I guess you all received this message from yahoo:



I guess that answers the question about Thomas keeping in the game or not...

In reply to Germany (msg # 58):

<sigh> We had until lately been effectively on hiatus for over 2 years. We have to expect that many of the people on our lists had long ago lost hope on us.

I guess this is the right place to ask. Is Ben (and so France and Indonesia) still a player?

I see he has not loged since March 5^th...

In reply to Germany (msg # 60):

I've not spoken with him for quite a while since he got a new job... I'm honestly not sure - I will try and get in touch with him again.

In reply to UK (msg # 61):

I've spoken to ben and he's not going to be able to pick it back up so we'll need someone to take France I guess

In reply to UK (msg # 62):

Grump. I can take Indonesia. Anyone want to take France for the time being?

In reply to Combat Cycle Ref (msg # 63):

I could give France a whirl..They will be easy enough to compartmentalize from the other two ...

Completely off topic ..This turn has some fairly strange events I am beginning to think you had some homebrewed mushroom beer at a scadian event..;)

In reply to China (msg # 64):

Ok, France to Morgan.

I do not drink, I cannot hear the whispers when I do.

In reply to Combat Cycle Ref (msg # 65):

Any ETA on the next round?

In reply to UK (msg # 66):

Heya guys, do we have any ETA on when orders are being sent out?

GM Andreas says: I am immersed in work IRL right now so it is all on Kelvin´s reliable shoulders at the moment. All progress is due to his diligence and all delay is on me I am afraid. So, sorry, no ETA.

In reply to Referee (msg # 68):

Now that things are gearing up I thought I better say a bit old 'Welcome' to our new players!

Hope you guys have fun and I look forward to playing with you.

In reply to USA (msg # 69):

Welcome to the game..

In reply to China (msg # 70):

Greetings my fellow Great Gamers - as part of an ongoing bout of insanity I have been working on some ideas to help keep the game flowing and that will hopefully help you have time to see your loved ones/ pets/ miscellaneous others, in between writing your turn orders

I give you - The Spaceship Designer!

https://docs.google.com/spread...uKU/edit?usp=sharing

This little baby will work out almost all of your spaceship related questions

Just design a ship and it will tell you if you're missing anything, how many trips it can make between two stellar bodies, maximum distance it can travel and all that Jazz!

Also, you and I owe a huge debt of thanks to our friendly Co-GM Kelvin, who not only put up with whatever insanity drove me to start doing this, but who Beta Tested this out, and basically did all the QA and made sure I made it presentable

So please - check it out, play around with it and hopefully this will make your lives just a little bit easier.

If you find any bugs please report them to me as the US by PM- keep an eye out for more utilities I intend to get out as we go on. I will be creating a utilities page on the website once I get round to it, but for now have fun with this.

In reply to USA (msg # 71):

This is great device!

My turns (germany, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia) are sent now, so no more diplomacy will be performed.

Does any of you have any news about Andreas?

I hope it's only lack of time that is not allowing him to play...

I see some players are not logging in:

• Australia: 5 months
• India: player has never logged in.
• Indonesia: 11 months.
• Japan: less than a month, but no answers from him (AFAIK to anyone).
• UK: less than a month, but no answers from him (AFAIK to anyone). In out last mails he casted doubt about keepiing playing.

It is known if they keep playing?

If not, what to do with their countries (see that they have some international treaties that would be affected)?
This message was last edited by the player at 16:55, Thu 22 Feb 2018.

In reply to Germany (msg # 75):

I heard from Australia on the 19th Feb - so three days ago?

In reply to USA (msg # 76):

Glad to know

Germany and Saudi Arabia have already sent the turns, so no more diplomacy can be performed (or at least will not be efective until the reactions phase)
This message was last edited by the player at 04:31, Fri 02 Mar 2018.

Now that Liam has taken the role of co-GM, I see US is listedas NPC in the Cast in this page.

Will Liam keep playing it or it will have to be treated as an NPC (so treating it with PAs)?

In reply to Germany (msg # 79):

I will be continuing to play the US.

Glad to know

Any news about Michael?

I just realized China and France logged up again in August 5^th. They hadn't since February 27^th (IIRC).