2194 Days of War: Revised version

[klesh]

I think 20 minutes a turn is a very low estimate. I'd venture to say closer to 45 min a turn at least. I mean, Japan herself has over 400 units! The first few turns will take the longest, because everyone will have to asses their situations...But I'll give it a try. I bet it'll be hell to play though. My selection for a Civ would be:

1. Germany
2. Soviet Union
3. Japan

How is everyone looking for the holidays? I am in EST, and I know for a fact that Mao is too. What times are good for you guys?

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I am the Ukrainian Anti-Pope!
Großdeutschland!

[SunTzu]

I'm CST but i cna't play right now because i'm forced to live in my grandparents house because of a big ice storm that hit my city and our house doesn't have electricity heat or water
So i'll reply back when i move back in

[klesh]

Mao, others, anyone interested in this?

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I am the Ukrainian Anti-Pope!
Großdeutschland!

[VietMinh]

I am. Order of preferences: 1.Soviet Union
2.Japan
3.China

[klesh]

Anyone interested in playing this via email? I think there is a method called PBEM (play by email maybe?), i was just reading about it in another thread. Oh, please forgive my ignorance as well. But we could also play it via Hotseat. That is, whoever chooses to be the Japanese first Civ to move) starts a hotseat game of 2194. He selects as many players as we have, and makes his turn. Then, before pressing enter to end it, he clicks to a (preferably) blackened space on the map, and saves the game. Then email that .hot file to the next in line, and he loads it up. Here is where we depend on TRUST. The person receiving the file loads up the .hot savegame and only presses enter to get to his turn. He will not see anything if the screen is blackened. We just have to trust that players will not be fiddling with other people's Civs. Maybe we could get more to want to play if there isn't such a big time commitment to each session.

Thoughts?

[Marko]

I like the idea of playing the game in Hotseat and e-mail saved games. My preferences:
1. America
2. Japan
3. Germany
[This message has been edited by Marko (edited December 19, 2000).]

[Xin Yu]

You can try playing 'human players move simultaneously' for this one.

[Kull]

That's BEYOND scary, Xin! Might as well put in a 5 minute move limit while you're at it!

[klesh]

Okay, as a tentative line up, so far we have:

America: Marko
Soviet Union: VietMinh
Germany: Field Marshal Klesh


I'd like to see us wrangle up people to play the British and Japanese. For a REAL challange, China or the Neutrals are still left too.
Now, I'm no Civ Master, So if I play as Germany, I'll need a good MP player as my ally.
I'm real interested in this guys, so let's try to get 2 more guys to play!

[SunTzu]

I'll play Great Britain!

[Xin Yu]

I'll play Japan, if nobody else is available.

[klesh]

Now THATS what I call an ally!!! Xin, work your glorious magic for the Axis!


Okay, the next step is to post our email addresses so we can get this badboy started!

Field Marshal Klesh: AVANT393@aol.com

Once we got all the emails, the game can start. Xin, you'll be starting since you have Japan. My best wishes for sucess at Pearl. I'll email you any ideas I have for an Axis victory, we'll need to cooperate to win!
We'll be playing hotseat, so everyone remember to go to a black part of the map before you save so as not to show the next person in line your Civ. And please, please do not screw with, or even look at the disposition of someone elses army, ok? Not that I don't trust you guys, but I don't even know ya!
I suppose we'll play on Diety, huh? Looks like I'll have my work cut out for me. as it stands now:

America: Marko
Soviet Union: VietMinh
Great Britain: SunTzu
Japan: XinYu
Germany: Field Marshal Klesh

I'm not sure of the playing order, but I know Japan goes first. Oh yeah, what should we do about loading the .bat file? Should we just select our particular Civ, and it will be ok? Not sure because of the hotseat aspect... Guys, any thoughts?

It'd be cool if we could start a thread in this forum to follow our game. It would be good reading to keep us informed of the events abroad. Creativity makes it fun.
I can't wait to get this goin'!

[Xin Yu]

I think I know how to start. I open an internet game with all 7 civs. Then I save it at the end of my turn (with the 'enter' sign blinking at the lower right corner of the screen) and password my civilization. The second player can open the saved file and log in as Germany. Then he password the German civ and save at the end of his turn. The third player can do the same thing, and so on.

However I cannot password the Chinese and the Neutrual. The players immediately before the two civs can do that by finishing their turns, quitting, logining as the two civs, then passwording them.

I have already started, using rules1.txt and events1.txt (German setup).

My e-mail will be there when I send you the saved game, FMK.

[klesh]

Sounds good Xin, I like the idea of the password. I was unaware of that method, as I don't MP very much.
I'll be looking forward to your savegame. However, I must let you all know that I am in the middle of my last final exam. It's a paper that is due tomorrow, so it may only affect me tonite. But, if I get the savegame, you know I'll probably have to play and send it along...I love to procrastinate!
So, which Civ is next after me?
I'll check people's profiles as well for email addresses. Good Civin'!


PS, Xin, if you have any grand Axis strategy ideas, send 'em along in the email. I'd love to hear 'em.

[Marko]

My e-mail is markourm@yahoo.com

Playing order is

Japan - XinYu
Germany - Field Marshal Klesh
(Neutral)
America - Marko
Great Britain - SunTzu
(China)
Soviet Union - VietMinh