We Sauromatians just ate our chief meteorologist (a bit gamey but acceptable).

There ARE things other than Golems being blown about in these winds.

[WraithLord]

Guys, I'm going on a one month vacation starting Apr. 24th.

I would have liked to find a sub for this time but I don't think this is very likely. Subbing for a nation that is in a bitter survival war on two fronts isn't exactly attractive for potential subs.

I'm open for suggestions and in fact this is why I posted in the first place.

[Valerius]

Ya know, WraithLord, I should have stuck with the rain of stones. It was a lot more effective than that laughable thunderstrike attack a turn ago. Also, it's more fun raiding than being raided. It's tragic that you killed Zwago, who led the HoF in kills.

Thanks for the notice about your vacation. Obviously it's tough for me to give unbiased advice but your vacation is still 10 turns away. Should we see how it goes? If we are still in a stalemate 10 turns from now it likely won't matter since one of the other four nations will just walk in and take us all over.

[WraithLord]

Hey Valerius its like we're having fun warring in our little corner of the world. Too bad soon one of the big baddies will come and break our party http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'm actually enjoying this war since every turn brings new and interesting developments. WRT RoS, its a fine trick and I always fall for it the first time, usually I try to prevent falling the second time but you caught me off guard on that lousy island.

One last comment - I have refrained from raiding your lands so far in hopes you'll see the senselessness of our war but as you've probably noticed that's not the case anymore http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Valerius]

Yes, I was kind of wondering why Marverni was suffering all the raiding and I was receiving none, though I was raiding you. It looks like we were even this past turn - both losing two thugs.

Those illusionists are annoying, though - using glamour troops against me just isn't right. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[WraithLord]

Yeap, Illusionists are effective, in-fact they get MVP /threads/images/Graemlins/icon44.gif out of all the troops at my disposal.

Banelords OToH are, surprisingly, fairly fragile.

[Aethyr]

Indeed. I am beginning to hate those little men with the pointy hats. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Valerius]

I'd like to request a 6 hour hosting delay. I'll PM Baalz as well.

[Baalz]

Hosting postponed for Feohtan by 6 hours. The game will now host at 09:05 GMT on Tuesday April 8th.

[WraithLord]

Since, surprisingly, Ctis doesn't look to be in bad shape despite its current dual front war I have posted for a sub here (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=595773&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=&vc=#Post595773).
Its either that or going AI.

[Digress]

Need an extension of 24 hours - have gone down with food poisoning and sitting in front of computer not working so well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

[Baalz]

Much as a Sauromatia stale would help me....

Hosting postponed for Feohtan by 24 hours. The game will now host at 03:40 GMT on Sunday April 13th

[Digress]

Have partially recovered and sent the turn in. Thanks for the extension.

[WraithLord]

At last, a hero has emerged, he's fast and he's strong and well, he's subbing for Ctis.

Please welcome Cerlin, the bane of Vanheim and Marverni (hopefully http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif ). Give them hell I say and let them rue the day WL has gone on vacation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Baalz, can you please advise about the mechanics of subbing with llamaserver?

[Baalz]

PM me the new email address and I'll update it.

[WraithLord]

PM Sent. Thanks Baalz.

[Baalz]

Gah, what a miserable turn. I must salute a masterful outmaneuvering by Sauromatia/Digress, and of course the implacable Nieflehiem/Jurri continues to grind me down without so much as noticing the speedbumps I try to throw up. GG guys, Pangea is broken.

[Valerius]

Cerlin, welcome to the game. WL, it's been a lot of fun battling it out, have a great vacation.

Baalz, if you'd like I can take over admin duties.

[Cerlin]

Thanks for the welcome! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
I shall do my best to not be overrun and learn lots.
Onward lizard men!

[Baalz]

Thanks, sending pass now. Contact Valerius for hosting now.

[WraithLord]

Valerius said:
Cerlin, welcome to the game. WL, it's been a lot of fun battling it out, have a great vacation.

Baalz, if you'd like I can take over admin duties.



Thank you Valerius.
You know, I've got to hand it to you, you're one helluva cunning and tenacious enemy. Geez, next time I end up your neighbor I'll think long and hard before attacking you. You did very well in your campaign against me and I've enjoyed the excitement as well.
I recall Jurri describing, IIRC, RZ as his kryptonite, during this game I've started to think of you on the same terms. It seems you have an uncanny ability to predict my moves. Mind you I've tried to change pace, tactics and strategy vs. you several times this game and you seemed to predict those changes as well. I think the most likely explanation is we have a very similar thinking pattern or something.

[Cerlin]

You sure make it sound hopeful for me Wraithlord http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif haha
I'll do my best to try to continue your strats and think of new ones.

[Cerlin]

Would it be possible to get an extension? I will do my turn in the chance that its not but this turn had a LOT of stuff to do and Im still figuring out this position. 24 h max but i'd have it done in like 12 hours from the host date.

[Valerius]

Thanks very much, WraithLord. Marverni and I had a 2 to 1 advantage yet it felt like for every province we took, you took one of ours (Marverni getting the brunt of your raids). I do think we have a similar way of thinking. I definitely felt that if I didn't keep switching tactics you would make me pay for my predictability.

Cerlin, absolutely. I'll delay the game 24 hours.

[Valerius]

Really stupid post deleted.

[Jurri]

Thanks for the game Baalz!

[Valerius]

Umm, apparently I don't know the difference between PM and forum posts. Well, in case anyone hasn't seen the above post I guess I'll delete it. Looks like I've got a nice item for the Hall of Doh! thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Aethyr]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Digress]

Off to a family funeral/tree planting thing in the country this Sunday - will be out of town for the next three days.

Have turn file in so hope I won't hold the game up much.

Hope an extension will be forthcoming for the next turn (24-36 hrs).

[parcelt]

Would it be possible to extend the current hosting period with 24 hours? I am travelling and it looks like I might not make it back in time.

[Valerius]

Sure, no problem. I've delayed hosting by a day. I've also turned off quickhost as I'll need a little more time for the next turn. Once that hosts I'll turn quickhost back on.

[Digress]

Any chance of a three or four hour extension ?

Won't have my boys in bed before the game hosts - thought I had an extra hour up my sleeve but no. Turn half done ....

[parcelt]

I will be out for the long memorial day weekend, leaving this wednesday and back next tuesday. I might be able to get a turn in over the weekend but can't guarantee it.

Could we postphone the hosting deadline until the 28th? If quickhost is on we might be able to process a turn in between.

[Valerius]

Sorry, Digress. I didn't see this or get your PM until after hosting.

I am ok with postponing hosting for the holiday weekend. Are there any objections?

[Aethyr]

Works for me.

[Valerius]

Digress is having computer problems, resulting in his first stale the entire game last turn.

I'm going to delay hosting for a couple days.

[Digress]

Have machine up and running with Linux/new hard drive and my own ISP/router at home. Have some work to catch up on (some e-mails to deal with) but will get turn in pronto.

The new patch sounds like it is going to do some terribly dire things to my Tartarians .... so much for that cheap way to get some magical diversification going.

Sorry everyone - I should be back up and running real soon.

[Digress]

Having trouble getting the turns in at the moment. Would really appreciate a hosting delay. Have PMed Valerius.

Tartarians are wrecking my economy along with spammed nasties - Sauromatia hates you all (and itself ). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Digress]

I have had to delay hosting for 12 hours - just broke my router. Firmware update has messed up my router (I think) - e-mail not being sent of recieved.

Will get turn in ASAP.

cheers
Digress

[Digress]

Hi guys,

I have been handed the keys to the game (admin wise). I have already made unannounced hosting delays, which I will admit was poor form and will not be repeated. It appears I had delayed hosting the last turn long enough for me to get my turn in but allowed Lanka to stale. I also fear that I have done exactly the same thing to Neifelheim a couple of turns ago.

I would like to say that in neither case was it intentional - I based the hosting delays on the 6 hour warning e-mails but it still sucks.

I am not able to get the turn in time this evening and am going to allow myself to stale - and am happy to be replaced as game admin.

cheers
Digress

[Digress]

It appears that by taking the "I will stale" course I will also allow Neifelheim to stale.

This is less than ideal - I have delayed hosting by 24 hours and hopefully the three of us can work out some sort of hosting schedule.

cheers again,
Digress

[parcelt]

Hi Digress - no problem for me.

Would it help you make turns if we extended the hosting period structurally with a few hours?

[parcelt]

Apologies for the stale - I sent in my turn a few times but the llamaserver wouldn't acknowledge it. I was running late so had to stop trying, hoping that one of my emails would get through after all. Guess not.

[parcelt]

Guys, I am going to set myself to AI. I am relocating for work, and this was moved forward by six weeks (was supposed to be mid-september). My schedule is crazy and I can't find the time to get turns done.

I had a blast playing, thanks for the game.

[Digress]

Turns are something of an issue for me, for a completely different reasons. The last couple of turns I did manage to get in were "maintenance" turns - replacing temples knocked down by own tarts, moving around blood hunters and attempting to hold onto castles.

No forging, no offensive moves ... no rituals (other than monthly ones).

[Valerius]

Does this mean Jurri's Niefelheim gets the win?

[Digress]

I reckon that if my tartarians quit pulling my temples down I might be able to get a dom kill in.

I have 10 candles on his capital at present and Lanka has to be putting some pressure on his remaining dominion (along with my continued push). I will PM Jurri to see what he wants to do - have been trying to force him to storm a castle or two to get rid of some of my temples whilst he seems set on economically crippling me. Its been an odd game ...

[Valerius]

Ok, so the result is still in question. If the game is going to continue is it worth seeking a sub for Lanka?

[WraithLord]

So guys, who is winning? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Digress]

Lanka has been set to AI. I understand that Jurri is likely to set Neifelheim to AI shortly.

If the game was decided on dominion alone Sauromatia wins. I have no idea how powerful Lanka actually was before it went AI.

In short ... I don't know.

I do know that I am an awfully deliquent admin .... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

[Digress]

Game is finished ... Neifelheim suffered dominion kill two turns after Jurri had set the giants to AI. So many blood slaves went into the effort - pesky candles flickering on in the far corner of the map - deep in Lankan territory.

I think my dominion push would have put Lanka under enormous pressure the moment all of Neifelheim's temples went poof.

I don't know whether I would have won for sure but I reckon I had to be getting close.

[Valerius]

Congratulations, Digress! Nice use of dominion.

I entered the win in the victorious nations thread.