Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread]

[Russia (DoE)]

I say BS. We ran a 6 civ war for umpteen turns without any pauses. This is two players, much like the Japanese and Indian situation, who cannot get their act together.

My guess is that because of obvious reasons, the Aztecs are relying and waiting for diplomatic resolving of this war and other powers to take their time in reading/sending diplo, deciding how to act, rather than actually playing Azteca turn. In the Great War it was clear who is who and what he wants, so we just played our turns without pausing and half-way actions despite we were divided in three time zones with you France, playing in the last one.

[Robert]

Next turn is longer. There's not much I can do, not letting people play their turns is worse.
But at least live up to what I said: if someone logged in early and didn't finish his turn without notifying us here, consider it as a finished turn.

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Once more we appologize for our part in this.
(for what it is worth I really tried hard to get it corrected last night (tried to play turn around 22.00hrs my time, was stuck in diplo screen, was finally able to play it at 2.48 (AM) my time).

From next turn onwards we will move in the first half of the turn: so within 13 hours.

[England (DoE)]

My advice - move to longer turns!

You've been caught in this endless pauses business for days now, weeks! Pauses don't work because nobody really knows what is going on, nobody can plan how long they have to play, and you then get pauses frozen because of diplo screens at its a nightmare.

I know everyone will groan saying we want it moving faster not slower, and so reject longer turns, but look how many turns you have actually played in the last week! Accept its hard to get people to play in turn order, adopt long turns (36 hours), and you have a happy, reliable, no-pausing game, until the wars end. Aim for faster, and you get slower in reality anyway.

Here ends to unasked for advice from a lurker!

The frustrating thing is the turns are pretty long as is. I think this turn was like 24 hours ish. There really isn't much of an excuse for all these issues. People just need to make time to take their turns or deal with the consequences of missing them.

[Vikings (DoE)]

Unpaused...played my turn...repaused just in case. I'll be around awhile if I need to unpause the game.

[France (DoE)]

Sorry for being so grumpy. Going to bed now.

[France (DoE)]

My advice - move to longer turns!

You've been caught in this endless pauses business for days now, weeks! Pauses don't work because nobody really knows what is going on, nobody can plan how long they have to play, and you then get pauses frozen because of diplo screens at its a nightmare.

I know everyone will groan saying we want it moving faster not slower, and so reject longer turns, but look how many turns you have actually played in the last week! Accept its hard to get people to play in turn order, adopt long turns (36 hours), and you have a happy, reliable, no-pausing game, until the wars end. Aim for faster, and you get slower in reality anyway.

Here ends to unasked for advice from a lurker!

I say BS. We ran a 6 civ war for umpteen turns without any pauses. This is two players, much like the Japanese and Indian situation, who cannot get their act together.

[France (DoE)]

[QUOTE=Ottoman Empire (DoE);5996789]Bah... Wife informs me I must go on a date with her to see new Harry Potter movie so I can't play.


BFS. First letter stands for 'bull'. You can figure out the second and third.

Game is paused on the third time I try to play my turn.

Looks like we all miss a turn because of this crap.

I am not amused. End of day here.

RP and Ozzy - you need to intervene here. This is nonsense.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Bah... Wife informs me I must go on a date with her to see new Harry Potter movie so I can't play.

I will Play when I get back...

[Aztecs (DoE)]

was finally able to finish my turn.
paused again.

[Aztecs (DoE)]

trying again..

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Looks like Mongolia logged in while Aztec was logged in and unpaused cause he finished his turn. Can Azteca play now? I am in a place with WiFi and can play now if Azteca finishes. Here for another hour...

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Still stuck at diplo screen.. cant play my turn..

I am really sorry about all this.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Like I said before, if someone logs in, doesn't end his turn and doesn't post here in the thread, consider his turn ended. c'est ca simple.
He most probably forgot to end his turn.

Yea I remember you saying that, but I figured if I logged in a took an Aztec city or killed units that he would say he wanted a reload anyway, which would start another reload argument. I already got whined at by everybody about sportsmanship, trust etc., so I figured waiting for an actual End Turn was better than playing and Then having to argue that "RP said to do it!" for three days while the game is paused for the controversy anyway.

Just trying to be a good sport to Azteca

[Robert]

Turn timer extended again. 32 hours.