Turns of ACT025 game, second thread

[stuntman19]

That's cool, I'm more interested in having fun with the game than necessarily winning, but thanks for the honesty.

I have resent the turn to the alternate address.

[HenryMad]

Well, we morganities are consolidating our empire !

(I've never been playing Morgan before, but now I really appreciate this faction)

turn to Mis

[stuntman19]

For someone who claims to be confused you're complete the Supercollider fast.

2184 to the CEO

[Misotu]

I must admit, I'm not a good ICQ player. Sometimes I like to just look at the game and think about it for a while - not deep thoughts you understand. Mostly bafflement

I find it hard to play the turns as quickly as people would like them. So other people find me frustrating in this respect. Still, it was a nice idea

I have sent the turn to the Duke. Also, I'm afraid I'll be away for the weekend, so I don't expect to be able to play any turns until Sunday/Monday. Apologies for the delay this will cause.
cheers, Mis

[HenryMad]

Duke,
don't worry. Also for me it's the same problem: I play at work during breaks and at home only at night (my wife is starting to hate PC games; I hope my son will join my cause when he grows up - now he's only 10 months -). I made the proposal since I've noticed that often you and Mis answer back at the same time. I think that could be nice if all we three had ICQ installed !

[stuntman19]

I currently don't have ICQ, but I suppose I could get it. I normally can play turns from home and work, and normally within an hour or so after I receive them if not during sleep hours(midnight-6 AM). The main problem with the proposal would be I can't really commit to say an hour or two straight at any given time. My boss is fairly cool with me playing a few turns on breaks and lunches, as my work is very productive. I do think she might have issues with a set time sort of thing. As for doing it at home, I do have the g\f who has been real understanding about my smac\x addiction. I do think this would be unfair to impose on her. I also often taxi my 2 sisters to v-ball,b-ball, cello practice under short notice to help my family out so thats another problem. I really hate to shoot down the idea, but I just don't think it would work for me.

[HenryMad]

Mis and Duke,
what do you think about an on-line game session?
When I played with Joer (Mis you know him; Duke, he was the player you have inherited the PBEM from) sometimes we arranged to stay online at the same time. We used ICQ to chat and to synchronize our sendings. In this way:
1 - We could exchange turn comments faster; the ICQ chat could allow to communicate at the same time each other
2 - ICQ has a download/upload feature: you could send turns directly not passing via e-mail servers

A good candidate time, according to our different timezones, could be afternoon/early evening for you ---> early night for me.

Let me know what you think.

Mis: should our communication problems remain, I could also give you access to one email account of mine (I've several). In this way I could send turn to this account, always being sure you'll catch it


[This message has been edited by HenryMad (edited November 03, 2000).]

[HenryMad]

Turn sent to MIS (both two addresses).
Anyway I've got the following message from my ISP:

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The original message was received at Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:48:19 +0100 (CET)
from root@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
misotu@hotmail.com

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mc6.law5.hotmail.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 554 Transaction failed
451 misotu@hotmail.com... reply: read error from mc6.law5.hotmail.com.
554 misotu@hotmail.com... Service unavailable
------------------------------------------------------


I'll keep on trying this address too

[stuntman19]

2183 to the CEO

[Misotu]

Well, whaddya know. Both sends arrived in my hotmail account, more than 10 hours after the second send.

Pah! Email

Sorry for the delay. 2183 sent to the Duke.

[Misotu]

Aargh! Henry, I'm sorry, but it still didn't make it. Can you send it to misotu@usa.com, misotu@hotmail.com *and* Michael - I get email fine from him so at least he can forward it in the last resort. I'm so sorry for the delay ... (posted and emailed)

The Spartans will pay!!

[HenryMad]

Damn, I'm sure that Spartans probes are responsible for this comm failures! They will pay for this ! :-)

Anyway, turn resent to both two the addresses

[Misotu]

It didn't I've emailed Henry to request a resend.

[HenryMad]

Turn to Mis (hoping it'll arrive) :-)

[stuntman19]

2182 to my wealthy friend, the CEO