14-11-2002 20:32									#1
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I am attempting to generate a list of Civ3 PTW players that have been successful in playing online. 52 to date

The following 52 Civers have successfully played PTW online without any major difficulties. When a game is played with any of the following Civers ask any of them to add you to the list or track me down in the game room and tell me your name and the person that you played on the list. After I verify that it is authentic I will be glad to add you to the list. I am attempting to avoid as many crashes as possible not eliminate anyone from enjoying the game.

The new 1.14f patch has cleared up many of the problems that were encountered in the 1.04f patch. There is a dramatic improvement in game flow. If you are in the setup room and see any of the following Civers you can be assured that they have played in or hosted a game with other like Civers. So, look out for them and maybe, we can avoid as many problems as possible in the future.

Please have, CivIII with the 1.29f patch (included in the Game of the Year disk), a retail copy of PTW with the 1.14f patch and enter the setup room through the PTW disk ( not gamespy) , if you're behind a router try the following: initial incoming TCP port 47624, outgoing and incoming TCP and UDP ports range from 2300-2400 (omission in read me). This is necessary to host not to play. There also seems to be a problem with AOL users. Turn off all programs that are running in the background except systray and explorer. If you crash for any reason do yourself a favor and reboot every time. To make the game run smoother: turn off all animations and music from the main menu of PTW before entering the lobby. It has also been suggested that some type of internet cleaner (ad-aware, sysbot cleanser) should be used to help the out of sync crashes you may get. Check out download.com (utilities) for available free downloads.

Last but not least, if 1 player is not 100% then the game will fail. Please help anyone that you can with these requirements (to get the word out), you can use this as your "good deed" for the day and possibly make a fellow Civer, a "Happy Civer".

As a final hint, if you are attempting to play with multiple players and you have continual crashes, try pairing off and run a quick test game. This is the only way that I have come up with to see which Civer may be the cause.

If you have any questions or suggestions let me know so I can pass it on.

HAPPY CIVING:

11-14; _ajerzguy, Lord_Wraith , Giz, HMFIC
11-15; Hawkeye_1, bob101, genocide, Montana99, Lucky_Dragon.
11-16 ; theage 11-17 ; poppy5000, mavman. 11-18 ; Kemoboy 11-22; TechTedg, CiverDan, TafireHawk, RgSiskard, rhjyyk, Glez, Grungy, AttiladaKilla, RBobkn. 11-23; Elakin, Darthon, Keljorian, Mayor Quimby. 11-29; daph, Lord_Kenneth, Shnoligan, burebista, Dcart5, Flix, CaMMel, Palanthos, Spartacus, Grahn. 12-02; Quillan 12-03; Sauron_the_Great, ReeferAddict. 12-04; Raz, 12-06; Killer_Returns, Playa, dahveed, Rommal, dahveed, d0miNaTor. 12-10; Sallandair, Liquid, Katia 12-14; Reg, DroidDr, Dan_D

Last edited by ajerzguy on 17-12-2002 at 04:56

	14-11-2002 23:11									#2
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I have had success playing against the following players:

Gilan, Ed, theage

But only 2 and 3 player games.

	15-11-2002 02:15									#3
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I have been very successful at hosting...Funny, Ive yet to actually start a game I Havent hosted.

	15-11-2002 02:15									#4
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I've successfully played in over half the games I've hosted with 3-4 people. I go by Dark Helmate.

	15-11-2002 07:09									#5
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Lol. We have an MC Hawking!

	15-11-2002 09:05									#6
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after disabling zone alarm I was able to play.

I have a p3700 256 megs ram, geoforce 2 MX400.

I am running a cable modem, but the game was very laggy with 4 people in. After 2 people dropped out the game was playable, But still frustratingly laggy. but I was able to outplay my opponent and crush him . So I'm happy. Although he left before I could get his last 2 cities.

	16-11-2002 22:27									#7
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Played loads of times...P4 1600 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, 128 MB graphics card, 512kbs connection and Windows XP Home Edition.

	16-11-2002 23:06									#8
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quote: Originally posted by kittenOFchaos Played loads of times...P4 1600 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM, 128 MB graphics card, 512kbs connection and Windows XP Home Edition.

1600 Gigahertz ? Wow, you must have the fastest computer on Earth.

More on topic, I've had a few successful games, but never with more than 3 or 4 people (the game crashes every other time). I'm on an AMD Athlon 1 GHZ with 386 MB RAM.

	17-11-2002 00:02									#9
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Found it. Thanks aj!

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	17-11-2002 00:27									#10
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testing...

	17-11-2002 01:30									#11
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I successfully played with 2 sets of two people for an hour each time

the first two were Mad Vike and Paris

the second two were Lucky Dragon and Lord Wraith

both games I joined, the game I tried to host with 6 people didn't work

Jon Miller

	17-11-2002 10:52									#12
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will not work with more than 4 best for me has been 3 + 1 puter. Lord_Wraith is on the list.

Happy Civin

	17-11-2002 18:21									#13
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I agree, it's very laggy right now with more than 3 people.

	26-11-2002 17:14									#14
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Thanks for the post Jerz, although unfortuately it seems that the majority of the people still trying the game are doing so without any knowledge of apolyton or civfanatics. The problems they create for players that have been able to play is at times unbearable.I now have over 70 successful games on the internet, some with 5 players and an ai added that last for hours. We have had 3 player 3 ai games into the 10 hour mark. So the game is possible, although irritating. My thanks for the posts of all the people I have played successfully

	27-11-2002 12:45									#15
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quote: Originally posted by THE_GIZ Thanks for the post Jerz, although unfortuately it seems that the majority of the people still trying the game are doing so without any knowledge of apolyton or civfanatics. The problems they create for players that have been able to play is at times unbearable.I now have over 70 successful games on the internet, some with 5 players and an ai added that last for hours. We have had 3 player 3 ai games into the 10 hour mark. So the game is possible, although irritating. My thanks for the posts of all the people I have played successfully

Hey thanks Giz, I appreciate the acknowledgement and enjoy playing with you. Eventually it'll smooth over.
Looking forward to our next encounter.

I know what you meen though somtimes it's like

	03-12-2002 00:32									#16
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ajerzguy,

I am european so can not play yet. Hopefully tomorrow.

In your first post you mention that for CIVIII the 1.29 patch is needed? Because of the problems we Europeans had I reinstalled several times and thought that CIVIII, PTW and 1.14f PTW patch would be sufficient and would also ensure the 1.29 patch updates. That is not true?

Edit: To be sure I checked the PTW editor and checked some of the 1.29f editor changes. As expected they are all in there so I conclude that it is not necessary to patch CIVIII to 1.29f. Or am I missing something here?

Last edited by Franses on 03-12-2002 at 15:11

	08-12-2002 23:22									#17
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i have been successfull

	09-12-2002 00:34									#18
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I have played with tons of people sucessfully, some that come to mind are Cyborg467, Essex, Aaron Clemens, Thumpper....

most people i have played with I have had success with.

	09-12-2002 00:34									#19
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I have played with tons of people sucessfully, some that come to mind are Cyborg467, Essex, Aaron Clemens, Thumpper....

most people i have played with I have had success with.

	09-12-2002 09:58									#20
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the above is the problem with slow servers

	11-12-2002 05:48									#21
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Ajerzguy,

I've played (mostly hosting) many times successfully. This includes you I think. I have also used the screen name puff but stopped cause someone else was using it too. Please add me to your list. thanx