Ok, how do we want to start this?

Whoha · October 3, 2003, 22:24

Have El Presidente start up a game?

Sharpe · October 3, 2003, 22:38

Do we want to have a set of minimum conditions for our 1st system and/or surrounding stars and have the President restart until we get something that meets the minimum conditions?

Or we can just accept what comes up first?

Or have the president restart until a good enough start that is satisfying enough in his view that comes up?

For me, I would like to have at least 1-2 (or more

) other planets (preferably non-toxic) in our system and have at least 3 stars within range.

Whoha · October 3, 2003, 22:51

I've never felt the need to restart, but I leave it all to the discretion of our dictator in chief since we aren't playing a super production race.

vmxa1 · October 3, 2003, 23:19

I don't know how they plan on doing things, I would think the bossman could just start one up. We already have all the settings (I think).

Sharpe · October 3, 2003, 23:39

Yeah I know I cheat that way

- but since that is the only cheating I do in the game (oddly enough I regard the omniscience trait as a cheat) I don't feel so bad - besides it isn't as though I keep cycling through restarts until I get an ultra rich or a gaia or terran planet in my starting system...

Arnelos · October 4, 2003, 00:56

We don't need to restart.

Btw, because I wasn't around for it, what the starting conditions and what is our race customization?

vmxa1 · October 4, 2003, 01:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Arnelos
Btw, because I wasn't around for it, what the starting conditions and what is our race customization?

I may have this wrong, but it is something like:

Dralok picture
Creative, Uni Rep -GC -SD
The other parts I forget, it is maybe +R and +P

8 players impossible anties on Prewarp

I am not sure about the rest. There should be a thread for it, somewhere.

Whoha · October 4, 2003, 10:09

Creative Dictatorship Large and Artifacts Homeworld, with +1 Science and Aquatic.
Negatives are -Ship defence, -Ground combat and Repulsive.

GhengisFarb™ · October 4, 2003, 11:46

We chose an ARTIFACTS homeworld?

Sheesh, I thought we chose subterranean.

We need to iron this out, I find it hard to believe we wasted points on a choice that only affects one planet.

Arnelos · October 4, 2003, 12:48

So we're playing a superrace (with every cheap MoO2 pick) on impossible level...

You know, sometimes it's more enjoyable to play a run-of-the-mill race on Hard, largest mapsize, prewarp

Given that we're on Impossible level, mapsize is going to make a HUGE difference. What is it?

Whoha · October 4, 2003, 13:19

nope arnelos, those are fairly poor picks,
the production picks are king in Moo2.

vmxa1 · October 4, 2003, 16:06

Once we have figured out how to run this format, we can have many games of many settings. It will not take as long to get things underway.

Whoha · October 5, 2003, 23:51

Ok, president create a game and post it.

Gilgamensch · October 6, 2003, 05:12

I am trying to get a channel for us, so that we could 'discuss' online the game, meaning we join in the chat-room and can play the game.

bakalov · October 6, 2003, 05:14

We will not need restart. This can be played out with only one planet for a looooooooong time.

Harry Seldon · October 7, 2003, 09:31

I've been away for a bit but I'm back. WTF is wrong with apolyton? I'll start a game this evening and post it if it's alright with everyone (and if poly is running).

Arnelos · October 7, 2003, 10:44

Go ahead as far as I'm concerned. Btw... who was President again?

GhengisFarb™ · October 7, 2003, 11:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I've been away for a bit but I'm back. WTF is wrong with apolyton? I'll start a game this evening and post it if it's alright with everyone (and if poly is running).

Apoly's fine. Nothing wrong here. Why are you having problems?

Whoha · October 7, 2003, 12:48

none of the icons are being displayed, they are all red x's.

vmxa1 · October 7, 2003, 13:39

I suspect they disabled some functions to save band width. If I select last post icon, I get an error msg. If I select the whole thread, I still get the msg, but the page does come up.

vmxa1 · October 7, 2003, 13:41

Here is what I get:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/apolyton/public_html/forums/global.php(439) : eval()'d code:170) in /home/apolyton/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 245

No page is displayed.

GhengisFarb™ · October 7, 2003, 20:04

You have to pick a page to go to. Then when your in the thread use the page selector to go to the last available page

It been like this for several days now, and I am afraid it may stay like this for awhile.

Rumor has it they couldn't pay their graphics fee and they were reposessed by Lending Tree...............

Harry Seldon · October 7, 2003, 20:11

Why didn't they tell us? I'd have dropped some cash on this. Sheesh, when are they going to take donations, those ungrateful saps!

Harry Seldon · October 7, 2003, 20:12

Why didn't they tell us? I'd have dropped some cash on this. Sheesh, when are they going to take donations, those ungrateful saps!

Quote:

Go ahead as far as I'm concerned. Btw... who was President again?

I am, but that's Supreme Dictator to you.

vmxa1 · October 7, 2003, 23:50

Quote:

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
You have to pick a page to go to. Then when your in the thread use the page selector to go to the last available page

It been like this for several days now, and I am afraid it may stay like this for awhile.

Rumor has it they couldn't pay their graphics fee and they were reposessed by Lending Tree...............

I had tried to used the drop down page selector when in a thread to go to a given page and got errors as well.
I have had to use the page number (1 2 3 >>>) and that will work.
No downloads for me either. Is there some way to get this to behave. I see some have been able to DL Harry's game.

Sharpe · October 8, 2003, 06:44

No, some of that at least was me trying to download the game - all I got was machine code language...

vmxa1 · October 8, 2003, 14:01

I used the save target as option and it DL as HTML. I renamed it to save1.gam, but it was invalid when I tried to start the game. I then renamed it to zip and tried to unzip, but it was not compressed. So I am no where for now.

Harry Seldon · October 8, 2003, 15:00

Damn. What should we do? We can wait it out if you want, or I can email it as an attachment to anyone who wants it. Either send me a PM with your address or email me from my mail link.

Old n Slow · October 9, 2003, 10:16

Can you post/upload Screen shots?

Harry Seldon · October 9, 2003, 10:49

I can try. Can I Alt-Print Screen? I've never tried before.