PBEM#4: The Terra Epos

[sabrewolf]

thanks for the info email. looking forward to this game


can you tell us all settings you put in?

cheers

[redstar1]

Is there a general problem with PBEM? I thought the problem might be my laptop at home but I'm getting the same at work... basically the saved game loads verrrryyy slowly, eventually it prompts for a password but will go no further, just appears to be trying to load.

Any suggestions?

[redstar1]

Additional:

After leaving it running for 20 minutes it has progressed slightly... hopefully will be able to play my turn this morning sometime!

[redstar1]

Turn sent.

[sabrewolf]

4000bc sent


btw guys... from the looks of my starting location i have either a really sad one or it's a highland map. i just hope those 60% hills i've got turn out to have iron, silver, and so on, otherwise i won't even survive the barbarian onslaught, not to speak of the AI civs around :tremble:

[redstar1]

I did notice a kind of 'Hilly' theme in the surrounding area

[Claus]

Hi guys,

sorry for not respondig yesterday. I wasn't at home all day until midnight.

The settings are:

-- "Giant" world, "Terra" landscape
-- 5 human players, 6 computer civs
-- All the rest custom, in particular:
--- game speed "normal"
--- all victory conditions
--- no special options activated (like "no barbarians", "eternal war" etc.)


I thought about activating the "permanent alliance" option, but in the end I didn't. Could have been interesting, though.

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Funny to read about your first map impressions. Sabrewolf from Switzerland located in the highlands, Emperor V from Canada located near the polar region.
There you can see how intelligent the program is.

I had hoped to start on the coast line with many islands around, but the Eye in the Sky has put me just in the middle of a very average-like somewhere. At least there's some water on the horizon.

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Redstar, the sluggish login speed you reported sounds not so good. I hope it was an exception, something like converting the file from the German version to the English one or so. If you have the same problem on the next turn, maybe we should do some testing with a dummy file.

Generally, I've experienced some speed problems when starting the game. In rare cases it takes three or four minutes for the program to start after I've double-clicked the icon. And naturally, the game speed slows down when the map is loaded with units and cities. But until we reach that point of the campaign, we will all have Pentium VIII with 10000 MHz an 4 GB RAM.

[MFCamillus]

Emperor V could you please resend?

I got the message but nothing actually attached.

Thanks

[Emperor_V]

Resent, I changed my settings, there were a bit askew

Looking forward to a warm blanket and a long game, the polar region looks more like an ICE age

Emperor_V

[redstar1]

One question, we realise that there is a bug where the first player can't trade correct? Hopefully that will be fixed before it becomes an issue

[Claus]

Errr, what? ... The first player, that's me!

What kind of bug is it? Do you know any details?

[redstar1]

You not read any other threads in this forum mate? First player can't trade...

[MFCamillus]

3960BC to Claus.


Link to Arnelos thread on the trading issue:

https://www.apolyton.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=258

Arne is the only one that I have seen this from though but he is pretty good. I will check with a couple of others who have some games going.

[Claus]

First turn completed by everyone, next turn sent to redstar1.

Sorry, I really didn't check the rest of the forum regarding the trade bug. I was all busy with my plans for a new world order.

I will try to do some testing today to find out if that bug appears on my machine and if some of the suggested work-arounds do actually help.
If the trade bug should appear, and if the work-around should help, then I would be in favor to restart the game.
If the trade bug appears but no work-arround helps, then we will simply have to go on and hope that a patch will help before it becomes an issue in our game.

[Claus]

Important note to all "Terra Epos" players:

Please check your email. I sent you a message about a possible restart made nescessary by a bug.