PBEM3 - Email and Technical Issues

[Bobchillingworth]

20 cities? Mech Infantry?



Yawn. See what good they do you when my spaceship arrives next turn.


The same turn my third city goes legendary.

[timmy827]

I don't think your warriors will be able to handle my mech infantry!

To paraphrase Frankie Boyle "your best hope is that the enemy kill so many of you, that they become manically depressed"

That is actually possible, given war weariness mechanics

[Bobchillingworth]

Hey Sandover, still waiting for the save

[Twinkletoes89]

Still waiting?

[Bobchillingworth]

Yes.

[Sandover]

What? I double-checked my outbox yesterday when the save wasn't passed along and the email is there, with the save attached. Sure you didn't get it?

I'll resend now.

[Twinkletoes89]

Problem solved?

[Bobchillingworth]

Yeah, not sure what the issue was, but I got the latest save file this time.


If anyone else sent me an email yesterday you may want to resend it.



Which leads me to something we all should probably discuss- how exactly do our contact rules work? The rules post / first post of this thread simply states that:

-Contact with X is allowed once you have either met X, or met (in-game) another civ that has met X

My reading of the rule is therefore that if I know player A who knows player B, as long as I'm sure that player A knows B, I can go right ahead and contact B myself. But as another player pointed out to me, that interpretation doesn't really make any sense from a role-playing perspective. Instead player A should have to provide verbal permission before I can call up B, because his civ is "passing on" our correspondence as an intermediary.


So what's the correct answer?

[scooter]

Instead player A should have to provide verbal permission before I can call up B, because his civ is "passing on" our correspondence as an intermediary.

This is the correct answer - I remember us discussing this when we were going through rules/settings for this game. I just did an atrocious job of wording it when I edited in the rules ... I'll fix it now. Any other questions on this topic? I get the feeling everyone is a little fuzzy on this rule since we've never used it before.

EDIT:

I updated the first post to say this:

-Contact with X is allowed once you have either met X, or met (in-game) another civ Y that has met X. Y must give permission for you to actually contact X, but Y is not obligated to grant you permission.

[Sandover]

Just found an elephant wandering around. Yup, it's true. Do any one of you want the pleasure of slapping Darrell in the face or shall I?

/callvote

Lets ban the production of War Elephants?



Egypt votes in favour of the proposal.