Cold War PBEM - tracker thread

[Beta]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
Sorry if I'm being a jerk - but that's what the internet does to people. I'm really a decent guy in person. Then again, if you all met me in person, we would just do a LAN game or hotseat and get this game done in a few hours It might be worth it to pay for your plane tickets to Washington DC just to do that

I agree. A faster pace would be nice. This game has interesting possibilities. I think one turn every 5 days is reasonable to expect. Each person gets a day to play the turn.

[Beta]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
This is a difficult PBEM. You all realize we started this in February 2005 and we've played only nine turns? Yes, I went back and counted.

Anyway, I've resent my last save to Mickeyj (I know that's its good and it's the last one I played). The date I sent is July 1962. Mickeyj is the last human in the play order, so he should send Moonbars (top of the order) September 1962.

Then we can start turn ten. This pace is almost exactly one turn a month.

It's NOT a REAL TIME strategy game???

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Modo44

Funny, I thought you were being quite nice given the "speed" of this game.

Speed (sped) n.

Swiftness of action.
1. The act of moving rapidly.
2. The state of being in rapid motion; rapidity.

quotes are appropriate.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by Shogun Gunner
Sorry if I'm being a jerk

Funny, I thought you were being quite nice given the "speed" of this game.

[Shogun Gunner]

and yes, I'm going to start complaining about this in every post in this thread. I don't think we should have to rely on Modo44 to push us every single time our turn is up.

Sorry if I'm being a jerk - but that's what the internet does to people. I'm really a decent guy in person. Then again, if you all met me in person, we would just do a LAN game or hotseat and get this game done in a few hours It might be worth it to pay for your plane tickets to Washington DC just to do that

[Shogun Gunner]

This is a difficult PBEM. You all realize we started this in February 2005 and we've played only nine turns? Yes, I went back and counted.

Anyway, I've resent my last save to Mickeyj (I know that's its good and it's the last one I played). The date I sent is July 1962. Mickeyj is the last human in the play order, so he should send Moonbars (top of the order) September 1962.

Then we can start turn ten. This pace is almost exactly one turn a month. With so many units, I can't even remember which units I sent where and why.... Each time I open the save it's like I'm looking at everything for the first time. /rant off

[Moonbars]

Originally posted by Modo44
Sorry to hear that about CIV, Moonbars. It works fine on my Athlon XP (1.8 GHz), 1.5 GB RAM and a single GeForce FX 5200 (that one being just above minimum specs). Bad things must have happened to your Windows (or good things did not).

(And if you are fighting an AI that has obsolete units, it is time to move up a difficulty level or two. )


As to the Cold War save, it is the one I played last time. Sending again to Beta. The date should change between Mickeyj (July) and Moonbars (August or thereabouts, I do not recall the time settings for this scenario).

The windows install is totally fresh win XP SP2. There is nothing wrong with the system, it's just a poorly written graphics engine in CIV. I played my first games on the level that gives the AI no "bonuses", and it is just as bad as the old III AI. no progress at all.

[Shogun Gunner]

I play epic routinely just because the additional turns required per tech and city growth stretch out the game. To me, that feels right. I don't mind a game lasting longer to get the right feel for each era.

The last time I played "normal" (as opposed to epic) I played the French and just as I finally built my first musketeer unit (French UU), riflemen became available

yes, off topic, but then again, we can fit in three or four conversations between turns on this thread

[Modo44]

Sorry to hear that about CIV, Moonbars. It works fine on my Athlon XP (1.8 GHz), 1.5 GB RAM and a single GeForce FX 5200 (that one being just above minimum specs). Bad things must have happened to your Windows (or good things did not).

(And if you are fighting an AI that has obsolete units, it is time to move up a difficulty level or two. )


As to the Cold War save, it is the one I played last time. Sending again to Beta. The date should change between Mickeyj (July) and Moonbars (August or thereabouts, I do not recall the time settings for this scenario).

[Moonbars]

apart from the jerky movies and the way it slows down to a unresponsive crawl on Full Screen, the game works OK. What I dislike about it is the pace, which is far to fast. Either cut out a lot of the technologies, or increase the cost & the number of turns. Then we have the AI, which at best is no better than the AI in C3C, and at worst is not as good as that. i've had the AI attack me twice, once with a galleon that raided my fish and then landed some obsolete bowmen that I destoryed, and once via land. This invasion was for no clear benefit to the AI, and was conducted with a dribble of obsolete units over a 5 turn period. Stupid Stupid Stupid. But we are off topic are we not

[Shogun Gunner]

I like cIV -- but then again, I'm not having technical difficulties. Sorry to hear you having problems with it Moonbars.

[Moonbars]

I have already played the save MJ sent me (july 1962) attaching here for Modo, whose Email address I think I have lost. I have had a lot of PC problems, I think I assumed i'd sent it out on my original PC, before I had my interim emergency system built up due to my new Abit motherboard based PC blowing up, I had to get a replacement for that, and then I had to reinstall everything - again.

And even though it's got TWO SLI'd Nvidia 6800 GPUs, and a Intel 3Ghz P4, and 2gig Ram, it still plays jerky movies in Civ4. That game SUCKS.

[Moonbars]

I have already played the save MJ sent me (july 1962) attaching here for Modo, whose Email address I think I have lost. I have had a lot of PC problems, I think I assumed i'd sent it out on my original PC, before I had my interim emergency system built up due to my new Abit motherboard based PC blowing up, I had to get a replacement for that, and then I had to reinstall everything - again.

And even though it's got TWO SLI'd Nvidia 6800 GPUs, and a Intel 3Ghz P4, and 2gig Ram, it still plays jerky movies in Civ4. That game SUCKS.

[Mickeyj]

Resent to Moonbars

[Beta]

emailed MJ and Moonie.