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I've decided to take a little of Ich's advice, and now holding 7 of 15 capitals and fortifications for one turn will be the victory condition. That's not too much, and certainly not too little. So there will be some very good competition going but the game won't draw out overmuch.

Right now, we need everyone's email, and then we can upload pretenders. Just private message them all to me and I will send them to Ich so he can remind people to take their turns, among other things.

Exciting!

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Oh, I see, you haven't gotten their pretenders yet. What I normally do is the following:

1) ask everybody to send me their pretender files for the game
2) put all their pretender into my newlords folder
3) create a local game with their pretenders
4) transfer the game to the network server

This is because of the following:
1) I get their email addresses. I can contact them in case I need to.
2) I can check if everything is okay, if everybody set a password and so on. Nobody unwittingly overwrites another player's pretender or takes a nation he didn't sign up for.
3) Clicking the options together is easier than steering the command line.

So, what I'd ask of you to do is parts 1) to 3) and then send me what you got. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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So, you want me to collect the pretenders, and then start a game with everyone's pretender files, then mail you the game file?

Won't that give me the location of everyone's capitals and knowledge of their scales and such?

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No, not if you don't log in with their passwords after hosting the first turn. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Well, to me it seems that you initiated this game and you're the game master, so I suppose that the others trust you when it comes to this. If you think that it's better to be safe than sorry, then I could take the pretenders etc. from the players and host from the beginning. But you'd have to prepare the map and so on so that I only need to upload the pretenders and hit the "start game" button.

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Well I do have the map; I generated one and it turned out to be pretty much the awesomest map I've ever seen so I'd really like to do that one. But starting positions should all be random and up for grabs still - that was an important part of the initial game concept.

I'd really prefer that I have no possible way to look at the map once capitals are in there. I don't want any special advantage if we can help it. Once this thing starts, I just want to be one more hardcore geek roleplaying my nation's guts out! Ahahaha I can't believe I have a girlfriend sometimes.

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Whos e-mails are you missing (if any?)

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I was JUSt working on that! lol

FrozenFalcon
Frumious

Are the only two remaining. We'll probably end up mailing Ich our pretenders, as soon as he wakes up, we might get this game started tonight even.

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I pmed you my email yesterday

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Everything's set up... everyone needs to email Ich their pretender files now. Remember to use a password!

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Sorry Frumious, I didn't see it, and I don't have it. Not much trouble since we're having Ich start the game off anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Sorry, I thought that I was out so I was not following this thread. But I'd like to participate anyway, sending my email.

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So what's the status on things now? Won't we each need a copy of that map?

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Yes we need the map. I suppose we can start sending pretenders in soon because afaik Renojustin has all the emails now. I'm sure he will keep us updated.

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Renojustin, please attach the map image (Ascendant.rgb) in a post here. The file that you sent me seems truncated.

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how long do you think this game will last

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Since there are so many players, this game might very last several months.

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I have the following pretenders so far:

Sauromatia
Helheim
Lanka
Tir'na n'Og
Ulm
Abysia
Kailasa
Fomoria
Atlantis
Caelum
C'tis
R'lyeh
T'ien Ch'i

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Pretender sent !

All will come to love Claire the all-mighty !

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I'll have my pretender sent tonight!

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Just for clarity, what am I supposed to send? Just the pretender? I think some people have been talking about sending the map too, but I don't know, seeing as this is my first time playing MP. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Pretender sent.

The Old One will rise again!

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Dark, you just need to send your pretender.

Renojustin will have to send us the map later on in order for us to actually play once it's set up.

But you dont need to worry about that yet and can go ahead and make and send your pretender to Ich.

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I was about to say secretperson, wrong person http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

C'tis pretender sent

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Caelum pretender sent. Eagle Kings are ready to spread the teachings of Zenzei, the Unsleeping God to lesser races.

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Which one is it? I have two files in my maps folder that say Ascendant, Ascendant.map (14kb) and Ascendant.rgb (5248kb)

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both? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif and then the players put then in their maps folder yes?

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Yeah http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif sorry about that lol

Reno- maybe both?

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you'll have my pretender tomorrow

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Here are the two map files... hope this works! I archived them into a .RAR file because it made me. I added the attachment to the original post too. Tell me how you guys like the looks of it.

Pretty freaking awesome, eh?! Probably the coolest map I've yet seen in Dominions.

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haha, when I first saw the map I was like "hey, it's north america!"

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Good. I updated my pretenders post. Then could you please remove the email address from your post?

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Yoth'Shothogg has been sent and already her army of mindless slaves and not-so-mindless Aboleths grows.

EDIT: For some reason the "Latest Posts" section showed posts from page ~3.

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If I've been counting right then all the pretenders are in now except for hunt11 / Yomi. He PMed me and wrote that sending his god "didn't work", but no further info on what the problem is or any other sign so far. Won't be too long now, anyway.

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Why protecting pretender with password if it's PBEM??

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It is not PBEM.

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Awesome job, Ich. Thanks a ton for all your effort so far and obviously even more to come.

Take your time, Yomi. Not an easy nation to play imo.

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Map is readable. And that's what I can say about it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Also, as a warning in case someone thinks I'll already ruin my e-reputation on my first time, I shall be roleplaying completely, for better or worse. Do not expect any agreements with lesser beings to last long, unless of course those lesser beings happen to have an advantage. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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sorry bout the wait guys i was unsure what to send but i have sent my god just now

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Fair enough. You should be ready for same kind of treatment though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Of course I'll be ready, with an army of mind-enslavers and mind-blasters. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Role playing with Yomi is going to be fun because i can do what ever I like because they are more chaotic then evil

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I have a few questions, which are relevant to my interests, I want to be clear about before the game starts.

1) Is Mist of Deception banned in this game or is it allowed to be used when not mixed with a damaging battle enchantment?

2) Is it allowed to script retreat on a mage that casts battle enchantment?

I don't want to start any arguments here so whatever our game master says will be fine by me.

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t'ien chi pretender sent

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Oh, I'm sorry, I miscounted. I was under the impression that there are 13 players in total, while there are 15. So I'm still short on two people:

hunt11 as Yomi and Real_friend as Agartha.
I didn't get their pretenders via email yet.

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I think you sent it to the wrong e-mail boss :/

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Oh. Sorry, then.I can only afford playing PBEMs.

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Huh? It's even easier than PBEM. We won't charge you, either.

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A-ha! Thank you for that "we won't charge you" line, Justin, because I think I finally understand now why people would not want to play networked games and prefer PBEM. I guess I'm as used to Internet flat rates as you are, but I think those people are paying for their Internet connectivity per minute and think that they have to stay connected while they are preparing their turns for the game. That's NOT the case.

You can disconnect directly after your game client downloaded the latest turn from the game server, which happens automatically, prepare the turn offline like you would do it for a local or PBEM game, and then connect again to let your game client automatically upload it to the server. This is even the recommended way of playing turns.

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No more Agartha? It looks like pretenders began to fall even before combat... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif