Blood runs in the swamps
 

The C'tis wish it to be known that the treacherousss warriors of Mictlan have begun to assail one of our fortressessss. The swamps churn in anger, and soon the waterways will run with their festering blood. This is the fate that befalls those who attack the C'tis. Take heed, for the C'tis desire only to be left alone in their swampssss.

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Was that an Epitaph Schmoe?
-Yc

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Umm, I guess we'll find out when the next turn hosts. Come on Machaka and Arco! The suspense is killing me!

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

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Looks like Arco is about to stale. J Henry are you around anywhere?

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Having trouble connecting to game server, today and yesterday... ...locked up my box, stuck on the "Connecting to game server" after proceeding past hostname and port panels. Did submit a turn Last night after it reported I had a stale turn...

Failure to connect.
 

This has been happening to me for the Last three turns as well. Unfortunately, it isn't the first time, and I doubt it is the Last. This is just something that happens to some players on Mose's server.

What I do is bring the Task Managet up, and kill the Dominion II application as soon as I see I am not getting through. Then I try again. And again. Usually the third or fourth time does it. Whatever you do, do not assume that the server is down. Keep trying or you will stall.

By the way, I think that, at least once, I had to try more than fifteen times... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

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Will try tonight again but I needed to get to work and was unable to ctrl-tab out (on Mac OS X) to kill and try again.

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That's strange. The only time I had a similar problem, all of my Internet access was affected. Reinstalling my Winsock fixed the problem, but I'm not sure what the root cause was. Regardless, the game should timeout after 60 seconds or so.

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I've had it hang - but only rarely. And as Yvelina, I was able to kill it w/ task manager.

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The vale echoed with the cold ring of metal and the strange curses of ancient and giant tounges. The animals quivered and hid in fear as the two mighty champions met in mortal combat, it ended with a mighty bellow and one champion spilled his life into the churned and muddy soil.

One of my Jarl squads moved into the same indep province as the Allfather, two of my Jarls ran off and the third stuck around to trade blows for quite awhile... he lost, but it was a good fight and the Allfather definetly had a few more wounds to lick. Good Fight, and no hard feelings on my part.

Unfortunate battle...
 

I am glad you are not angry. I should have scouted before I attacked that province. I did not expect that you would invade it as well. But it could have been much, much worse. I am glad that the allfather took these two wounds, and not for example feeblemind or disease http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/Injured.gif

And now, guess who is looking for Nature gems and Gift of Health :-) A lost cause, I know. I have more of a chance to summon a Fairy Queen or something.

But yeah. Vanheim is looking for nature gems. I will trade equal quantities of Fire, Air, or Earth gems.

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Well... This war between Abysia and me certainly is interesting. About this time Pythium's armies are rolling up Abysia's rear provinces, and while i've lost a few provinces i've smashed an army of Devil's and 1 of Abysian infantry. Good fun!

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Theee Peoplesss off thee swamppps....have taught me how not to play Mictlan.
THANKS FOR THE SCHOOLIN!
-Yc

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I have a lot of respect for you for playing it to the end. It's definitely hard to swallow your lumps. I know, I've been there.

I was impressed by your Ice Devils coming so quickly, and we had a good running battle for a time. I don't know, but it seems like you may have let unrest get out of control in your capitol.

Oh well, Live and Learn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

"And ssssoon the world will be rid of the Mictlan stain. The swampssss murmur with sssatisfaction."

YellowCactus, I noticed that you picked up Mictlan in another game. Trying out some new ideas? Having played Mictlan in SP, I have to say that they are a difficult race to get right.

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I'm into cross-dressing now....Oh, no-no....I'm into cross-breeding! In the other game after 4 attacks upon an Indi. I've learned that archers are really effective against most foul spawn.
This was fun! Best of luck to all.

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What has happened to Arco (J Henry)? It looks like he had a stale turn Wednesday, then took a turn Thursday, and now it looks like he might go stale again. J, are you having connection problems again?

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Having difficulty getting into game again ... stuck at "Waiting for game info" message... ...tried 3 times in a row to no avail...

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Sorry about that! With a little more warning, I could've held up the game for you. Better luck next time!

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Thufir, where are you?

Looks like you went stale Last night, and may do so again tonight. Does anyone know where he's gone?

Also, does anyone want to switch this game to 48 hour QH? As the game gets farther along, it's getting harder to find the time to dedicate to completing a turn.

Re: MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game) - open
 

Actually, I did not stale Last night (although it was close), nor tonight.

I'm fine with going to 48h quickhost, if that's what the majority wants.

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Good, that's a relief. I would hate for the mighty Pythium empire to suffer a stale burp. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'm fine with the majority rule on setting to 48 hour QH, but count me as a vote for YES.

Re: MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game) - open
 

Although I'm happy with the 24h QH, I would rather have a 48h QH if that means people won't go stale.

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I vote for 48h Quickhost.

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Esben just clarified the situation with the server, we don't change to the new Version the server is on until the game is restarted. Unless someone objects very soon, I'll restart the game. As I understand it, this is supposed to keep any submitted turns as still submitted (and you should be fine no matter whether you used 2.12 or 2.14), but I think there is some chance we'll need to resubmit turns.

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I don't care either way, if someone would prefer 48H, then fine with me

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Game has now been restarted - we are officially on 2.14, as of now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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As always, the graphs tell it all in Dom2. I think we can call this one, "Bend over Pythians, time to get spanked":

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...1-BendOver.jpg

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Yeah, that's a scary picture. I think it's safe to say that Abyssia has made a comeback.

Any news on changing the timelimit for the quickhost? I'll probably go stale once this weekend on 24 hour QH.

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Well, it wasn't much of a vote, so I think i'll just make an executive decision, and set it to 48h qh on Sat morning. If there's an objection, we can hash it out on Monday.

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Thanks Thufir! I really appreciate it. Who knows, maybe the C'tis will help you out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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We are now on 48hr quickhost.

Also, Jotunheim has now gone AI. Thanks for playing, Mr. Ninja, it was fun while it Lasted (if only either of us knew how to counter devils, I'm sure it would've gone much differently! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

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it was indeed fun, but devil's weren't the main problem! I ended up losing my major investement (at least when it could have mattered still) to lava warriors. That will teach me to send Niefel Jarls into a hot environment. I actually had a decent hope of surviving once i got the forge up....until Vanheim rolled into my territory with the vastly superior forces...whew... it felt like i was shooting black powder rifles at tanks. Ahhh well. Good luck to everyone, most especially my good Pythium allies and Abysian and Vanheimian foes... I'd like to say that though I lost at least my enemie(s)/ally won.

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Ack... 2.14 hosed me. My commanders with two soul contracts only produce one devil per turn. There goes half my devil production. They are cursed items so I can't remove them. Sigh.

Also, two of my commanders just got attacked by Ashen Angels. I've never seen that before in SP. Is that a player casted spell? If so, which one?

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I still on v2.12 - out of town and I'm unable to upgrade without wiping and reinstalling before upgrading (at least that is how it worked for v2.12) and I'm not sure if I have Dom2 disc with me...

...48 hour QH cool - I've been having trouble connecting...

Re: MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game) - open
 

afaik, it's not a disaster to do your turns w/ 2.12. You can expect the combat replays to be quite wrong - so don't trust them (combat summaries are ok). Also, they're might be descriptions won't reflect rule changes.

You shouldn't have to uninstall/reinstall to upgrade, everything worked fine for me, at least just doing the normal upgrade (and this should be true whether you're upgrading from 2.12 or 2.13). The only caution is that you might want to copy the executable for 2.12 before you do that upgrade, in case any games you're in are still on 2.12.

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> it was indeed fun, but devil's weren't the main problem!

Devils are overrated. There is a thread about devils where the anyone
who does not tremble gets mocked... Still, if you read our comments there,
you can see that there are ways to deal with them.

> Also, two of my commanders just got attacked by Ashen Angels. I've never
> seen that before in SP. Is that a player casted spell? If so, which one?

The spell is called Manifestation, and takes a D3 mage and five gems. It is
Conjuration 7 or 8, and is the main reason to keep your 'soul contracted'
commanders under a dome and away from your capital.

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Thanks Tuidjy!

I learn something new about Dominions everyday!

Now, the new question is, who is doing this to me?

Hmmmmm... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

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I actually felt really bad about invading you. But put yourself in my place. I had nowhere to expand, and had I attacked C'tis, the two of us would have been easy pickings for whoever emerged victorious in the Abysya war.

And did not give me an easy time of it. Your flying Jarls came as a total surpise to me, and my economy is still recovering from their raids. You caught one of my main armies while the anti-air support was AWOL and wiped it out.

But put my mind at ease. You were going only after me, right? I would hate to think I was dealing with one third of your forces.

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I see Arco staled again. J Henry, I just want to let you know that upgrading to 2.14 should help. I had experienced similar connection "burps" with 2.12, but haven't had a single incident since I upgraded.

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Hey Thufir, I feel bad for your scout. Hehe, poor guy, that's what I call a no-win situation. I guess there's a reason they give scouts hazard pay. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Oh, my. I was not aware we had to appologize for killed scouts. I am catching at least three each turn, and it has been up to six on some. I am sure that there are some scouts in my lands, mostly because I never secured my southern border, but the ones trying to enter now are very likely to get caught. Sorry, but a girl has to have her secrets.

By the way, if I ever catch the one who wasted 250 gems dispelling my totally innoffensive enchantments... but whom am I kidding, I will never know who he is. Bleach, I sympathise with your loss.

Oh, and stop calling me a vulture. I've heard it now from three people. I had nowhere to go but to war. And anyone who thinks that Jotunheim was carrion before I started has a lower opinion of eleven fully equiped Jarls than I do. We had a few nice fights... and I lost two of them.

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By my count you owe me at least 4 apologies http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'm sure more are coming, too. But look at my situation, I only have a few provinces that can produce scouts near my borders, and scouts produced deep in my dominion are most likely to die a prolonged, painful, disease-ridden death before they can be of any use to me. About the only place I can send scouts is through Vanheim territory, so it's nothing personal, you're just lucky.

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Two-hundred pounds of gold for Schmoe's Head. Those C'tis are up to no good I tell you!
Yc http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Hmmmm, interesting proposition...

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If you are counting us as one of your three people then your count is incorrect. We called the Vanheim "carrion crows"

Selissa
Princess of Fishermen,
Queen of the Emerald Throne

Re: MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game) - open
 

Don't be bitter, YC. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I'm sure someone's going to try soon enough. Right now there's an interesting three-way standoff between Vanheim/Abyssia/C'tis. It's hard to say who's the most powerful at the moment. I have more territory and income, but Vanheim has the most research and some truly terrifying SC's, and Abyssia has a scary devil factory going as well as a few arch-devils. I don't think that Pythium, Machaka, or Arco are quite on the same level at the moment, but they will still play a pivotal role in the game and could still maneuver into a position of strength.

Of course, I wouldn't be where I was now if I didn't have all of the fertile fields that Mictlan once held http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif The people are much happier under the rule of the wise and beneficent Stygos. Those who survive the miasma, that is.

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Bitter,
Oh-No. I had lots of fun in this one. However, Schmoe needs an ample bundle of Whoopin' just to keep those forked tongue lizards in line! They're so Scaly and ickie. Demonic faithful of Mictlan couldn't hold back the swamp things.
-Yc

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Nah, I don't really think you're bitter. Just teasing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Question: What's limp, crippled, mute, lost an arm, weakened, has a chest wound, and has battle fright?

Answer: The Mictlan prophet after a holiday in the swamps!

Hehe.

Oh yeah, Thufir, Pythium is the only nation left to go for the next turn.

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Yeah I threw everything at you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I knew the moment you invaded me it was the Last nail in the coffin, and it was bitter because my war with Abysia had just wound down and I still had Forge up. If I had been left alone for awhile I would have been a happy little clammer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I think you just killed Pythium. But then, what do I know...