PBM Campaign BI.

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Originally Posted by Simon Appleton

(I wonder if barbarian BI campaigns are longer? The WRE and ERE ones seem rather brief.)

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I think people take a bit more care with PBM games since we know that others will be monitoring and evaluating our progress. When playing a normal campaign I will often let armies sit around while waiting for them to be maxed out or simply delay fighting a battle for a season simply because I don't feel like playing another major siege at the moment. In PBMs, people often seem more driven to maximize the time they're provided and as such expansion is much faster.

If we want a longer campaign next time, we could pose some interesting starting conditions. Say for instance that we play as the Huns, but are not allowed to settle down anywhere other than Corduba. Similarly we could play as the Franks, but require the first player to capture a port city, build a fleet and then horde and settle in Britain.

i'd like to put myself in as a standby, if the game is still going on by that time...

reading the thread now and it seems very entertaining.

I have absolutely no idea what our plans are concerning the continuation of the PBM, obviously with just 3 more regions it will be over in no time, I give the PBM no longer than 3 (play)years.

We should have to discuss the matter with all the players, we can simlpy start another campaign, if we want to , or just continue playing this one, untill the entire world is conquered..

Anyhow, please share your ideas on the matter, in the mean while Tibilicus should upload the save.

And good luck to Simon with the write-up, looking foreward to reading it.

As for your question mystic brew, I've put your name on the player list, but we still as you might have read, need to discuss our playing plans.]

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You could 'suffer' a massive reverse at Carthage, then go attacking the Burgundians (always strong it seems).

OK, I've posted my write-ups.

I think what happens to this campaign should depend on those left in the queue. If they want to play on, then so be it.

Or they could start a new campaign with a different faction, putting themselves at the top of the list to play.

I think I'll send Tibilicus a PM as a wake up call.

I just want to prais you on your well..... exellent write-up...I enjoyed it a lot, to say the least, and others will certainly enjoy it too:bow:

As for this PBM, I have sent Tibilicus a PM, telling him of his turn.

And since the PBM is almost over, sieging Rome et al...
We have to decide what to do , start another one, wait till Tibilicus finishes his write up and officially ends this pbm , or let those other players in the list start their own ?

please post your suggestions regarding this issue.

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Good write up! I'm glad to see more roleplaying of the generals. It was easy for me to massacre with the faction leader since he had so many nasty traits, but "the Kind" definitely would not do that.

my 2 cents.

finish the campaign. i'm happy to try something else.

Just read Simon's write up, awesome man! i hope whoever's next can keep up the great work!

I'm in favor of a horde faction, but I think we should set some kind of 'unusual' goals or requirements to make it more interesting. Horde the Franks and settle only in Athens or something.

That would certainly be interesting, and hard too.

Franks only get something as 3 horde stacks, with a bunch of peasants too.

But the idea is good

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Anyway , I sent Tibilicus another PBM , asking him to continue the pbm -thus finishing it, and I'm awaiting his responds for the next 2 days, after that I'm letting the player next in line play, meaning Destroyer of Hope

Just letting you all know

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Good idea, Dutch_guy. I think Tibilicus lasted posted on Thursday, so if you give him two more days, he's had a week to log in to the Org. Players have real lives, but if the interregnums are too long, the campaign loses momentum and dies.

In future, it might be a good idea to use a "wake-up call" system (I think was originally Demon of Light's idea. ie e-mail the next but one player on the list to play to confirm that they are still interested and available. That might stop these kind of awkward pauses.

yeah that is a good idea, and I think you even suggested that at the start of the thread.

Though , I thought PB would qualify too - in stead of email.

The disadvantage of Pm is that one would need to log on to the org. which is of course not required for e-mail

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Yes, I mistyped - I meant send wake-up calls by PM them rather than by e-mail. I don't think Org members have to make their EMs public, so it is more onerous to go that route. It's true they may not log on to the Org and receive PMs, but in those circumstances it's not unreasonable to move on to more active participants.

ok, thanks for clearing that up.

And in the future, we - or well I - should wate a little shorter for the participants to react to their reign.
To keep the PBM going in stead of slowly losing interest and then coming to a complete standstill...

I'm giving Tibilicus his last day , since day 1 of the promised 2 is up.
After that I'll inform the player next on the list of his turn.
And I'll try to get him to pick up the game faster , than in this case.

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Yep, after tomorrow, it would be a good idea to tell Destroyer of Hope he's on and, following the wake-up call idea, at the same time alert Littlegannon that he's next in line. Hopefully one or other of them can at least get us to our victory conditions.

yes, I hava just done that.

Now all we can do is wait, I requested some kind of confirmation, so I hope we'll hear from them soon.

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Ok first of all i'm for completely forgetting about this. Even worse I have only just seen the PM's that have stacked up in my PM box so i'm for not replying to those.
Any way I have not been around to much in the past week or so and have completely forgotten about this.
Most of my time now spent on BI is spent on MP wich belive me takes up most of it lol. Any way can some one give me all the links I need as im aware that you are using some sort of bug fixer patch or something? Also a question on that will it require me making another copy of rome with BI in it or will it still let me play Mp online no problems. I will try my best to do this although my free time for the next week or so is very little unfortunately.~:(
I will however try to complete my task and do a good write up aswell. Once again sorry for breaking the flow of things guys.
Tibilicus

Don't worry, Tibilicus, this is just a bit of fun, not life or death. (Thanks for the PM also.) I'm not sure where Dutch_guy has got to in arranging the order of play, so I'll leave that issue to him.

Bugfixer is discussed at (and can be downloaded from):

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=55464

IIRC, it creates a backup of your original files, so there's no need to install two copies of RTW. The changes are minor - e.g. fixes to vices and virtues - and should not affect MP in a substantial way.

Ok, after you've downloaded the bugfixer, you can upload the save file from this location :

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/?C=M;O=A


Have fun !

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OK I will not be able to take it this weekend as I have to much going on but if I can get it on monday then I will try and get it done for next Friday. Hope that's ok with every one.

too bad you can't complete it any sooner, but if that's the way it is,then I'll keep the thread alive untill you've finished the pbm.

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By the way if you feel im slowing the PBM down feel free to put me back a few places on the list when im less busy if you think that will speed things up. ~:)

well I don't think putting you down on the list would speed the pbm up, since I haven't got any confirmation pm wise of the other players - if they would be able to play in your stead,

These mails were sent when we couldn't reach you :)

Anyway, imo , just make sure you finsh and post the write-up by Friday, that would be ideal.

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I will try but this week is another busy week. Also looking at the write up were very near victory. I think we just need to take Rome and a few more provinces then ERE will rule the world!
Any way will try and get this done for you.
Tibilicus

Hey All;

This looks like fun, If you haven't started yet, I'd like to come in.
Let me know when the next game starts!

I only have one question. Session battles are played out on the
screen versus the AI, would'nt that shortchange a player's strategy?
I figure I'd take a hit too //the fun is what is worth it...

I'm not sure I understand your question.

I think you've posted in the wrong section Dagobert II, I think your talking about the Multiplayer campaign - where the AI autocalcs the battles.

If not, then please refrase - so we can Understand your problem

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Ok, Ive pmed Tibilicus, to urge him to post his write-up.

It will conclude the PBM, unless something went very wrong.

This post was just meant to bump the thread ~:)

And rekindle the interest in any ( future ) PBMs


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