07-02-2005 08:45									#1
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This is the thread that you post in once you have sent the game save to the next team. This should be topped.

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	07-02-2005 15:10									#2
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Don't you have the topping powerz?

	07-02-2005 16:19									#3
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Could somebody be so kind as to post the turn order? Then the Team members could send their email adys to the team in front, and speed up the distribution of the game...

	07-02-2005 19:06									#4
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Team Euphorica: 1400-0200 GMT
Team Bloody Oath Horde: 0600-1800 GMT
Team Babylon: 1700-0500 GMT
Team Desolation Row: 0200-1400 GMT
Team Lost Boys: 2000-0800 GMT
Team Conquest: 0600-1800 GMT

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	08-02-2005 19:12									#5
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Did Team Euphorica receive it from the Game Master yet?

	08-02-2005 19:58									#6
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Two days ago.

	08-02-2005 22:16									#7
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Um - can we make this the turn discussion thread - as that is what it clearly has become.

And I will start a Turn Tracking thread - the first post being the play order, and a request to only post the 'sent', and nothing else. All the chit chat around who has it, and how long they have taken to play - or how quick they were, can go here.

	08-02-2005 22:21									#8
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Please post 'turn sent' updates in this thread:
Eve of Destruction - Turn Tracking Thread

Thanks!

All our other discussion stuff can go here. Nuke - you may want to modify the title of this thread to reflect this ie add "Discussion". Thanks. And both should be topped.

	08-02-2005 22:38									#9
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thanks for the tracker thread, but i request the turn year also be posted together with "sent"

	09-02-2005 01:16									#10
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Good suggestion sabre, it has been implemented.

A little comment on the first turn. It was played yesterday evening (late). We just made it within 24 hours after supply. With a starter pack like this and a first view at the (starting) location at the arrival of the save, it takes extra time to get the first turn played. The decissions to take have a huge impact. Do we move all 3 settlers, or do we found a city at the spot. Everyone can view F11, to see what we decided eventually.

Next turn won't be any problem to play within 12 hours of arrival. With the end situation given, we are allready discussing the next steps. Most decissions will be a logic extrapolation of the decissions in the first turn. Again the extra pressure on the first turn.

I know we're allready on our way. But who knows there will be a next time or maybe we can implement a little allready:

1. I propose the admins distribute screenshts of the starting locations to all the teams at the moment the save is distributed to the first team.

2. The first team gets 36 hours to play their first turn. The other teams 24 hours (they might want to chat while playing and there is the geographical distribution of players).

3, From turn 2 on, 12 hour limit to play the turn for the first age.


Good game to all, and we'll meet on the field...

	09-02-2005 01:43									#11
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quote: Originally posted by 1889 Team Euphorica: 1400-0200 GMT Team Bloody Oath Horde: 0600-1800 GMT Team Babylon: 1700-0500 GMT Team Desolation Row: 0200-1400 GMT Team Lost Boys: 2000-0800 GMT Team Conquest: 0600-1800 GMT

thanks for the team order

I did not think we had settled on actual time

but had settled on hour limits

	09-02-2005 05:27									#12
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quote: Originally posted by McMeadows With a starter pack like this and a first view at the (starting) location at the arrival of the save, it takes extra time to get the first turn played. The decissions to take have a huge impact. Do we move all 3 settlers, or do we found a city at the spot.

Team Babylon has come up with a better approach. Stock civ is a bit more straighforward, and something we are more familiar with. So we disbanded two of the settlers and two of the workers. Makes the opening move much simpler.

	09-02-2005 05:36									#13
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You abandoned two of your workers and settlers?

	09-02-2005 06:09									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Team Babylon has come up with a better approach. Stock civ is a bit more straighforward, and something we are more familiar with. So we disbanded two of the settlers and two of the workers. Makes the opening move much simpler.

ya madman

	09-02-2005 06:41									#15
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Beta's fond of abandoning.

	09-02-2005 06:57									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Team Babylon has come up with a better approach. Stock civ is a bit more straighforward, and something we are more familiar with. So we disbanded two of the settlers and two of the workers. Makes the opening move much simpler.

Good thinking, thats like 17 shields right?

	09-02-2005 07:12									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Nuclear You abandoned two of your workers and settlers?

Earth to Lord Nuke. Earth to Lord Nuke. Come in please....

	09-02-2005 07:15									#18
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quote: Originally posted by 1889 Good thinking, thats like 17 shields right?

Yep. Hey, we want to build a temple. We are the Babylonians after all. We think that long term the culture build will be more important.

The warriors were the tough decision. The military faction wanted to keep them.

	09-02-2005 07:21									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Beta The warriors were the tough decision. The military faction wanted to keep them.

Cuz they have axes, that are shiny!

	09-02-2005 07:41									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Earth to Lord Nuke. Earth to Lord Nuke. Come in please....

You abandoned the Earth?

	09-02-2005 08:04									#21
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Yup - that too.

We have ascended to a higher plane of existence.

	09-02-2005 09:08									#22
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Don't be looking at our start position.

	09-02-2005 11:11									#23
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hehe

anywho, albeit mcmeadows is accurate that 12 hours will probably be acceptable for us from here on out, the vote was 3 turns (by my count, i'm tired so i may be wrong), so no skipping until 24 hours has passed until after 3900bc.

That is all ...

	09-02-2005 12:43									#24
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quote: Originally posted by snoopy369 hehe anywho, albeit mcmeadows is accurate that 12 hours will probably be acceptable for us from here on out, the vote was 3 turns (by my count, i'm tired so i may be wrong), so no skipping until 24 hours has passed until after 3900bc. That is all ...

not sure why you keep saying 3, when the poll shows....

	09-02-2005 19:03									#25
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Good lord Paddy is that the actual interface you use? Yech.

	09-02-2005 19:43									#26
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OMG, that's what i call bad choice!

	10-02-2005 05:39									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Paddy the Scot not sure why you keep saying 3, when the poll shows....

Because I read the post I posted about how the poll would be interpreted. (And it got 3 more votes for 5 days btw, after i posted that ...)

Still, 3 is the choice, because over 50% of the voters voted for 3 or less. That was the rational for choosing a winner; no one of the choices won 50% of the vote, so instead it was a graduated poll.

	10-02-2005 09:07									#28
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Snoopy, your reasoning is tantamount to what we Australians call a gerrymander, in political terms.

If you offer enough alternatives, there is no way any alternative will ever reach a majority. You have no way of knowing whether those who voted for 2 or 1 turns would prefer 3 or 5. To do it properly, you should employ a "2 party preferred" system, or what you would call a "run-off".

Failing that, there is no argument that can logically be used to claim that a result that achieved 4 votes is more popular than a result that achieved 9 votes. Your invention of this so-called "graduated" system of interpreting the voting, basically amounts to selecting the answer you want to achieve and finding a ballot-counting methodology that gives the selected answer.

Edit: And another point - your methodology assumes that the lower numbers are more popular, which statistically is invalid (in my humble opinion). Why not start at the other end?

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	10-02-2005 09:20									#29
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I'm sure that by now everybody is convinced that they would rather just turn on the 12 hour clock next turn.

	10-02-2005 10:07									#30
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DR, where is the save?