King of the Romans OOC thread VIII

[GeneralHankerchief]

I'm currently allied with the HRE - too bad there's no "send prisoner to City X" option. I wonder if they would have paid me to take care of him for them. Oh well.

[Northnovas]

I would like to throw in my two cents for the work done in the KotR PBEM. As I wait for a Chancellor report I am glad that I can surf through the threads and read the good work done by Overnight for the history thread and Tin Cow with the library thread.
This PBEM also got started with a good base from econ21. The contributions in the stories and battle reports by everyone have been excellent and it sure helps keep the interest when things are quiet.
It's been very enjoyable and addictive to log in and see what is happening. My last SP campaign was finished just as this PBEM started. I haven't been able to be attentive enough for another SP game while this is going on.

Okay that is the commercial break for this PBEM for anyone lurking and thinking of joining.
Still waiting for some report..............

[GeneralHankerchief]

Sorry for not putting up the Conrad finale in the meantime. Dealing with wired 7-10 year-olds does not leave me in a state conductive to good writing.

-edit- Seems as if Ignoramus is enjoying the .Org Arcade instead of posting a report...

[Ignoramus]

I really am sorry guys. I can only play MTW2 on my older brother's computer(the one I'm using at the moment can't handle it), and he's been really busy lately, so I haven't had a chance to upload the save game. I will try and get both report and save up within the next 3 hours. Once again, I apologise for the long delay.

[econ21]

I will try and get both report and save up within the next 3 hours.

Three hours have passed. It's not clear to me why you need to use your brother's computer for any significant period of time in order to write a report or upload a save.

You could write an annual Chancellor’s report for 1240 without loading up the game - just tell us what happened. You don’t need to go into the detailed itemisation that Factionheir did; you could just write a broad brush speech to the Diet highlighting the big events and issues - as I did with Henry. I actually prefer that approach - it's more in character; people who want the nitty gritty could upload the save.

And on the save, just upload the start of 1241 savegame. You don’t need to use your brother’s computer for more than 30 seconds; just copy the relevant file off it. A savegame and a report would keep other players’ happy while waiting for you to have some serious gaming time on your brother’s computer.

I really am sorry guys. I can only play MTW2 on my older brother's computer(the one I'm using at the moment can't handle it), and he's been really busy lately, so I haven't had a chance to upload the save game.

There's no need to apologise, but we do need to find a work around this problem.

The ideal thing for you to do is negotiate with your brother to have some access to his computer - say one hour every two days. If that is not possible, we may have to think of a more drastic solution - an emergency Diet to change the Chancellor or perhaps you sending me orders, and I implementing them for you.

What kills most PBMs is people who are supposed to be playing the game realising they can’t find the time and not making alternative arrangements. To deal with that problem in one of the most successful MTW PBMs (an Almohad one), Kukrikhan imposed a 48 hour reporting requirement on Kings.

I propose we do something like that here. Chancellors should post their progress within 48 hours being given the savegame - specifically, either uploading a new save for another player to fight or posting a start of new turn save for players to inspect. The penalty for not making such progress is an Emergency Diet session (which, if nothing else, buys the Chancellor more time to sort out whatever is stopping them making progress).

This might be a bit draconian but I think it is reasonable - what do people think?

[Warluster]

I reckon its fine, the 48 hour rule sounds good.

Like you said econ, if you have a USB stick Ignoramus, maybe you could copy the save from it to another computer with internet (If you don't have your own internet usable computer, maybe a library one?)

I also think, that once you've played the turn, straight away you should write up the report unless you have a urgent matter (like cooking dinner :P)

Good thinking, 99.

[Ignoramus]

The save's uploaded. It's been up for almost 2 hours.

[OverKnight]

Considering it has taken a week to advance one turn in the game and we still don't have a summary of what has occured, something needs to be done. OOC concerns can also be grounds for an Emegency Diet Session.