Reply With QuoteWould probably get more takers if you were able to do Pitboss. Of course then you need a server, and those seem to be hard to set up...
Forgive me if this is not the appropriate spot for this, but I wasn't sure if it should go here or in the Colonization folder (which is pretty sparse). Does anyone still play Colonization (C4C) PBEM? I just picked up Civ4 Complete from Direct2Drive and am loving the remake of Col. I'm terrible at it, but would be interested in learning in a PBEM game. Thanks!
Would probably get more takers if you were able to do Pitboss. Of course then you need a server, and those seem to be hard to set up...
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Ah okay thanks for the tip. I suppose that's because a PitBoss game might run faster if people are all on and it eliminates the hassle of sending files around?
Anyhow I did some playing and searching and was able to get PitBoss running on my linux box which is up all the time. Sooooo ..... instead of a PBEM anyone want to play a PitBoss Col game?
I don't think pitboss works with civ-col
Hmm are you sure? There's a colonization_pitboss executable in my Col directory and when I ran it I was able to connect to the game just fine. Seemed to work for me anyhow. I saw other people connecting to my test game, too.
I'd be interested in joining in just to try it out. I've never done an MP game of Colonization.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Okay, great! Like I said, I'm not very good, but I thought it would be fun to play it this way. I'll leave this up for a day or so to hopefully get one or two more interested parties and then we can go about setting it up. I suppose we should start discussing what kinds of options we want set for the game. I'm pretty open as I haven't played a ton yet.
I saw in the Civ 4 MP forums where they have threads dedicated to games, should we have the same? I also looked into civstats.com and playyourturn.com but they appear to only offer stats for Civ 4 and not Colonization, alas. I'm guessing nothing like that exists at the moment?
Thanks for playing!
Okay so I guess I'll just put up the server with default config options today/tomorrow. I'll post with a password when it's up and running. It'll be OzzyKP and I, but I'll leave the other two slots open in case anyone else here wants to join up. I'll try to get it running today, but it might have to wait until tomorrow. Looking forward to the game.
Yea I'm still in. I'm up for whatever options. We can keep this thread open to discuss game issues.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Okay, the game is afoot!
I wanted to make it an internet game because I figured that was easier for people to connect to, but for some reason I couldn't log into the game when I was at home so that won't work.
A Direct IP game it is then. It's called Hudson and you can get to it via amarriner.homelinux.net (password: apolyton).
I created one Human player and three AI players for the European nations. I took the Human one, but will not play my turn until you snag one of the AI's, Ozzy, so the game doesn't do their turns. Just respond to this thread once you've joined and I'll play my turn. Anyone else who reads this is welcome to grab the other two nations (hopefully the AI will have been nice to you
I left most of the settings at their defaults except I did put a turn timer at 48 hours. Might be too long, but I wanted to go more than one day. Also, by default we're all on the Explorer difficulty.
Lastly, the game should email you when it's your turn if you set your email on the "Your Settings" window. Hopefully that helps as we won't have any kind of civstats.com or playyourturn.com web trackers.
I can't connect to the game while you are logged in. I can't get past you. Please log out and I can play my turn.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Okay I logged off. That's odd, though, isn't it? Shouldn't we be able to be on at the same time and chat via the game? Should I have activated simultaneous turns? Sorry, new to these games...
Hmm, I still can't connect.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Weird! What's the error message you're getting?
No error message, it just keeps trying to connect and never gets past it.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Wow that's odd. Okay, I just brought it back up as an Internet game instead of Direct IP. Can you try connecting now?
I will this evening, but I'm at work now.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Okay great. Sorry about that--feel bad for the technical snafus. I was able to connect from an outside network so I thought it would be fine via Direct IP. Hopefully this way will be okay. Again if anyone else reading this wants those last two nations, feel free. I would be a good test anyway.
Ok, I just logged in as the English and got into the game, but for some reason I can't move.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Yep, that's because of the way I set the game up. I just took my turn so you should be able to move now.
I set it up with 1 Human (me) and 3 AI for others to take over. I signed in to start the game, but didn't actually take my turn because if I did the AI would've moved and then it would've been my turn again before you would be able to join the game. Anyway, you should be set to move now. After this turn that won't matter any longer.
I set up 3 AI because I wanted to give you a choice of nations when you joined. If I made them random, the Col Pitboss sometimes would pick native nations for some of the first four players which then effectively limits the human players because the human players aren't allowed to take them over.
I think we're past the hump now, though, and can start the game proper as far as I know, heh. As I said, if you put your email address in you should get notifications when it's your turn. Let me know if you don't (maybe you did already!).
Thanks, again, for playing!
Well if it is just the two of us for now, and assuming we can get past each other, I'm in the game now if you'd like to quickly knock out some of these early turns.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Sorry about that, I'm back in now if you're still around. Probably be on for a bit. If not no biggie, we can try again tomorrow.
Well we're off to a good start! Great to see that a pitboss game can be hosted in the lobby too, I never thought of that before! Its an exciting development!
We'll be back to daily turns now, thanks again for setting it up. I've got a pretty good start too.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Yeah so far so good! Well, the game is going good--I'm not sure I'm doing particularly good.
Hmm, tried logging in now and it says I can't get past the host's firewall.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Weird, nothing has changed as far as I know. Can you try again?
Yea, got the same message again. "Could not negotiate with the host's firewall"
I need to get out to work now so I guess we'll have to figure it out later.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Damn that's too bad. Well I had the civstats uploader running to see how well (or not) that worked with a Col game, but wouldn't have thought that would interfere. I've turned it off for now. I also opened up a couple more ports on my router so maybe that was the issue. Hopefully it'll be back to normal when you try later.
The other thing you could try is connecting directly again rather than through the lobby. That's how I'm connecting while I'm at home since for some reason I can't connect through the lobby here (even though I can do so from an outside network). Odd!
Hmm, maybe it was the ports or civ stats, because I logged in through the lobby and it worked just now. Go figure.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Ah very good. I should be able to hop on a little later tonight and do some simul turns if you're still around. No biggie if not!
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