OOC Thread and Chatroom 2

[Ituralde]

I'm surprised and saddened by this. I hope it didn't have too much to do with me winning the election for Megas. I hope your motivation will return eventually!

[Ituralde]

Smowz has contacted me that he will not be able to fight the battle within the 48 hour timeframe that is allocated for fighting battles. Since he could easily retreat back to his ships I saw no need to extend this period and have played on before the 48 hours were over.

[TinCow]

FYI, Tristan should be back on a regular schedule by tomorrow. As such, beginning tomorrow I will return the minimum turn period to 24 hours.

[gibsonsg91921]

Civil War! The intrigue! Big fight, who will win?

[Ramses II CP]

Whomever holds the Megas position when the actual fighting breaks out, of course.

[_Tristan_]

I am back !!!

Though I still have a lot of catching up to do...

The war will have a mind behind it soon...

[Smowz]

In a fairly dismal rushed saturday evening effort my avatar is dead!!!

Nevoulas is dead long live his next charactor!!!

All the young recently come of age charactors look interesting to play, the second sons of Komnenus or Kalemeteros or the new husband of that princess hmmm....

I will come back to you with the decision!!!

[Ramses II CP]

Doh! Sorry Smowz, you never even got to fulfill your Moorish crusade-y idea. Some of those italian spearmen catch you? I have a feeling our avatars won't be quite so rough and tumble once we get deeper into the professional western spearmen.

Maybe you should take a chivalrous, religious type. You know, sort of a monk-ish guy with a proclivity for the Levant...

[TinCow]

Status Update: My wife and I closed on a new house last week. We take possession tomorrow and have a lot of work to do in repainting it and making some modifications, as well moving all of our stuff over. For the next 2-3 weeks I will be online very rarely from home. This is especially true for the days of November 14th to 16th when I will have no internet access at all. However, I will still be online regularly from work during this time period. I'm pretty far ahead on my workload, so I can spare a bit more time there for LotR. So, I expect to be active during normal EST working hours M to F, with low level activity at all other times, except Nov. 14th to 16th, when I won't be online at all. I don't think any of this will impact the game in any way, since it seems to be moving nicely on its own, but if I am needed for something, just be patient and I'll deal with it as soon as I can.

[Northnovas]

What would we do if we didn't have internet access at work?

We wouldn't get all our fun completed.

Congrats on the purchase TC! A smart move homeownership. I just finished paying mine off, and I am moving on, working on a summer place but the US dollar conversion.

[Cecil XIX]

People can write their wills after they die?

[TinCow]

People can write their wills after they die?

No they cannot. That was sent to me via PM by Smowz. From the way it was written, I assumed it had been posted elsewhere and he was just relaying it to me. I admit that I did not check to confirm this at the time. I have now check and unless it was in his now-edited SOT post, I don't see it. Thus, the will is null and void and everything goes to Nevoulos' Lord, which is Zigavinos. So, the only chance would be that Belgrade goes to Zigavinos instead of the Basileus.

Editing the Magnaura post to reflect this.

[Smowz]

Aghh did not realise this was the case.

I had not seen OK's will anywhere when he had died, so I assumed he had done this posthumously.

Fair enough I guess.

So we all have to write our wills before we die, like real life?

[woad&fangs]

Mizus link takes me to the clan takiyama site. AtomicGamer requires me to register before I can upload. Sorry for the wait, I'll try to get the new save up as fast as I can.

[TinCow]

Aghh did not realise this was the case.

I had not seen OK's will anywhere when he had died, so I assumed he had done this posthumously.

Fair enough I guess.

So we all have to write our wills before we die, like real life?

Yep, that's part of the rules:

2.4 – Wills & Inheritance: On his death, all of a Senator’s provinces and retinue are distributed according to the most recent valid Will. In order for a Will to be valid, it must have been posted in a public thread or PMed to econ21 or TinCow prior to the Senator’s death. Except as noted below, a Will provision is only valid to the extent that it names a living, of-age avatar that is controlled by another player as the inheritor of the province or retinue stated. A player's next avatar may only inherit a single province and a single retinue. A Will may name multiple Senators as inheritors, so long as each province and/or retinue is only bequeathed to a single Senator. Any provisions of the Will that do not meet these requirements will be invalid. Valid provisions of a Will will not be negated due to the existence of invalid provisions in the same Will. If there is no valid Will provision for an owned province, the Senator’s immediate Lord gains possession of the province. If the Senator also has no Lord, the Basileus gains possession of the province.

You certainly don't have to post your will publicly. You can PM it to me at any time and I will simply store it in case you die. You can send me changes to your will whenever you want, but it either has to be posted publicly or sent to me by PM while you're still alive.

[rossahh]

I've got to be the richest Strator in history. I own four provinces!

[Smowz]

TC and Cecil,

Yes I can see the rule now. Sometimes you think you know all the rules and then something like this comes and bites you in the butt.

As I say it was a mistake, there was nothing sinister or gamey about what I was trying to do. As Nevoulas died in the battle, I was thinking to myself what would he do in his will. Of course I should have figured this before I fought the battle, but I didn't anticipate this outcome.

But I can see why the rule is there and rules are rules, it makes sense.

[flyd]

The curse indeed. Out of the eight people who have ever worn the Asteri arms, four have died in battle, one went inactive, one was kicked out, and two still remain.

[Rowan]

It seems I managed to fry my graphics card. That means my main computer is inoperable and I won't be able to access the save for at least a few days. CecilXIX can move the avatar in my absence.

[_Tristan_]

Can I request a small extension of the turn period ?

Until 1300 GMT today ?

[Ituralde]

Done!

Just send me a PM when you're ready. This is generally the case. If you need more time, just let me know!

[_Tristan_]

I should be done by 1300...

Thanks !!

And I'll send you a PM

[TinCow]

Smowz is now playing Vakchos Tzetzis.

[Rowan]

I got myself an early Christmas present by getting a new fast, whiny, video card. So I'm back in play!

[ULC]

Err, not to be to much of a bother, but why is Modestos ek Edessas still alive, in Constantinople? He was one of the three RBG's spawned (along with Tiverios and Klimis) a while ago, shouldn't he have been, well, testing experimental diving equipment at this point?

[TinCow]

As noted previously, I don't really have much spare time when at home at the moment. Thus, it may take me a while to get around to disposing of that avatar. Anyone is free to send that avatar to the bottom of the Bosporus... just make sure it is not assigned to someone according to the Senate Library or a family tree avatar (which we keep around even if no one is playing them) beforehand.

[_Tristan_]

Thanks for the delay, Ituralde...

and there goes another bomb into the Magnaura...

[Ituralde]

I don't think the delay was that bad. I just figured I'd rise the speed a little after the 48 hours and sometimes more turns we had last week. Although I saw that other people also accessed the save after the initial 24 hour window.

I wanted to try for another 24 hour window, but could easily extend to 48 hours. What's your feeling on this? Were the recent 48 hour turns too long? Are 24 hours too short right now? I'm really quite flexible here so it depends on what you want!

[_Tristan_]

I'm usually fine with the 24-hour window, it is just that sometimes things keep piling up and do not allow me to access the save in a timely fashion... Just knowing that you're amenable to extend the window past the 24-hour line on simple request is enough for me...

[Andres]

For what it's worth: I prefer 48 hours.