New type of diplo game

Robert Plomp · July 22, 2010, 14:08

Can Egypt and Rome confirm?
What about Maya and Sumeria, they're at war as well....

Sumeria (DoD) · July 22, 2010, 16:42

Sumeria and Maya remain at war.

I believe that shortening the timer would be better for most and acceptable to me but that Maya may find it hard to cope.

I do not wish to win a war unfairly due to different time-zones and office hours.

@Deity. I am aware of the rule regarding elimination and have no desire of eliminating Maya anyway. I do wish to gain 1 particular city and war will continue until I succeed. I cannot negotiate with Maya as they are not on PYT or looking at Poly under their game ID. As you know IG negotiations start with a ceasefire for 10 turns and that will harm me.

Russia (DoD) · July 24, 2010, 12:44

Robert could you please restart the server, I can't connect to it. I see that others have been able to, but I am out of luck.

Robert Plomp · July 24, 2010, 19:09

Done.

WarningU2 · July 26, 2010, 10:48

I was waiting for the other diplo game to start and realized this was going instead? I would have liked to play this. If anyone drops out please let me know. Have fun guys.

OzzyKP · July 26, 2010, 14:14

Well we do have a third diplo game that was off to a good start, but has been just about abandoned due to lack of players and involvement.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=190918

Egypt (DoD) · July 27, 2010, 15:22

In the last five turns I had 3 random events each has wiped out one of my improvements (cottages and a quarry)
May I ask that my enemies use more conventional methods bringing me down instead of bribing the GM or whoever..? thanks.

Rome (DoD) · July 27, 2010, 15:47

enemIES? You got more then one?
Who are they? I have to hook up with them.

I am sorry for not answering Plomp.
I donot think we need a 12h turntimer because Egypt is wandering through my lands with his maceman. I need to keep eye on him.

Egypt (DoD) · July 27, 2010, 16:33

I see enemies everywhere..

Pinchak · July 27, 2010, 22:57

Warningu2 - The Maya are all yours if you want them. I have a full time job, wife, kids, and a new paintball hobby (addiction)? Cannot login more than once a day so this timer (which was suppose to switch to 24 hours after awhile) is killing my game.

Password for them is [removed by Robert].

edit: I have send the password by PM to WarningU2

Robert Plomp · July 28, 2010, 02:29

The timer is 18 hours right now, btw!

mzprox · July 29, 2010, 08:12

Is the game down now or the problem is at my side?

Robert Plomp · July 29, 2010, 08:48

It's down

I'm not home, 3-4 hours before I am home. I'll most probably have to load the latest save.

Robert Plomp · July 29, 2010, 13:27

Game's up again. I've used the autosave of China's logon. His moves are thus undone. more then 9 hours on the clock.

WarningU2 · July 30, 2010, 06:34

I have taken over the Mayans ... no point in trying to appear anon for me

I see I am at war and am asking for a ceasefire and terms. I am not sure of the play order so I played my turn without any aggressive actions.

Sumeria (DoD) · July 30, 2010, 16:45

As there is a new government in Maya I will accept Cease-Fire.

I hope that my logging in again is not taken as a double move, I know it is not against the rules anyway, as I merely do it to accept the Cease-Fire and block further troop movements which were pre-plotted.

As a gesture of goodwill I have offered Maya Open Borders, a number of commodities for free and will help in the reconstruction of their infrastructure as little now remains.

Welcome to the game!

Sumeria (DoD) · July 31, 2010, 03:53

War with Maya confirmed over.

Timer can go back to normal if everyone is happy about it.

Rome (DoD) · July 31, 2010, 05:51

Rome and Egypt are in an ongoing cold-war. No action is happening except that Egyptian Maceman in my territory. If he promises to not abuse a double move to harm me with that mace, I am ok with the timer going back to normal.

deity · August 1, 2010, 02:07

Good to see diplo returning to the southern war

And welcome to WarningU2. Good work

Rome and Egypt seem to be the quickest on average to play their turns so I think a shorter timer is OK, maybe somewhere between 10 and 18 hours... 14

Great game guys. Lots of good players playing to their advantages really well. And excellent participation. And from my perspective, excellent diplo comms.

Egypt (DoD) · August 1, 2010, 03:16

I won't move with that maceman, shorter turns are fine. But if the cold war starts to be hot we need to go back to longer timer.

Robert Plomp · August 1, 2010, 03:21

back to 12 hours (= +-14h)

St Jon · August 1, 2010, 17:00

Originally Posted by deity

Good to see diplo returning to the southern war

And welcome to WarningU2. Good work

Rome and Egypt seem to be the quickest on average to play their turns so I think a shorter timer is OK, maybe somewhere between 10 and 18 hours... 14

Great game guys. Lots of good players playing to their advantages really well. And excellent participation. And from my perspective, excellent diplo comms.

I thought this would be a very funny diplogame with much more in common with a normal kill or be killed. Strange game it still remains but the diplo has been great and PYT has been an amazing addition for secret talks.

Great to see WarningU2 join prepared to take on the lowest ranked Civ.

Greatest of all is that we have not had a single dispute! No 'double moves' even though they are legal.

Your comment at the start that we are 'With good diplo players we expect a game with integrity and common sense' seems to have been the result.

Definitely a very good player list with even the lower ranked players playing their turns and joining in the diplo.

Rome (DoD) · August 2, 2010, 13:30

Please extend the timer again.
Rome has declared war on Gondor. (Gondor = Byzantium)

18 hours is ok for me. I don't know what Gondor wants.

Byzantium (DoD) · August 2, 2010, 23:58

Originally Posted by Rome (DoD)

Please extend the timer again.
Rome has declared war on Gondor. (Gondor = Byzantium)

18 hours is ok for me. I don't know what Gondor wants.

That is fine.

Byzantium (DoD) · August 3, 2010, 03:17

The current timer will probably work OK for me btw.

Robert Plomp · August 3, 2010, 03:22

Since you are last in turn order, I will leave things as they are for now.

America (DoD) · August 5, 2010, 04:18

I will be away for about a week from about 17 hours from now and have no access to a computer and need a sub urgently. I will pm Ozzy with my details, maybe he can do it, if not possibly he can pass my details including password onto a sub who is willing to do it. Game is getting interesting and I no longer want any player already in this game to sub for me.

America (DoD) · August 5, 2010, 20:25

I will be leaving within an hour and be away for about 6 days. I have pm'd Ozzy with details, can someone outside the game please sub for me, the game is at a stage where I do not wish to use an ingame player as a sub although there are 2 players willing to do that. Contact Ozzy through pm for details, Ozzy has not yet responded to pm, so potentially he can do it himself, I do not know.

Egypt (DoD) · August 6, 2010, 02:20

Rome is attacking again, has some units already in my territory so I don't want to double move, but soon I'll have to leave to work. If I can't make my turn before leaving (in an hour) I will need at least two extra hours-pause because I won't be back until the timer expires. And from now on we should get back to 18h.

deity · August 6, 2010, 02:34

Originally Posted by Egypt (DoD)

Rome is attacking again, has some units already in my territory so I don't want to double move, but soon I'll have to leave to work. If I can't make my turn before leaving (in an hour) I will need at least two extra hours-pause because I won't be back until the timer expires. And from now on we should get back to 18h.

I should be around to keep an eye on the timer.