Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread]

[France (DoE)]

Hooray France ! Vive La France... no wait!... I mean er, um... Death to France!

OK France, we havent had a story out of you for a while... let's see what you got

Ya. I know.

Hectic last week. I am working on some stuff though.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Hooray France ! Vive La France... no wait!... I mean er, um... Death to France!

OK France, we havent had a story out of you for a while... let's see what you got

[France (DoE)]

Indeed!

Played with 4 minutes to spare on the turn clock.

[Russia (DoE)]

Ah, good to have the world back in order

[France (DoE)]

Sleep well Robert. Playing now. Many thanks!

[Robert]

I'm going back to bed. 50 minutes on the clock. If France fails to play I'll just reload

[Robert]

Unpaused he game.
Staring at the screen now, waiting for France to login, so that I can return to bed

[France (DoE)]

Hi folks. Sorry about that. Just back in from out of town and sitting down at my PC now. I did take a laptop with me, but the major hotel we stayed in charged an arm and a leg for internet (unbelievable) and furthermore, their internet was down (equally unbelievable).

My apologies for the hold up and my contribution to the schmozzle (another Rabbi Goan word).

I am here for the rest of the day, so if the game is still paused on my account, then please, start it up.

(pm'ing Robert)

And yes - I was stuck on a diplo screen. I was not aware of that hiccup.

(My Mom had a good time in the big city and we enjoyed the show. )

[Robert]

The game was unpaused and the turn switched, without France playing. I have reloaded therefore.

France: please PM me when you're ready to play your turn.

[Robert]

When France's PM's me that he's ready to play his turn.

[Inca (DoE)]

Groundhog Day thing going on here. When do I get to play my next turn?

[Robert]

I'll keep an eye on France tomorrow to see if we can help them finish the turn
Anybody can unpause the game, players just can't be in a diplo-box.

[Russia (DoE)]

I was telling France. I am well aware that if now the game is unpaused they will lose the turn.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Unpausing the game will not help, as then France will miss the turn. It was foolish for me to open diplo with France in-game then pause, so that was my fault.

I apologize again to All, as I usually paly my turn right at the beginning. I was the best man in a wedding and so I was out of town, busy all weekend and without my laptop or net access most of the time.

I am headed back home tonight, so I will once again reliably play at the beginning of the turn like I was doing before. I also say thanks to France and Israel for such good sportsmanship. It just so happened that the wedding was happening at such a delicate time in the game.

France, when I get home, I can un-pause, you will miss turn, but then I will not move my units that attacked Hebron so you will not be robbed of your chance to slaughter them if you so desire. I think that might be the main issue right? I will wait to hear from you. Otherwise tell me when you will log in and I will log in together with you to get you out of the diplo screen

[Russia (DoE)]

The game is paused/unpaused by pressing the "PAUSE" button, no matter who paused, but most obviously you are not asking this - maybe you were stuck in a diplo-screen. This is known pitboss bug from many years, but it is overlooked by the developer (yes - they had to make such a nice game as Civ5) and never been fixed.

Some rummors indicate that hitting repetitive PAUSE button while the game is loading from the sever can unpause it, but I never got this to work