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Turn 1 sent to jshelr.
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Dominae
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Are we doing combat reports? I know it's a silent PBEM, but combat reports are more like information than actual communication...
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Dominae
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Originally posted by Beta
The problem is that we cannot do it here. As that will give information to the others that they would otherwise not have access to.
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We would use PMs or emails to do it.
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What's the big deal about combat reports anyway? You will find out soon enough how well you did or didn't do when your turn rolls around. And if all your defenders were killed, then there were no survivors to tell you what happened.
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In a standard/SP game of Civ3, you have full knowledge of what happens to your troops. Why should it be different in PBEMs? Lack of combat reports means you're potentially working with less information, so in general you make poorer strategic decisions without them; is this a good thing? Combat reports, while time-consuming themselves, also actually save time with respect to how much guesswork you have to do every turn of a military campaign. I personally really dislike that type of guesswork.
I feel pretty strongly about this, but of course I'll go along with whatever the majority wishes.
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snoopy369
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Of the Peanuts Gallery
Apr 2004
time: 23:26
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PM/Email combat reports 
I think it's twofold: both the fact that you should know what's going on, and it's solely a horrible laziness on the part of Civ3 programmers (or more likely their publisher's lack of funding) that meant they didn't have time to program this into the game (but instead basically just took SP, added a password protection and a "Please save at end of turn" to it, and then ducked); and the fact that you have strong possibility of underhanded action (both espionage-like sneakiness, which is not technically illegal but I don't think Civ should encourage, and the actual cheating, ie multiple reloads to get hugely favorable combat situations, which a combat report makes hard to hide for long) prevented by combat reports is important to me, too. 
Anywho, on to Dom. Sorry for the delay, was at a poker game until midnight last night (and work at 7am 1hr commute, etc.) ... but left with +250% so i'm not too unhappy  (Key to winning at poker: Don't drink. Paddy, don't play poker with me. )
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I bet you that my start is worse than yours. It will be interesting to compare once we get to the point when we can. Ok - I will but my muzzle back on now. mmmmmmm mm mm
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