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    All is well.

    Just need to stop getting the "It's your turn" emails right when I get to work
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    After venturing through wooded valleys, frozen wastelands, extended deserts and rolling hills, Ibn Batutta finally came to a fertile river valley, where there were finally signs of civilization! Only time would tell whether these people would prove friend or foe to Morocco, but the Great Consul al-Mansur is always willing to extend the hand of fellowship and trust.

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    As-salamu alaikum to you, mighty Ceasar! May this day be the start of deep friendship.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OrcusMcP View Post
    After venturing through wooded valleys, frozen wastelands, extended deserts and rolling hills, Ibn Batutta finally came to a fertile river valley, where there were finally signs of civilization! Only time would tell whether these people would prove friend or foe to Morocco, but the Great Consul al-Mansur is always willing to extend the hand of fellowship and trust.

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    As-salamu alaikum to you, mighty Ceasar! May this day be the start of deep friendship.
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    Ah, hail emissaries of al-Mansur, Welcome to Rome. How intriguing....like those Indians we recently encountered, we don't appear to have much record of your people. Regardless, we are willing to accept your kingdom as a friend of Rome. There is much to reclaim.
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    Ah, hail emissaries of al-Mansur, Welcome to Rome. How intriguing....like those Indians we recently encountered, we don't appear to have much record of your people. Regardless, we are willing to accept your kingdom as a friend of Rome. There is much to reclaim.
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    India? We have not heard of such a people. There are other great nations in this land? You are the first we have found! To your west and south lie miles of unclaimed land, though there are many barbarian tribes that will need a firm hand before you can settle. Marrakesh itself lies far to your south-west, past a wooded river valley on a desert coast. We have mapped much land to our north and west as well.

    In the spirit of sharing and peace, would you also be able to offer some insight as to what lies to the north and east of your borders?
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    There's the creepy doomsday cultists again. Keep your distance. No socialising. No eye contact. Absolutely no secret meetings involving drinking games with any of them. Looking at you, Gaius. If they try to reach us, inform boss immediately. No talking to them yourselves.

    I'll be on vacation mode for the next ~48 hours. And back.


    Arch chancellor. We know you do need your vacation from her presence every now and then, but I trust you do understand our dear Empress can not be left conducting administrative duties alone. During this short absence of yours, she already managed to disturb the projects she herself put in motion earlier, causing expensive delays and nearly getting some of our troops killed. Please do find a substitute advisor in time the next time you are to go on a sabbatical, for the sake of the Empire.
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    Glory to the Great King Darius, the Great Library has been built to honour the Great Tablets of Knowledge.

    But out people still need food. Our Great King has declared that with the Library finished, construction of a granary must resume.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Closet_Skeleton View Post
    Glory to the Great King Darius, the Great Library has been built to honour the Great Tablets of Knowledge.

    But out people still need food. Our Great King has declared that with the Library finished, construction of a granary must resume.
    The Great Consul, Ahmad al-Mansur, received the unfortunate report that the library he was building to house scholars form across the world had been destroyed by earthquakes. He was very upset.

    The insurance covered earthquakes, but that was cold comfort.
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    Something's wrong with the save file; GMR is telling me to create the game instead of play my turn. If I try to load the save anyway it loads for India. Reverting.
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    Timer removed, just in case... report here whether Dhavaer's revert fixed the save.
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    No such luck, I'm afraid. The save file loads for China, which seems to be the same error Dhavaer is getting (accounting for the fact that I'm on a Mac, and therefore don't have the GMR app). I happen to have a save file from right before I took my last turn, but when I try playing and uploading that it gives me an error - sometimes the "file is bloated" bug, and sometimes "you saved before finishing your turn". Neither of these is true; I've run into the bloated file bug before and the usual restart-Civ-and-replay fix isn't working, and I have clicked Next Turn before saving.

    I can see two options - one, I could revert the turn and hope Luzahn doesn't get the exact same error, or I could simply download the file for China and upload that. I do remember taking my turn yesterday, so that shouldn't actually entail skipping me; having said that, I'm not sure if the file would upload correctly (haven't tried yet, as it would be irreversible if it worked).

    Or we could contact the GMR people for help, I guess. Thoughts?
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    I just sent them email, thought that would be the safest route.
    GMR site seems really, really slow today by the way, might have something to do with this...?


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    Sorry for the trouble, I'm not sure how your game got into that state but reverting the turn once more (back to the Rome player) seems to get the save file aligned with the turn order again. Let us know how that progresses for you.
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    The game skipped me after banthesun/India, so GMR site showed it was Closet_Skeleton's/Persia's turn. I tried reverting (as that's all what the GMR people seemed to do last time), but now site shows it's my turn and save file, when loaded, says it's Persia.

    I reverted it again, back to banthesun. If that didn't fix it, I'll contact the GMR admins again...

    Eeedit: Apparently works now, yay?

    Moar edit: GMR finally stabilised enough, so setting the turn timer back to 24 hours, soon. Nevermind. Too soon.
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    Luzahn's turn... are you able to play your turn? Or is there still something wrong with GMR, or our game?

    I'm itching to turn the turn timer back on already.
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    Oh right. Sorry, I had missed that we hadn't talked about hiatus here as well. My turn is doing to bug where it doesn't recognize it as my move, resulting in the waiting for other players message.

    I had assumed we were going to wait until GMR sorted out its issues before continuing.
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    Reverting back to Orcus, then. People are doing their turns a lot in public games at least, so there's some hope it doesn't break again every few turns.
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    The save says it's Rome's turn.
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    GMR works again. 24h time limit back in.

    Removed the player kicking after enough turns skipped -thingy, don't think it really served any other purpose than cause stress here.
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    We did not mean to barge in uninvited, our wayfinder just appears completely incompetent. But now that we are here, may we offer help with those savages lurking right by your borders? Somehow it seems trying to negotiate with them would be futile... just say the word, and the savages are needle cushions.

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    Your assistance fending off the primitive brutes on our southern border would be most welcome, or, as our queen so aptly put it, "that would be, like, way cool." One encampment lies to the southwest; we suspect there is another encampment somewhere to the east, as our land has been besieged by more savages than one camp should be able to house, but our forces have been too busy defending the borders to locate it.

    Your aid, should you choose to extend it, will be remembered.
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    FYI, going on vacation for a week. Hopefully the AI doesn't mess me up too bad.
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    The savages have been softened up, you should be able to get rid of their camp with very little effort now.

    We also got a word from back home; leadership of Byzantine empire feel ready to reveal our empire's location, and would like to set up embassies with our new friends, Carthagians. Carthagoans. Carth.. agese? Uh, with you people.

    ~ Commander of Byzantine scouting party



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    No one in the council remember agreeing on exchange of embassies with your people. Even our beautiful empress, who no one would even dream of accusing of making a lighthearted decision after a night spend with beverages, does not remember agreeing to anything on her own, without hearing the council...

    We hardly know you yet, but the done is done, there's no getting the ambassador spirits back into the bottle. We hope the Persians prove to be trustworthy and useful friend to Byzantine empire.

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    The reconstruction of Rome progresses swiftly. A second outpost has been constructed towards Morocco, to better pave the way for eventual reintegration of their cities into the Empire. Praise Caesar, glory to Rome!

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    Antium is a bit closer than I would have liked, but I needed that iron relatively quickly to support some rushes, and the areas to the south were swarming with barbarians. (Plus, I like that my only port is defended by a large bay.)
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    The game bugged out on me and I forgot to take my turn afterwards due to real life. Hopefully the AI hasn't ****ed up my settler...

    Edit: No crisis, luckily, just a lost military unit.
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    Praise! Praise for the Great Consul! Having adopted extensive fertility festivals to celebrate the bountiful harvests around Marrakesh, adventurous settlers have now founded a new city in the east, while intrepid sailors have set off the map the coasts of the west!
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    Curse you all for not beating me to Stonehenge. What am I going to do with this pile of rocks?
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    Curse you all for not beating me to Stonehenge. What am I going to do with this pile of rocks?
    After getting beat to the Great Library by 1 turn, I got a little soured on wonders. At least for now.
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    Following the completion of the New Old Dehli Hydroponic Gardens, I feel perhaps I should negotiate wonders OOC. I'm still interested in Parthenon or The Oracle to get the most value out of my marble. Alternatively, I wouldn't mind converting some hammers to gold if someone's nearly got Parthenon done. Is this something we should openly negotiate anyway. Oh, and is it bad that I'm not really doing spectator updates, do we really have any spectators?
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    Quote Originally Posted by banthesun View Post
    Following the completion of the New Old Dehli Hydroponic Gardens, I feel perhaps I should negotiate wonders OOC. I'm still interested in Parthenon or The Oracle to get the most value out of my marble. Alternatively, I wouldn't mind converting some hammers to gold if someone's nearly got Parthenon done. Is this something we should openly negotiate anyway. Oh, and is it bad that I'm not really doing spectator updates, do we really have any spectators?
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    Quote Originally Posted by banthesun View Post
    Following the completion of the New Old Dehli Hydroponic Gardens, I feel perhaps I should negotiate wonders OOC. I'm still interested in Parthenon or The Oracle to get the most value out of my marble. Alternatively, I wouldn't mind converting some hammers to gold if someone's nearly got Parthenon done. Is this something we should openly negotiate anyway. --
    I enjoy the thought of making my opponents weep delicious tears when I beat them to a wonder by one turn. I also like the much more likely case of getting the dissatisfyingly minuscule amount of pity gold when someone beats me instead.
    But I don't mind if others do want to negotiate that.
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