#Episode 13: A Brief History of Async TI4, with somno

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vagrant stone
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https://strengthenbonds.podbean.com/e/episode-13-a-brief-history-of-async-ti4-with-somno/

Episode 13 - A Brief History of Async TI4, with somno | Strengthen ...

somno joins the show to talk about the history and pre-history of the async TI4 server, from BoardGameGeek play-by-forum games 6 years ago, to getting all the  image files loaded up for the maps, and seeing the community grow from 20 to 2000.
1:17 - Best thing I saw this week
3:12 - Tech of the week - Self-Assembly Routines
6:10 - somno!
7:00 - ...

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dusk mirage
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Ooh it's somno's episode

vagrant stone
dusk mirage
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I had no idea there were so many pbf games

vagrant stone
vagrant stone
thick saffron
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Ouhhj..... Let's see If I can stand my voice

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There were so many Things I wanted to about and forgot (would have been too much probably).
Feel free to ask me anything. About the BGG times that is 👀

dusk mirage
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In the very first game, would the GM send players their ACs and the agendas via email?

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Was the GM's name Chipper? How did you meet him or find out about PBF1?

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Lol, love the reaction when BLT asked somno if he already had the graphics knowledge beforehand

thick saffron
thick saffron
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And shit, was I nervous. Like I had a Job interview 👀

slender rapids
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Another perspective: Saltlake and DJ used to do an async TTS save based game on their own discord server. I played in one of those games, and I think Saltlake was the one who mentioned that peeps were forming a wider community of async discord players, and shared the link. PBD4 was a TTS-save based game up until almost the end of it, and I initially was not a fan of switching over to this bot that Ter was developing, thought the units looked ugly and the slash commands were cumbersome and stuff was easy to miss

thick saffron
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Worse, actually, because with my qualifications I could get a new job by yesterday if I quit tomorrow

thick saffron
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I remember when x3nd0g came in and commented on that in a very matter-of-fact-ly way

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But living up to that reputation germans have I just said that He was right and If He had anything better I'd implement it right away

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He didn't disappoint!

hallow nexus
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Hm, not the best callout... But I got a callout!

thick saffron
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Why? I think I remember you saying that you are not that experienced. Maybe it was just with Java...

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I apologize to everyone I missed on that shoutout. <@&947648366056185897> <@&1166011604488425482> you are awesome

hallow nexus
thick saffron
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Ah, that one

hallow nexus
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I'm not offended, just smiling about it

thick saffron
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Well, the term you used was "Shit brick" iirc

lapis forge
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Ugh been waiting for this episode for a week, and now today I won't have time to listen haha

chrome harness
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Was I called out for something bad?

thick saffron
vagrant stone
chrome harness
dusk mirage
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Well, I'm still confused about some of the history parts but this was fun

hallow nexus
dusk mirage
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There's a reason I made this comment

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thick saffron
hallow nexus
thick saffron
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Still sounds funny

dusk mirage
hallow nexus
thick saffron
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Lol nice!

hallow nexus
# dusk mirage Ooh, a practical reason

That, and "All these Bothelpers are managing this server manually. That's ridiculous. Needs automation", which may or may not have been inspired by me botching a few new game channel setups as a green bothelper...

dusk mirage
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That's right - you added the game setup notes. Real nice when that started popping up automatically in the bots thread

hallow nexus
dusk mirage
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I just setup two games yesterday and they seemed fine. Could have a reminder to mark a game a TIGL / etc. That was the only thing I forgot.

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Oh, I guess game set order isn't necessary for regular games any more. Not sure about games with unusual HS locations.

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Ah, the Welcome to Async pdf is out of date, isn't it. I'd forgotten about that.

copper crater
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I still update min, but rarely

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The new updates have been mostly about QoL and homebrew, so nothing significant has changed yet.

dusk mirage
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My channel links are incorrect, and we have a third server now

copper crater
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The biggest thing recently is the change to how new games are setup.

dusk mirage
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Oh, and new whispers...I mention private threads, which isn't recommended any more

safe epoch
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I have a bunch of blank wood hexagons

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Who knows how I can turn them into cucumber field coasters?

pearl trellis
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@velvet lance remember when you were almost in pbd1

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good times

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@thick saffron can we get a screenshot of our alliance game tournament

velvet lance
pearl trellis
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lmao

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yes you have

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hey you put slash commands into the bot

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just didnt code them xD

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still work!

thick saffron
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and it is a fucking mess...

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we ported it to the bot as well. But it seems to be lost

fierce patioBOT
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Hadouken! UTC-5 used /show_game game_name: pbf70a
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Game with such name does not exists, use /list_games

lapis forge
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Huh, yeah pbf70b is there though

fierce patioBOT
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Jazzxhands used /show_game game_name: pbf70
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Game with such name does not exists, use /list_games

safe epoch
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Just checking

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Maybe it was /delete_game'd

thick saffron
pearl trellis
hazy elm
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Yeah, I remember it was exciting when pbd pased pbf numbers. That was...many many games ago now

fierce patioBOT
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PrisonerOne used /admin restore_game save_file: 1198005973470675044
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pbf70a restored.

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PrisonerOne used /show_game game_name: pbf70a
hallow nexus
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she's dead sir

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or was it never a map

thick saffron
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we played a couple of rounds here

hallow nexus
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Ah, I bet it's stuck on old 1a, 2b, 3c position and couldn't load the map. Ah well

chrome harness
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I forgot about that system lol

slender rapids
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Btw @vagrant stone server numbers tend to get a lot of fluff in them since people join servers but dont actually participate. A better heuristic of activity would be something like the dice luck tracker, which was only implemented in the past month or two, and so would only catch those who have played a game in the past month or two. That number (I just checked) is 980 peeps

vagrant stone
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I didn't really even know the server numbers when I started talking at that point, but ~1000 is basically correct

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pretty amazing

slender rapids
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~640 active games rn, so that means if we assume an average of 5 players per game (the mode is 6 players for sure, but theres enough 3p/4p that the average could be brought down to 5p) that means on average members are in 3 games at once, which tracks

lapis forge
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Finally getting a listen - it didn't seem clear, the original BGG PBF map images were created/edited with GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/
Essentially free photoshop

GIMP
GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

vagrant stone
frosty moth
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let myself get a big backlog of these and listening through now, thanks for all your kind words @thick saffron ❤️

agile fjord
agile fjord
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I just now listened to this lol, @thick saffron ha ha, you mentioned the running joke of how long it will take to make new feature😁🤣🤣

thick saffron
wind iris
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I had the old Naalu Alliance as well as Cabal

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good times

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forever wars were so exhausting and impossible on PBF. They took literal years and then someone disappeared. It was really awful

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That's what happened with Naalu in that game

lapis forge
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Groose Mishal ftw

wind iris
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so many uses per round lmao

hidden spade
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I don't remember what my first pbd was but I think it was pretty low

safe epoch
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54 iirc

hidden spade
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Gotcha.