You need 4 players to start a Tournament game.
Only 2 computer players are allowed.
tartarus.guard joined the game in slot 1
Drilan visits
tartarus.guard: hello drilan
Drilan: hi
Drilan: can I join?
tartarus.guard: sure
tartarus.guard: I'm just looking for 3 humans, nobody in particular :)
Drilan: dont know how to play
tartarus.guard: are you using a friends account? it shows that you are ranked 5th.
Drilan joined the game in slot 2
Drilan: jjust joking with you
tartarus.guard: :)
tartarus.guard: so i'll kick off the game when we get two more humans preferably.
Drilan: Im been playing since 1987
tartarus.guard: you like the 1.2 changes then I imagine?
Drilan: yes and no
tartarus.guard: I'm curious on the no.
Drilan: there are a couple of things I woulda change
tartarus.guard: such as?
Drilan: the should let the assay cost $50 but only the player who checks the plot is the only one to know
tartarus.guard: yeah. I can see how allowing other players to see the result is in line with the original however I do agree I would prefer to pay $50 and have the results to myself.
Drilan: house is now up to 255 and I would left it the way it was
Drilan: the smith spoilage after 50 was perfcet
tartarus.guard: 255 doesn't bother me, but the combination of 255 plus the spoilage at 50 is hard. It limits your ability to buy out the store since you will let much of what you buy go to rot in later rounds
mintcollector visits
mintcollector joined the game in slot 3
cyounghusband visits
tartarus.guard: I have to try hard to remeber the 50 spoil addition, sometimes habits from 1.1 take over and i buy out a comodity only to watch it spoil next round
Drilan: it they woulda left the house to 99 is almost the same cause of the spoilage
tartarus.guard: yeah, except with the house at 99 the spoilage happens in the stores warehouse and not mine :)
tartarus.guard: are you going to join cyoung?
cyounghusband: no, was just going to observe
Drilan: me???
cyounghusband: but I can jet out if you prefer
tartarus.guard: ah. Well then is everyone ok with 1 bot or do you all want to wat for a 4th player?
cyounghusband: i can't commit to a full game
Drilan: commo'n
mintcollector: no, we are obviously waiting on a 4th
tartarus.guard: no it's fine to watch :)
Drilan: do you want to learn from me???
Drilan: lol
mintcollector: brb...rebuilt my pc, and a stupid Windows update is annoying me to reboot contantly
cyounghusband: just some idle entertainment while I surf
mintcollector was disconnected
cyounghusband: I've never observed before
Drilan: I first plyed on C64 then on NES and now
Drilan: this is my 3rd favorite game of all time
tartarus.guard: Planet MULE was my first. My first game system was an Atari 2600 but MULE just wasn't a game I picked up.
Drilan: never played before this?
mintcollector visits
mintcollector joined the game in slot 3
tartarus.guard: I've played economy games prior to this, but planet mule was my first mule game.
Drilan: economy games??? wich??
mintcollector: ah, I used to play the original
mintcollector: played this, Archon, and Rails West alot
Drilan: nice
Drilan: I played archon a lot
mintcollector: you may enjoy Rails West if you can find an emulate port
mintcollector: *emulated
Drilan: they gonna make a remake
Drilan: did you know?
tartarus.guard: Baron Realms of the Elite was an old BBS door game, along with SRE and others in that vein. I think thoughs were probably the first econ games I played. Oh and Trade Wars 2000
mintcollector: no, I did not
mintcollector: lol, never heard of any of those
C64 nostalgia visits
Drilan: a remake of archon will be awesome
C64 nostalgia: may i join?
tartarus.guard: please do :)
Drilan: nop
C64 nostalgia joined the game in slot 4
Drilan: Im making friends and youre scaring them away
tartarus.guard: heh
mintcollector: I figure this will be a great learning experience...this game based on your win records
Drilan: I hope you dont play as bad as last time C64
C64 nostalgia: me too
C64 nostalgia: i sucked
Drilan: lol
Drilan: it happens
tartarus.guard: Drilan, you have the power.
Drilan: I hope not to be first in early rounds
tartarus.guard: well, you got your wish :)
Round 1 of 12
Drilan: lag problem
tartarus.guard: ping over 250?
Drilan: no
mintcollector: I was wondering who has causing the pauses
Drilan: 180
C64 nostalgia: 109
tartarus.guard: what's your ping mint and cy?
tartarus.guard: it may be cy, i know he's watching and doing other things, it may be draggin his ping bandwidth down.
mintcollector: 78....I usually am 0
C64 nostalgia: host is about 0
C64 nostalgia: always
cyounghusband: 156
Drilan: yep
tartarus.guard: hmm, nobody has a horrible ping *shrug* don't know.
mintcollector: I have a 16 Mbps copnnection
mintcollector: *connection
tartarus.guard: maybe the master server is lagged, host does have to send log data to it
C64 nostalgia: only at the end i thought
Drilan: nice
mintcollector: had that round 11 last game :(
tartarus.guard: i think it keeps a running log, not sure though
C64 nostalgia: i'm mr pink... i'm mr pink...
tartarus.guard: pepto bismal
C64 nostalgia: kept looking at orange
C64 nostalgia: damn
Drilan: yesss
Round 2 of 12
Drilan: lol
Drilan: ???
C64 nostalgia: ???
mintcollector: someone lagged out BAD
C64 nostalgia: you might want to kick cy
C64 nostalgia: DAMN
tartarus.guard: sorry cy, going to see if it helps, lag is killing
cyounghusband was kicked
Drilan: thats not cool man
tartarus.guard: bah
tartarus.guard: oh well, good luck on the land grab if not on the wumpas
C64 nostalgia: still bad
mintcollector: it is one of us then
C64 nostalgia: steady 93 here
mintcollector: 78-94 I have seen
tartarus.guard: the pings are cyclical, it seems like somebody is getting intermitent connection issues
mintcollector: nice
Drilan: I think is me
tartarus.guard: it's ok, still playable :)
C64 nostalgia: lol... the land
Round 3 of 12
Drilan: buy it
Drilan: nice
Drilan: everyone has money issues
tartarus.guard: yeah, that should clear up in a few turns though.
Drilan: MONEY!!!!
tartarus.guard: i like to hold out for 100, but it's close enough and i need capital :)
Drilan: you 2 make me sick
Drilan: lol
Drilan: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Round 4 of 12
tartarus.guard: that's awesome
mintcollector: lol, pwned....all of us
C64 nostalgia: whew good run
mintcollector: ouch
C64 nostalgia: grrrr....
C64 nostalgia: bad mojo... this game
mintcollector: you wumpus money ran off
tartarus.guard: i'd feel sorry if it wasn't for the killing you'll make off smithore soon :)
mintcollector: *your
C64 nostalgia: i had to try
mintcollector: and there we go
mintcollector: $460 mules next turn
C64 nostalgia: stay in first dri
Drilan: lol
Round 5 of 12
C64 nostalgia: damn in-laws
tartarus.guard: i fear the second pirate raid, cashing out
mintcollector: I have had 3 pirate raids
mintcollector: those stupid cat bugs have had a cascading effect on my game :(
Round 6 of 12
Drilan: that was on purpose
Drilan: right?
C64 nostalgia: who?
C64 nostalgia: too cheap
mintcollector: ok, this gane is INTENT on screwing me specificially. Wate of my time...GL guys
mintcollector left the game
Computer takes over mintcollector
C64 nostalgia: he sucks!
tartarus.guard: yes
C64 nostalgia: brb
Round 7 of 12
Round 8 of 12
C64 nostalgia: dri, why do you go around the store?
Drilan: .2 sec faster
C64 nostalgia: is it really?
Drilan: yep
C64 nostalgia: good to know
C64 nostalgia: first curse blows
Round 9 of 12
C64 nostalgia: ?
tartarus.guard: aaaaaaand...
C64 nostalgia: dri?
tartarus.guard: dri can't answer the phone right now, he's busy holding ^
Drilan was disconnected
Computer takes over Drilan
tartarus.guard: looks like he timed out
tartarus.guard: i'll check the log at end game to see if it was a timeout or something else
C64 nostalgia: damn, that sucks... 2 down
tartarus.guard: yeah, 1.2 seems to have bad lag problems
tartarus.guard: i don't recall this many problems on 1.1
C64 nostalgia: game is quick now... small perk
tartarus.guard: yeah, based on that i am guessing he was lagging
C64 nostalgia: mint is still an ass for bailing
tartarus.guard: yeah, i could almost understand if it was for lag
tartarus.guard: but bailing over an event is lame... maybe he was just mad i called it
Round 10 of 12
tartarus.guard: speaking of crummy events
tartarus.guard: :)
Round 11 of 12
C64 nostalgia: not mine... YES
tartarus.guard: :)
tartarus.guard: damn it, i keep forgetting about the spoil at 50
tartarus.guard: 1.1 taught me bad habits
tartarus.guard: :)
C64 nostalgia: i like 1.2 so much better though
tartarus.guard: i agree, i like it much better i just need to retrain myself
C64 nostalgia: fix lag, slow down land auction
Round 12 of 12
C64 nostalgia: my wishlist
tartarus.guard: land auction could be tweaked, i'm ok either way. definatly need to improve communication channel though.
C64 nostalgia: among players?
tartarus.guard: nah, the chat works great, i meant the game window
C64 nostalgia: YES
C64 nostalgia: explain
tartarus.guard: well, the chat window we type in works fine even when players lag out of the game window above. I have had chat working when the game play window crashed compleatly
C64 nostalgia: no....
C64 nostalgia: ?
tartarus.guard: I assume that this chat is the UDP connection and the game is the TCP connection. It is probably something in the synchronization code that is lagging things down
C64 nostalgia: how did it unstick?
C64 nostalgia: just now
tartarus.guard: my theory is that it is checking in with the master server during game play to help prevent cheating.
tartarus.guard: so if the master server is lagged the game can correct itself so long as we don't exit and the master server catches up
tartarus.guard: I am going to do a packet capture one of these days to see what is going on
Game Over
Saving score, please wait...
Score saved
C64 nostalgia: it told me evryone was not reponding
tartarus.guard: yeah, but we know better
C64 nostalgia: gg
C64 nostalgia: other thann the AI's
tartarus.guard: that is why i think there is some during game communication with the master server that didn't happen in 1.1
tartarus.guard: good game to you as well as always. I'll beat you one day :)
C64 nostalgia: has the server been down a lot?
tartarus.guard: I'm not certain, I haven't done much to verify my theories, i just have them :) some day when i am less lazy i'll do a packet capture so I can see all the comunication going on the game ports and see what is going on
C64 nostalgia: thanks for hosting
C64 nostalgia: goodnight
tartarus.guard: goodnight
C64 nostalgia left the game