You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.

Only 2 computer players are allowed.

tapir joined the game in slot 1

BaronHelix visits

BaronHelix: hi, may i?

tapir: hi baron

tapir: sure

BaronHelix joined the game in slot 2

C64 nostalgia visits

C64 nostalgia: hello

tapir: hi

C64 nostalgia joined the game in slot 3

C64 nostalgia: no bots, please

tapir: ok

C64 nostalgia: what's your ping time? (197ms here)

tapir: I'm the host so 10 ms

tapir: someone else can be the host if you need

C64 nostalgia: baron?

tapir: I have 1mbit upstream

tapir: you?

C64 nostalgia: I usually host... so I don't know what's normal

tapir: I think 197 is normal

tapir: I play at 200-250 all the time

tapir: it sometimes affect the gameplay tough

C64 nostalgia: don't know; i have a cable connection, but what they say and what you get could be anything

C64 nostalgia: what's too long?

tapir: anything beyond 300

BaronHelix: i still haven't gotten the port to work out for hosting

BaronHelix: i am at 163ms currently

C64 nostalgia: so when somebody times out, what is being timed?

tapir: o the response from the server

BaronHelix: response signal

tapir: response to the server*

C64 nostalgia: why can't they make it more robust

tapir: the network code is a little bit buggy, sometimes people get timed out for no reason

tapir: yeah it's a very simple application with a very low bandwidth needs but still network play is not robust

BaronHelix: i am running tight on time. are we posistive a comp can't be used to pad this out? Not many people in lobby

tapir: I'm ok with AI

C64 nostalgia: i'm want to wait as long as it takes

C64 nostalgia: bots make it too easy

BaronHelix: not in 5 min, i will have to leave.

BaronHelix: would hate to leave midgame

tapir: I'm puting AI in 5 min then

BaronHelix: sounds fair to me

BaronHelix: C64, you ok w/ that?

C64 nostalgia: do you know what they plan to fix first?

tapir: yeah the auction bug :)

C64 nostalgia: sure, 1:55 it is

C64 nostalgia: the aucion bug sucks a lot

tapir: yes and yet I love to exploit it

tapir: :)

C64 nostalgia: but with a bot the game goes down

BaronHelix: ack. sorry, just got time shortened. sorry. have fun though :)

tapir: ok

BaronHelix left the game

tapir: well wiat as long as it takes then

tapir: wait*

C64 nostalgia: please

C64 nostalgia: so which auction bug are you refering to?

tapir: the one that doesn't permit you to drop the floor price after raising it too much :)

C64 nostalgia: that's in the oringinal game

tapir: yeah but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a feature

C64 nostalgia: I'm talking about the one where you can't sell

C64 nostalgia: and the timer sticks

tapir: oh those too

C64 nostalgia: if you stay on the sell line

tapir: I think its wrong to blindly copy the original game

C64 nostalgia: the one you're talking about is a feature to be exploited

C64 nostalgia: to me it's so old... it's become public doman

tapir: yeah but it also blocks you to buy a land even if no one is interested

tapir: thats not realistic

tapir: hehe true, ppl that played the old game love those quirks

C64 nostalgia: did you play the oringial

tapir: nope

tapir: just started this one few days ago

C64 nostalgia: i remeber playing at six or seven...

C64 nostalgia: my much older brothers took pity on me

tapir: I can tell you played the original from your statistics hehe

C64 nostalgia: i don't think i did very well

C64 nostalgia: the bots make it really easy

C64 nostalgia: so even if you start with 4 real people...

C64 nostalgia: people time out and what not

C64 nostalgia: then the bots just make energy and food

Gershom visits

Gershom joined the game in slot 2

tapir: they are great at auction tough

C64 nostalgia: hey gershom

tapir: I've seen bots raise at the last milisecond

tapir: just liek a human would do :)

Gershom: hey

tapir: like*

tapir: hi

C64 nostalgia: waiting for real people--no bots

Frequenzwerkstatt visits

Frequenzwerkstatt joined the game in slot 4

C64 nostalgia: hello freq

Round 1 of 12

C64 nostalgia: damn bug

tapir: yeah

tapir: what do we do

C64 nostalgia: get off the buy line

Frequenzwerkstatt: the game is fucked

C64 nostalgia: timer will run if you come down

tapir: gershomm

C64 nostalgia: gershom

tapir: hehe

C64 nostalgia: not a feature--bug

Round 2 of 12

C64 nostalgia: a C64?

tapir: lol probably

Gershom: game is screwed

tapir: yeah

tapir: quit?

Gershom: remake

C64 nostalgia: we should restart

tapir: it will happen again?

Gershom: can't play like this

C64 nostalgia: i'll host

tapir: ok

Gershom: k

Frequenzwerkstatt: we dont need energy :))