PBEM anyone?

[Rubin]

Right, Gufnork! I do not have ICQ, but you can always use e-mail, I guess. Keep in mind that diplomatic actions can take several turns in a PBEM, and diplomatic communication is stored in the .sav file. Refer to e-mails and ICQ if you want to keep your diplomatic discussions a secret and also speed diplomatic things up.

Now, we're waiting for HongHu to take his turn, right?

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Rubin
The probe rule: As I see it, you would only really need to probe for techs. And since you can share techs via commlink, only a few rare situations are relevant. 1) Probe team needs morale upgrade; 2) Sunspot activity prevent commlink operations; 3) Player needs tech badly and cannot wait until the year has passed and diplomatic actions are completed.

I suggest the following: We enable probe agreements, but any probe activity agreement must take place before sunspot activity. Also in general: No diplomacy e-mail contact during sunspots.

Stockpile bug: I think dealing with facilities become very cumbersome if you have to avoid the bug completely, since built facilities always put stockpile energy next. Units just keep being built. But honestly, I'm not sure.

Ehh, AC PBEM Civgroup?!? No idea! What is it?

Sorry for lots of questions cause this is my first PBEM. Now is Sunspot activity a random event? Didn't we turned off random event? What does that mean actually? Do you not have to build some facilities or you just don't do anything?

As for the Civgroup thing, if you look under the title of this thread, you'll see two lines in the middle like this: CivGroups
Alpha Centauri PBEM (44): Not a Member -Join
Do we need to join?

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Rubin
Right, Gufnork! I do not have ICQ, but you can always use e-mail, I guess. Keep in mind that diplomatic actions can take several turns in a PBEM, and diplomatic communication is stored in the .sav file. Refer to e-mails and ICQ if you want to keep your diplomatic discussions a secret and also speed diplomatic things up.

Now, we're waiting for HongHu to take his turn, right?

I see that Chip has passed his turn. I'll have to wait until tonight when I get off work to work on it though. Sorry! I was up till 1am last night but wasn't aware that Chip had emailed me. Chip, do you have messenger? If you do maybe you could drop me a message when you passed the turn? I normally turn off PC before 12 though.

[Rubin]

I don't know if sunsport activity is solely a random event, maybe we'll have one at a preset date!?! I don't know. Sunspot activity only affects infiltrator information and commlinks/council. So, I guess you just don't do anything special during sunspot activity - remember to check infiltrator information, though.

I've looked in the Apolyton FAQ, and I haven't found anything on civgroups. You could try posting a new thread with your question.

If possible, maybe we could get 2-3 turns done this evening?!? The first couple of years usually only require little time to play. Is this possible? HongHu? Chip? Gufnork?

I just noticed the Apolyton Time (AT) (below the posts). This can be our time reference. Just a suggestion, because I get so confused with the different time zones.

Keep asking questions HongHu!

[Snowflake]

I'll try my best. My normal PC time is from 9pm to 12pm my time or AT 10pm to 1am. If you guys will be on during that time, then we can certainly try email it a couple times at least one day. Do you guys have messenger? Or should we all get ICQ?