Proxima Centauri: Divergence - Turn Tracking

[Firstblood]

turn to cov

[Chaos Theory]

I don't have the turn.

[Chaos Theory]

2121 -> Disciples

[Mart]

2122 to the Institute

[Preview]

Turn to Paradigm.

Also, I have returned from my trip.

[Firstblood]

???

Havent gotten my turn, just checking just incase...

[Firstblood]

And can a pbem be tranceformed into a directgame and back to pbem? Like if we could get together a once day per week and during that day play like 10-20turns during like 1-2hours of gaming and then go back to pbem...

also I think the game would go faster if we has skype or msn, but then the whole pbem thingy would lost its charm as the pressure or commitment would increase and maybe make it less fun then what it is... not that I whant to quit or anything...

[fluxionman]

Hi. The turn was sent on the 2nd.

But, at this point, I've pretty much lost interest. I had hoped to be able to do a turn every couple of days, not once every other week.

Thanks for the interest though, everyone.

[Firstblood]

Is it possible to turn fluxionmans race into an AI?

[Firstblood]

And maybe we can turn the most inactive ppl into AI's? Exkluding myself...

And I didnt get the turn the 2:nd, obviously! Or i misstakling deleted it...

[Mart]

Originally posted by Firstblood
And can a pbem be tranceformed into a directgame and back to pbem? ...

Firstblood, it is possible to play like that, but this game has been set up as pbem. I believe many of the players here wish to play it as pbem and not online simultaneous turns game. For various reasons playing pbem only is preferable:
1. Less bugs. I found number of bugs in simultaneous online play is just discourageing.
2. Strategy lacks in such games - less time to think of specific tasks - it is not RTS after all.
3. More flexibility in when to play. For many it is a big problem - getting 5 players at the same time is difficult.

We are supposed to keep turntime in reasonable limits. Each player should regularly check not only his/her email inbox but also this thread where each turn sent should be marked also. shortly - 2199 to Institute - or else as required. this helps to avoid situations like that when Fluxionman sent a turn on the 2'nd and after 2 weeks you Firstblood conclude that it either did not arrive or was deleted or otherwise lost. So please post everyone here, visit this forum, if you suspiciously do not see a turn in your mailbox for longer time, please inquire here.

Such games pbem may take a year or two to complete, may have its slower moments. I personaly have no problem with that. I do not mind playing a turn every several days - still enjoy it. This game is very interesting as it is a new mod, on an extremely large map - I wonder how game may look on it, and I look forward for continuing it. Fluxionman you put a lot of effort in designing it and making happen. I believe you should be the last person to stop playing, unless you wish so.

We also should find a person to whom to send passwords in case one of us just happen to go offline for too long time. I lack it here. Most games are like that - peolpe agree in such cases that in order to continue someone takes over a faction. So let's do it.

Any thoughts?

[Firstblood]

eh, 2weeks, check the 7th, yeah 5days might not be good either, I can agree to that. As you can see my reponse time has increased due to I have express open more frequently and have moved over from icq to msn.

A cool email alertprogram would be more efficient though?

[Firstblood]

beside if he send it the 2nd and dont post the turn made here and im 5days late, I then think its excuseable. Beside playing during big hollidays, then late playing and vacations are excusiable aswell. But now things should return to normal. Also, there is possible to player several game simultanously... online playing was just a suggestions.

Infact more and more ppl have broadband and as such a good email alert program thats enough to speed up this game... I think that is the best idea, still where do you find such a program.

[Chaos Theory]

32 days without activity. Is this game dead?

[Mart]

it is in my oppinion,
We can though try another one on a large map maybe? I was curious how it would look like later - having like 100 - 200 bases maybe. or even more