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Pitboss is less of a hassle to play turns (no turn to open or save and send or forget to send). PB is just log in, play, and log out with no danger of forgetting to send the turn.
Once we're past the opening turn mechanics it should be smooth sailing.
Let's stick with PB. 
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I don't mind PBEM if there's too much pain with hosting a Pitboss, but yeah, at this point it's hard to give up the convenience of Pitboss
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I'm back. Got surprised by my little brother visiting when I got back so I haven't gone over pictures yet, but it was an absolutely gorgeous hike - once I adjusted to the altitude
As for the game, I'm open to PBEM. Pitboss is preferred but if we don't have a host then let's do PBEM
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I need to sit down and work it out, but I spoke with Zulan over the weekend. We absolutely need to have a T0 save according to him, so I'm not sure we can actually do it via PB anymore, unless rolling a map and then editting in advanced start in a basic Worldbuilder file works.
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Could just do pseudo advance start? Have a large starting screenshot (say 10x10) and a point base and listed point values of items, and then have someone edit in your selections to the wbsave. Some limitations here such as the way your vision expands, but it would otherwise work fine.
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I'm happy to go PBEM if it makes things easier with advanced start
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(This post was last modified: July 29th, 2024, 12:38 by yuris125.)
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Alternatively, maybe we could do advanced start in PBEM mode, which could then be edited into WB save which would be used to start pitboss? A little convoluted, but would give us the closest outcome to what we want
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(July 29th, 2024, 12:37)yuris125 Wrote: Alternatively, maybe we could do advanced start in PBEM mode, which could then be edited into WB save which would be used to start pitboss? A little convoluted, but would give us the closest outcome to what we want
This sounds like it should work.
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I asked Zulan that. He wasn't sure it would. I am loathe to ask Zulan to do anything at this point, we are already asking a lot. I worry we are becoming slightly unreasonable with the fixation on Pitboss, without Ramk, his skill and availability is it really that important? PBEMS aren't any slower.
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The big advantage that Pitboss gives us it prevents cheating by replaying saves. Considering I have no doubts about the honorable play of this group, I don't have a concern with PBEM.
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