PBEM10 Email Thread

[scooter]

I've never created a PBEM tracker game before (although this is my 3rd PBEM), so there may be some hiccups in the beginning. It'll take at least a turn before we get started, so for now just send the save by email, at least until it gets to Tatan.

You've got to make sure you get the player names exact. If anyone has spaces in their names, use an underscore instead of a space on PBEMTracker. It's very...picky.

[Serdoa]

Save sent on to TT.

[ad hoc]

save sent to MB

[meatbalz]

i have the save, it'll be ~3hrs before i can get home and play my turn

[Tatan]

It'll take at least a turn before we get started, so for now just send the save by email, at least until it gets to Tatan.

What I will need to do with the save in order to sync it with the PBEM tracker?

[Cyneheard]

Tatan, before it can be posted to the tracker (and I may be able to do it myself...not sure), what I need first from everyone is their in-game name. The automatic designation is your leader name, like Qin_Shi_Huang; if you've changed that, let me know.

Civ always creates a PBEM save with this designation:
GAMENAME_YEAR_to_PLAYERNAME
What PBEMTracker does is it first validates the GAMENAME to (precisely!) match the game name stored on the site. Once it does that, it'll then check that the Playername for whoever's next in line matches the save being sent, as well. In both cases, if there isn't a perfect match, it rejects the save and tells you. As the game admin on the tracker, I can set anyone's in-game name, player order, etc. etc. once they join.

Sadly, the tracker was not designed to display Unrestricted leaders properly.

[Tatan]

My in-game name is just going to be Tatan.

[Cyneheard]

Tatan, when you get the save, can you report everyone's in-game name? Just listing the names and their colors will probably suffice if there's any ambiguity; I can just load up my save (making no moves, of course) to check that.

[meatbalz]

save sent to tatan

[Tatan]

Okay, names:
Ad Hoc=Gilgamesh
Cyneheard=Cyneheard
Myself=Napoleon [I forgot to change the name, so I'll just leave it like that]
Meatbalz=Boudica
Twinkletoes=Genghis Khan
Serdoa=Qin Shi Huang

Alright, so I'll email the save to you, Cyneheard [Because only admin can upload the save, right?].

Edit: Oh, BTW, I don't think this is worthy of reloading but Kyan didn't re-fog my view on my previous starting spot, so there are maybe 8 or so distant tiles that are not black for me. Don't know if this was the same for everybody. [?]