New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[PashaDawg]

Hi All:

I am back and can take over hosting at Alneyan's leisure.

Pasha

[Cainehill]

*sigh* And apparently we are once again waiting on someone, for turn two, something that should only take someone a minute or two at most.

This reminds me why I normally avoid 17 player games like the plague.

[PashaDawg]

I received the turn for only one player for turn 2. Perhaps, all others have been sent to Alneyan, and so, I have forwarded it to him.

Pasha

[Alneyan]

ALneyan here, not on my computer, so I'll keep it short (that thing will crash any second now): I cannot host anything right now, and won't get back online until tonight at the earliest, in a few days more likely. I'll see once I can get that network up and running.

THere's a problem here though, and a big one: one player told me I put the fatherland by mistake in one of the zip files... which is about the dumbest thing that can be done. I can't check right now, but if it is indeed the case, it may warrant a restart. If I could do it right now, I would probably restart the game and redo the whole turns 1 and 2, but that would be difficult with no stable computer under my hand.

[Huntsman]

Yup, the ftherlnd file is in the zip. Why is that bad?

[Cainehill]

Because with the fatherland, people can host a copy of the game for themselves. This lets them see exactly what independent forces there are, what magic sites are in provinces (example : run the game out 30 turns researching conjuration; then cast Akashic record on provinces, which then lets them know exactly where to search in the real game), etc.

[RonD]

I guess that solves the "all the turn 2 files were sent to Alneyan, but his computer is crashed" problem....

I would vote that Pasha generate a new turn 1 and send it to everyone.

[The Panther]

Not to mention that you can try a battle with several troop configurations to determine what you need to take down a nearby indy with minimal losses. You can also run the game out a while and eventually attack your (staling) neighbors capitols to see exactly what pretenders they are using. Nobody would do such a thing, right? I don't have that kind of time myself, but others might.

This game is jinxed. I see no choice but to start over yet again.

I also noticed that several people renamed their pretenders (like Mike, for instance). I wonder if some people already know who is Mike (I don't, but I know many people he is not). For all your newbies out there (and even some vets?), if you leave the pretender name blank when creating it by simply hitting 'enter', the game will assign a thematic name for you.

Yesterday, after I moved my computer into the new house, the darn thing no longer works. Talk about bad news for the ol' Panther!!! Hopefully, I will get back on line with my laptop on Wednesday evening if I cannot figure out what is wrong with my desktop computer.

Arrggghhhhh!!!!!!!