Building a Players List

[Daytrippin]

The Folloing was origionally taken from an E-mail which was sent out to those on my ICQ list and otherwise. Please Reply to me at DaytrippinAlpha@hotmail.com Or add me to your ICQ, #110314634, if you are interested. (cut and paste the survey into an email and send it if your hardcore)

Hello one and all. You are receiving this for one of many reasons. Most of you I have played SMAC or SMACX with already. A few of you have accepted my request on ICQ to add you to my list. Still yet, a few I have received information from though a mutual player. Some of you I found listed on a website. THIS is a survey for playing Alpha Centauri and Alpha Centauri Alien Crossfire. It is an attempt to create a group of players in order to find a game whenever the time arises.

Please fill out the following survey to help me in setting up the game. I know some of you already gave me this information but the form will make it simple for me to organize it. I tried to make it easy to answer and keep track of. I hope I succeeded

ICQ Name:
Name or Nickname for publication:
Real Name(Will not be published):
E-mail Address for publication:

Number of multiplayer games played so far:
Your experience level: Novice Mediocre Experienced Expert Master
Maximum level completed in Single Player:
Citizen Specialist Talent Librarian Thinker Transcend Thinker+Ironman Transcend+Ironman
What was your Highest Alpha Centauri Score:

Time Zone:
Time Zone in GMT format: GMT
Time Most Likely will be playing or available(in your time zone):
Connection Speed:
Country:
ICQ#:
MSN Messenger ID:
Yahoo Pager ID:
AOL Messenger:
Any other Messenger Services?:
Any other Pertinent Information:

Are you interested in playing Alpha Centauri: Yes No
Are you interested in playing Alien Crossfire: Yes No
Are you interested in playing PBEM: Yes No
How many people would you want to limit the PBEM game to?:
Are you interested in playing TCP/IP: Yes No
How many people would you want to limit the TCP/IP game to?:

What are your preferences:
Please Cut and Paste (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) into a position below

Believers Gaians Hive Morganites PeaceKeepers Spartans University
Consciousness Pirates Drones Angels Cult Caretakers Usurpers

Preferred Faction #1:
Preferred Faction #2:
Preferred Faction #3:
Preferred Faction #4:
Preferred Faction #5:
Preferred Faction #6:
Preferred Faction #7:
Preferred Faction #8:
Preferred Faction #9:
Preferred Faction #10:
Preferred Faction #11:
Preferred Faction #12:
Preferred Faction #13:
Preferred Faction #14:

All the underline stuff is what my defaults are set to. I'm sure most of your are too. Just delete what you don't want for the questions with the options listed. Leave all options that are possibilties for you.

Level: Transcend Thinker Librarian Talent Specialist Citizen DoNotCare
Size of Planet: Huge Large Standard Small Tiny Random DoNotCare
Ocean Coverage: 70-90% 50-70% 30-50% Random DoNotCare
Erosive Forces: Weak Average Strong Random DoNotCare
Native Life Forms: Random Rare Average Abundant DoNotCare
Cloud Cover: Random Sparse Average Dense DoNotCare
Higher Goal: Yes No DoNotCare
Total War: Yes No DoNotCare
Peace in Our Time: Yes No DoNotCare
Mine, All Mine: Yes No DoNotCare
One for All: Yes No DoNotCare
Do or Die: Yes No DoNotCare
Look First: No Yes DoNotCare
Tech Stagnation: No Yes DoNotCare
Spoils of War: No Yes DoNotCare
Blind Research: No Yes DoNotCare
Intense Rivalry: No Yes DoNotCare
No Unity Survey: Yes No DoNotCare
No Unity Scattering: No Yes DoNotCare
Bell Curve: No Yes DoNotCare
Time Warp: No Yes DoNotCare
Iron Man: No Yes DoNotCare
Randomize faction leader personalities: No Yes DoNotCare
Randomize faction leader social agendas: No Yes DoNotCare

FINALLY,

IS IT OK TO PUBLISH YOUR INFORMATION IN ORDER FOR OTHER PLAYERS TO FIND YOU.
This information you provide will be used for smac and smacx gaming purposes only. Please notice I have even Blind Carbon Copied this E-mail to even protect your usernames.

YES NO

Anyway, I appreciate the time this took and will help me do my job so much more effectively.

PLEASE when playing a PBEM game also send a message to the other players in your group when you pass on your turn with the Game Name, Year of Turn, and the Name of the next player in the subject line. This helps keep track of where the turn is and helps to pinpoint problems.

PLEASE when playing a TCP/IP game with Simultaneous moves ON make sure to announce to everyone you are going to call council and make sure you get a reply that they are sitting and waiting fot you to call it or the game most likely will crash. An even more effective meathod of calling council in TCP/IP is to have the HOST call the council when everyone has OK'ed they are ready, waiting, and sitting idle. Also most TCP/IP games have a no contact rule until you meet the other factions. There is a alpha.txt modification that solves the possible "cheating" issue. I find it quite useful but the only problem is that you do not see the other people on the comm list until you meet them so you can't see who is still moving so you can determine if you are possibly stuck.

Sincerely


Daytrippin (John)

See you on Chiron!

P.S. please feel free to forward this to any active players which you know. And have them send it to me at: Daytrippin@smac.prv.pl OR DaytrippinAlpha@hotmail.com
[This message has been edited by Daytrippin (edited May 07, 2001).]

[Solver]

Daytrippin,
First of all, this is the wrong forum. Transfering to AC-Multiplaying now, this is forum for CtP!
And, players tend to find each other by posting on the forum that they want a game .

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Solver the "Running Beer" - http://www.aok.20m.com

[Daytrippin]

Could have sworn I posted it in the right directory but I was running on no sleep for days......Sorry, the menu does seem monochromatic though.....you do get alot of this don't you... Anyway, again, sorry.

Daytrippin

quote: Originally posted by Solver on 05-04-2001 09:41 AM Daytrippin, First of all, this is the wrong forum. Transfering to AC-Multiplaying now, this is forum for CtP! And, players tend to find each other by posting on the forum that they want a game .

[John Paul Jones]

No bump here. Excellent post... Solver here.
[This message has been edited by Solver (edited May 15, 2001).]