No AI#1 4th thread

[Flubber]

I think we should continue it as well-- If there are people who, quite understandably, want to quit I can respect that. This game has taken far too long.

It appears qantaga is gone-- get hercules or someone in his place and lets move on. Mongoose has everyone'e passwords and if other players want to quit we can

1. get other replacements
2. burn a faction or two to the ground and countinue with 4-6 players-- This WOULD spped things up but it may change the game dynamics a lot as people lose allies or enemies-- it would be interesting trying to occupy all that terraformed land though

[ColDark]

It's not just qantaga, what about SITS - I have emailed him once, and got a reply, but he still hasn't shown up on the thread.

We may need to replace SITS too.

[dinoarms]

how long have we waited for SITS these last few turns?

[Flubber]

well -- a lot of the delay is in the fact that none of us are following up on this game-- the faster games were the ones where if the turn was " missing" for a few days, someone was emailing around to find it-- I think we all have stopped doing this

If we want to resurrect this, I am still game-- mongoose has all the passwords and we could play with whomever is left--

[ColDark]

Sorry guys, count me out - it was fun while it lasted - but hasn't been fun for too long now. I'm only into two SMAC/X games, and both have stalled major league. I am active in two Civ3PTW games - both of these happily still running.

Please accept my apologies - I am bowing out of this one. Mongoose has the passwords should anyone want to replace me.

[Mongoose]

What have you all decided here? May I delete all references to this game from my HD?

[ColDark]

I'm out - sorry mongoose - thanks for your efforts - but as far as I'm concerned this game is dead.

Sorry to the rest of the guys too.

[Flubber]

Hey mongoose

Is there any way we could make use of this half completed game and the fact that all the passwords are available ??

How about a duel where I take my gaians and the Pks ( we were pacted) and you choose 4 factions ( since I think those two were strong)and give me the 7th place guy. IIRC there were at least 4 maybe 5 factions that looked strong in the powergraphs ( for whatever thas worth

It would prove nothing as to game skills since I have no idea who would have the better start-- Heck it could be wildly unbalanced one way of the other-- but it might be all right for a laugh.

Or we could eradicate a faction or two and play with some other combination

[Mongoose]

Missed this post...I must not be subscribed to this thread.

I'll take a look at it and get back to you, Flubber. I only ever looked at the one turn I played as a sub for Viriato, been a long time ago now. I can't recall a thing about it except that he had the VW.

[Mongoose]

I'll pass Flubber. Being on the receiving end of an attack by a player wtih a monopoly on D:AP isn't too fun in the best of circumstances. I'm eating my fill of that dish in ACT 059.

[dinoarms]

Having only played one other SMAC Pbem I have little to compare to...but it seems to me that noone really ever
followed up re the 48 hour rule except me. For the first half I spurned on this process my messgaging and Pm'ing
others to do so. I don't really understand why as everyone else seemed to be keen on playing. Perhaps it was becuase it was a non-alllyable 7 player ffa...maybe just too many players. But that was the idea.

It was good playing with everyone that has been in this game and i hope that if i ever play a SMAC pbem game that I see you folks again. I learned alot

Bye

[Flubber]

dino

Having someone following up is what keeps games going. Even games involving the most reliable players can sometimes stall from something as simple as an email misfire. I appreciated your diligence in prodding the game along.

Personally I will NEVER play a 7 player PBEM again. I have tried it a few times and NONE of them got finished. My 3, 4 or 5 player gamesb by contrast have had a pretty high finish rate.

[ColDark]

I'll echo flubs sentiments here Dino, I appreciated your efforts in pushing things along in this game.

It is sad to see games die, but I also thing games with lots of players are almost certainly doomed. The other thing with large numbers of players is the length of time it takes for turns to come around, I often forgot what was going on in the game.

This game died about the same time as my other SMAC/X games too, maybe cos SITS and Qantaga were in both of them as well, I know that they had RL issues - but, it was also around the time of the arrival of Civ3 - how much did that have to do with things?

I have cut down on my PBEMs now, I started in a 5 player, and a 3 player CIV3 PTW game, the 5 player has already stalled and died - the 3 player is still going though.

Anyway - that's my thoughts done and dusted

ColDark