rhench
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Post by rhench on Jul 26, 2011 19:16:31 GMT -5
Hello MKWEA people. As some of you know, I have begun playing Civ V once again. I want to get a massive MKWEA multiplayer game going. It's not easy to coordinate with a lot of people, but I'd like to see how many people we can get going at once. Saves are possible, so we won't have to do it all in one night, but it'll be hard to get everyone back together at the same time more than once, so we probably want to budget enough for most of one if not all.
First, I need to know who wants in, and then I'll set up a poll with dates and times.
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Post by FadedOasis on Jul 26, 2011 19:50:55 GMT -5
I suck at Civ, but I guess I'd be in.
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Post by pneuma08 on Jul 26, 2011 23:30:03 GMT -5
I'm in. Don't they have a play by email option? Alternative methods might be best for conflicting schedules and such.
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Post by rhench on Jul 27, 2011 0:48:39 GMT -5
They do, but it's a hassle. You play hotseat, you do one turn and progress. If we can get the game going, we can move to play by email later on. The first few turns will be ridiculous with play by email. I make my city, I move my guy, done. Then I wait three days.
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Post by pneuma08 on Jul 27, 2011 18:24:26 GMT -5
They do, but it's a hassle. You play hotseat, you do one turn and progress. If we can get the game going, we can move to play by email later on. The first few turns will be ridiculous with play by email. I make my city, I move my guy, done. Then I wait three days. Aha, good point. I didn't even think of the starting game.
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Post by xadera on Jul 28, 2011 0:52:35 GMT -5
Oh man, you're gonna play Civ 5, Faded? Don't you remember playing with Eagle and it took like 3 days to finish that? XD
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Post by FadedOasis on Jul 28, 2011 14:03:08 GMT -5
Xadera, that was the much slower paced Alpha Centauri.
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Post by melonaterman on Jul 28, 2011 17:47:58 GMT -5
I'm game just let me know when it goes down.
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Post by rhench on Aug 2, 2011 1:27:14 GMT -5
So we've got:
Rhench Faded Pneuma Melon FiveAlarm Sora
I think 6 is enough for the test run of this. FiveAlarm has proposed Ventrilo, and I'm not opposed if we can get on a server somewhere. Skype chat might be fine, too, though adding lag to Civ is kind of silly.
Next step: when do we start this noise? I don't have plans thoroughly laid out for this weekend, but as my birthday is, well today technically, I think I may end up with a few. I could do next Tuesday starting at 6PM central time (just my earliest availability, I imagine some of you are still working then) for sure. Same for Wednesday/Thursday next week as well. If you guys prefer a weekend, I can block out time one of the days this or next, but Sunday is almost always bad for me. Throw out some dates and I'll make a poll.
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Post by pneuma08 on Aug 2, 2011 21:57:20 GMT -5
I'm free evenings and weekends. It's almost like I have some sort of regular job!
(Not really, though.)
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Post by melonaterman on Aug 3, 2011 2:15:39 GMT -5
I'm pretty much free all the time, summer vacation is credit to team. Just let me know a little while in advance so I don't make conflicting plans. Also weekends work well since CIV games take forever.
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Post by FadedOasis on Aug 3, 2011 3:35:50 GMT -5
So, uh, I played a game with my brother recently, and I was not able to save. The option wasn't there.
If saves don't work, then we absolutely *have* to do it in one day.
Just pointing it out.
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Post by rhench on Aug 4, 2011 1:05:23 GMT -5
Saves do work via autosave. You can even substitute different players for the originals. You just need as many people as you originally had (unless one is totally dead).
I'm going to throw out this Saturday starting at say, 11 AM Central time?
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Post by scrambles on Aug 7, 2011 13:31:56 GMT -5
I may be late to the party but I also have Civ V and would like to play.
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Post by rhench on Aug 7, 2011 15:58:15 GMT -5
I have 1 v 1 v AI games going with Melon and Sora in addition to my massive game with 5 people. I say we get a 3-4 person game going. Any 2 others want in?
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