October 30, 2002, 17:45
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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Welcome!
you know what to do! 
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October 31, 2002, 07:32
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Deity
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#There’s a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And it’s all right, baby, it’s all right #
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October 31, 2002, 09:13
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ACS Staff Member / Hosted Site Admin
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OK, so this will the place for PBEM gathering  
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October 31, 2002, 10:39
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Emperor
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Very cool Markos. Now if I only had PtW!
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October 31, 2002, 12:43
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Emperor
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Markos: 
Thanks.
Waiting for PtW ...
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--George Bernard Shaw
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no".
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October 31, 2002, 14:11
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Emperor
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Location: Detroit
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Greatings.....
One of these days PtW will arrive.....
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As long as I could figure a way to hump myself, I would be OK with that
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October 31, 2002, 16:46
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Chieftain
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Anyone know what size the PBEM files will be?
I live at the edge of nowhere, too far out for DSL or Cable, and w. too many trees around for wireless.
Dial-up speed is bad and if the file size is too large...
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October 31, 2002, 16:54
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Deity
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no, there very small, even for 56k modems
(look at save games usualy around 100-200 Kb)
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November 1, 2002, 19:27
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Prince
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It's not at my "Best Buy" or "CompUSA" yet, I think tomorow I will call before I waste an hour on the road.... 
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November 4, 2002, 17:20
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Chieftain
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Quote:
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Originally posted by alva848
no, there very small, even for 56k modems
(look at save games usualy around 100-200 Kb)
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That's good.
I knew that with the compresion the saved games were pretty small, but wasn't sure what extra stuff would be saved for the PBEM games.
(I hate my computer connection)
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The true nature of a man is shown by what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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November 16, 2002, 20:18
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Chieftess
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Location: Baltimore, Md.
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You should give a PBEM chat option like we do. 
(only 1000 posts!? One of our PBEM games has over 600!  ).
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November 28, 2002, 04:45
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Emperor
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What is the "Civ III PBEM" civgroup for?
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. "
--George Bernard Shaw
A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no".
--Woody Allen
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December 5, 2002, 11:30
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Emperor
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Location: Brasil
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ahh, I finally ordered my PTW copy, which will be arriving here soon... then I'll be able to join in some PBEM games. With my crappy connection at home, that's the most I can get from multiplayer.
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December 16, 2002, 17:54
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Settler
Local Time: 10:04
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Howdy Y'all
Looking forward to playing some Civ3 with you oldtimers.
Huzzah!
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February 11, 2003, 13:09
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Warlord
Local Time: 12:04
Local Date: November 1, 2010
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
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I have a general question.
How many turns a day / a week are the players of a CIV PBEM game expected to play?
I'm not sure how often I'm able to play a PBEM game so I'm afraid of starting one.
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February 12, 2003, 06:07
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Emperor
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1 turn/day, sometimes 1 turn for 2 days, there may be more
it depends from the people - where they live, how busy they are in RL,...
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May 2, 2003, 20:12
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Firaxis Games Software Engineer
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Multiplayer Mod?
From what I have seen so far from the multiplayer Civ3 community, especially for PBEM, it seems that AI civilizations are generally avoided. It also seems that there are a few aspects of Civ3 where strategic depth has been compromised because of the inability of the AI to deal effectively with complex situations. This creates a great opportunity for a mod that is free of the strategic limitations introduced to help the AI.
The main objective of this mod would be to provide a set of rules that challenge the player with a need for deeper strategy, while changing as little as possible to preserve the stock Civ3 flavor. To accomplish this goal, the mod would try to balance the existing elements of the game so that there is no one strategy that always works, nor one that never works. Ideally, the Civ3 multiplayer community would adopt this set of rules as a standard for games without AI-controlled civilizations.
Would there be any interest helping to create, test, and eventually adopt such a mod? If so, please post your ideas here.
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August 1, 2003, 02:02
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King
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nice idea
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