"Ignition" open thread
 

It has begun (people watching LotR II in my back inspired me).

Wheel game? [???] For some silly reason the save game folder is calling itself Ignition on my machine... What did you call the game anyway, Matrix?

I called it Ignition, because I it my first PBEM and I thought the first for all of us, and because I rediscovered the racing game Ignition just one day before starting this PBEM. :D

My spoiler

Romeo, could you please mention the word "Ignition" in the subject when sending the PBEM, so that I can tell Outlook Express to automatically place it in the Ignition folder.

To all: check your details in the menu. You can rename yourself, for example, so that I can see "Darkness" next time instead of "Mansa Musa". And you can change the setting so that perhaps you can send let the game send it through (like I can).

Roster:
Matrix (matrix AT straland DOT com)
Darkness (MPStoop AT hotmail DOT com)
grs (christian DOT muelders AT gmail DOT com)
romeothemonk (mattjake AT gwtc DOT net)

Correct?

Sounds correct. :)

Hm, I just realised that is Darkness was Banzai, we'd had the same players as in Fab Four. (To which you all say "Duh!")

Yes, we do. Especially since grs already commented (something about backstabbing or something? :D) on it in the other topic, and Banzai responded to that... ;)

Roger on the Ingnition.

This is shaping up to be fun!!

I played my first c4 turn ever yesterday, and I was greatly impressed!!

Is it possible to use the turn tracker for this, or should we just use regular email.

I have no problem with either method.

I prefer not to use the turn tracker, cos that's an extra step for me. I can let Civ4 send the save. That doesn't mean we can't use the turn tracker; you'll just keep missing my entry. [tongue]

Email is fine, I think. I'm playing 2 civ4 PBEMs now, and I'm only sending saves to one person. Seems pretty easy to me...

pitboss beta is available. you guys want to be the duel zone's guinee pigs? [mischief]

Don't think this is for PBEM. It seem to feature simult. play.

@grs: nope. It's a continuously running game, where you can log on at any time (but preferably when it's your turn ;)). And you can also continue a PBEM/Hotseat game with it.

Anyway, I just played my turn. :)
Darkness and romeothemonk, could you please edit your details and change your name in the game?

FYI, I'm not available to play tomorrow.

@Matrix, I don't know how yet. I have run c4 for all of about 6 minutes so far. I hope to rectify this tommorrow, it will all depend on how much my wife lets me play.

How much your wife let's you play?! http://www.straland.com/images/smilies/what.gif
Anyway, it costs just a few seconds: Go to the menu, click "Your Details" and change "Montezuma" into "romeothemonk".

We're playing a an average of one-and-a-half turns a day. Woohoo! :D

I will be out of town on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th January, so you won't get any saves from me then.

No problem.

Hey guys, When i try and open the save I get a msg that says something like "This save is protected against changes in your mod folder." And then c4 exits. I have a mod in my folder but it has been there for the last 3 turns. Without a full uninstall/reinstall how do I fix this?

I already tried just moving the mod physically out of the mods folder and that didn't work.

Damn, the same problem again?! Darkness, how did you fix it last time? You reinstalled Civ4 completely and removed all folders, didn't you? http://www.straland.com/images/smilies/undecided.gif

Yep. That's exactly what I did. Manually removing all the folders after uninstalling was the key here!

BUT: I had no mod installed, while Romeo has got one on his machine...

Dang it. I will not have time to fix this until the weekend at the earliest.

The frustrating part is that I played the previous 5 turns with the mod installed and had no problems.

I'll be away from about noon CET tomorrow until late sunday night, so I won't play saves this weekend...

I think the game has stalled recently. I have last seen a save 2 days ago.

It's at grs. I sent him the save wednesday (together with my 1vs1 game against him and I haven't seen it back yet)...

Sent it yesterday night, shortly after you posted. It was only 24 hours in my box, so I would hardly say the game stalled.

Yes, grs. We're just lucky to be used to a quick pace (i.e. at least one turn a day). ;)

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Now I know I played 2560BC on february 17th and grs told me he sent it on, so it's either at Romeo or Matrix... What's up?

I seems to be my mistake. Although I might've played it in Breda (can't remember) in which case I don't have an outgoing savegame.

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Thinking harder, I believe I have indeed played the game in Breda, but the turn looked awfully familiar. Nevertheless, I'll play and send it on.

Got it. And we're moving again... :)

I got the savemgame, but I was at my parents' this weekend. Now that I'm back it seems my site is down. [mad]
Please be patient...

Seems like you fixed it already. I noticed this morning that the save has been in my inbox since late last night. I'll play it when I get home from work tonight...

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Sorry, I was in Vienna for a couple of days. But it's played and sent now. :)

Nice city, isn't it?

I'll play tonight, when I get home from work...

It was great! Lots and lots of old glorious buildings; some of them still in use (parliament and city counsil, for example), some commercially exploited and/or musea. Schönbrunn, where Emperor Franz Josef and Empress Elizabeth (better known as Sissi) lived, was particulary interesting. One of the rooms there was later on used by Kennedy and Cruschev for negotiations, since Austria was independent in the cold war.

The city radiates a past glory. Now it's just the capital of another 10M-country. That's what history makes fun. [cool]

I was away for a few days and will be able to play my turn tomorrow. I will be without civ access again from Friday till Monday. After that I can resume playing on normal schedule. Same applies for my 1on1 vs. Darkness.

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