Lemuria Café II - Page 10

J Bytheway · May 17, 2003, 14:11

Thanks Locutus - I meant to say that this was subject to your approval.

child of Thor · May 18, 2003, 13:43

I'm at work(and rather busy!) but i just tried the chat and no-one was there?(time 18:35ish GMT)

J Bytheway · May 18, 2003, 14:13

Quote:

Originally posted by child of Thor
I'm at work(and rather busy!) but i just tried the chat and no-one was there?(time 18:35ish GMT)

That would be 1835 BST, which is 1735 GMT. Don't let Apolyton fool you - it's lying about the time.

child of Thor · May 18, 2003, 14:19

Ah of course! ok i may have time to pop in and see whats going on. thanx

ískallin · May 20, 2003, 16:00

Well met ye all

What has happend here in the last month??
(iv'e got this fantastic game axis and allies and modeling and exams and RL junk so i haven't had got any time to keep up here :ashamed:

child of Thor · May 20, 2003, 16:34

Hello Iskallin, well we've played about 10(game) turns i think

The Apolyton Chat has been down and things were getting quiet. We forced H Tower to eat sheeps eyeballs Iclandic style so he quit from the DG(ok that's not exactly true - but he has left the DG). And for the rest fairly normal i would say. Oh yeah Hex and Dale are busy on thier other projects(which look to be very good) so not so much Modding is going on, although people are still getting on with some things. thats about it.

ískallin · May 20, 2003, 16:48

okey...
but i guess it will be quiet over the summer too

ískallin · May 20, 2003, 16:49

but what have ye accomplished in the game itself?

J Bytheway · May 21, 2003, 05:16

Well, the Austrians continue to fall before us, and the Germans are now a thorn in our side.

Tamerlin · May 21, 2003, 09:49

Things are going fine Iskallin we are still the most terrible nation in the world...

By the way John, when do you plan to hold the next Turn Chat?

ískallin · May 21, 2003, 13:18

Well that's fine.
I'm converting some of the local pop to ctpish

so in a few months or so we might have some new poly addickts

J Bytheway · May 21, 2003, 14:26

Quote:

Originally posted by Tamerlin
By the way John, when do you plan to hold the next Turn Chat?

I guess Sunday again. Midweek seems to be a bad idea... I've been a little snowed under with revision lately.

Gilgamensch · May 22, 2003, 03:52

Sunday.......why Sunday..........

Some people have to work the other morning..........

But If so, let me know, please till tomorrow.........

J Bytheway · May 22, 2003, 05:11

What day would you prefer? It makes little difference to me. I was choosing Sunday mainly because Tamerlin said Sunday and Thursday were good for him, and I don't remember anyone else saying anything similar.

Tamerlin · May 22, 2003, 07:34

I can also make it the monday but other days would be difficult... if not impossible.

Gilgamensch · May 22, 2003, 08:05

It's just, that most of the time, it get's late

No, early till we finish and as again most of the time, I'll finish ~~late~~early on Saturday, besides Friday, I do not like to stay to long up on Sunday.............

child of Thor · May 22, 2003, 08:52

I'm flexible in that i'm only here on Apolyton while at work which can be any day any hour(!). Predicting if i'm going to have time to pop in is a different matter, and the main reason i can't really volunteer for any government positions

Gilgamensch · May 22, 2003, 09:46

CoT,

That's the same situation for me, I access the web from work. Why do think I always tried to push for an earlier start. Finishing work, going home, eat, come back...............

Tamerlin · May 22, 2003, 11:16

Provided I am warned rather early I can be available the afternoon from monday to friday (though no later than 17:00 GMT the Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)... Saturday afternoon are not possible (final phases of the french Rugby Championship) and so is the Sunday afternoon...

ískallin · May 23, 2003, 06:36

i can make it tonight or saturday and sunday if not to late (exams exams) but in a few days school will be finished so i can be everytime

J Bytheway · May 23, 2003, 16:24

Going for Sunday again. 1830 GMT (1930 BST) as usual. I'm sorry but I just can't make it earlier.

Exams come ever closer, so this will almost certainly be the last turn chat I can host.

Gilgamensch · May 24, 2003, 10:10

I might be there

Although, I still would prefer earlier................

Locutus · May 24, 2003, 18:08

Forgot to post this earlier: the chat server will be online tomorrow evening (heck, probably all day).

BTW, John, you done downloading those files? Can I remove them again?

J Bytheway · May 25, 2003, 05:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Locutus
BTW, John, you done downloading those files? Can I remove them again?

Yes

Locutus · May 25, 2003, 10:36

Edit: nevermind, wrong Zaphod... didn't know we had more than one...

Tamerlin · May 28, 2003, 21:58

Is there anybody out there?

The CtP2 DG is slowly coming to a halt and nobody cares!

Is there a citizen out there who would be kind enough to tell us what is going wrong or what would encourage him to come back to the DG?

child of Thor · May 29, 2003, 07:04

Well Tamerlin i'll hazard a guess.
It seems that a lot of people have got exams coming up and would be main participants just don't have the time to spare.
Then you've got a very few people like me who browse apolyton at work and just can't schedule any commitment to the DG beyond voting in polls ,posting from time to time and maybe making the odd chat if we are online at the time.
Thirdly i've got a long-shot theory that as most of the ctp2 community are modders and programers, the DG is taking up so much of their time that they are not finding the time to do what they enjoy most.
And my final theory is that as ctp2 is not a 3D rts it's just not popular with the kids(or publishers)

Zaphod Beeblebrox · May 29, 2003, 19:31

well, it was a small community from the beginning.
some people were scared away by the loads of bureaucracy a dg needs (as any rl-democracy) and maybe decided they better spent their freetime playing games of their own (or multiplayer or...).

the long standstill of the whole game during march/april might have done a lot to scare away the rest.

as cot said most active citizens are also the people who write the mods, scenarios, andso on which make ctp2 such a great game. of course some people are learning for their exams (perhaps i should do so as well

)

in my personal case my time devoted to the dg gets less and less because i have to work much more nowadays (in the evening/night european time, when most turnchats take place) and because i have even more political obligations in rl than i had 2 months before, which might even increase.

i'm not sure, but maybe the time has come to realize that this dg has died already :sad:

Tamerlin · May 29, 2003, 20:32

Quote:

i'm not sure, but maybe the time has come to realize that this dg has died already :sad:

This is indeed a sad perspective Zaphod but it seems so close to the truth...

It's a pity because the Turn Chats are fun to play...

Tamerlin · June 2, 2003, 21:28

John, as you are still President of the DG, don't you think we should organize another Turn Chat?

I am available Thirsday, Sunday (though I would prefer another day) and monday of the next week...