Per Sparrowhawk's request: the "7 player PBEM" - game...

[Carolus Rex]

I'm playing now...

A question: are we not supposed to report acts of war? I have a unit in the yellow in one of my cities and would like to know who attacked me!

Also, destroying city improvements is an act of war and I suppose we should report that as well...

I seem to lose city improvements every now and then, but it could be bad memory + long between the turns (see the list above!)...

Another strange thing... All my cities are not cycled through when I jump to the next city in the city window?! Strange!

Carolus

[Carolus Rex]

Turn played and sent on to La Fayette...

Carolus

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex

Another strange thing... All my cities are not cycled through when I jump to the next city in the city window?! Strange!

Carolus

When I was your sub (a long time ago ) this happened to me and I came to the conclusion that it was probably due to the strange letters that you used for some city names.

[Carolus Rex]

Yes, that's what I thought too... Still, I've seen cities named "!"... But perhaps they were not "cyclable" either?

First time I noticed it was today...

I think it's Crustacian who originally played as the romans and baptised the cities...

Carolus

[Sparrowhawk]

As far as I know any acts of war all should be reported (whether successful or not) as well as diplomatic activity (such as sabataging improvements).

Not sure who has done this to you, but I did not attack you and had nothing to report (nor have I attacked you or sabotaged any improvements.....yet ).

Though I had every reason to attack!

/me

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk

Not sure who has done this to you

Talk to your treacherous ally, the americans, oh ye unfaithful!

I am sure they have something to do with it... The coasts are crawling with their puny iron clads! Do they not know that that ship construction is obsolete?!

Carolus

[kengel]

What? treacherous americans?

We officially assure that we did not attack any roman city/unit for centuries now, nor we do plan it in near future (yet )

[Sparrowhawk]

Which begs the question....who attacked the Romans??

If it wasn't kengel (Americans) and it wasn't me (Mongols)........then who?? Eddy and the Egyptians??

Perhaps the Romans should be careful who they ally with........that Babylonians are closer to the Romans then anyone else ?

/me

[Carolus Rex]

Heh, heh!

Perhaps it was hurt a couple of turns ago... That's about 6 months ago IRL, so maybe I'm excused if I didn't remember that...

Yellow it is, though...

Carolus

[Sparrowhawk]

And I haven't attacked you (nor did I attack Crustacian, even though he took a city from me........Kabul), and kengel says he didn't either.

makes no sense, unless maybe Barbs? (Haven't seen them in Mongolia in a loooooonnnnnnnngggggg time though). Actually now that you mention it, I think there were barbs outside of Kabul a while back wern't there??

/me

[La Fayette]

Difficult to remember the details after several months.
Yet IIRC most Bab warriors were getting sunburnt on the beautiful beaches of Babland. They seem to have now reached a colour somewhere between the averages at Malibu and Abidjan.

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk

makes no sense, unless maybe Barbs?

I suppose it could be the unit that took out your riflemen... You had a mini-invasion going and I lost some units until one was victorious... That's probably it...

Still, shows what long time between turns can do...

Carolus

[DaveV]

Originally posted by La Fayette

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
I would be in favour of some time limit.

* Sparrowhawk

What about a week then ?
Other players are invited to give their opinion.

Fine with me. I have a feeling the stalemate may be broken soon, by one side or the other...

[Carolus Rex]

Although I may be the biggest sinner in this issue I second a one week time limit.

Carolus

[Sparrowhawk]

Okay it appears that 5 of us are in agreement to a time limit of some sort, and I have sent an email to Eddy and Mostly Harmless so that they can post an opinion as well.

Here is the content of my email:

Hello Eddy and Mostly Harmless,

Currently there is a discussion going on at Apolyton about the future of our PBEM Game. Basically it has been suggested that we place a one week timeline on the playing of our turns, and if at the end of that week the turn hasn't been played that an ally of the person be asked to play the turn on their behalf.

The other 5 players in the game have posted various opinions so perhaps you two could as well? (though I am not sure either of you post to Apolyton anymore).

Here is the link to the thread in question: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...91#post3894091

Hopefully both of you get a chance to go and post an opinion.

Thanks,
Sparrowhawk