MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game)-running

Schmoe · #1 October 5th, 2004, 05:29 PM

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Thufir said:
Actually, I just went through my list of games, and I don't see that you went AI in any of them, unless you were using a different ID? There were a couple of positions that went AI prematurely in Pandemonium (they were owned by "Jarenko" and "odd_enuf"), so I guess your apology is going to the wrong person?

Didn't you host a PBEM game back in May or June? I was Machaka, I thought you were Abyssia, and Ulm and Pythium had jumped out in the lead. Abyssia and Machaka had an alliance, and the turn I went AI, the AI decided to attack Abyssia, even though Ulm was seiging two Machakan fortresses! That was my first MP game. This is my second.

Anyway, I don't have a real problem with people going AI, but I think it's polite to at least try to find another resolution.

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I'm sometimes surprised by how many players go AI when they're down to their Last two or three provinces. It take so little effort to play at that point, and I usually value the opportunity to experiment tactically, w/o any great consequence hinging on the result. If I can drag out my ending for 1-2 turns longer than the AI could've then I congratulate myself for having contributed to the game.

So, generally, fighting it out to the bitter end is a good thing, but I've never felt it should be required. What *does* get me torqued is when a player just disappears w/o any notice whatsoever. It takes 5 minutes to post a PM to the game owner w/ your password and say "I'm gone". It takes maybe half an hour to post on the forum a note looking for subs, and doing a bit of follow up. Simply disappearing is totally lame, IMO.

Agreed.

Schmoe · #2 October 5th, 2004, 09:52 PM

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Schmoe said:
Didn't you host a PBEM game back in May or June? I was Machaka, I thought you were Abyssia, and Ulm and Pythium had jumped out in the lead. Abyssia and Machaka had an alliance, and the turn I went AI, the AI decided to attack Abyssia, even though Ulm was seiging two Machakan fortresses! That was my first MP game. This is my second.

Erk! I double-checked, and it appears you were not the Thufir I was speaking of

Mea culpa. But still, if you had been that guy, and I had gone AI on you, I would have felt bad. Heh.

Thufir · #3 October 6th, 2004, 11:24 PM

OK, Arco is now set to AI. I will now set to 48h fixed hosting, and I will set it to host at 8pm, PDT. If there's any consensus to change that, I'll be happy to do so (I'm guessing that this is a time that will work both east coast and west coast - it's my impression that we don't have any European players in this game).

J Henry Waugh · #4 October 7th, 2004, 01:38 PM

Sorry all... ...lost net contact for a few days... ...figured I staled for a few turns but didn't mean to hold things up... ...and tried to play this morning...

Thufir · #5 October 7th, 2004, 01:54 PM

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J Henry Waugh said:
Sorry all... ...lost net contact for a few days... ...figured I staled for a few turns but didn't mean to hold things up... ...and tried to play this morning...

Sorry about that - but that was a pretty lengthy disappearance of yours, so I was at a bit of a loss. For future reference, if you can make it to a web browser via a friend's computer (or whatever), and let us know your out of touch for a bit, we could've worked up some alternate solutions.

Hope to see you in another game!