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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Tue, 03 June 2008 07:14

Effluviant Walrus

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 91
Registered: May 2008
Location: New York, US

Adacore - I honestly have no clue when I put that in; ignore it, we'll play in a normal galaxy. I was hoping we could start by Monday, so we should all try to get our race files in by Thursday or so in case there are any complications.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Tue, 03 June 2008 12:55

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

I think my race is just about ready. I'll have another look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes, then hopefully send it off.

Is it standard practice to password race files or not? I understand that with Autohost it's not necessary, so long as the host isn't playing, right?

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Tue, 03 June 2008 13:27

Effluviant Walrus

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 91
Registered: May 2008
Location: New York, US

OK, Ptolemy says that you can PM your race files to him or email them to ptolemy.stars@gmail.com . I put a password on my file because...I like passwords, but I don't think its necessary. While I'd like to start the game ASAP, don't feel rushed if you want another day or two to testbed your race.

Thanks all!

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Wed, 04 June 2008 12:10

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

Sent mine via email. Glad I took another day - slightly changed (hopefully improved) the design Very Happy

Tested it half a dozen times tonight. Mixed feelings - I got some very weird gens, things like starting right in the corner (literally no other planets between the HW and the corner), but with a cluster of great planets just next to the HW; or starting dead in the middle of the galaxy with no planets within 81 ly. They provided interesting stress-tests though Confused

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 09:20

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

Ooh - thought of another question on the diplomacy rules! Do ships count as being in the same orbit on a turn if one of them gets destroyed?

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 09:31

Effluviant Walrus

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 91
Registered: May 2008
Location: New York, US

No. You can't analyze the language of and talk to the people on a destroyed ship.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 09:59

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

Aww - can't we work it out from their pitiful cries for mercy as we blow them out of the skies? Twisted Evil

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 13:55

Effluviant Walrus

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 91
Registered: May 2008
Location: New York, US

Well, if you keep to a vocabulary of only cries for mercy, you can send all the messages you want Smile

. Lets assume that contact requires an exchange of dictionaries.

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Current status

Thu, 05 June 2008 15:34

Ptolemy

Commander

Messages: 1008
Registered: September 2003
Location: Finland

I now have 6 race files from the following players:

Effluviant Walrus
Dashiva
Adam Oddy
Roman
Magic
Neilhoward

Still 2 races missing. As soon as I receive them I will verify everything and generate the game. I suspect that the game will start probably at the end of next week - depending on Ron's schedule and free time to set it up on AH.

Ptolemy

Though we often ask how and why, we must also do to get the answers to the questions.

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Re: Current status

Thu, 05 June 2008 17:05

Effluviant Walrus

Senior Chief Petty Officer

Messages: 91
Registered: May 2008
Location: New York, US

Cool. Just to clarify, what timezone will we be using for deadlines to send turns in? GMT or GMT -5 or something else?

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Re: Current status

Thu, 05 June 2008 22:41

Ptolemy

Commander

Messages: 1008
Registered: September 2003
Location: Finland

Well, I'm at GMT+3 so I usually set turns to gen at around 2200 GMT so I can put the game on hold if necessary before I go to sleep.

Ptolemy

[Updated on: Thu, 05 June 2008 22:42]

Though we often ask how and why, we must also do to get the answers to the questions.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 23:16

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

Whose races are we missing then? Two of Shadow Whist, Kado and f7redrik I guess.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Thu, 05 June 2008 23:33

Ptolemy

Commander

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Registered: September 2003
Location: Finland

I have now received the race from shadow whist - one still missing.

Ptolemy

Though we often ask how and why, we must also do to get the answers to the questions.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 01:38

Magic

Petty Officer 3rd Class

Messages: 44
Registered: November 2003
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

I'm at GMT +3 also Smile

BTW, do NOT restore turns in any case please! Turn restore can only be made if ALL players wants it.

[Updated on: Fri, 06 June 2008 02:19]

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 02:37

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

At the moment I'm in GMT+8, flying back to GMT+1 in August (I don't think that'll affect me playing any turns, hopefully we'll be on 48 hour gens by then, but if it does I'll try to work something out).

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Re: Current status

Fri, 06 June 2008 03:18

Magic

Petty Officer 3rd Class

Messages: 44
Registered: November 2003
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

To Ptolemy: it looks like Magic and Roman in your list is the same person Smile

My name is Roman

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 04:04

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

That makes more sense! I didn't think either of f7redrik or Kado were likely to be called Roman (their profiles say they're Swedish and Polish respectively, if I recall), so that had me a bit confused.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 04:17

Nike71

Crewman 3rd Class

Messages: 4
Registered: May 2008
Location: Belize City, Belize

Have sent the race file now.

I�m at GMT -6. Turn generation time does not really matter for me so anything goes as long as the time is consistent.

BR,
Niclas

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 04:30

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

Looking at the range of locations, I don't think the time chosen really matters. Russia, Belize, China, UK, USA, Poland and Sweden gives us quite a range of timezones... although I'm the only Asia-Pacific one, so once I'm back in Europe it may be more manageable.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 19:02

Ptolemy

Commander

Messages: 1008
Registered: September 2003
Location: Finland

OK Everyone,
I believe I now have all the race files.

The players are:
Effluviant Walrus
Dashiva
Adam Oddy
Roman
Magic
Neilhoward
Shadow Whist
Nike71

I will now start verifing all races and send a message to everyone.

Effluviant Walrus, Neilhoward and Magic have sent their races via PM in Autohost. I need these three players to send me a message to ptolemy.stars AT gmail dot com in order to create the game mail list.

If all goes well during this week-end, I will generate the game and send the files to Ron to put them on Autohost.

Regards,
Ptolemy

[Updated on: Fri, 06 June 2008 19:03]

Though we often ask how and why, we must also do to get the answers to the questions.

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Fri, 06 June 2008 21:29

Nike71

Crewman 3rd Class

Messages: 4
Registered: May 2008
Location: Belize City, Belize

Hi!

If I�m not to confused we are missing f7redrik!? Roman and magic seemed to be the same person (mentioned in a recent post) if I understood it correctly.

I suggest that we wait one more day to see if f7redrik sends in his race-file.

/Niclas

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Sat, 07 June 2008 00:11

Ptolemy

Commander

Messages: 1008
Registered: September 2003
Location: Finland

Nike71 is indeed correct - one race file is missing (thank you Nike71). Roman has sent his file both by PM and e-mail.

I will wait a couple more days to see if we get the missing file. If not, you all can certainly start with 7 players.

Ptolemy

[Updated on: Sat, 07 June 2008 00:11]

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Re: Gunboat Diplomacy (well, not anymore...mostly standard game)

Sat, 07 June 2008 00:57

Adacore

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Messages: 156
Registered: February 2005
Location: Shanghai

We had someone else who was interested in playing if we had a dropout - vmanuel, looking through the past posting. He suggested we email him if we were looking for a replacement, so maybe we should, if f7redrik doesn't show up.

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