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Sold.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oracle or the Blood Fountain can hardly be called SCs no matter what they do. They have no melee ability, and a mage casting teleport doesn't take bodyguards (or any other troops) with it. Using them in such a way would be disadvantageous, and almost certainly result in them getting killed. No better than a human in any case.

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Well I manage to take out Indy 6 provinces with Human pretenders, const 2 (especially for a pendant of luck and the robe of missile protection), and some other spell buffs.

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My apologies - I'm withdrawing from the game.
A bad case of Dominions burn-out, I'm afraid.

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Bummer dude. Well if anyone wants to join please post!

[ May 31, 2004, 03:07: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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Can I join?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Are you a MP noob? Have you played fewer than 2 or 3 multiplayer games ( game with pals don't really count, game with random people on the internet do! ).

If so tell us what race you want and I'll put you down!

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I'd like to play. haven't played Online yet, and i spose this one sounds like a good one to start in. I'd like to play as T'ien Ch'i.

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Can I still join?

Total n00b. Played no MP Dominions games before...
Doesn't matter which race I play. I'll take any free one, since I probably will be hacked to pieces in no time anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Would be happier playing a PBEM game since 12h/turn is a bit too fast for me (I've got a life, even if I somtimes wish I hadn't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif . (Anybody trade wives? I need one that understands the glory of gaming. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ))

I'd be even happier if there was a PBEM game using PBEM helper, but that is probably too much to wish...

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Hi

I see that the game is listed in mosehansen but i don't understand how i post my god http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif , could you please reveal the great mysteries of this server? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
skolem aka trueskolem

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Well, if you're using XP, you do the following:

Create a shortcut to Dominions2 on your desktop. Right-click this shortcut and select properties. In the target box, change it to the following:

"C:\Program Files\dominions2\dom2.exe" --tcpclient --ipadr dom2.mosehansen.dk --port 2246 --clickvol 0

This assumes you installed the game in the default directory; if not then change "C:\program files\dominions2\dom2.exe" to wherever your dom2.exe file is located. The --tcpclient tells it that you're joining a multiplayer game; after the --ipadr you put the address of the server; after --port you put the port #. The line above is correct for this game. (The --clickvol 0 just turns off the mouse clicking sound, you can leave that part of the line out if you want to hear the mouse clicks drive you insane) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Then you just make your pretender like you would as if you were going to play a single player game. When your pretender is ready, exit the game and click that shortcut to connect to the mosehansen game, and you will see a list of nations to choose from. The spot next to your nation should say open; click it and it will change to human controlled, then click disconnect and you've uploaded your pretender. If it already says human controlled then someone else took your spot, you'll have to come back here to clear it up. In the future just click the shortcut to take your turns.

If you're running something other than xp (well, that probably works for all windows, except perhaps the location of the game) then someone else will have to give you the proper commands. Hopefully that's all correct, it's really past bedtime here!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">First thanks a lot, actually, after some thinking, i managed to join the game, but I doesn't know there was such shortcuts, I'm using Mac OS 10.3 does anyone know where I could find how to build these shortcuts?
thanks

Skolem

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I'll join up as mitchtan. This will be my 4rth Online game, and only 1 of my other games have reached the poitn where i'm fighting other nations.

odd_enuf

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Are you a MP noob? Have you played fewer than 2 or 3 multiplayer games ( game with pals don't really count, game with random people on the internet do! ).

If so tell us what race you want and I'll put you down! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've never played people before and only played the computer a few times on average difficulty. I'd like Jotun if there's still room available.

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I've taken Ulm.

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MrAres, odd_enough, Splooger, SlyFrog

You are all in. I put you all down.

Tumba -- I'm probably going to set it to 24 hours but with quick host. Hopefully we will get below 12 hours on average.

So Tumba if you want in claim your race from what's left it's filling fast!

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Two question for people that have used mosehansen before.

1) How the heck do I start up the game ( not that I want to start it now, but when everyone has signed up ).

2) How do I turn off graphs? I like graphs they are cool. But they give information which is a bit too accurate it kind of removes a lot of the reasons for spies. I like having to build a couple of dozen spies to see what the heck is going on in the world.

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So I made a mistake when SlyFrog said "he took Ulm" I just marked him down without looking over the list. Uhm was taken a while ago by Yvelina.

So I guess the correct thing to do is for SlyFrog to Go anonymous and I will kick him, allowing Yvelina ( who has not said anything about this ... I don't even know if he/she is still around ) to take Ulm.

Sorry about that SlyFrog. There are still a number of nations open though.

[ May 31, 2004, 19:11: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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Ok it looks like we have a player who did not register in the forum 1st say hello to Wyxard proud owner of Machaka.

We are waiting on Yvelina and Splooger to start.

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Errr... I messed up? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

While selecting my race on the server I clicked on Atlantis (just being curious since Atlantis and Ermor were the only ones I could select). It's status turned to human control and I couldn't change it back. So I clicked on Ermor to see if the status of Atlantis would change. It didn't. I can see that these were the only races I had created a pretender for. Neither were human, so I couldn't use them in this game. I disconnected and made a human pretender for Joitunheim. Selected Jotunheim on the server, and all is ok with that.

But what about Atlantis and Ermor? How do I disable them or can the host disable them somehow?

Sorry about that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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Is there still a slot left? If so, I would like to play R'lyeh.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, that was a long time ago, and the person did not take the slot that was available for several days. I'd rather just keep Ulm, seeing as how the slot was open and the person picking had plenty of time to grab it before I did.

However, if it is a big problem, I'll stand aside. I'd just like to know the person is still interested before we go through the rigamaroll of clearing the slot.

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HOLY CRAP.

The game is full!

JEEEEEZE.

Ok I'll be starting it up when I get home ( got to figure out how to do that ... may post on here asking help! ).

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Ok before I do it I have to ask:

Do I start the game by hitting "restart"??

Is that how I start the dang thing? I'm really quite scared to do that since it could easily kick everyone off ( and the game is *full* ).

But I see no other UI that would get the game started.

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Hrmm... it doesnt have a 'start game' button when you connect to the game? It used to give anyone the option to start the game, but that caused unending headaches so he fixed it. I dunno how the host starts now.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I followed your instructions and it worked. Unfortunately it says Jotun is human controlled. How do I get my spot back?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The website says that you have to country. Is it really you? The only anonymous person is Atlantis.

Anyway.... I'm going to hit "restart game" in about an hour. Hopefully someone will confirm that this is the correct thing to do.

Also I hope that everyone playing has read the rules on the 1st post of this page:

All human pretenders.
NO CLAMS.

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Game started.

HoHo. Looks like the game is set up with victory points ( I did this? I did not think so ... but whatever ). So they may mess things up ( a lot ) but not for a while I suppose. Anyway there are 5 ( only 5 ... my god. ). At least they are well spaced apart.

Man if you only need 3 to win .. this is insane. I hope that is not how it is setup.

I did not fill out any of the check boxs with VP. Anyone know what the defaults are? Would be nice if they were in the check boxes so I would have known to pump them to some insane levels ( like 1 vp per province, and then you need like 60% of the provinces to win or something ).

[ June 02, 2004, 04:53: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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I didn't know about the human pretender thing. Is there a way to change that? I created another one but the original is in the game.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Super. The game is already started. I do not think it is possible.

Super. Well I don't know what to say, exactly. As I said in the broadcast game in game, please do not EVER leave your home province with your commander.

If you would be so nice as to please post your pretender that would be great to give us some advanatge over you since you clearly violated the rules.

[ June 02, 2004, 05:44: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I took it. Didn't know it was yours. I can step down and leave it to you if it is possible somehow.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So am I to understand that the god of Jotunheim is actually a human chasis? Tumba, can you log into the game and verify please?

If it is not human then I will probably have to restart the server. All I really care about at this point ( considering that we have 17 people ) is making sure that everyone is following the rules.

[ June 02, 2004, 06:03: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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Isn't Karan too small for 17 ppl?

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that will just make it interesting

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes my Jotun was human. My Atlantis and Ermor weren't. I clicked those by mistake and couldn't remove them.

I just logged in again and found a new race choise list. Are we choosing races anew?
In that case I could make a human pretender for Ermor, since I by mistake took somebody else's Jotun Last time.

Is that ok?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree that will make it interesting. We went from like 9 players to 17 in like two days it was amazing.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And you did not come to the forums and say what you did? JJ has emror. But I don't know if he has the pretender that he wanted. I'll ask him to check his pretender.

Did you check IN GAME to see if your pretender is correct? And am I to understand that Atlantis is actually NOT being played? Jeeeze. Can you AT LEAST join in as atlantis and turn it to computer control??????????????????????????????????

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think your a little confused about whats going on. If you click on one of the races now you will immediately go to that races first turn and start playing, the game has begun.

[ June 02, 2004, 07:46: Message edited by: Cheezeninja ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes, I did. Immediately. Check the Messages I posted.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">When I try to log in to the game I only get a new list of select pretenders...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If I could log in I could play Atlantis, but it's pretender is not human as I said. It was a mistake since I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. I didn't know how to unselect it.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As I already said, I'd be happy to. But I get this new pretender selection list and I'm very reluctant to click anything on it before I know what is going on (so nothing gets messed up again).

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im not sure if you can go through and click on multiple teams now. Like if you tried to start atlantis and set to AI... would you be stuck with atlantis or out of the game now? I dont know... i think it would work but im far from sure.

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Tumba, CheezeNinja has it right ( except for missing that you have to enter your password ) just click on the empire(s) that you uploaded.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ah, I see. A newbie is a newbie.
Well, if everything has gone as wrong as possible, there's an Atlantis pretender that is not human and a Ermor pretender that is not human and a Jotun pretender that I should not play. Great! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

So If I can access these, please tell me what to do with each of them. Turn Atlantis and Ermor to AI and try to contact the one who wanted Jotun?

[ June 02, 2004, 07:57: Message edited by: Tumba ]

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Ok. I checked.
I'm not sure what did happen, but it seems that all is in order. Ermor and Jotun are controlled by somebody else not me (I don't know how it happened) and Atlantis is controlled by me.

And the most interesting part is that atlantis has a human pretender, even if I remembered that my Last Atlantis god wasn't one. I must have created one just for testing.

So suprisingly it seems that everything is ok...
Unless I hijacked somebody elses Atlantis, like I thought I did to Ermor and jotun?

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SO what should I do? I'm in control of Jotun with a non human pretender. Do you want me to post my stats and never leave my castle, or what?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Correct. Look you went against the rules. What do you want me to say: "it's ok"??

If you think that this is too harsh then set your nation to computer controlled.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The arch mage is 10 points per path. And it looks like he is human. He has no real advanatge over the freaklord, which is allowed.

Anything else would be bad.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He has both advantages and disadvantages. Unlike the freak lord you get a level of water magic for 0 points, along with trample, you also get a third misc item slot. He is however Aquatic and cannot leave the ocean without an amulet of the fish, which he convieniently has a third slot for.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">My pretender is the Son of Niefel. Magic is 5 water, 4 earth and 4 nature. He will stay in his castle. Is that enough info?

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I'm sorry, I didn't notice the archmage guy for R'lyeh. Now I've got the Void Lord with 6 Astral and 3 Water. Is there anything I shall not do with him?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's fine.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You are constrained to your starting castle. Sorry but that's the way it has to be. The void lord is one of the best SC's in the game ( right up there with the VQ and the AllFather). I'm sorry that you effectivly lose some points that way, but those were the rules.

I'm sorry to be a dick to you guys about this, but both the son of Son of Niefel and the Void Lord are simply way better than any human pretender.

On the plus side given how many people are in the game being a sea nation is going to be a big plus. So you should be ok. Beware of independent strength 9 tritons though!

[ June 02, 2004, 18:34: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree with you that he is perhaps the best of the human style pretenders. But he is not *that* much better than a normal human.

However if all human pretenders were this good the gap would be narrower, which is a good thing.

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I must also apologize for not following the rules, albeit unintentionally. Somehow, I got the pretender I created from a previous game, not the one I created for this one. I've got Moloch, and I won't leave the castle. Sorry for the mess up.

Vig