Civ4 Pitboss Revival
About 2 years ago, we had at least two games of Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword running with people from the forums. The game I was heavily invested in fell apart when we lost all of our server options, and I'm not sure what happened to the others. I find myself thinking back fondly on that game, and wonder if there is any interest in getting a new game going.
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: Civ4 has a solid multiplayer component, and it works alright when you have people playing at the same time. Finding a group of people who can play a turn-based game for 10 hours at a time is, to put it mildly, challenging. So Civ4 includes a stand-alone application called Pitboss (Persistant Turn Based Server) that keeps the game running while the players connect, take their turn and log off.
When we were playing in our Pitboss game all that time ago, we had it set to 24 hour turns: at least every 24 hours each player would have to log in, make any decisions they wanted to make and end their turn, and if everyone did that in less than 24 hours, the next turn would start immediately. Even with all of this, I would expect a full game to take at least 2 years to complete. The last game was going for about 16 months, and it ended early.
Looks like we are server-ready, player-ready and have basically decided on settings. Game threads coming soon.
Game 4 IP:
Game 4 P/W:
Game 4 Players:
Kier
Scaphism
Petriefied
Yoyoson
Maq
Boogle
Copingsaw
Quintin_Stone
Farscry
EdemaKNN
Atras
Hypatian
Fyedaddy
pignoli
Lars
Keldar
Game 5 IP: 70.110.40.2
Game 5 P/W: stantheman
Game 5 Players:
Tkyl
Sephirotic
davet010
Pyroman[FO]
dejanzie
Zaque
Robear
trowan
Absurddoctor
MrDeVil909
wanderingtaoist
Clemenstation
stupidhaiku
Apollo0507
breander
Haakon7
Replacements:
Yonder
Mr_Popov
Grumpicus
ahrezmendi
Skyrider
Chrometech
Sparhawk
scoopsy
jadefire21
Subs:
Elkad
I would possibly be interested in this. Count me as about a 80% in.
Friend me on Steam!
I'm up for that. I'd definitely find at least a few minutes to make my turn each day. Does it send notifications that a next turn is due or something?
Robear wrote:
I picked up the complete pack on the Steam sale a while back and have played all of two games since, what with all the new hotness around. So yeah, I'm interested, provided you want someone inexperienced to kick around:)
What happens if you aren't able to take your turn in the 24 hours? Does it just auto-skip?
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Always up for this sort of thing.
Amoebic wrote:
steam | xbox | bgg
I believe it will just add your research, resources etc., just not move your units. I may be wrong though.
Robear wrote:
Last time I had to bow out after 50 turns or so, because of lack of time. I'm extremely interested in joining up again!
Roo wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
I haven't been involved with any cIV multiplayer yet, but I would love to find the time to play if you started after Christmas.
I'm pretty slammed all the way up to the holidays and then I'm off to the States for two weeks, back on the 7th.
If that doesn't fit with the timeline you've got in mind, Atras, then I understand.
Coldstream wrote:
I'd play again. The game I was in actually finished.
There's a Steam group already set up, GWJ Civers or something like that, with about forty members.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one by lethal injection. - Paleocon
We said they were people, we didn't say they were black. - Yonder
I'd like to try it, I bought the game when Steam had it on sale awhile ago and haven't put much time into it, this would give me an excuse to play.
I'd absolutely play this.
Steam 3DS: 2019-9672-3387
Aristophan wrote:
I'd love to play, I've been getting into Civilization Revolutions on my iPhone and now I'm addicted enough for some real Civilization action.
"Use ActiveX — it’s the PBR of client-side web technology." - hipstergrammers
"Try to offer a free dessert to the universe, to truth. You will fail." - Yelping with Cormac
Count me in. Very much interested.
Only reason I stopped playing back in the day is because the games all dropped offline or went dead.
Count me 100% in for a turn-a-day pitboss game!
"We are at our best when we work together. We are at our worst when we expend valuable and finite energy and resources destroying one another." - Paleocon, regarding humanity.
+1
I still play Civ 4 multiple times a week and would love to participate in a Pitboss game again.
Steam: fyedaddy | XBL: fyedaddy | Raptr: fyedaddy
I would like to play!
XboxLive: Clemenstation
Steam: Atras
XBox Live: Atras
I'm in, if we go again. Last time wasn't a horribly long outing, since I joined in partway through just before the end, but it was somewhat memorable. Namely spending all my turns fearing Farscry and his merry horde of crazed leprechauns, who had spent his turns systematically destroying every other Civ on our landmass...
LobsterMobster wrote:
What was there to fear? We merely wanted to share our love of beer and song with the rest of the world!
"We are at our best when we work together. We are at our worst when we expend valuable and finite energy and resources destroying one another." - Paleocon, regarding humanity.
Apologies for console-fed retardation, but if I didn't buy Civ IV via Steam then... how does this work? Could I add the game to Steam somehow? Still play with Steam folk?
XboxLive: Clemenstation
Steam: Atras
XBox Live: Atras
yeah, the group is independent of the game on Steam. I was using a non-Steam copy of the game last time I played. No big deal.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one by lethal injection. - Paleocon
We said they were people, we didn't say they were black. - Yonder
Count me in!
XBL: Tkkyl | Steam: Tkyl
Count me in!!!
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams
Count in the Boogle.
pretend boogle wrote:
This sounds like fun to me!
"Don't take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyways!"
xbox live = breander
steamid = breander
Can you stick me on the reserve list ?
There is no honour without pie.
This is going to be awesome. Guess I should play a few single player games to get back into the swing of things.
XboxLive: Clemenstation
Nah, I was planning on going in cold. For comedy value.
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/pignoli/
Good lord, that filled up fast.
Good luck to you all!
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Steam: Atras
XBox Live: Atras