Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

We must conquer
from the sea
We are an army
with water steeds

We'll rise

From our depths down below

Release yourselves
Down with me
We will conquer
land with water

Atlantis rises!!!

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Over hills and over meadows
see the crow fly, feel her shadow
Over woods and over mountains
searching for a war

Her wings embrace each strife and battle
where swords they clash and chariots rattle
seeking out the one whose time
has come to take the blade

Morrigan ancient crone of war
I see your face, I'll cry no more
Morrigan ancient crone of war
come lift me on your wings

Morrigan ancient crone of war
I hear your voice, I'll breathe no more
Morrigan ancient crone of war
come set my spirit free

Kill for Morrigan
Maim for Morrigan
Fight for Morrigan
and you will
Slay for Morrigan
Die for Morrigan
Morrigan crone of war

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Wow Tien Chi, you must have paid quite a lot for Mr. Dagan ;)

We hope that your working classes receive similiar wages!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Greetings, Rosa Luxemburg of Forges of Ulm.
Mages are always valued highly in T'ien Ch'i and I consider my bid just. Whereas we heard rumors that in Ulm magic is feared and it's users laughed on or even prosecuted! Please tell me that isn't true. Surely you evolved already from your ancient barbarian ancestry and learned a bit of tolerance by now?
Yours truly,
Ariasa, the Two-Spirited, Four-Handed God-Emperor of T'ien Ch'i

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Did C'tis submit his first turn? I notice he's slow on turn #2 too. I'm just wondering if he knows we've started the game. Has anyone heard from him?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Yes he did. All turns were received last time.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Lol, yea Im still here. Sorry I've been slow. I was spontaneously invited to a rural wedding; last two days have been a blur of local moonshine. No joke!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

OK, glad to hear you're still with us!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Well this is impressive:

Attachment 11271

It looks like the RNG is out to kill us all!!!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Is there some correlation between strength of independents and bad random events? I decided to try playing a game against AIs with strength 7 indies, and everyone is getting clobbered in the first few turns!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

hats something. especially if your from urban setting, but we hillbillies enjoy it every times as much, maybe even more.

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Ha, yea, I wasn't prepared for how hard "hillbillies" party, or how potent their alcohol was!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Oh my, I'm biddin' those mercenaries.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Hey, is llamaserver down? I sent my turn in this morning, and I still havent recieved a confirmation. Also the game status page says it hasnt updated in a while. Or is this normal?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Looks down to me all right, guess that means I have to postpone this turn or else it will stale half of us out.

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Is it just us or are all the llamaserver games down?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

It is all games. Llamabeast is attending to personal matters, so it could potentially be a while longer before he is able to work his magic and bring the llamaserver back from its slumber.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

It looks the server was restored, though it also seems that turn 4 got through rather finicky. I got my mailbox spammed and had to ask for a turn resend in order to even get turn 5.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I needed to do that as well. Everyone should probably check on that.

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Well, that's annoying, I lost turn 5.

Oh well, hopefully my situation isn't too hopeless. At least the ocean has me well protected.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Same here, stale directly to turn 6 without ever getting turn 5!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Have you read mine and FAJ's post?

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Not in time I fear.

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Yes -- but how do you request a turn resend? I tried to ask, but my computer ran into problems and the post got lost.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

On the game's page is a link called Request turn resend. Just pick your country and the server will re-send the turn file to it's saved email address.
3 nations have staled. I can roll the game back one turn, though - and I will propably do it, as I continue to think about it. I hope everyone is OK with the delay, but 3 staling nations could have rather big effect later and I like to keep things fair, for everyone.

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Ahhh, I see the link now, thanks! And thanks too for the reboot. I hope everyone else is OK with it.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

OK, the game should be at turn 5 again. To put it bluntly, I am an idiot and I rolled the game twice :D I am up for like 30 hours straight and it's obvious I'm tired and need some sleep :( Iam sorry I spammed your mailboxes due to my mistake. Doh. The turn 5 2h files (thankfully turn 4's as well which allowed me to get back to 5 :D) are still on the server, so actually the only ones that -need- to send their 2h files are those staling nations. If you actually want to change anything about turn 5, which you have a generous opportunity to do, make sure you delete your current 2h file beforehand. It is a 2h from turn 6 and it will conflict with .trn file of turn 5. I will however force-host once those 3 turns of staling nations are in (if I am not asleep :D) to make it all quicker, so make your changes, if any, in time.

P.S: By the time im posting this, turn 5 didnt get automatically sent to me yet even though it was force-hosted. It seems that sending is broken for that turn completely. Either ask for resend or just use the one from when I was rolling back, they should be identical.
Oh something also ocurred to me just now: I hereby honorably declare I didn't change anything to my turn 4 file and that roll back was completely by my mistake. I literally rolled back, minute after forgot about it, and rolled it back again. Yes I know, I need some rest.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

OK, I forgive you, get some sleep already!

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Thank you for the rollback. It shouldn't have any big incidence as we are not far in the game.

Anyway thanks again.

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I don't need to change anything about my turn, but the game page says it is waiting for my 2h file. Should I re-do my turn and send it in?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

OK, from what I can tell turn four was reprocessed.

If this is the case, then the outcomes for turn five will be subtly different, so everyone will need to re-do turn five to avoid all sorts of awesome and interesting consequences.

Roll backs are tricky at the best of times Lung Drago, I assure you that you are not the first person to have this issue! Under the circumstances, I think you were right to do the rollback.

Keep in mind that you can request a turn resend for anyone, so if you don't think that the turn has gone out correctly it is probably worth just doing one for every nation.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Wow, this sounds cool. We should do this every turn.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Oh my god, you're right. See, it didn't come to me yesterday at all! Due to my mistake, this turn 5 is most likely different, no matter if orders were changed or not. Hopefully it would be only minor differences like losing more/fewer men in battles than before, but I agree everyone should send their turns again just to be on the safe side of things.
Most already did, so good job there :)


I think I remember myself saving old .trn files to sort of cheat in SP. But I also think it was awfully hard to persuade Dominions into a better outcome. At best, I could lose a battle with fewer losses, but could not pull off a victory without changing the scripting and formations. Due to that, I believe the new, different turn 5 shouldn't be too much of an issue to anyone. Thankfully.


So, please send your turn 5 files again, and make sure you do not have your turn 6 .2h file when loading turn 5.
I again apologize for causing this slowdown :doh: Hopefully we can continue from now on without any issues at all.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

My random events changed and my battles went a bit differently. Nothing too catastrophic.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Greetings Ariasa the Two Spirited, Four Handed God Emperor of T'ien Ch'i,

we indeed intend to lift the Ulmish people from opression to a true classless society beneficial to all of it. The Peoples Republic of Ulm shall be a paradise for workers, warriors and mages alike!

Rosa Luxemburg
General Secretary of the Peoples Republic of Ulm

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OOC:

We would also propose that our fellow co-revolutionists turn on "receive private messages" in their user CP setting. This makes diplomacy quicker and no longer reliant on the in game messaging system.

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An unexplainable increase in income? I felt everyone had an unexplainable decrease in income, which I believe someone was pointing out here.
What the hell is happening?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

My new turn 6, after the rehost, I got a special event for a large amount. My income is otherwise very low, so maybe it was confused.

In related news... the poor prince who dropped dead on my doorstep left 2x holy scourges as well; if anyone is interested :D

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I got several heroes, bought and random, turned to normal soldiers.

My best gues is that this has something to do with redoing the several turns - or otherwise some1 of us is altering the code (deja vu)

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

You had commanders become troops? That is very odd; hopefully nobody too important!

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It will be funny to c what happens when I use gift of reason.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I lost one owl scroll but gained Sheshai, the witch of avalon (no message telling me she arrived). Can't complain :happy:

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Lets hope the shenanigans calm down now that we are past the point of roll-back!

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hmm, is sheshai is a unique character? title, description and stats are the same as a normal daughter of avalon (and I think I did just recruit one who is otherwise missing). the only difference is her magic (and associated stat boosts):

daughter of avalon
1N 1?

sheshai
4F 2P

oh yeah! Can random stats like that happen normally?

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So is there any explanation for these random the happenings?

I just found out that I also got a new hero, simple indie light cav commander with fire and death paths, and AI even made him reanimate dead giants during the same host he arrived...

Theres soem real magic in this game!

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My turn was suspiciously normal.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Same here. I haven't ecountered anything extraordinary apart from being practically surrounded by plentiful independent armies :D

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Dear Araisa,

I have pondered your words, but alas the concept of the world being a river only reminds me of running water, which in turn triggers a Pavlovian urge to pee. While I concede it is hypothetically possible that a nation with such amazing cultural depth as T'ien C'hi could have a national philosophy based upon biological functions, I think it more likely that I am simply culturally unequipped to understand The Way - or that perhaps it is time for me to invest in a set of Depends Adult Nappy Pants, to deal with my obvious incontinence issues.

We of Ermor are simple folk. We are dedicated to the ultimate equality of all creatures, and have found that the penultimate expression of equality is found in death (or rather, undeath). After all, any two shambling zombies are much the same, irrespective off whether one was once a prince and the other a pauper.

Some feel that we seek to hurry death to bring this about, but nothing could be further from the truth. Death can afford to be patient, as eventually it comes to all. Our national philosophy is to enjoy life and its privileges while they last, for after you pass through the final veil, only mindless drudgery and the eternal equality of the grave await.

Best wishes, and hoping for a future filled with friendship and love,

Lady Esmeralda, First Consul of Ermor

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Dear Esmeralda,

the revoultion vehemently disagrees with your reactionary reasoning.
While a situation of equality for all is desireable, even inevitable, we intend to use each Ulmish and allied citizen in a way that maximizes his use from himself and all others.
A general that died will become a Bane(lord), a dead mage a Shade, and dead soldiers will come back as Wights.
For us, using the concept of undeath merely means that Death is not the end to the most valuable and valiant agents of the revoultion. It is, as a matter of fact, enshrined in the consitution of the Peoples Republic of Ulm that one will only be permanently reanimated in a form that is more powerfull than the form one had at live.
Thus, the historical dialectic and its struggle for progress defeats even death!
Given that, at the moment, 85% of the Peoples Republics military personal wear a Black Steel Full Plate and a Black Halberd, reanimating our valiant warriors as Zombies is pretty much out.
We are currently looking forward to reanimating Karl Marx as a Mound Lord or Lich.

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Your philosophizings shall not save you. The Water Rises. The hordes of Atlantis shall soon fill your world as water filling your lungs. Adapt or die!