10-08-2004 10:27									#91
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Thanks con - he is pretty cute, ain't he. August is dog month.

He is a cutie, the gas station were I usually get gas has this cute attendant and now she has a lab puppy with her all the time. I stop in a few times a week to admire the dog and well you know. At 40 plus we occassionally need to start living vicariously

quote: Originally posted by Beta So - what would you change in the process? [QUOTE] Just pick CIV's and play Originally posted by Beta Actually - once I figured out what was going on, I'm fairly intrigued.

Im glad someone has

quote: Originally posted by Beta Then again - when I end up with the Russians I will be right there beside you pushing for process improvement.

I dying to see what screwed up CIV I get, who is the dumb a$$ who talked me into this PBEM anyway?/

	10-08-2004 11:10									#92
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Whoops, opened your PM Rommel. I haven't actually looked at it yet though. I will once the picks are all in...

	10-08-2004 11:22									#93
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Thanks con - he is pretty cute, ain't he. August is dog month.

I find my self very confused wondering why Provost Harrison is posting in my CivIII PBEM threads...

quote: So - what would you change in the process? Actually - once I figured out what was going on, I'm fairly intrigued. Then again - when I end up with the Russians I will be right there beside you pushing for process improvement.

(You can't get the Russians- you nominated them! ) I'm still not sure if discarding duplicate picks just until the next round is the best way to go, but I wanted to be sure we didn't run out of tribes...

	10-08-2004 11:54									#94
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Gotta get to work - will do them ASAP!!

	10-08-2004 16:26									#95
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picks away

	10-08-2004 16:37									#96
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quote: Originally posted by Rommel2D I now have tribe picks from everyone except Mickeyj. Once I have his picks, I will generate one game for each possible distribution of tribes according to the various ranking configurations. We will then play out the first 20 turns of these 10^5 games and proceed to vote for each of them with wieghted preferences. The top 10 games will be played until 2000 BC, at which point Sid Meier will be called upon to pick his favorite among the lot. The final save will then be bronzed and sent to the Smithsonian Institute to be admired by generations to come...

I figured it was something like this. Great post.

So, Rommel, you have a PhD in Math?

	10-08-2004 16:39									#97
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quote: Originally posted by conmcb25 He is a cutie, the gas station were I usually get gas has this cute attendant and now she has a lab puppy with her all the time. I stop in a few times a week to admire the dog and well you know. At 40 plus we occassionally need to start living vicariously

Hey - I'm down to half a tank. Please provide directions.

	10-08-2004 19:54									#98
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Hey - I'm down to half a tank. Please provide directions.

Ill PM them to you.

This Lass has huge tracts of land if you know what I mean. The Puppy is a dam good excuse to be a letch

	10-08-2004 20:44									#99
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Here they are:
Kloreep
1. Iroquois
2. Dutch
3. Aztecs
4. India
5. Arabs
6. Koreans
7. Russia
8. Zulu
9. Spain
10. Byzantines

snoopy
Russia (1)
Spain (2)
Byzantine (3)
Dutch (4)
English (5)
Germany (6)
India (7)
Iroquois (8)
Mongols (9)
Portugal (10)

Beta
1. India
2. Germany
3. Dutch
4. Arabs
5. Spain
6. Iroquois
7.Byzantines
8. English
9. Hittites
10. Portugal

Con
1. Aztecs
2. Dutch
3. Iroquois
4. Zulu
5. Arabs
6. Mongols
7. India
8. Hittites
9. Byzantines
10. Russia

Mickey
Aztecs 1
Arabs 8
Byzantines 10
Germany 2
India 4
Koreans 3
Mongols 7
Russia 9
Spain 6
Zulu 8

Rommel
1- Aztecs
2- Iroquois
3- Dutch
4- Arabs
5- Russia
6- Zulu
7- Germany
8- Mongols
9- Hittites
10- Koreans

Kloreep is the Iroquois
snoopy is Russia
Beta is lazy and he's India
Con is Dutch and he sucks
Mickey is Germany (I assume the numbers are the rank, not the order?)
Rommel is the Arabs and was screwed over the worst by the pick system...

I'll start 'er up tonight after work...

	10-08-2004 20:46									#100
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quote: Originally posted by Beta So, Rommel, you have a PhD in Math?

No, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

	10-08-2004 20:48									#101
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Ha Ha, my evil plan worked.

Agriculture here I come, baby.

	10-08-2004 21:54									#102
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Damn - I should have picked the Germans as number 1. Oh well - I am a big fan of the Mahatma and his raging elephants. Have you ever seen what they do when they trample through Dutch farmland? Both the spearmen and the tulips get seriously squished.

	10-08-2004 21:55									#103
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quote: Originally posted by Rommel2D No, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night...

Good one!

Ok - now what do we have to do? Solve a skill testing mathematical question, spell "pangaea" correctly, and mail off our $5 with three box tops from Sugar Crisps?



On a more serious note - regarding the play order - I am gmt-5 (edt) and generally play from 5 pm to 11 pm my time, which is 22:00 to 04:00 gmt.

	10-08-2004 22:04									#104
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I know that snoopy generally plays right after me - and con a bit later - so

Beta - snoopy - con

- would be the correct order for us three.

	10-08-2004 22:24									#105
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quote: Originally posted by Beta I know that snoopy generally plays right after me - and con a bit later - so Beta - snoopy - con - would be the correct order for us three.

Concur

I generally can't guarentee a play time until after 2200EDT.

	11-08-2004 00:25									#106
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Wow, I got my first pick. Wasn't expecting that.

Arabs aren't too bad, Rommel. Decent UU, and the traits are fairly solid, especially Rel.

	11-08-2004 09:12									#107
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yeh ... i'm going to have some interesting fun with russia ^^ i was guessing it to be the "safe pick but i don't really want it" for #1 for others, but am happy enough with it ^^

	11-08-2004 11:28									#108
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Arabia was an easy #4 pick for me, well above the 5-8 group, but they aren't ag. I'm the only one who didn't get one of my top 3- let me have the Aztecs and I'll give everyone an extra restart...

	11-08-2004 12:02									#109
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I'm proposing:
Rommel GMT15-18 and 3-6
Snoopy [GMT-6]
Con GMT 3-
Mickeyj [GMT]
Kloreep [GMT-5]
Beta 22-4

Any tweaks?

	11-08-2004 12:06									#110
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Have you ever seen what they do when they trample through Dutch farmland? Both the spearmen and the tulips get seriously squished.

Yeah, but I'm getting sick of reading all those Apolytoners whinging about the occassional fluke where the tulip squashes the elephant...

	11-08-2004 16:58									#111
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um Beta-me-Conmcb makes more sense to me based on ... well, we have that order in other games. And that way Beta can send me one email with several saves ^^

But if you breaking up our trio makes sense that's cool too. ^^

	11-08-2004 17:44									#112
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quote: Originally posted by snoopy369 um Beta-me-Conmcb makes more sense to me based on ... well, we have that order in other games. And that way Beta can send me one email with several saves ^^ But if you breaking up our trio makes sense that's cool too. ^^

We need to maintain the cyber integrity of the integrated Beta-SnoopDog-con network.

That is the order and that is the way IT has to be done to maintain the system stability of the entire PBEM network

	11-08-2004 20:17									#113
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It looks like Beta stops posting a couple hours before I go to bed, while you two seem to be up well after that. It'd be a shame to lose a few turns a week just because you guys can't get enough Menage-a-trois action from your other games...

	11-08-2004 20:19									#114
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As soon as I have everone's Pangaea Pancakes box tops, I'll get this one rolling... ;-)

	11-08-2004 21:10									#115
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quote: Originally posted by Rommel2D It looks like Beta stops posting a couple hours before I go to bed, while you two seem to be up well after that. It'd be a shame to lose a few turns a week just because you guys can't get enough Menage-a-trois action from your other games...

Hey theres a lot of love in that trio, what can I say

	12-08-2004 06:57									#116
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quote: Originally posted by conmcb25 Hey theres a lot of love in that trio, what can I say

Ain't that the truth.

	12-08-2004 07:04									#117
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quote: Originally posted by Rommel2D I'm proposing: Rommel GMT15-18 and 3-6 Snoopy [GMT-6] Con GMT 3- Mickeyj [GMT] Kloreep [GMT-5] Beta 22-4 Any tweaks?

Ok - this I do not understand at all. It looks like a combo of time zones and GMT play times. We need to use one or the other to set the rotation.

If Mickeyj is GMT - and he is playing anytime during normal waking hours (which would make him say 17 - 23 gmt) - he should be playing before all the North Americans.

And unless anyone is playing very weird hours - east to west in North America has proven to be very effective. I think Kloreep is the same time zone as me - and I only stay up until 11pm on weeknights - so if he stays up later - he should come after me.

Rommel - not sure where you are?

	12-08-2004 07:09									#118
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I should come after Beta.

	12-08-2004 08:19									#119
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Rommel, i'm rarely up after 12am CT, although sometimes. I most often play my turn in the AM (7am CT) or in the mid evening (6pm CT). Final Fantasy XI affects my playtimes somewhat (and i try to play turns both before and after the game, but you can't alt-tab from it and i don't yet have a second computer at hand...)

All i know is that Me-Beta-Conmcb play our turns quite accurately in order. ^^

	12-08-2004 13:06									#120
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Anyone who gave an availability time has it listed- everyone else has their time zone listed. Mickeyj is GMT so he comes after the last American player (con). I did searches on the other players and Kloreep has not been posting after early evening hours, so I put him before Beta. I put myself after Beta because I'm usually up just a couple hours later. Both Snoopy and con have had alot of early morning posts this week, so I put them after me.

So snoopy, even though you've been posting at 1-2-3 AM all this week, that's not normal? 7AM and 6PM CST don't easily snap into the schedule. The rotation I suggested is Beta-Snoop-Con as suggested previously, with myself slipped in with my fellow CDTers where it seems to make the most sense. Now you're saying the holy trinity must be Snoop-Beta-Con in that order? Somebody make up their mind

Kloreep's posts seem to rarely go past 2AM GMT, which is why I put Beta with a 4AM GMT time-frame after. Beta should go before Kloreep, though? That would dilute the Triple Dip even further...

The arrangement listed above is east-west by time zones. I'll put Kloreep after Beta if Klor is usually available later. What would be the preferred order for us mid-westerners? Snoop-Con-Rommel? I'm only playing turns after midnight (6AM GMT) once or twice a week, and you guys seem to be up alot after that...