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I will be away on business 31st March until 3rd April. I am delegating to wieder. - Xercise

Thanks, Wieder... I just asked about this at the same time you posted it in this thread!

Sounds like it was a pity that Team Det0r quit prematurely - would be good to understand why they felt cheated, so we can setup more attractive games in the future (personally, I am dying to play another game like this again sometime).

Congrats to all!

It was a great game - sorry I had to leave early.

Cheers, Xercise

I want to add for future reference that the diplomatic settings in this ruleset should be revisited or at least be made clear.

Seems like veteran status does help against stealing by a green diplomat, but not that much. All in all it seems really variable; sometimes one of my defending dips will take out 4 invading dips, while other times an invading dip will go right past my defenders and steal a tech.

I thought an invading diplomat always had to eliminate all defending dips before anything could be stolen? Can somene confirm or deny that?

Dear Admin,

Unfortunately, our team has not heard from our co-leader Archont in two days (3 turns). He controlled 2 nations already and we have lost a lot of players (this is the second leader we lose). I believe Archont has fallen ill, but cannot be sure. We hope he is all right and will come back.

In the meanwhile, could you please transfer delegation of el_perdedor's and archont's nations to me, Xercise.

I realise this will give me control of 3 nations, but I have little choice due to the inactivity of the idlers. Please forgive me and I will try to sort out the transfer of cities (and elimination of one of our players) if archont does not come back soon. Alternatively, I will try to play the 2nd and 3rd nation on alternative turns as a long term solution.

Thanks,

Xercise

Meton has now returned and would like to run ifaesfu again. Please change the ifaesfu delegation from me, xercise, back to meton again.

Thanks!

I agree with Mmm2 that the time limit will not solve RTS - of course. If we discuss TC RTS here... then my preferred option would be a random TC within one hour. I think someone said this was possible or even tested in the past, no?

(To explain 'random TC': So, the turn is for example 23 hours... after 22 hours, the TC could occur at any random minute in the next hour! This would solve RTS before TC and for all intents and purposes even RTS after TC)

Dear admin,

We've lost another player (ifaesfu) and now we have to rearrange who takes what idler. Could you please manually change the delegation of Chuck to Pamplina. I currently have too many delegations and apologise for that, but this was only the case for the past couple of turns, because of ifaesfu going idle and hasp93 abruptly leaving for holiday - no micromanaged campaign occurred, so I did not exploit that. Hasp93 should be back from holiday today, he said.

Thanks, Xercise

Dear fellow Long Turn players,

I fear I have to add my voice to this debate, because I now realise that any features that cause game play to necessitate being around at TC are hurting our FreeCiv community (incl. this 'send a worker to build fortress just before TC' trick). There are many players who are keen to play 'turn-based strategy' games - like ifaesfu - who simply cannot be online at particular times of the day to counter attacks by other players who have more time on their hands. I realise that this could seem 'whiny' to some people, but really, when you think about it is not.

I, for one, am currently working from home, so I can log on at many times of the day (I am quite flexible). But the truth is that in my previous jobs (or in jobs I might have in the future), I will not be able to log on during working hours to monitor if I am being attacked and am then at a distinct disadvantage compared to players who have more time.

I am not blaming people for exploiting this tactic - I mean anything that is not hacking the game is in effect passable; but, I am talking about our long-term building of a turn-based strategy game that can involve a variety of players from all walks of life. Therefore:

1. Please let's change any coding that allows RTS game play around TC - there are several suggestions already at different parts of this forum.
2. Let's try to be nice to players who have less time: This is just one game - losing good players like ifaesfu is a real shame (I do not say this just because we are in the same team in LT32, but even before I have noted how ifaesfu is always giving noobs advice on the metaserver and really being a great sport about  playing FreeCiv)

Now, regarding LT32 specifically: May I suggest that we suspend the game for a few turns, while all teams get a chance to gain players to replace idlers? Because if ifaesfu leaves (since I doubt people will agree to changing the code mid-game), our team will be almost half idlers, and we do not have time to play everyone. All of us quitting because we can't play is a real possibility otherwise, and that would be bad for everyone, as it would give a very clear advantage to our neighbouring enemies - it would effectually destroy the fun of LT32 for at least 2 other teams).

Please, let's have a civilised discussion about this (this is Free Civ after all).

Cheers, Xercise