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Okay that worked.

Let's get this drama started!

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Are there any special settings that I don't know about?

All of my capitals adjacent provinces (all 3) have 100+ indies in them.

Also seemed strange that my capital has only one candle in it still, despite having its temple, pretender and prophet in it, at DomStrength 9.

Just a spot of bad luck?

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my indies seem normal. i think you may have just got a bad luck start.

If your pretender is sleeping, IIRC, you will only get two temple checks in your first turn. Each one has a 90% chance of succeeding but only 27% chance of affecting your home province - otherwise it will spread to neighboring provinces.

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I had just thought that my awake pretender would automatically raise it by one. Not that it is a big deal, but it surprised me. A neighbor has 2 candles, but not the capital!

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for having an awake pretender you get one automatically successful check but i don't think it necessarily goes in your home province. There is still only a 30% - 3%/ current candle chance that it will affect the province your pretender is in.

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Ah! Good to know! looks like all the succesful checks distributed outwards. My cap may only have one candle, but all its neighbors have one or two, and even a province that is 2 spots away got one!

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Okay, let's make drama happen. Since there is encouragement towards bot silly and serious posts, I'll do both now (I want to keep things open ended now and see which aspect will be most prelevalent).

Ofmg! u fail. lolz

I haxed teh game wiht my 1337 admin powahs to make u begun ther

Change was in the air. Raw potential, waiting to change the fate of the entire world. C'tah, however, took a deep breath, embracing the feel. He was not scared of the stakes at hand for he knew who will reign supreme in the end. He has seen it with his own eyes, right in the moment when the power of the awakening god rushed into him, filling him with the divine radiance of the Eternal.

It took long to convice the rest of his kin to gaze beyond the marshes of C'tis, to make them finally think big. Now the miasma spreads, shaping the land itself to the image of the greatest god as is just and right. Marshes are the epitome of the natural cycle, full of both life and death. Ah, such of a fitting ground for the Eternal..

To all those who read this message, C'tah, prophet of the Eternal has one thing to say.

Do not fear the change, embrace it, For death is just a milemark on the journey of life. Worship the Eternal and he will make sure that life will go on.

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Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho
It's off to work we go

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My cap still has one candle!

I blame you burnsaber!

Prepare for war!

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In the beginning...well the Bakemono do not really remember the beginning, but we do rememeber when the Master came...

He's not here yet you idiot...wait, was that him?

If you interrupt me again I will kill you...

OK...

In the beginning...

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First blood.

In all directions do the Vanir spread, yet farthest ranging is the lord Baalz himself. Riding the winds he blazes a trail of blood across the countryside as barbarians and lizards alike are brought under his banner. For the first time though he has encountered something different, a much more organized barbarian. Great gray beasts driven before disciplined formations appear to be carving out their own nation and to have merely stumbled upon the great lord. They made the fatal mistake though of challenging Baalz as equals, but as he pushed a dead elephant from his spear with a mighty boot he considered the fleeing men and paused to consider the fate of his newly discovered neighbors. They would require a different policy to deal with than the unorganized tribes he has thus far been bringing to heel. Were these a worthy opponent, a worthwhile ally, or more contemptible weaklings?

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okay I tried to think of a way to make this dramatic, but its really not going to work, so here goes....

everytime I open up dominions, the skaven mod is automatically enabled. When I try to open any saved game, or start a new one, dominions just closes, with no error message. I messed around with the mods in the mod folder, and the thing that does it is the warhammer skaven.dm file. When that is in, the problem persists, when I take it out, I can play my other dominions games.
I tried redownloading the skaven mod and copying the new warhammer skaven.dm file to the mods folder, but it did the exact same thing.

The frustrating thing is that I haven't changed ANYTHING since yesterday in dominions. I have to idea why this problem is suddenly occurring.

advice? Could we postpone the game?

If i can't figure this out, I might have to find a sub

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hmmm maybe leave the mod in the folder but disable it in the "preferences" screen. You should still be able to play your turn even if the mod isn't enabled.

Or maybe re-install and re-patch dominions? Or try it on a different computer if you have one?

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Upon opening his turn file it will enable the mod anyway.

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24h delay granted (for now, I'll extend it further if need be). That's a pretty obscure bug. I think that it might have something to do with the game Dramatica itself, perhaps try to delete game files and redownload them. Can you disable the skaven mod from the preferences screen? If you can, does that do any good?

Hmm. Since you replaced the skaven mod, it can't be that. Can you run the game on dubug and see if the log has anything useful? If you don't know how to run debug, see insrucions from here: http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Command_line_options

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Thanks for the delay and suggestions burnsaber, I will give running in debug mode a try.

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Alpine Joe, did the debug tell anything? Or should I start to recruit a sub?

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Nothing useful unfortunately, so yes, you should look for a sub.
Sorry to inconvenience the game so much. Good luck everyone!

I was really looking forward to playing Skaven too.....

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The Skaven have a new, less capable, leader and have begun their march to ever so slightly mangy and disease-ridden glory.

We acknowledge our many and varied neighbours and hope you all catch something nasty. Coughing up blood and pus nasty.

And fleas, we hope you are harassed by legions of fleas ....

And lice ....

And worms, in all their forms ....

And don't forget the mites ....

At this stage thats all we have ... and boy are we ready to share.

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Weaklings, is the decision. The last few of the fools cower behind their walls behind an old man who, in his senility styled himself a god. The only question remaining at this point is if any more of these weaklings will pretend to be men on the battlefield, or if they will just abandon the senile old fool, sneaking off in the night to save their own skins.

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There was screaming coming from the city again as there so often was these days. Socrastotle frowned as he turned away from the ancient tome he had been studying and drifted across the floor to the window, looking down at the great city of Arcoscephale spread out below his tower.

It really was too much, these screaming fits the populace seemed so eager to indulge in were becoming more and more common these days. No doubt Eriopis the Strategos would soon come running up the stairs to Socrastotle's tower with another rambling tale of some catastrophic defeat. The three centuries old mage sighed, wondering what he paid all these mortals quite so much for.

After all if they couldn't deal with 100 feet tall flying eight legged semi-illusionary horsemen then what was the point in having them around? Still, he couldn't help feeling that their was some sort of solution that was just evading his formidable powers of deduction, hovering at the edge of his thoughts - a solution to all his problems.

It struck him just as he heard the footsteps hurrying up the stairs of his tower, the idiot Eriopis already crying out some confusing tale of disaster. Sorcrastotle instead hurried across his study and gleefully snatched up an elephant tusk that hung above the fireplace. If he were to coat his tower in a layer of this resilient material, might not that muffle the constant sounds of screaming that so disturbed his research? As the wailing reached a new crescendo the old man nodded to himself with sudden firmness. At this point anything was worth a try.

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I'm loving the pace of this game, by the way.

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My ISP is having issues with the local exchange so internet access will be a challenge for the next 12-24 hours.

Might not reply to PMs in a timely manner. But shouldn't be a problem getting next turn in.

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Vanheim seeks to trade a dwarven hammer for a thistle mace + 6N. We're willing to ship the hammer first so it can be used to craft the mace if desired. First come first served...

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Ok, the holiday season is upon us and hence I've been thinking. I was thinking of temporarily moving to a very lenient hosting (like 72h) for the holiday week (20th-27th day). Quickhost will still be on, in case people want to keep the game moving.

Unless I hear any big objections, I'll set the new hosting to take place sunday.

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I'm reading this thread and feeling very alarmed by the post about the Skaven mod wrecking all the other games the guy had running.

Other than that, good reading :]

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At last the war is over.

A year ago, a small group of Amazon explorers were unexpectedly attacked and wiped out by savages emerging from the jungles. These same savages, chanting war cries such as 'Tocalotopot!' and 'Popacapinyoas!' proceeded to launch an all-out attack on our frontiers.

Armed with ancient stone gutting knives, slings and in some terrifying cases their own lycanthropic teeth and claws, they caused severe damage before falling to the superior skill and metallurgy of Themiskyra.

Judging by their weaponry and violent tendencies, it was clearly only a matter of centuries before their culture began to indulge in human sacrifice on a massive scale, eventually swamping the world in a tidal wave of demons. Rather than let that happen, the brave maidens of Themiskyra decided to protect the world from this appalling threat and wipe them out. After all, Marignon was nowhere to be seen...

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Just for the record, 'Tocalotopot!' meant 'Hey you there!', and 'Popacapinyoas!' meant 'Your lizard is in my carrots!' The language barrier led to war, and now lizards are all over Mictlan carrots.

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There are lizards all over my carrots too >:[

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So, what's up, doc?

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ooo, you wascally lizards! Ima get you!

Seriously though. I'd love to take a double-barrel to that ****ing assassin.

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Welp, thats me done. Nice playing with you all and congrats and well played to Vanheim/Baalz. My last two MA games have been Vanheim and I'd been struggling to come up with an effective build, but after that lesson I think I have a much better idea of what I should be trying to do.

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Yeah, Murmur is the MAN.

He is the Slayer of Gods, the Master of the Dead, the Quencher of the Everburning Flame.

Hmm.. Would it be too late to make him my pretender?

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He can be the pretender for the new Abysia annex, when you take my capital. In about, say, 7 turns? You better get moving, the amazons are looking to steal all my provinces away from you!

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GG man, you played a good game from a tough position and slugged it out to the end. Thanks, and hope to see you in another game!

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I object to that comment - the forces in question are a perfectly natural response to the presence of nearly 200 Humanbred on my borders.

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It's Christmas time in Dwarfland!

We will be unavailable until 12-30 so we would appreciate a holiday break if possibe.

Happy holidays!

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Alrighty, I'll extend the next turn to next year.

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Hot damn, another turn in 2009! :D

Hey Themiskyra, yah ever gonna declare war on me, or are you just gonna sit ominously on my border with that huge sacred army D:

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Do you have a preference?

That 'army' is the honour guards of a group of priestesses cleaning up an unfortunate case of environmental damage - some sort of toxic overspill, we think. It smells strongly of lizards.

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Yeah, you should probably do something about them lizards. They took all my carrots.

I don't think their lizard metabolisms were built for em, they are creating a lot of gas!

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The turns are really churning out now. Excellent!

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We will keep the holiday hosting for the current (26th) turn. On turn 27, we will move to 36h, as per scheducle in the first post.

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So, me being a genius, thinks: "Well, my troops are pretty much worthless against skellie-spam + poison clouds, lets try flooding him with horrors!"

So my communion faithfully sits in the back and summons up 6-10 horrors, as my army sits in poison. and what do the horrors do? Attack my blood slaves and make my communion retreat.

Friggen lizards. No clue why the army retreated, or why my mages decided to summon so many fire elementals, but I suppose I can't complain.

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The fiendish amazons! Just goes to show in life; you can never tell when one day you're just gonna wake up and there are lizard riding ****s in skirts stabbing you in the throat. The slags will pay for this intrusion!

I am up to my neck in lizards D:

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That was my suicide plague squad, on a secret upkeep-reduction mission. The Queens can only apologise for the ineptitude of your troops at killing diseased, afflicted lizard riders...

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Ah. With a touch of 'dammit'. That wasn't just the suicide plague squad, was it.

Oh well... When life gives you lemons, skewer some Abysians - or whatever the saying was...

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Well, it's raining demons and hellfire in C'tis. That swamp gas ignites pretty well (ouch!).

You also almost got the MAN with your fire bolts, but he eluded you once again. Where will he be next?

Come on people! More Drama! Is FAJ the only one writing something?

My scouts are seeing a lot of stuff going around the world, events of magnitude that can only be reported in a small witty forum post.

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And it will continue to rain daemons and hellfire!

And if it is the only thing I do before I am extinguished; I WILL KILL THE MAN! If he not be a coward.

And not just because my PR department suggests that 'Operation: Stick it to the man' will go over better than 'Operation: Burn and maim the innocent lizards'

He is a jerk :(

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Would anyone object to a delay/extension over the weekend? i will not be able to play turns after this one until late on sunday, EST.

Normally I don't mind staling, but I am at war with 2 stronger nations, and if I miss a turn I would be essentially conceding. It is by the Baalz pledge, and my own morals, that I fight it out to the best of my abilities.

I can play the turn available now, but not again untill late sunday, or early monday, EST. Could the game be set to not auto-host untill monday afternoon, with quickhost on? I am sure to get one in before that deadline.