New Pitboss

[pindicator]

My start does not match the screenshot provided in my thread.

Well, there went something wrong with the map… It's not just you and one other person but a longer permutation of starting positions.
I probably will restart the game with a fixed version. Maybe the map creating forgot to respect the player order?!

Map creator tried, though very likely messed up!

Thank you Ramk for providing the quick fix.

[ljubljana]

thank you, pin, for providing the map

[pindicator]

Hoping you are just as thankful after playing it!

[ljubljana]

is 20 hours the standard turn timer in these games rather than 24? it seems a little awkward that every 6 days we will randomly have to do two turns in a day... or is this an early-game scouting-moves thing that will change in the future?

[pindicator]

The server time is a little slow, so 20 hours ends up being close to 24hrs in realtime.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

It's not a server thing but Civ4 timer itself running slower. 10 seconds ingame will last 12.5s in real time.
My assumption is that this construction compensates lagging on a psychological level of the players in normal Civ4 MP games. The pitboss mode inherits the slower timer from normal MP mode.

The PBSpy page showing both timer values for your game, called "ingame" and "real time".

P.S. Players, which estimated the turn end often wonder why the old turn still runs. There is a second reason for this delay: During player logins and unit battles the timer also stops (for the battle animation).
This can also leads to delays of hours ^^.

[ricketyclik]

On the subject of the turn timer...

When everyone has played, it resets, right? So if everyone plays within an hour, there are effectively 25 hours allowed to play 2 turns in that case?

[Tarkeel]

When everyone has played, it resets, right? So if everyone plays within an hour, there are effectively 25 hours allowed to play 2 turns in that case?

Correct.

Similarly if you see that you'll have problems playing inside the alloted time, it's perfectly fine to ask for an extension. Just try to not let it happen too often.

[Mjmd]

ljubljana will you need an extension this turn? Know we have a few hours till, but just checking.

FYI for Rickety and ljubljana you can setup email notifications from pbspy.

[ljubljana]

Nope, I'll be fine - thank you for checking in though ：）