Me and Mutton looking for US players...

[TheDarkside]

Originally posted by iBaLkiD
Normal if everyone agrees.

Pause and tell others why your pausing. Theres always something to click on in your little kingdom, when the game gets paused. As long as its not excessive...

Agreed, if you want to pause- PLEASE say something so the rest of us don't sit there wondering if the game is lagging or if they accidentally paused it.

As for speed, It should depend on what's going on. If we start on 1936 scenario (yet another thing we need to discuss!) we will probably want to have the speed as high as possible so we get to the fun parts quicker. If anyone is at war though, we should slow down so they can manage things effectively.

 

[jgbaxter]

iBaLkiD can you let me know the final results when the game is over, I'll keep track of players wins and losses and statisitcs here if it's ok with everyone;

http://pub89.ezboard.com/bdynaverse

 

[iBaLkiD]

Your welcome to play as well, then you can be a statistic too!


Lets finish up the Rules of engagement by tommorow sometime. Preferably while we are all still at work


Would like to try and launch with 8 so there is still room...

 

[jgbaxter]

I'm in a game Sat/SUn so that would probably be a problem in me getting into this game for now, but if you'd like, I'd appreciate the information from the game.

Which player for which country
Which country in which alliance
Which alliance wins

 

[unmerged(19153)]

what is stacking anyway/

 

[iBaLkiD]

Originally posted by aaron
what is stacking anyway/

Each leader has a limit as to how many units he can command efficiently. Two Field Marshals commanding two 12 div armies attack the same province. You have a stack of 24 div now attacking said province. In the past before, or before the last two patches began adressing this issue, people would attack with outrageous stacks of units. They would go well beyond what is reasonable and incurred minimal penalties. It worked to well in other words. Examine the readme of patches 1.5, 1.5b, and the latest 1.5c to see how they nerfed stacking.

Naval stacking abuses are totally nerfed in 1.5c Its nice.

Aaron. You mentioned that you are somewhat of a nw player. Make shure you have all the basic's down.

Assigning leaders. Focused Tech path's. Terrain basic's. Convoy's. Thi will ensure a better playing experience for all.

Ask as many question as you can think of. No question is dumb. You will learn alot faster and more efficiently with the help of others.




Im on until tonights game, my AIM handle is JANETRENOSTESTES, for those of you with AIM.

Ill be checking this thread from time to time as well...

Hope to see you all soon.

 

[TheDarkside]

I'm on VNET, handle is 'Darkside'. Should we install 1.5c ???

 

[iBaLkiD]

Were playing central time eh? Im on the east Coast.

Lets stick to 1.5b for tonight just in case there are some unknown MP issue's. We can do 1.5c next game. If everyone wants to switch to 1.5c thats cool with me too because i have to reinstall HOI b4 we play anyway. I have the no timelimit MOD which patches the HOI exe and im assuming it will cuase some sort of conflict. Maybe ill hop on VNET now and see if i can launch a test game with you...

 

[TheDarkside]

I'm East Coast as well, I thought we're supposed t start at 9pm EST?

Oh I just installed 1.05c too.. couln't resist! Others installed it as well. Get on VNET!

 

[iBaLkiD]

installing 1.5c as we speak.

Be right there!

 

[iBaLkiD]

Im a KNOB.

In my excitement to install the new patch i accidently slipped with the mouse and dumped the patch into thw wrong Folder.

Am reinstalling Hoi. Give me another 5 please?

 

[iBaLkiD]

Well i crahsed to desktop when we tried to launch. I forgot to erase the folder that HOI leaves behind after an install. Need to uninstall and reinstall all over again.

Go on without me if you are all pressed for time. I need another ten minuets or so.

Or if you launched then hop eyou all had a good game.


*Shakes fist at sky*

God hates me

 

[unmerged(16277)]

Take your time mate

 

[iBaLkiD]

im done. Like the Knob that i am i forgot to Patch to 1.5 after uninstalling,so i basically tried to patch to 1.5c from vanilla HOI.

Not recommended.

Ill hop on now, hopefully i can catch you all. If not have fun!

 

[TheDarkside]

Allow me to do a quick recap of tonight's [brief] game. Was riddled with restarts and subsitutions so we couldn't get much done

Originally was:

UK - Me
Germany - iBalkid
Italy - Poorshot
China - Weasel
USA - GUSTER

Here's a Recap of tonight's events... add in anythign if I Missed something!
[all dates in 1936]

Jan 22nd, Italy declared war on Albania. 3 Days later Albania was annexed.

February 5, Austria bows down to Germany's demands and cedes Bregenz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Graz, Wien, Salzburg, Linz and Horn.

March 22nd, Italy annexes Ethiopia

About this time, a crash occurs. We pick up AF Junky to play as France, Franks to play Brazil, and Man of Steel takes USA, taking GUSTER's place GUSTER

June 10- Italy enters into alliance with Germany

July 2- Italy & Germany declare war on Yugoslavia

July 19- Spanish Civil War

Around July 30 we got another crash, and we lose China for the night. Oh and cfeedback joined in as Soviet Union around this time I Think. The game continues...

During the Spanish civil war, I send 12 divisions to help Republican Spain. France later also sends a force to help. Our efforts are rewarded on August 23rd when Republican Spain annexes Nationalist Spain

Unfortunately, while we were preoccupied with Spain, axis were allowed freedom in Yugoslavia which they annexed in September 18th.

Around December the game crashed again and some people left so we called it a night. We need more dedicated players!

 

[unmerged(19153)]

we need less crashing is what we need... sorry i left so early everyone but i had to go. Aaron=guster

 

[iBaLkiD]

Next time straight up IP. So much more reliable. Vnet gets kooky sometimes which doesnt help a less then stable MP game like HOI

I think just one of those crashes was a real crash. The rest were Vnet. Everytime Vnet gets kooky and a game crashes you can see the lobby quickly fill up with players hopping back onto Vnet after their games crashed as well.

I had some trade probs. My resource numbers didnt change for a long time. I tried everything to get steel which was plentiful on the world market. 1:1 2:1 3:1 even 5:1. Poor shot even set up a steel convoy for me but it still stayed at 14 boggin my econ down. After we restarted from one of the crashes my steel shot up to acceptable numbers and my coal shot down.

Is it possible that my resource numbers werent being refreshed or updated?

It still was fun in a twisted way.

Me and Italy were chatting it up alot. We had some big plans for you all. We tried to bring Brazil into the fold(There were some really strange Civ choices tonight thats for shure! Nat'l China as well.) Maybe could have landed some WerMacht down there when things started and work our way up but Brazil kept his options open and i ceased my generous gifts of Technology. Hrmmphh, his loss.


Any one up for a quickie wnesday or sometime this weeknight? My schedule is very free this week. We can keep it seperate from the friday night games. Dont care if its just 2-4 of us. Just wanna play with some humans

 

[iBaLkiD]

Two mistakes made by the Axis. Poorshot(Italy)and I(Germany) Should have lent troops to Spain right when you all did. Big mistake ignoring that. We could have had a very friendly regime behind France forcing you guys to spend DI on a Coup, or pulling men away from the German border in France, in order to watch the spanish border.

Demanding Auschluss. Usually i let this happen on its own so that i may get their army. Since there was no SU human player in the start mass inf wasnt a priority, i figured i would get Austria's IC early, just enough to give me advanced mediums a little earlier then normal.

After the CTD a human SU player joined and i was like, Yikes!

I really enjoyed Poorshot as a partner. He communicated very well and came up with a really sneaky idea which i wont disclose since we might still try and finish this game.

 

[TheDarkside]

Some corrections, I forgot to mention cfeedback joined us as the SU player and that China joined the allies somewhere in there. With Italy joining the Axis so early we had to scramble.

Yeah we were sending gifts to Brazil too hoping to sway them over to us. We had good communication with him until near the end of our game when he suddenly became pretty quiet. I feared he was being subjected to Axis propaganda during this time!

I can actually play tonight if you guys are up to it. Lemme know!

 

[unmerged(12589)]

I had a lot of fun despite the crashes=) Im good to go tonight (saturday) too, let me know