Yesterday and today we ran the Warlords games when they were due. Warlords Game #131 was won by Lord Thanatos commanding the Giants via Rex. Congratulations to him, winning on turn 19 by controlling 4 regions.
A reminder, the latest Warlords games, all those with the 20's designation, have only the team victory potential of winning by controlling 6 regions.
We created the latest Warlords, #24, and the latest Steel, #147. Both are Anonymous, Exploratory, and use the new ESO model requiring a 991 order on turn 1.
Friday we processed 130, 132, 138, 139, and 143.
144 was processed and emailed late 7/28 or early 7/29. I believe Grasshopper sent out other games as well, not sure of the details.
07-29-2014, 11:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2014, 01:33 AM by Ry Vor.)
Today we processed 130 (Turn 29 and no victory checks), 132, 138, 139, 143, and 147 (turn 1). So between yesterday and today we processed 11 games. Thanks to Cipher who did 144's T10 ESO to stop me from swallowing Drano.
08-05-2014, 02:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2014, 01:26 PM by Ry Vor.)
The two Saturday due Warlords games each had a player issue so were not run when I allocated time to do that. One was run on Sunday, the other still had a player missing. Now we have questions as to why that game wasn't run Sunday night. I'm just sayin'.
Games 130, 132, 138, 139, and 143 were run today.
Look for Ry Vor to clarify policy on late turns (you will miss your turn), unattached orders (you will miss your turn), mislabeled orders (you will miss your turn), etc. I think the main change in the thinking here at HQ is related to how little turn fees have been but some posters still complain lately about paying what little they do, verses what happens everywhere else, where those games haven't changed for 20 years and they charge $10 a turn but the complaints here seem to think the difference between $2 and $10 shouldn't matter. It does matter. If you are at Commander Level, you are paying $2 or less a turn. What can you buy for $2? A Popsicle? If you bought a hotdog from a street vendor for $4, what rights do you have to even ask for an extra packet of mustard, much less ask him to spend 30 minutes researching something? Although Alamaze is the most prolific game right now, with 80+ games created in less than 80 weeks, whereas the only answer to a question on the forum a while back as to what else compares quality wise was a game that had 4 games started since 2010, we just can't doing it the way we have. Players should really have understood when we charge $2 and they charge $10, and we have the same kind of cost structure, that it is a difference. So we need to decide to change policy and possibly price. We still hope for web based order entry, which if it frees up most time now spent processing, will be great for players and service providers, but I am tired of talking about that and speculating when it may be out. Again, the less stressed Ry Vor will have final word on this stuff. Meanwhile, don't be late.
145 R10 was processed and emailed this morning. I used it to test some of the coding related to the web order entry integration, which went well, but not entirely successful. Still plugging away.
today we re-ran G144, we ran 142, and created the New Player Primeval with Wizard Mentor and emailed. Cipher will run 135 later.
We ran #130 (won by Jumping Fist of the Giants on Turn 31), 132 (victory check claimed but not won), 138 on Turn 24, 139 on turn 21, and with Cipher, the turn 15 ESO for game 143. Got 'em all out before midnight.
We processed Warlords #23, and re-ran #132. We looked at running Warlords #21 as requested but two players were missing, so it will stay on Wednesday.
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