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*General Player to Player Comments

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:50 pm
by bjfagan
New folder for the PON PBEM game started in January 2016. Players post comments here as the human player, not as your avatar country, for out of game discussions.

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:54 pm
by bjfagan
These are the current players and their respective countries:


Austria - Ojodeaguila
Great Britain - bjfagan
France - Vezina
Germany/Prussia - Trueknight
Russia - nemethand
USA -
Italy -
Ottoman Empire -
Japan -
Spain -
China - Lynxyonok

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:56 pm
by De_Spinoza
Just a general reminder: be sure to check your 'treaties to reply' tab in the diplomacy window every turn. I sent out a bunch of state visit proposals this first turn, and I remember that in the previous game I sometimes forgot to reply to them leading to an unwanted drop in relations.

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:35 pm
by lukasberger
De_Spinoza wrote:Just a general reminder: be sure to check your 'treaties to reply' tab in the diplomacy window every turn. I sent out a bunch of state visit proposals this first turn, and I remember that in the previous game I sometimes forgot to reply to them leading to an unwanted drop in relations.

I don't see any, did you send one to Prussia or prioritize other nations? No prob either way, just wanted to check.

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:09 pm
by Vezina
Just posting to say hello to all old and new players. I am trying to follow along with the emails, but they are a little too fast for me to participate. :)

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:37 pm
by lukasberger
We could probably move the email discussion to this thread.

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:58 pm
by bjfagan
Yeah, that's a good idea Lukas. Save emails for emergency or time sensitive communications. Or diplomacy!

Lukas, have we decided on a deadline? Noon for me is in 2 hours. But what works for you?

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 12:19 am
by bjfagan
Processing the turn for Late February 1850. Will create a trn file for China.

Lukas, I will need to process the turn one more time so I can clear out China's password.

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:57 am
by lukasberger
bjfagan wrote:Yeah, that's a good idea Lukas. Save emails for emergency or time sensitive communications. Or diplomacy!

Lukas, have we decided on a deadline? Noon for me is in 2 hours. But what works for you?


What I had been thinking was around 5-6 pm EST, which would be 1-2 pm for you. That being said, I could also do something like 10-11 pm EST if that fit in with your schedule better.

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:58 am
by lukasberger
bjfagan wrote:Processing the turn for Late February 1850. Will create a trn file for China.

Lukas, I will need to process the turn one more time so I can clear out China's password.


Ok, sounds good!

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:29 pm
by bjfagan
5-6 pm EST works just fine. I guess we can process it at 5 EST if all the ord files are in, but wait until 6 if some are still missing. If I am processing the turn it could be delayed a little depending on how busy I am, but it should be close.

Early March 1850 is up. China password has been cleared.

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:33 am
by Lynxyonok
China is very happy to have a turn :)

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:19 am
by Field Marshal Hotzendorf
The Netherlands waits with anticipation to have a turn! :D

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:44 am
by lukasberger
bjfagan wrote:If I am processing the turn it could be delayed a little depending on how busy I am, but it should be close.


Yeah, this is just about the same for me. I'm busy enough that I can't promise to always be exactly on time, but I will be as close as possible and if it's too far off, then I'll let everyone know so that Brian (or whomever) can run the turn.

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:20 pm
by lukasberger
I'm ready to run the turn but there are no orders for Russia or Spain. Will hold off for 40 minutes if you guys can get them in.

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 12:06 am
by lukasberger
3-15 processed. The Netherlands are now playable as well.

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:08 pm
by Field Marshal Hotzendorf
Excellent news!

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:52 am
by lukasberger
04-01 up.

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:08 pm
by lukasberger
Preparing to run the turn, last call for anyone who didn't get theirs in.

04-15-1850 up.

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:08 am
by lukasberger
I'm not going to be able to run the turn today, sorry. Hopefully Brian or whomever can fill in.

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:25 am
by lukasberger
There was a problem with the Netherlands orders last turn. They were miss-named, using a - instead of a ~ as the separator, but beyond that they were also much larger than they should've been (around 150k iirc, which is 3x even GB's order size). Trying to run the run with them included resulted in an immediate CTD.

So I have no idea what the issue is, but wanted to post his so that FM Hotzendorf is aware of this and hopefully someone can help out with getting this sorted if need be. Unfortunately, I won't even have time to run the turn today, much less do any troubleshooting.

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:38 pm
by Field Marshal Hotzendorf
I am very confused by this as well, in my other PBEM I haven't had any problems? Anybody have any idea what this is about? I did fix the - ~ problem though.

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:13 am
by coolbean
Feels great to post in this forum again... it's been 2 or 3 years??

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:19 am
by bjfagan
1850-05-01 coming up in a few.

Everything worked fine, Netherlands trn file is up. Wow, I believe that was the first turn where we had orders from all players.

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:21 am
by bjfagan
Will wait about 40 minutes for any more trn files. Then I will process the turn.

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:38 am
by coolbean
Yes thank you, I was going to request a little bit of time after the normal process time just because we got the files a little later. Need a little time to submit the turn when I get home from work :)

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:53 am
by lukasberger
Yeah, sorry guys my schedule went to heck these last couple days. Should be back to normal tomorrow (I hope).

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 1:16 am
by coolbean
It's cool, I was able to submit my turn. Thank you.

Just mostly concerned about missing any diplomatic replies.

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 1:47 am
by bjfagan
1850-05-15 is now up.

Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 3:39 am
by Vezina
For the sake of game balance, I would like to suggest that the trade zone attached to Vienna, "North Austria," be tied to the Mediterranean maritime zone. It is otherwise impossible to trade with Austria without bordering North Austria, and the normal Great Power ability of "(Great Power A)'s trade fleets make (Great Power A)'s capital trade zone accessible" doesn't apply to Austria-Hungary.

While it would be up for debate if A-H were to ever lose its coastline, it is entirely unfair to A-H to not be able to sell its goods outside of continental Europe while it holds a good third of the Adriatic coast.