Question, when eliminated?

[canadianbacon]

If you are eliminated, does the email file (next round) skip over you to the next player?

[Zero]

yes turn skips to the next player

you have to email fiel urself

[canadianbacon]

Yeh , i know about emailing yourself (but come to think of it, why that would be cool feature in game, enter the emails, and mail server address in game, and let it do the mailing for you... FIRAXIS ARE YOU LISTENING?)

Reason is im building a web based PBEM system, where you submit game and retreive game from web server, not via emails. It tracks moves, times and emails a notification to the next player to come get the game file.


Check it out at www.kamstra.ca (create an account, for free, look at left menu for CIV3 PBEM entry).

[miccofl]

A simpler solution would be to simply post the save to the game thread with your end turn notice, but I guess that would drive the mods crazy.

[Zero]

i just have a simple geocities webpage, since this site lags on high traffic hours. My friends all have access to the pseudo geocity acct that no one owns. We make an edit there and attach the newest file.

Wel i guess it would be lil different with strangers... still make some fake account.

[klesh]

Why not just post your files to these threads?


Spanish faction eliminated, who's next. End of story.

Plus, after 30 days its still free


-FMK.

[miccofl]

It would use up too much space on the server, then they might have to charge us for the space.

[klesh]

How big are the save files, zipped? We've got threads with hundreds of files attatched.

[klesh]

anyone know??? If they are under the minimum limit for upload to this sitre, then I wholeheartedly suggest you just post them here. Ask Markos thats what the forums here for.

-FMK.

[miccofl]

Early saves have been running about 100K. Zipped would be a bit smaller, but a save from 290 AD is 495K and I have some late game saves that are over 8 Mb. So if you were to figure an average file size of 1 Mb, 400 turns, 8 players for an avereage thread space of 3.2 Gb. Multiply that by the number of games being played and consider that all those files are just there to be used one time by one person and will then sit there and waste space.