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(July 24th, 2018, 14:25)Gavagai Wrote: I am traveling and I now have that problem with empty civ selection screen which someone had earlier. I remember that the solution was to wait long enough but I have waited for 30 minutes and still nothing. Any other advice? Need a lurker to play as it may be a while before I resolve this problem. Will leave instructions in my thread.
I had this happen a few weeks ago, as the connection was pretty lousy in my hotel that weekend. I had to set my phone up as a WiFi Hotspot, which gave me enough juice to get rid of the blank screen and play. Not sure if you have the option but worth a shot.
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(July 24th, 2018, 14:48)pindicator Wrote: I had the issue before when I traveled, and the reason I was told was that the issue is some routers have their packet size set too small so that civ can't properly get the civ name list. I've found since then it only happens to me when I try to connect parents home, which lends credence to that explanation.
If you are not able to change the packet size we may just have to wait for you to get to a better connection.
I control the router. How do I change packet size?
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Game is paused with 2h45 on the clock.
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Is the game over? Did everyone concede to me yet? If not, when do we get the next turn?
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Gavagai tried to get info about how to reduce his router's packet size. I don't see any responses so I don't think his technical issue is resolved. So we wait. If any of you know how to reduce packet size or have any other technical fixes I think Gavagai was willing to give it a shot. He tried to get a sub as well. So we'll leave it paused until he gets a tech fix, a sub steps in, or he's back.
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It's not that you reduce the packet size on the router, you have to allow larger packets or make the packets being sent smaller (by making the civ names shorter).
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(July 25th, 2018, 21:38)Boldly Going Nowhere Wrote: Gavagai tried to get info about how to reduce his router's packet size. I don't see any responses so I don't think his technical issue is resolved. So we wait. If any of you know how to reduce packet size or have any other technical fixes I think Gavagai was willing to give it a shot. He tried to get a sub as well. So we'll leave it paused until he gets a tech fix, a sub steps in, or he's back.
...or upgrades from a flip phone, I'm assuming? 
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(July 25th, 2018, 23:12)Cheater Hater Wrote: It's not that you reduce the packet size on the router, you have to allow larger packets or make the packets being sent smaller (by making the civ names shorter).
Does everyone need to delete all their in-game signs, or just log in with a shorter handle?
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If I remember the topic correctly it was about minimizing the length of the civ names for the selection screen. With that said, we have fewer civs remaining in the game to choose from than we did before since several have been eliminated and then retired from the game, removing their civs from the selection list. So the list is shorter now. Unless someone has recently changed their name to be much longer I don't really see how this would be causing a problem now.
Options to further shorten the list include renaming civs or getting a sub to play a few turns so more people can retire and further shorten the list....
We could retire Aretas' civ to get it off the list, too, in a more serious suggestion.
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(July 26th, 2018, 02:14)Old Harry Wrote: Does everyone need to delete all their in-game signs
Be reasonable, do you have any idea how long that would take? 
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