The Dance of Civilizations [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread Pt1]

[Korea (DoC)]

oh dear another war....

distractions distractions

I am trying to organsie a world wide revolt agaian t india and you people jsut keep fighitng ezch other.

Natives spying on me with max EP, i bet Mali soying on Byx max EP so india can continiue full research to nukes then nuke the hell out of me,

and now the ottamons are found to have increased EP on me,,...


pesia cancels one resource deal dmeands another, threatens to attack unless we give them 100 gold




I ma getting apranoid.....

[Korea (DoC)]

Your text has 1 error. (grammar not grammer). Your typing skills are clearly inferior, we must assimilate you for your own good. Resistance is futile...
(joking)

I am not the linguist-nazi. I don't mind a few mistakes in either typing or grammar. I make them too. What I do mind is a 10 word sentence with 5 words misspelt. Not once, but every time, almost every post. A lot of errors may creep in to a long text, but a short text should not require a huge effort to look over, hit Ctrl + <-, get to the word in question and shape it up a bit.

Sorry for bringing it up, my point was not to silence Raz, it was a desire that he make a bit of an effort to improve his typing.

And Australian is a dialect of English. (so says the language-nazi!)

nex you wil lsay thT AMERICAN ia onloy a dialect of english too

[Byzantium (DoC)]

'The angel or mercy' virus got your computer !

[Russia (DoC)]

I logged in, it seems the city was captured. Seeing the amount of resistance I should have burned it...

[Russia (DoC)]

well, if Russia has proven to be anything in this game it is nasty. grow up in a junkyard, your dog will become mean...

[Byzantium (DoC)]

I've just looked at Civstats and saw that Saladin has lost two cities. What? The poor Arabians - what have they ever done? Oh ... no ... there are two leaders called Saladin! Now how confusing is that!

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Logging on is the only way to find out. On the whole it seems to just pause at the point you lost contact though not sure in this case. Hope it works out ... well not that I want to take sides.

And as for a policy on raizing cities - yes sure, nothing wrong with that, though some will make nasty stories about you if you do.

[Russia (DoC)]

Trouble!!

I decided to go for a good old fashioned war and just DoW'ed Ottoman. As I had just conquered 2 cities and pondering if I was going to raze the 2nd or keep it, my comp crashed!! Not sure what will happen if I log in now? What will have happened?

[mzprox]

Me no ta naive englsh speker ether, fortunetly lerning muc hfrom teh potss her. thx Raz

[Russia (DoC)]

what is policy about razing cities?

[LzPrst]

Geez LzPrst I hope you don't get mad when I write. I make a lot of grammer errors but then again English is not my first language and the translator I use is not always right.

Your text has 1 error. (grammar not grammer). Your typing skills are clearly inferior, we must assimilate you for your own good. Resistance is futile...
(joking)

I am not the linguist-nazi. I don't mind a few mistakes in either typing or grammar. I make them too. What I do mind is a 10 word sentence with 5 words misspelt. Not once, but every time, almost every post. A lot of errors may creep in to a long text, but a short text should not require a huge effort to look over, hit Ctrl + <-, get to the word in question and shape it up a bit.

Sorry for bringing it up, my point was not to silence Raz, it was a desire that he make a bit of an effort to improve his typing.

And Australian is a dialect of English. (so says the language-nazi!)

[Korea (DoC)]

English not my first language either, Australian is !!!!

[Orb (DoC)]

Geez LzPrst I hope you don't get mad when I write. I make a lot of grammer errors but then again English is not my first language and the translator I use is not always right.

[Egypt (DoC)]

Yes to 2, 3, 5

1 and 4 I want to support, but not in the form they are written.

Yes 1 needs altering since we don't want to apply that penalty without thought. But we should still keep the sense that there can be penalty applied if someone decides just not to bother at all. As inca said, mistakes are one thing, but my difficulty with the rule change as proposed is that is seems to imply that if someone just decides they will post from now on under their real name, nothing would happen. I think that is wrong, we do want everyone on-side with using the game identities.

4. The rule was created for good reason, which was that in BtP there were some awkward moments when people thought they were fighing two opponents, trying to get one to agree peace while leaving the war with the other, only to realise afterwards that they were both bieng controlled by the same person since they were subbing for the other one. That kind of thing, or even the possibility of that kind of thing, is a problem. So I think we do need transparency on subs however we do it - or at least transparency if someone in game is subbing for someone else.

I agree with Byzantium on this.

[Korea (DoC)]

I had always thought Raz was just severely dyslexic rather than either lazy or rude. The abysmal grammar is different and should need attention as there is no excuse for it from someone who has English as their first language.

Still, I cannot see the point in shouting about it as having lived to 68 without cause to address these problems I would very much doubt that you will change him now. He does make an effort with IG posts so best to leave it there.

In truth, the perennial use of TEH rather THE on gaming forums annoys me far more than anything that Raz might type as that is no accident, or inability to use the English language, just pure affectation. I really do wish people would stop it.

no i fully sadmit i am lazxy no dyslexic. I am not a touch typist and tend to think far faster than my hands can type and then too lazy to correct the worng keys hit on way though.