what's happening with this game?

[Niessuh]

I have started a pair of PBEM after PTWDG II and they are going faster! It seems that there are teams where just one person are playing. Even in my team, after a enthusiastic start, a lot of players has left posting at the private forum because of the boring speed. Speed is more important here than at PBEM, people need to post his opinion about something frequently or...

I don't understand why a game with so many players is going sooooo slooooow What's the problem? Holidays? The amount of duty at the PTWDG I? Has the aggressive atmosphere of the PTWDG I discourage everybody? why the "welcome threads" still being topped and the savegame ones aren't? some tension with the administration?
I just want to play

I'm afraid that when C3C will be released this game will be definitely out. Maybe we should end the game and wait until we can start a more interesting game with Conquest. Or maybe we should give it a push now, at any form

[Niessuh]

EEEOOOO! Is somebody out there?

[Hot_Enamel]

I have no idea...

The PTWDG #1 is taking up a lot of time.
I dont think the "theme" aspect of the game took off ?
And this is the most boring part of the game.

Panzer officially voted Team Monkey as the most boring team in the game... yet we still have 3 nominated players who can at least play the game and keep it moving. Not sure what the problems are with the other teams.

[bongo]

I guess it is hard to keep a high level of trash-talk when there are so little going on in the actual game, which in turn leads to the actual game becoming less interesting and so on. All the recent unstability doesn't help either....

Maybe this is a good definition of a 'vicious circle'?

[ZargonX]

I think we're just in the slow part of the game, and there are currently more interesting things to occupy people's time. When the first PTWDG was in slow start time, it was the only thing going on, hence it kept moving. I think we just need to get over this initial hump, have some civs make contact, and things will stabalize out. I hope

[OPD]

Originally posted by Hot_Enamel
Panzer officially voted Team Monkey as the most boring team in the game... yet we still have 3 nominated players who can at least play the game and keep it moving. Not sure what the problems are with the other teams.

lol

Panzer voted MAST as the team that sucked the most in our forum.

If you're interested overall, team monkey and latin lover were the winners/losers of that poll.

[Arrian]

I'm not really sure why this game is lagging so badly. I know my team shares the blame for that. We don't have many active members, and I'm not really sure what the heck happened with our last turn (the one I eventually played).

-Arrian

[Niessuh]

Arrian, actually It's your turn (again?) on the save game thread. Did you play the 2710 BC?

[ZargonX]

Actually, Tabemono has the save right now, though CoD still is either having problems sending to me or just forgets to send the save to me, meaning that my team only has one turn player...

[Zcylen]

this is slower than I thought

[The Slayer]

I have e-mailed your turn Arrian, you found it?

BTW, yes, many of our members of the team are slepping in this turns.

OK, perhaps this are the "boring ones" turns, but, if they're so easy to play.. why the delay so much??...

... even a PBEM I'm playing is going faster, about 2 turns per day.

Well, I just hope you guys resurrect from your graves and play with the same speed as the PBEM I just talked about.

[bongo]

I know this game was supposed to be more 'light-hearted' than the original game but now it's actually getting so 'light' that teams forget to play....

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Niessuh
Arrian, actually It's your turn (again?) on the save game thread. Did you play the 2710 BC?

Oh. I'm not normally "the player" for my team, but I can do it when I get home tonight.

Frustrated Poet plays most of our turns, but he hasn't been around a lot recently, and he just recently mentioned that he'll be going to South Korea for a year sometime in the next several months. So leadership changes are forthcoming for CoD.

Zargon: I will double-check our forum and make sure your email is in our "Tabemono Contacts" thread. That should ensure you get it from now on. Sorry.

-Arrian

[Beta]

Yes - as Niessuh has indicated - speed is the key. With more than two breathing players per team, there should be little excuse for slow play. Yes - there is RL, but that's why we have teams.

And this is the 'light' game, so I would suggest every decision does not need to be analyzed and polled on. Treat this like the old Saturday night game of Civ 3 when you have a few beers, crank it down to Monarch, hit random everything, and play quickly and enjoy!

[Rhothaerill]

Hear, hear!!

At least until we start making in-game contact with each other and then we can start thinking about what we're doing.