Ascendant - Game On!

[lch]

Renojustin said:
Nice work! Tell us when we can reconnect again.

You can do that now. Remember to delete old game files first.

Wrana said:
And now wtf? Also, Ich, I usually just look at your stats page, so mail shouldn't be an issue... And my mailbox also has no your messages in spambox, too. So it's probably YOUR mailbox which needs rechecking..

The message is bouncing back from your email server, see my quote. That means that it never touches your inbox or spam folder.

Renojustin said:
A couple of provinces don't really connect like it looks like they're supposed to. Any way to straighten that out before you get the server back up?

No. I wasted enough time on this as is. I'm not supposed to be patching the game while it's underway.

Wrana said:
It's often the case with random map generator. Possibly with manually editing *.map file?

If the map generator uses the same algorithm for neighbor detection like the original fan made one it was based on, then that thing really sucks. I have coded something for this which I'll release later when I get to polish it a bit, but in any case these changes have to be applied before the game has started. After the game has started, the map graph goes into the fthrlnd file and the game ignores the .map.

[Renojustin]

Hey, you did it! Nice job man!!

[secretperson]

lol wow- i didn't even realize all this had happened. I guess i got lucky and logged in after it was all resolved.

[kasnavada]

Wow. Ich is amazing. Well.

[Renojustin]

Sauromatia lays claim to the sacred Neck. The ancestral homes of Old Sauromatia lay on the banks of the vast Middle Sea. Once a proud people lived there in shining cities.

Then Stravinsky the phoenix god came down and took the form of a stork. He gathered the wise old men of the proud city together, and challenged them to a game. He showed the men his golden-red rubies the size of kiwis, and then they knew greed.

Stravinsky used the air itself to move his cards and trick the men, and before long, he had won all the men's monies. But Stravinsky was a cruel god, and he offered the men one last "chance" to get their gold and jewels back.

Goober the Witch King, the Swamplord himself, rose and took the trickster's challenge and bet the ancient lands of the Neck against the shadows and trickery of Stravinsky. The challenge was simple.

"Heads or tails?" Stravinsky squawked - the stork suddenly burst into flame, cackling and howling like a thing of both the fire and the wind.

And a tritoness was carried in screaming by four monstrous black apes in metal armors, their immense figures sleek and dangerous. They readied their razor-sharp falchions as she struggled to breathe through drying gills.

[Wrana]

To Ich:
I surely got your notification mail from May 03. Did the message you had quoted was from later time or did by "one turn" you meant earlier? For earlier I had one of your messages spamboxed, but after I notified server this didn't repeat. BTW, about "thing that sucks" I can only agree...

To Renjoustin/Sauromatia:
Well, and what these pretty words mean? You want to beat crap out of somebody? Just tell him:
"I want your lands. I want your gold. I want your women. Prepare to die!"
Or did you eat up too much Sidhe meat to be able to speak plain now?

[Darkwind]

"Two Birds With One Stone"? I assume you're warring with Atlantis as well as Kailasa. Or am I wrong?

At any rate, my war with C'tis is about to take a bad turn before it gets better.

[Shigure]

Renojustin said:
Sauromatia lays claim to the sacred Neck. The ancestral homes of Old Sauromatia lay on the banks of the vast Middle Sea. Once a proud people lived there in shining cities.

Then Stravinsky the phoenix god came down and took the form of a stork. He gathered the wise old men of the proud city together, and challenged them to a game. He showed the men his golden-red rubies the size of kiwis, and then they knew greed.

Stravinsky used the air itself to move his cards and trick the men, and before long, he had won all the men's monies. But Stravinsky was a cruel god, and he offered the men one last "chance" to get their gold and jewels back.

Goober the Witch King, the Swamplord himself, rose and took the trickster's challenge and bet the ancient lands of the Neck against the shadows and trickery of Stravinsky. The challenge was simple.

"Heads or tails?" Stravinsky squawked - the stork suddenly burst into flame, cackling and howling like a thing of both the fire and the wind.

And a tritoness was carried in screaming by four monstrous black apes in metal armors, their immense figures sleek and dangerous. They readied their razor-sharp falchions as she struggled to breathe through drying gills.

This is the best manufactured casus belli I have ever seen. I'm not sure what the deal with the tritoness is, but everything you say about Stravinsky is absolutely true, especially the bit about the rubies.

Kailasa gave me a smack to the face last turn as well, but I ended up killing a good 60-70%% of what I lost in gold, and still expanding. It looked pretty bad till the end, but then my archers fired one last time before breaking, and shot up a squad of Yavanas pretty well.

Throw a large army of low-protection archers at a nation with strong earth mages, and the results are predictable.

[Renojustin]

We can afford these rates to conquer the ape people, whereas the flower of your demigod leadership falters and dies against easily replacable mortal men... your soldiers wane of disease and poison and fewer and fewer smile at your Phyrric victory over their cookfires at night.

Still we didn't expect our little probe to actually be repulsed. Though we are surprised you called it a large army.