HOTWXII Testing and Organisational thread

[OzzyKP]

As with most things, Eddie Izzard has covered it:

Yes, and I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. Oh, yeah. You tear your history down, man! “30 years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!" I have seen it in stories. I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!"

Well, we got tons of history lying about the place, big old castles, and they just get in the way. We're driving-- "Oh, a ****ing castle! Have to drive around it..." Disney came over and built Euro Disney, and they built the Disney castle there, and it was, "You better make it a bit bigger, they've actually got them here... And they're not made of plastic!" We got tons of them, ‘cause you think we all live in castles, and we do all live in castles! We all got a castle each. We're up to here with ****ing castles! We just long for a bungalow or something.

Actually... not too much further than that he addresses the Carpathia/America issue as well:

Yeah, so, yes, so that was it. There was a spirit of ex-empire, this thing of “things can't be done," whereas in America, I thought there was a spirit of "can be done!" The pioneer thing.

"Go do it, what do you want to do?"

“I want to put babies on spikes."

"Go then! Go!”

It's the American Dream! "Hi! I'm Crazy Eddie! I put babies on spikes. Do you want a rack of babies? We've got babies on racks! Mmm, they taste of chicken!" They do! Babies taste of chicken! Cannibals say that human flesh tastes of chicken, so babies must taste of chicken. And chicken tastes of humans. ( nervous laughter from audience ) Good, I'm glad you're coming with me on that.

(it is funnier watching or listening to it. just reading it doesn't do it justice, heh)

[Toni]

[OzzyKP]

[Asmodeous]

As for the votes, I think that the whole "open the password to the votes" should not happen until the end of the game. I do hope that's the way you intended to do it.

I think they should remain private until the game is over, not on a session basis. Just giving the total tally is all that need be done.

I have total faith in CS that he wouldn't cheat people.

Me.

[deity]

I tend to agree with that Asmo.

Surprise surprise

If we saw them on a session by session basis we could manipulate them.... perhaps...

[deity]

[11:19] deity: Can we clarify the rules at start of session?
[11:19] john,lz: sure
[11:19] deity: is it just 10 tech trades?
[11:19] deity: no other restrictions?
[11:19] john,lz: yeah.
[11:19] deity: no alliance limits?
[11:19] john,lz: nope
[11:20] john,lz: that was the only thing we decided definitively
[11:20] deity: ok
[11:20] deity: cool
[11:20] john,lz: the 10 tech trades
[11:20] john,lz: everything else is open
[11:20] deity: and thx for tirelessly running the show lz
[11:20] john,lz: all techs tradeable. all alliance stuff open

[LzPrst]

ok. so far about the votes. the way I intended it was that we send in votes once a week. when the last vote is sent after the last session, after the game is over, the end. THEN cyber will announce the final score and give us all access to the account to read justifications. we will be allowed to read them, but not change, modify or delete posts, obviously. if someone want's to keep their votes and justifications secret even after the game, then they should remark that in the votes they send so cyber can remove them before giving us access to the vote account. which will only happen after the game has ended, the last session played and the last votes sent in and all votes counted.

what inca suggested isn't completely out there, but as deity says, it leaves room for manipulation, theoretically. The votes will only be released upon game end.


we will vote on storytelling now, from now until the game session 2 starts. So that gives roughly +24 hours. if people feel that anyone has done remarkable acts in the diplomacy and/or military categories, they may vote in them as well. and keep in mind, you CANT vote for yourself. and you must vote from the diplo_civ[at]plomp.eu account. and the address to send it to is diplo_vote[at]plomp.eu

if you haven't voted before session 2 starts, you should do so as soon as possible after it ends. votes received 24 hours after the session has ended won't be counted.

and please give some form of justification for your votes so people feel they can understand why you've rewarded what you have.

any questions?

[Toni]

No questions Lz, Only waiting for the session to start

[LzPrst]

note to deity's post.

all alliance stuff open. but come on people, try to make alliances that make sense. that have a religious, civical, political, or storybased coherence. alliances with nations on the other side of the world in 2000 bc is just silly. and should be punished. with fierce kicks to the nuts. or bad scoring in the diplo-votes and/or storytelling votes. keep in mind that "unreasonable or non-sensical" diplomacy shouldn't be rewarded.

anything unclear?

[Asmodeous]

Can we play twice a week?

Me.

[deity]

Originally posted by Asmodeous
Can we play twice a week?

Me.

Once more I can only agree with Asmo!

Also can we play a longer session? Would it work to start an hour earlier and do 4 hours?

And/or another 3 hour session 24 hours earlier?

[Toni]

Once more I can only agree with Asmo and Deity

[Diplo Carpathia]

IF ANYONE AT THIS JUNCTION HAS NOT LOGGED INTO THEIR DIPLO E-MAILS, THEY SHOULD DO SO IMMEDIATELY. THEY WILL BE THE BACKBONE OF DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS. AND THE ACCOUNT TO SEND YOUR VOTES FROM! IF ANYONE NEEDS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE DOING SO, PLEASE LET US KNOW IMMEDIATELY.

I still don't know how to access this, and thus haven't voted. Big pain in the ass if you ask me, but if you insist on recreating the wheel for fear of running out of space for messages (errr, can't we just delete old ones when the box fills???), I guess I'll conform and use it.

[Toni]

It's just brutal to wait 7 days for this amazing game to continue

[Toni]

Diplo Carpathia it's very easy to use, just go to the pm which CS send you and use the same username and pass for the mail service. Click on the email link and input the user and pass.

It is easy Carpathia

And I still wait for your contact info i asked before!

Please send me your email and tel