Are you interested in discussing a demogame?

[Mart]

it looks, it works ok, this is 2116 from autosave
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Vyeh, it is just a thought, maybe you check your autosave and attach it? maybe this one is better and allows later to save the game on windows machines?

[Mead]

Originally posted by Darsnan


This is a SMAC game. Standard size map (79 x 79), average everything, 60/40 mix of Land/ Sea.



My suggestion would be for all interested players to download the game, review the starting position, then discuss as to how to best proceed. One player then plays accordingly from there.

Unless of course something "major" occurs in the first 5 turns.....


D

Once it's ready could you give us a screenshot of the starting position?

Mead

[vyeh]

Compatibility Test, Part 2

Let me clarify. I am not using Virtual PC. I'm playing a Mac OS version of SMAC. I checked the help menu and the version number is 5.0.

When I installed SMAX, it also updated SMAC to the latest (5.0) version. I have all the Mac patches installed.

I've taken your file, made a few moves and saved it. This time I didn't zip it. Could you see if you can open it, play and post as before?

If this works, I won't have to beg Kody to write a conversion program (he wrote one for ACDG III, which was a SMAX game).

Thanks.

[Mart]

Vyeh,
check if you have installed WinXP compatibility patch, it then says, that you have version SMAC 5.0
This version in addition has many bugs fixed, and we should play this version.

That is true, that I cannot save the game from it.
However, what works is autosave at the beginning of each turn, and below is such a save that I renamed

[vyeh]

Compatibility Test

I have a Mac. There was a problem in ACDGIII, when the save file produced by me couldn't be saved by the next player.

Please download the saved SMAC file "Test", open it, make one move or more, and then save it. If you succeed, I'd appreciate it if you would post it.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Mead

We're doing SMAC, yes?

This is a SMAC game. Standard size map (79 x 79), average everything, 60/40 mix of Land/ Sea.

Originally posted by Mead
Once the game is available why don't you download it and we'll swap off turns every 5 turns.

We'll, of course, consult and collaorate on major decisions.

My suggestion would be for all interested players to download the game, review the starting position, then discuss as to how to best proceed. One player then plays accordingly from there.

Unless of course something "major" occurs in the first 5 turns.....


D

[Mead]

Originally posted by vyeh
Mead, we could run it as parallel games or we could collaborate in one game or, as mart7x5 said, we can try both.

Let's collaborate in one game, otherwise it will be a SP challenge game.

We're doing SMAC, yes?

Once the game is available why don't you download it and we'll swap off turns every 5 turns.

At least until it gets more labor intensive (or others want to do the turns).

One it really gets labor ntensive we can down to swapping off every 3 turns, then every 2 turns, then if it gets realy labor intensive every turn.

We'll, of course, consult and collaorate on major decisions.


Mead

[vyeh]

Mead, we could run it as parallel games or we could collaborate in one game or, as mart7x5 said, we can try both.

[Mead]

Originally posted by vyeh
Great. While Darsnan is working on this, I'd like to ask Mead and mart7x5:

Are you interested in playing individual games with the strategic link? (The alternative is playing a single game collaboratively.)

The advantage of individual games is that they go faster.

[Mead, startled, wakes up, ... whoa, I think I just heard my name.


Did someone just ask me something?

I hope no one noticed I was sleeping; was I making any noise? I wasn't snoring? was I? I wasn't dreaming out loud?


Quick - think of something to say to make them think like you were awake and paying attention all along, but, - - - wait, maybe you ought to find out more before you agree to do something that you don't want to do, something that might involve real work.]


OK, I admit it, I wasn't paying attention.

We're doing this SMAC [so I don't have to figure out how to make the SMAX run on my XP machine], yes?

We're Peacekeepers [I've been running a SP to see their strenghts and weaknesses, but its taken a long time, about 2 weeks and I still havn't finished], yes?

We run this as pararrel [never could spell that word] games, yes?



Is that what we're doing?


Please let me know if I got it right?

Mead

[Mart]

We can play individual games, but their level of interaction is much lower than that of a collaborative game. We can try both.

[vyeh]

Great. While Darsnan is working on this, I'd like to ask Mead and mart7x5:

Are you interested in playing individual games with the strategic link? (The alternative is playing a single game collaboratively.)

The advantage of individual games is that they go faster.

[Darsnan]

Hi All,

thought I'd give you a quick update as to where this is at. Essentially over the weekend I spun this twice (i.e. built the scenario then playetsted). Am working on the third iteration now. Hopefully if all goes well, this should be ready by the coming weekend. FYI.


D

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Illuminatus
How is it going?

I think I'd originally said I couldn't get to this till this weekend. If not then FYI that I've got some RL stuff going on thats been keeping me busy most of the week. I'll probably start this weekend.

Note that this will be more of an RP style game, and not one that I will have built specifically for the challenges. FYI.


D

[Illuminatus]

How is it going?

[vyeh]

Originally posted by Darsnan
And on the thought of the game, here is what I am thinking:

On a nearby world a Believer Splinter Faction, led by a charismatic leader who could pass for the second coming of Joan of Arc, is in the process of conquering the other Splinter Factions: already the University has fallen to the Sword of the Righteous. The Spartans have also joined the Believers cause, lending their military abilities to the cause. And the Morganites, with their cread of "War is bad for Business", have guaged resistance as futile and have signed on to the Believer cause. Only the atheistic Hive, who rightly have judged that they would never be accepted into the fold, are making a stand agains the onslaught, and have requested assistance in the name of the Interplanetary United Nations. They have offered a land grant as well as several established bases if you will but lend them assistance.

Any thoughts on this? Sound like a good premise?


D

I like it.