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With kids and the like, I can sometimes check quickly in the morning before work (around 7-8 AM Eastern), but that'll go away once the turns start taking longer. Otherwise I'm usually checking between 8:30 and 10:00 PM Eastern; I'm putting the kids to bed before then, and getting ready for bed myself afterward.
Unless there's a playoff hockey game on involving the 'Canes. Then I'll check between periods or maybe commercials. |
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That's my plan. If you'd like to come along for the ride and help out, I'd love the help. I'll even make sure there's a small plot of land left where the JeeberDians can have self-rule. |
Well right away there is no overlap between JeeberD's and gstelmack's schedules.
Jeeber, is there any weeknight you could be available? I was guessing that 9-12 pm eastern might be the best time frame for everyone, as even the west coast folks would be home from work by that time. Unless they work nights. |
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My wife is having a baby tomorrow. I am probably going to run the clock out Thurs, Fri and Saturday, perhaps taking turns again by Sunday afternoon. |
Congratulations on the new baby!!! My only kid was born 10 months ago; the memories are still very fresh. What an exciting time! Enjoy!
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Goddamn motherfucking barbarian panthers... :mad:
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Muahaha.
I mean, uh, hi. |
CONGRATULATIONS, Samdari!!
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Woohoo, free experience for me! (if I can get my warrior up there before the panther heals from his 0.2 strength) BTW, I did my turn 90 minutes ago (right at the 19:02 mark left in the turn) and it still says "Waiting for players" despite showing everyone as having taken their turn. |
Everyone has a star next to their name?
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Samdari hasn't gone yet...
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Yeah, he has a really good reason for not taking his turn. :-)
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Not till tomorrow :). And I'll probably check in the morning before we go, just in case. And oh yeah, what Jeeber said :mad: |
Anyone know if it's possible to change the name of your ruler? I want to rename mine Hayabusa, after the greatest wrestler in the world!
Better than Starman .. he sucks. |
I think it's possible in your options menu...
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... and here comes some Barbarian Lions. Woot!
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Tried to do mine before I went in to work this morning (around 7:45 Eastern or so) and could not connect to the host.
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Yup, trying to connect right now with no luck...
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Should be up and ready to go now.
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dola -- NOW it should be ready to go again. :-)
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And I see Celeval through the impassible peaks that cut off the Japanese Empire from everyone else.
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I have a new tool that provides an RSS Feed you can put right on your browser that tells you how much time is left in a turn and who has taken their turn. Is this a service you guys (and gal) might be interested in?
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Found a little village and entered, hoping to learn the secrets of the universe. All I learned was how much they didn't like visitors! So we killed them!
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies; see them driven before you; and to hear the lamentation of their women." |
Sorry guys, my dad's been in the hospital the last three nights, and I've been either there or at my parents' house taking care of my lil' sis. He's ok now, so I should be back on track to keep turns flowing again.
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I have no experience whatsoever with RSS Feeds, but it sounds like a pretty cool thing. |
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Nothing to be sorry about. Hope your Dad's ok. |
Something seems broken. I can't connect.
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It's back up.
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The intrepid Californian scouting party continues to stumble through the wilderness, when they encounter a stench like nothing they've ever known.
A pale orange hue hangs over the landscape of what appears to be a primitive band of ape-like beings... They introduce their leader, the Great Big Rude Despot, who our scout refers to by the acronym "G.B.R.D" When word of this encounter reaches the fearless Governor of California, he can only scratch his head and wonder, "What sort of foul beast is this 'Gee-Ber-Dee', and should we consider it a threat?" |
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It's back down. (Between 8 and 10 a.m. EST, still unable to connect) |
10:57 AM Eastern, still down.
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Sorry about that. While I was asleep one of the cats stepped on the top "pause" button on my cable modem. True story.
It's back on now and the clock is back up to 24 hours to give everyone a chance to take their turn. |
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Eric, I've downloaded the pitboss.exe and put it in the CIV4 folder, but when I try to run it it says some python (blah blah).dll file is missing. Is it necessary to download anything besides pitboss to get pitboss to run (like SDK)? I have the game on full install and the CD in the drive. |
I had that issue, and I'm trying to remember how I fixed it...
I'm PRETTY sure that it was because I didn't have the Pitboss .exe in the Civ4 folder. Have you run a google search on the file? I think that's how I figured out the problem... |
I do have pitboss in the Civ4 folder. In fact I've deleted it and re-installed it there several times now. I put the zip file there and unzip it into that directory just to be sure. I ran a google search and found only 2 references to that file...one was a guy asking the same question as me (with no respones) and another is to a very long thread where the question was asked and the answer was 'put pitboss in your civ4 folder'.
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I'm pretty sure that solution worked for me, I'm not sure why you're having issues... :(
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Dola-
You're certain it's in the Civ4 folder and not just in the Firaxis folder? |
yeah, There is no Firaxis folder.
Found one more thread where the guy claims to have fixed the problem by reformatting his HD and re-installing. I think I'll just forget about ever hosting via pitboss. Not worth that much trouble. |
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Are you quite sure about the impassable bit? :-D BTW... anyone who wants to communicate with me, can PM me here, IM me, or email me at kdonnelly [a] enterpulse o com |
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I'm assuming you're getting this message: "This application has failed to start because boost_python-vc71-mt-1_32.dll was not found." And you've said that you have Pitboss.exe in the same folder as your Civ4.exe file, right? A couple of questions: - Do you have a modded Civ4.exe file? - Do you have .Net extensions installed? - You said there wasn't a Firaxis folder on your desktop .. how do you have yours set up? The default setup is Firaxis/Civilization4/. That very well may be the trigger right there. I'm doing some checking for you. It's supposed to be easy. :( |
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How'd you get over? I don't see a way. This, I must investigate. :-) |
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That is the exact error message I'm getting. I don't have any mods for Civ4. I don't have .net installed (not to my knowledge anyway) I believe the install defaulted to "my documents/my games/Sid Meier's Civ 4"; at least I don't think I would have selected that location myself...I have my own "games" folder on the C drive. I recall reading something a long time ago about .net, that it was a very insecure and subject to hacking. I don't recall the details, and know very little about network security, but I've always avoided installing it. Can anyone enlighten me about the security aspect of the .net thing? |
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Ahhh ... there's the problem. Civ4 installs in two places on your CPU -- the save files go to My Documents, the main files go to Program Files. There actually should be a Firaxis folder. Go to My Computer, then click on Program Files, and look for "Firaxis Games". Install Pitboss there, and try to run it from there. Don't worry about .Net -- that's only needed for the turn notification. I have to run turn notification because I use GMail, which has a wierd port it uses for SMTP. |
I checked Program Files, even using the Search utility in XP, and using the File Options menu to 'show hidden files'. There is no Firaxis folder, and Civ4 is only residing in My Documents. Again it's odd that I'd allow it to install there, or choose to put it there, since I always install games into my C:/games directory. Anyway, that's where it is. I suppose Pitboss doesn't look there for the files it needs, but I don't see a way to direct the Pitboss.exe to look anywhere else.
I appreciate the help, and wish I could get it to work. But I'm already beyond my frustration tolerance level, so unless someone has a magic bullet for this issue I've given up. :confused: |
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There's a pass through the mountains. Muahaha. |
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It's a shame you can't run Extractor for your FOF leagues ;) (.NET is fine for security. Don't know about the earlier versions, but 1.1/2.0 really haven't been that big an issue). |
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When I find it ... that's where a fort will go. Now ... where is your little scout? My warriors are hungry. |
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Fort? You're assuming a well-guarded settler isn't on his way there right now. |
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Very true. Understand, though, any intrusion past the Mountains of Dread is entering Japanese territory, and will be dealt ... harshly. :) |
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I'm comfortable making that the border to the Japanese lands, and willing to allow only Caravels and Scouts past that line if you are. :) |
The borders to the Japanese lands and people are infinite, as the back brain kicks of Emperor Hayabusa are infinite. We may roam where we please, while you may only roam where we please. I hope you can understand the difference.
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Ooooooohhhhhhhhh. This is gonna be goooooood!
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anyone else timing out trying to connect?
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Sounds good. Why don't you "roam" into that big blue and white wet area north of us. |
Is the game back online yet?
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not yet
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Should be back up in an hour or so.
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The Emperor Hayabusa does not find your attempt at humor funny. Only the Emperor Hayabusa, by way of the Back Brain Kick, has the right to laugh. And he will. As he kicks you on the back of your head, he will laugh loudly and mightily. Long live the Great Emperor Hayabusa! |
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Sorry, 'humor' doesn't exist until Drama is invented. Please check back in 1000 years, if you survive that long. |
Hmm, a map and 2 scouts. These tribes must hate where they live to be exploring around this much...
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We seem to be down right now...
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Yep... still down.
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I'm at work, so this is the first time I've been able to contact anyone.
For the past day, my internet has died. I have a techie from my cable company looking at it, finding out why I'm getting so many disconnects and why it died, so as soon as I am able to get it back on, the game will be back on. Sorry for this delay -- but I'm doing everything I can to get it back up. |
The forces of the Great Emperor Hayabusa has found the path you took through the Mountains of Dread to reach our lands. You are a sneaky people.
The Great Emperor Hayabusa is not without understanding. He understands that the limited intelligence of your people and he knows you did not know whose lands you were entering. Because of this, and his unbounded mercy, he has decided against back brain kicking your leader, but he is put on notice -- leave our lands and never return, all the while genuflecting as you leave, or back brain kicks will be issued to all your pitiful people. You are welcome. ALL HAIL THE GREAT EMPEROR HAYABUSA! |
Down again
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Damnit. :-(
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It's back up again.
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Just letting y'all know that I'll be out of town this weekend, so you might be waiting on me today and WILL be waiting on me on Saturday. I should be back in town and ready to take a turn Sunday evening...
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Down again.
This time I was in the middle of taking my turn when it lost connection. I'm unable to reconnect. |
It's back up.
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Are we back up from yesterday?
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Yup. We should be good to go.
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Been trying to take my turn but the game is down...
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I'll check it when I get home.
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Still timing out on me...
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Yeah, its been down for me since 9am.
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Update (I'm posting this in another thread as well):
After weeks of spotty performance that I believed was due to my cable connection -- after weeks of calling the cable company in to switch out the modem, doing checks on everything under the sun -- after weeks of my connection dying pretty much each night and causing me no end of annoyance and poor performance for the Pitboss game -- it all came to a head last night. My NetGear Router Died. Yes, 4 "experts" on the internet looked at my 2 year old router and told me if couldn't possibly be that, but yet my router completely died last night. I hooked the cable up to my roommates CPU and it worked fine. Hook it up to the router -- no connectivity. So, I'm on the lookout for another wireless router. Any suggestions? |
I don't trust wireless security, and I hate routers. For about 8 years now I've been running two computers through a simple 4-port hub (with two IP addresses from my ISP). The hub has never given me any trouble at all. Simple solution, and the hub would cost you about $5 if you can still find them on the market.
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the game is back up, BUT -- it has a new IP address. Please update your logins:
The new IP is: 24.154.139.187 |
Still can't connect. Tried that IP address twice.
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Not able to connect on my end either.
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The Emperor Hyabusa obviously is lacking in technological advancement. His are a backward people, totally unable to communicate and play well with others, and will soon be subjugated.
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Well, considering that none of use will discover fiber optics for at least another 4500 years or so, we might be kinda stuck here.
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It's HAYABUSA! With an "A". Only people who forget "A's" in Emperor's names are backwards. As for the technological thing ... um ... I plead no contest. Still trying to get this to work. It'll work for a bit, then not. I know I"m missing something simple, just have to make it work somehow. I appreciate your patience. I understand it's frustrating, but I'm working on this the best I can. |
Now seems like a good time to say "thanks" to Eric for working so hard to keep us all entertained. Here's hoping you're ultimately successful! ;)
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If someone is online right now, try and log on to the game.
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Ok ... it seems to be working. The correct IP now should be: 24.154.139.99
New service -- FOFC Webstats!!! Are you away from the computer that has Civ4? Are you curious how much time is left in your turn and who's still left to take their turn. This LINK will take you to a live, active and consistant site where info about our FOFC game is updated. After everyone takes an initial turn, when people take their turn, how much time is left in the turn and who's winning is available from any computer at any time. I hope this is interesting to people. The name of the link is: http://www.apartment167.com/pitboss/....php?gameid=46 |
dola --
I'm glad to see everyone's able to log on now (if you can't, PM me and we'll make sure you're on the right IP). I am sorry for all the delays, as I know I told you Pitboss would be a quicker game than normal. Hopefully with the techie things fixed, things can get back to a normal 24 hour turn. I very much appreciate everyone's patience on this. I really do hope this'll be the last trouble we'll have with this game. Again, I'm sorry for the long delays on this. I just wanted y'all to know I appreciate you participating in my little game. - Eric |
Can we make the turns faster than 24 hours? It seems like we have a few laggards that are always eating the entire clock - and I'd like to get in more than one turn a day. At this rate, we'll have tanks by next January. What does everyone else think?
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I think we should give it a few days of being back to 'normal' before we decide to do anything like that. I know a few days of not being able to log in ever got me discouraged, and I forgot to check in for a few days. Now that it seems to be up and running smoothly, I'd imagine we'll pick up the pace a little bit.
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I'm in complete agreement with this. |
Hate to say this, but I'm getting timed out trying to connect to the host.
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time out here too
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Well, this time it was intentional. We had a big ole' thunderstorm, so I and the lightning was awfully close, so I turned off the computer until it's over. I saved the game file, so it'll be back on in a couple of minutes.
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[quote=WVUFAN]Ok ... it seems to be working. The correct IP now should be: 24.154.139.99
Is this still the correct IP? It's the only one I can find written down on my desk, but I can't connect to it. I see Eric has been active this morning, so I guess the game is not down. |
No, it's 24.154.139.199
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Lots and lots of updates!!!
Firstly, there is a new link for the Webstats for the FoFC Global game. It is: http://www.civstats.com/viewgame.php?gameid=46 I'll be PM'ing everyone with passwords you can use to "register" your leader. This opens up some options, including a new Diplomacy page. It's very neat. You'll also notice that during the night there was a whole bunch of new names assigned, then assigned back. That's me, experimenting on the new 2nd Pitboss game, and making sure things will be kosher between the two. Please rest assured that no changes were made to the actual game itself -- you don't have to redo your turns, and nothing happened -- the Webstats uploader for the two got mixed up. :-) Question, post 'em. |
Sweeeet.
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Just on an aside -- The Japanese Empire is now #2 ranked!
BWAHAHAHAHA! It is the beginning of the end for everyone! I will destroy ... ... Ah, I got nothin'. :-) |
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