The HOTW VII - Setup Thread III - The Trilogy

[deity]

Interesting, MMC was in that one!

[Robert]

MMC moved to a new house/connection, etc.
That's the problem

[Glohithia]

Deity, this may be a bit of a nit pick, but by the time I subbed, it was for MMC (England). I believe Moker was running Rome. It had to have been nearly 2-3 hours into the session when Ozzy asked if I could sub.

I know MMC was playing England at the start of the session, but something happened. However, at some point I lost interest in following the chat

[MMC]

BTW... session 3 was after I moved. Since then, the reliabilty of the connerction has gone downhill... Some people might like to note that for session 3 I was the only one using my connection. Since then my flatmates also moved in properly and are now sharing the connection which is stretching the reliability to breaking point.

[Colonel_Treize]

I feel I should set the record straight on the connection problems I had.

During the last makeup session on Sunday, my ISP had a hiccup and my internet connection dropped just long enough to drop everyone except me. However, I was dropped from the AIM chat.

The Friday before that, my ISP dropped service in my whole neighborhood. This happens on occasion, but it was coincidental that it happened 20 mins before game time, and it was restored just minutes after game time.

The session in which I got Alphabet, I was under a lot of pressure with the new rules (for me) and I accidently clicked on the little red 'X,' thus dropping everyone. That was entirely human error, and that particular error will not happen twice during this game, because I can only get Alphabet once.

Other than that, these are the only problems I have had. Unlike the rest of you, as a host, I have never suffered from the Big Bang effect, as you all know. As proof, we only started using the term 'Big Bang effect' after Moker started hosting. When I hosted successfully, everyone logged in at the same time without any problems. As long as my connection functions without fail on Friday, I should have no problems.

[Robert]

The session in which I got Alphabet, I was under a lot of pressure with the new rules (for me) and I accidently clicked on the little red 'X,' thus dropping everyone.

Yeah, we aren't talking about that anymore. That's just a thing we all do now and then. No worries.

[Robert]

MMC, can you not ask your flatmates to d/c their connection during gametime? It's in the middle of the night, they may not care anyway!

[Thrak]

didn't the guy who was playing rome now want to play it permanently? I am back this friday but I only played rome for one session so am not really that involved in the game at all, 3 weeks on! Hppy to sit it out now.

didn't make it to oktoberfest by the way

[Robert]

Welcome back Thrak!
I'm currently totally unknownign about which civilization is played by which and which players aren't able to play anymore and which ones are.

Good to have you back though!
Right now I fear that players may have lost interest in this game because of the two horror sessions friday and monday.

I hope that everbody will start posting that they'll play next friday soon again!

[Toni]

I confirm for this Friday

[deity]

I think it's the save. My save, which worked for 6 players or so, is slightly earlier than the other hosts...

I'll post it later...

[deity]

I confirm of course!

I'm happy to play this game out, even if AI's take over up to 4 civs. Might work better than 13 humans even if we had subs...

[Robert]

Originally posted by deity
I think it's the save. My save, which worked for 6 players or so, is slightly earlier than the other hosts...

I'll post it later...

You play it with 6 players and it works and then you conclude that it's the save

[OzzyKP]

I confirm.

[Robert]

Out of the 7 days that my new internet connection could be enabled (and my old be disabled) my ISP has chosen TOMORROW! Not only our civillization day but also the birthday of my wife.

I hope that I'll be able to quickly configure my new settings and install my new modem (that unfortunately contains a router as well, but I'll try to disable it) and be able to play in time.

If I won't be there you know why. I'll do my very best though!