Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread]

[England (DoE)]

India hasn't played their turn yet and there is less than half an hour on the clock so I went in and paused the game.

[England (DoE)]

Another issue... I understand that in games without tech trading sometimes allies may coordinate tech stealing from each other as a way of exchanging technology. I don't think we made a rule against this, but... should we?

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Yeah I noticed, now I am stuck in a diplo window

[Vikings (DoE)]

Looks like a LOT of people haven't played their turn.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

I can probably just miss this turn.. sigh

[Vikings (DoE)]

Looks like the turn wasn't paused after all as it has flipped to a new turn.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

I missed my turn, I had problems loggin in, but thats not a big deal as I had nothing major to do, but if India missed their turn we probably should reload for them since they are at war

[Carthage (DoF)]

@France:

nice post the Long Journey Home
Great atmosphere..

[India (DoE)]

yeah, I was going to play my turn earlier, but when I was logging in I saw Japan already in the game so I posted here. Since no reaction came I had to go out for a social event. I'm sorry for taking so long to play my turn, but I would have played it early in the turn if Japan hadn't broken the turn order.

I also expected the courtesy of being given a reload which would likely take some time. If I remember the rules correctly, a double move = a reload.

I do think that it does matter quite a lot that they get a 2nd turn right after their first since this is a naval war and their ships thus could have moved 8-16 spaces in 1 turn. that is a huge strategic and tactical advantage. I can not accept that. A reload should be done.

edit: keep in mind, that is a double move before I have been allowed to even look at the map since Japan declared war on me.

[Robert]

I will reload when I'm home. (6-8 hours from now)
I will then use the Japanese autosave (this means I will load BEFORE Japan logs in, undoing the double move)

India: not every double move is harmfull. It is not as if one moves twice in one turn, he moves twice in a row in one turn.
It can be undone by a counter-double move (but only if then the 2nd move is again not harmfull)
Therefore it's best to just always play your turn when you detect a double move. That way all options are open.

Personally I believe that it's not a good idea to play on when the 'victim' of a double move wants to reload. (experience that that never works). But at least we should get the option to talk you into that idea
It saves a lot of time.

But now we just must reload anyway so I will reload.

[India (DoE)]

considering that I have been the victim of a sneak attack, lost a colony, and my enemy has made 2 moves before I have even had a chance to check the situation, I feel that a reload would be the most sensible thing.

I will log in as soon as you post here that the reload has been done. thanks.

[France (DoE)]

@France:

nice post the Long Journey Home
Great atmosphere..

Thx! More coming.

[OzzyKP]

Has the game been reloaded?

[India (DoE)]

it has only been 3 hours, not 6-8, so I assume not.

[China (DoE)]

The game is far from over, but I think the tier system has been a great success so far.

It was starting to look bad with all the European players at the top of all the rankings, but one of the expectations with this configuration is that the packed-in European vets would start trouble, and trouble was certainly started. The war, perhaps one of the longest and biggest we've seen in diplogames set back many European nations considerably. While they were fighting with themselves nations such as India, China, Inca, Native America, Arabia and others were able to catch up in a big way. Which, of course, is exactly what the initial thought was for the map. We have emerged from the great war with a new power dynamic. All very interesting.