T I M E C O U N T E R

[Borc]

This turn lasts over 80 hours now... and so i decided to start a counter for the game... please believe me i don't want to lose friends here with that idea :-) My counter is only counting ... that's all...

if you have any comments write it here...
and please continue to use the SAVED GAME THREAD to give my counter a chance! thank you...

and good luck for the game...!

visit my TIME COUNTER

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Did you write a program that automatically checks the thread and updates itself?

[Borc]

No the first days i will update it by hand... if the feedback is good and if the idea with the green hours is optimised then probably i will ask you if you allow me to program a mailing list which can automatically log the send date of the game files and update the 7 clocks in real time... would be a nice little software :-)

but at the moment i a m a little bit afraid that you think i am overacting :-))

[Shiber]

Sounds fair enough. Let's put it through a test period.
Cool design too!

[vondrack]

Re: T I M E C O U N T E R

Originally posted by Borc
This turn lasts over 80 hours now... and so i decided to start a counter for the game... please believe me i don't want to lose friends here with that idea :-) My counter is only counting ... that's all...

if you have any comments write it here...
and please continue to use the SAVED GAME THREAD to give my counter a chance! thank you...

and good luck for the game...!

visit my TIME COUNTER

Good idea, Borc!

The page looks pretty nice even as a work of art...

Just one small correction: the second player for Legoland is not Spiffor, but me, vondrack. Be so kind and update the page to avoid any confusion. Thanks!

[Beta]

Borc - one thumbs up for the concept and another one for the time counter chart .

(maybe Firaxis will include it in their next patch )

[Borc]

spiffor changed to vondrack thank you...!

[mrmitchell]

Two thumbs up!

[Panzer32]

Another change:

GoW - Ghengis Farb is the current leader/player. I don't know of a second player yet...

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Panzer32
Another change:

GoW - Ghengis Farb is the current leader/player. I don't know of a second player yet...

Donegeal played the last turn, if I'm not available he usually is, but I have no problem with any other member of our team playing the save. We tend to have our turns and unit movements planned for the next 10-15 turns in advance anyway.

[Shiber]

A lot of issues need to be addressed. What happens when the email with the save bounces because some leader's ISP is down or his inbox is full, or if say, a jet engine falls through one of the leaders' roof, smashing his computer to bits but not killing him because thankfully he'd been away, and now he's alive but his other clock is ticking.
Also, did the last sentence make any sense to you? If you answered no, you ought to watch the movie Donnie Darko. If you answered yes, you ought to watch the movie Donnie Darko.

[pikesfan]

What happens when the counter gets to 0?

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by pikesfan
What happens when the counter gets to 0?

Ghengis will have a huge excess of hours; he will certainly organize a market for getting rid of it.

[pikesfan]

But what happens to a team if its counter reaches 0?

[Beta]

Originally posted by pikesfan
But what happens to a team if its counter reaches 0?

As Borc was suggesting - this is just a counter for now. An experiment to see if it is a method which might work on aiding the pace of play. There was some discussion on the moves discussion thread about the team forfeiting the game, missing x number of moves, or something like that. But for now, I agree with Borc. Let's see if the approach works.