Succession Game Anyone?

[MBloomIII]

Welcome makka and Hydey. The more the merrier.

Will hopefully get game up and running tonight. The stars do not appear properly aligned for this to happen yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[makka]

We await the founding of a glorious empire! (which we then get to muck up....)

[Thoth]

Originally posted by makka
We await the founding of a glorious empire! (which we then get to muck up....)

That's part of the fun of sucession games.

Are we going for conquest? or AC?

If we're going to AC, shall we play Extended Original?

And do both.

[MBloomIII]

We have run into a small problem.

I've played the first 20 turns but the file is too large to attach and I don't have a Zip utility here at home. The file is 161 KB and the largest size allowed for posting is 150 KB. I can e-mail what I have to the next person or e-mail it to someone with a Zip feature and they can attach it. Let me know how you guys want to proceed. In the meantime I'm going to post in the Apolyton Community forum and seek a remedy.

[JoeK]

You can just email it to me (joek@joek.com), I don't mind... but what about the next person after me? (I've got Zip... speaking of which, you can get a free zip demo at http://www.winzip.com/)

Question: When do we stop the 20 turns? Do we leave one unit with no orders at the end of the 20th turn? Or do we stop playing at the beginning of the 20th turn (skipping past all those city production complete messages)?

Joe.

[MBloomIII]

OK. I've sent the file to JoeK and will be starting a new thread for the commentary on this game. We'll do 20 turns until around 1750AD or maybe after everyone has played twice.

I've used up my WinZip demos downloading scenerios. Too cheap to actually pay for it.

[JoeK]

I'm done... next. (see Commentary thread for zip file).

Joe.

[Mercator]

I´ve just downloaded the file. You´ll probably see my results tomorrow "morning".

[Mercator]

I was a little quicker than I thought... Next (again, ZIP in the Commentary thread).

[NeoBlade]

Can I play?

Can I play?Please?Just add me to the list.I'm pretty good,I play at King/Diety level normally.

[MBloomIII]

I'll add you to the list. Seems to be a strong contingent of Floridians joining this game. Check the "Commentary" thread for the master list.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

OK, got the file... seems to be OK and I should get my turns played tomorrow night!

STYOM

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

We have a problem



A (hopefully little) problem has materialized. And no, it's not just my Deity playing skills.

About 3 turns into my shift as leader, the Spanish landed near one of our cities. That's not the problem. The problem is, they landed out of a ship that looks like a Colonist (from the 'Extended Game') and is labeled 'Spanish Extra Ship'.

I've never seen this bug in my ToT games - I do recall the Ultrastring Theory bug, but I fixed that with the 1.1 patch. Do we all have the patch installed? Can one of you guys d/l the game, play a few turns and see if the same thing happens? I tried playing through it, but the damn things kept coming back, much like triremes, and they're too unbalancing to play through.

Sorry guys... I don't think it's my ToT, but someone better check to be sure. I'm attaching my save file from the turn it happened.

STYOM

[Mercator]

Yikes, I get it too. And I do have the patch installed... No idea what could cause this.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I'm bummed. I tried unzipping the file into a different folder than 'Original' (since I note the zipped file comes in zipped folders: Mps/Civ2ToT/ExtendedOriginal) but still, the same problem arises.

Mercator, was this game started as an Original, or Extended Original? Maybe that has something to do with it.

Anyone else have any ideas or insights into what might be going on here? MBloomIII, JoeK?

STYOM