Gladiator IV - The fights begin!

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by ljcvetko
What's the deadline for sending orders?

I'm hoping a deadline is not necessary (famous last words?), but since everyone now has all the information they need I'll almost certainly be getting impatient after 48 hours (from first request). For the subsequent matches I think 24hr should suffice, since you now now your opponents and should have already had a chance to think about your orders, but I'm not likely to concoct orders for anyone unless they're very slow repeatedly, since it would rather spoil the fun.

And by the way, my name will be Hercules Romani.

Noted. I'm sure your cheerleaders will appreciate the simplification .

[gjramsey]

Orders on the way

[J Bytheway]

Jamski: You gave me orders against the wrong people. I would have understood that you could make a mistake because you're at the end of the table, but I did give your opponents explicitly as an example to explain what I meant...

[J Bytheway]

OK, I've reworked the spreadsheet and entered the orders I've received so far, which gives some interesting results .

I'm waiting on corrections from Jamski, and any orders from Hercules, Theben and The Doctor.

[Theben]

Sent.

[Theben]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Jamski: You gave me orders against the wrong people. I would have understood that you could make a mistake because you're at the end of the table, but I did give your opponents explicitly as an example to explain what I meant...

Perhaps you should list who is fighting whom.

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Theben
Perhaps you should list who is fighting whom.

Perhaps, but I thought I could get away without bothering to at least this first time around since it was pretty simple... Everyone else (so far) has figured it out right . I'm probably just being overly obsessed with concise presentation of the data.

[DrSpike]

If you post a nice list we can copy and paste it thus ensuring the format we give the orders in is correct. It'll probably save you time in the long run.

[Jamski]

Fixed orders resent.



-Jam

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Jamski
Fixed orders resent.

Thanks . That seems fine. Don't be scared, I don't bite (much ).

The strangest thing about getting all these PMs is that I get to see people's avatars. It opens a whole new window into your personalities...

[Jamski]

Do you normally have them turned off?

I rely on the pics to quickly see who's who.

-Jam

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Jamski
Do you normally have them turned off?

I rely on the pics to quickly see who's who.

Yes, I turn them off to increase the density of posts (having avatars on makes them taller, so it requires more scrolling...). Same for signatures. Plus I'm occasionally on a slow connection and am too lazy to keep altering my settings every time I change from fast to slow or back again. I sometimes can't even remember what my own avatar looks like .

I find that the flags and civgroup icons are sufficient to speedily distinguish posters (although I do sometimes get confused, and in this forum the civgroup icons seem to be scarcer, so I might have more problems. I'll do my best to avoid my confusion affecting the game ).

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Sent.

[Skanky Burns]

Great write-up. My* comments, particularly poor Chaunks, were funny.

I've got a nice box-seat at this colloseum, a bourbon and coke in my hand, the sky is blue and cloudless. Tis a perfect day for watching people kill each other for my entertainment.

* All comments were written by J Bytheway

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
Sent.

Yep, I got yours. Now only waiting on Hercules and the Doctor.

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Great write-up. My* comments, particularly poor Chaunks, were funny.

I've got a nice box-seat at this colloseum, a bourbon and coke in my hand, the sky is blue and cloudless. Tis a perfect day for watching people kill each other for my entertainment.

Thanks . Should I maintain a record of how many purely defensive rounds there are so you know how much you get to drink .

As regards the deadline, looking back through past threads again, it seems 48hr was usual, so please do try to get orders in at least that quickly, but of course the faster the better.