Consul Cavebear Resigns

[cavebear]

For personal reasons, I need to resign from office. I have to get away from the computer, as the amount of time I am spending on it is affecting real life. Holding office requires me to log on every day, and I simply have to put a halt to that.

Therefore, I reluctantly resign. I know you all will find a way to pull this game out of the fire, so best of luck.

[Ben Kenobi]

Been there, so I understand your position, Cavebear.

Now, one would hope for BM to step up.

[shade]

I'm sorry to hear that, CB.
I hope you can pull reality back into place

Shade

[Bloody Monk]

Sorry to hear this, cavebear. RL is especially cruel when it keeps one away from Civ2. This I know about...and as well, that you will be missed.

Monk

[conmcb25]

I hope your RL issues get resolved real soon

[conmcb25]

Did this effectively kill the CivII Demogame????

[rjmatsleepers]

Well Cavebear's resignation certainly put the game into suspended animation. I guess it could be revived as soon as we have someone who is willing to lead us for a while. The problem remains a shortage of active players.

RJM at Sleeper's

[MrWhereItsAt]

Mmm... I'm still about and watching, with my new high-speed wireless too I could contribute.... but I'm not confident (in time terms) of standing up to play turns 'n' stuff.

[cavebear]

So choose a few people to do the most basic Ministerial work and rotate session-play.

Or start a new game. Maybe this one just became too unworkable (or hopeless?). Maybe play a straight-forward crush the AI game, and get things going again.

Meanwhile, I'm getting a lot of (long-delayed) RL stuff done around the house and yard. You should see the 50 foot long "creek" and waterfall I've added to my pond. I should have that completed tomorrow.

I still check the forum every few days...

[Ben Kenobi]

Finally got moved in.

/me launches a coup of the Civ2DG.

I am willing to appoint a cabinet of anyone still desiring to post in this forum.

[Bloody Monk]

Does this mean that you are proposing 'Ben' for Consul??

Assuming you mean yes, then I second that. What this has lacked has been someone to oversee and play. Let's get cracking.

Monk

[cavebear]

Existing game or new game?

[Ben Kenobi]

Current game.

And yes, this will be my second term as the Consul for this Civ2DG.

[Ben Kenobi]

I would like to change our sliders to increse our cash payments so that we can start to build tanks. Let's forget about science for the rest of the game, because we are hopelessly far behind the AI, and research will only put us farther behind.

We need to establish immediate defenses, in Musketeers for now, followed by a few tanks to patrol our colony.

Then we will have to try building a small task force of tanks to visit an AI city so that we can steal technology, prefereably Espionage. With Espionage we can steal the remaining technologies required to put us on par with the AIs, and we can start to do some real diplomacy.

But defenses come first.

We have some shields stored up for improvements, I suggest that we shift all of them to Musketeers just so that we have some defense, then we can use the tanks for more active defense of our cities.

I know I have been clamouring for Monarchy, but it makes better sense to remain in Republic as we can keep a decent cash flow up with the added arrow on all of Apolytonia's squares.

[Ben Kenobi]

Let's get cracking.

If the Parliament approves my application, and is wililng to assist me in these matters by applying for cabinet positions, then I am most willng to see this game out as your new Consul.