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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Agreed. Slynky promised to set up the map but perhaps he can set up the game as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, as many maps/games as have been set up for me, I think it's my turn. Besides, I like the Tesco maps...easy to edit (the starting places are yellow...wonder how that was done).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Agreed. Slynky promised to set up the map but perhaps he can set up the game as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, as many maps/games as have been set up for me, I think it's my turn. Besides, I like the Tesco maps...easy to edit (the starting places are yellow...wonder how that was done). </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks Slynky. In the spirit of KOTH/Ratings, I will set up the next map/game for you. I need to learn how to do it anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Gecko

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Anytime you edit a map and insert starting spots the systems show up in the map editor galactic map window with a yellow circle. Not to take anything from Tesco, but that's a function of the map editor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Anytime you edit a map and insert starting spots the systems show up in the map editor galactic map window with a yellow circle. Not to take anything from Tesco, but that's a function of the map editor. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, is there an updated Version of the map editor I don't have? Tesco's maps show yellow but the map I saved from the game I created for you guys didn't show any at all. So, I added a "specific" starting point (not a common one 'cause I wasn't sure what that meant...there is no help for the program). And when I did it, it didn't show yellow.

Any assistance apprieciated.

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That's because when the game creates a map all starting positions are random.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The map you created didn't have any starting positions defined, so none of the systems showed as yellow. After you added them, if you had gone back and looked you would have seen yellow circles.

Specific starting points are numbered. Player 1 will start in position 1, player 2 will start at point 2, etc. Common starting points only show as "any". Meaning somebody will start there, but it could be anybody.

You can mix and match. For example, give player 3 a specific starting point, but everybody else be common ones, or give them no starting point at all, and teh game will place them.

If you have more starting points (common or specific) then the excess will not be used.

If you have more players then starting points, then the leftover players will be placed randomly.

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Thanks Slynky. If you want you can just pick one of the Tesco's maps without editing. When are you going to create the game?

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Hey Baron! Have you lost interest in our game or has the holiday just got you busy? Not complaining, just curious. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hi. (I'm back for a bit)

I see Baron has his file uploaded so all I need is the mod to build the game file with and any particular instructions that I might need to know about.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sorry...I got busy today and just now got on. I guess you'll have it when you get up in the morning.

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Thanks for the info, Geo. I did specific starting points for the game because that seemed a sure way to get it done correctly. When I saw the "common" starting point, I was worried that might have something to do with putting people in the same system http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif .

So, I actually have to save the map, close it, and open it again to see the yellow. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif (what a way to do business!)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, you don't have to do all that. Just setting a starting point turns the system yellow. I am saying you just didn't notice it on the map you made, but it was there.

Keep in mind you won't see the system you are currently looking at as yellow. The system you have selected shows up as two red circles. If you set a starting point in a system and then click on another system, the one you jsut left will now be yellow.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, you don't have to do all that. Just setting a starting point turns the system yellow. I am saying you just didn't notice it on the map you made, but it was there.

Keep in mind you won't see the system you are currently looking at as yellow. The system you have selected shows up as two red circles. If you set a starting point in a system and then click on another system, the one you jsut left will now be yellow.

Geoschmo </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I thought that might be the case but I tried that and NOTHING. I set the start point and then clicked on another system...but the system I just set stayed "gray".

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BTW, I forgot to send you a message in our "MISSILE" game. It should have said OUCH http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Another surprise was staying in first place after losing 30 or so ships.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The only thing I can think of would be not to set it for no ruins out of habit! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The only thing I can think of would be not to set it for no ruins out of habit! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, but doesn't this require the Junkyard mod?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ouch message right back at you this turn.

Damn it's hard to kill a planet with missles only. I had those ships set to point blank range even and I couldn't get anything through.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, it definetly does turn yellow. The only thing I can think is that you just missed it somehow. Or you didn't actually set a start point. When you set the start point you saw a yellow square in the sector you set it? And the square has eitehr a number or any in it?

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The only thing I can think of would be not to set it for no ruins out of habit! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, but doesn't this require the Junkyard mod? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The Junkyard mod pretty much REQUIRES ruins, so no. That's a default SE4 option.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, it definetly does turn yellow. The only thing I can think is that you just missed it somehow. Or you didn't actually set a start point. When you set the start point you saw a yellow square in the sector you set it? And the square has eitehr a number or any in it?

Geoschmo </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I figured it out...

I was clicking on a system (on the right) and then setting a start point with the button. I assumed it set THAT system for a starting point. Now I see that you need to click on a spot in the system map (upper left) to actually pinpoint a specific location IN the system for the starting point.

So, having figured that out...I apologize for any maps I didn't do correctly... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No problem. Nod and I are far enough apart, even if we aren't on opposite sieds of teh quadrant. Actually it might have delayed our meeting cause I sent my ships where I thought he was first. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You guessed right. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Thanks!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You guessed right. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Thanks! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">All ready. Good luck to both of you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif .

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Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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hey i am up for a challenge http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif 4 player game. All out war... Koth settings standard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif except that you must declare war once you meet up with some one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Better make that "declare war AND fight." http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Geo/Nodachi: Fulltech Game.

I see there was an error in processing. Should I download and process manually to see if it goes OK?

Also, Geo, I'm wondering what I may have done wrong. There was an error in the Asmala/Gecko game for which I made a map. All I did was make starting points (and delete all the ruins in the Tesco maps). Any idea?

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Nod and myself are ready when you are, O'mighty Slynky. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Funny, I was just thinking I was ready for another multiplayer game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Disable Intel projects and make it a rated game and I would definitely be interested.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I thought this thing needed the Junkyard mod before I can generate it. If so, someone needs to tell me where I can get it and anything special I need to know to use it. Tks!

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Check the SE4 mods listing page on www.malfador.com .

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">We've had a few failures the Last couple days. Much more then normal. And every time the game runs fine the second time when I or the game owner goes in and hits the execute turn button. I think its a system resource problem caused by some utilities we are running on the server. Let me know if you have any that won't run after you go in and kick them manually.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I got my copy from the PBW server. Puke's JunkYard mod V2.1. Pretty much default settings, and the settings that are posted on the game site.

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OK, I got the mod. Changed my Path file to point to it and it seems to be creating the kind of game you want (i.e., I think every planet has ruins on it) but everything else looks the same. I thought the mod took away research but in a test game I started, research exists...so, am I just wrong in what I'm reading?

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Well, there it is. As I said below, it seems to be the mod in play except for research being allowed. (still don't understand that).

Let me know if there is a problem and I'll try to fix it.

Good luck!

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All seems ok.
It doesn't mod out Research as such, just the Research Centers. So our starting planets has lots of Mineral Minerals, 1 Rad, Org, SpacePort, SpaceYard & 1 Resupply Depot.
The only issue with the mod, is that because we had 100K starting resources, it automatically gives you 100K research points that you can spend, but the mod does not allow you to earn any more.
As long as the first turn processes ok, then it looks like it is working.
Thanks for hosting it Slynky.

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Mind you, after saying that, I took a second look only to discover that 1 of the planets in my home system doesn't have a ruin. 10 planets in my home system (plus HW) and 1 without a ruin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
As long as the ratio stays in that fashion, it shouldn't matter to much.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, every planet I clicked on had ruins but I only clicked on about 10-12. Here is the description in the mod:

"Increased the chance of ruins and number of techs from ruins"

By that, I think it's not 100% sure there will be one everywhere. So, it seems to be doing what the mod said.

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The turn failed to execute. After some checking I think I found the problem, the game is still listed as stock on the server.

Geo, if you would be so kind, could you update SE4 Rated Challenge: Junkyard to Puke's Junkyard Mod v2.1, please?

Other than that, great job Slynky, thanks! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ahhh, learned antother trick/setting to watch out for. Sorry guys (all's well that ends well).

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No need to be sorry, you're doing us a favor remember. Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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So, how does that think work, Baron? You can only build with the research you find?

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Excatly, at the moment, I might be using Torps for the first time in a PBW game, but then again, its still very early. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Yup, it's quite fun actually, a nice change of pace. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Junkyard Challenge
2400.9 First contact!

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Hehe, well, you guys have fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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That did the trick!

Thanks Geo! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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In my game with Geo I've had a real "well duh" momment. I was happily building an atmosphere converter on a huge gas world when it dawned on me, my breathable is none! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, it converts it to none...in TWO years.

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Really? I thought you couldn't convert a gas giant to none.