RBP3 IT Office - Email and technical issues

[sunrise089]

I may have been slightly exaggerating things so that exploit's turns wouldn't get skipped or turned over to an AI in the rush to move the game forward


And hey! It worked!

From the planning thread:

If the team remains AWOL after the length of a single pause the game
will remain paused, however the community will immediately begin
searching for a sub. The game will remain paused until a sub can be
located - AI Takeover will only be used in the most dire of
circumstances.

[Shoot the Moon]

May I ask what has been decided about reloading? (I hope I am not opening a can of worms, I just want to know if I should play our turn or hold off)

[sunrise089]

May I ask what has been decided about reloading? (I hope I am not opening a can of worms, I just want to know if I should play our turn or hold off)

About 20 posts back I said we'd reload to the beginning and I didn't see any objections. I've not actually reloaded yet though...I'm testing how to change the password with my own civ.

[Shoot the Moon]

I've not actually reloaded yet though.

That's what I needed to know =)

[Bobchillingworth]

Ah apologies Sunrise; however, when I saw this quote

If a neutral party thinks he's likely to be eliminated than we don't need to burn a sub to replace him if the moves he can make are really clear.

I did fear that Sumeria might be allowed to simply idle while being overrun over a number of turns, which didn't seem quite fair.

[sunrise089]

Ah apologies Sunrise; however, when I saw this quote




I did fear that Sumeria might be allowed to simply idle while being overrun over a number of turns, which didn't seem quite fair.

Sorry Bob, I should have been more clear.

Lets say in the extreme case Exploit had zero units and pop1 cities. In that case Speaker or T-Hawk or anyone with zero interest in the game could make sure an honest effort was made to live, but not have to commit long term.

[sunrise089]

Guys, expect to see a few weird things on civstats depending on what happens. I'm testing some password stuff with my own civ and reloading the game to the most recent save when stuff doesn't work right.

The game itself will stay paused while I'm doing this.

[sunrise089]

Ok guys, here's how it works:

1) The admin password does allow access to any civ (or at least my civ, which is all I tested).

2) Even with the admin password, you can't change password in game.

3) Once you've used the admin password to log in, the original password no longer works. This is nice for you guys, since it's an additional assurance (after civstats and my own word) that I'm not logging into the game as you guys, but it also sort of defeats the purpose of using the password to log in to a civ.

4) Takeover AI works in this game (glad we got that setting right!) and at least for our civ the AI doesn't slave anything while the game is paused.

So....the steps should be:

1) Reload to start of turn.

2) DJCiv plays

3) Pause

4) Boot Exploit

5) Yaz takes over for the Exploit AI, unpauses, and sets his own password

[Ruff_Hi]

oh - if we are booting people so that they can change passwords, can you boot the Aztecs and I will change my password too.

[Cyneheard]

Everyone, if you haven't e-mailed Sullla your password, please let this be a reminder to do so.

Are you reloading from the beginning of Exploit's turn, or the beginning of the entire turn?