Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

It's been a while since I hosted, but just to be clear:

In order to upload your pretender, go into Dominions and via the Game Tools go to Create Pretender.
Once finished, exit the game and browse to your savegames/newlords/ folder. There you will find the pretender file. (name of your nation.2h)

Send an email to:
pretenders -at- llamaserver.net
Title: Giants_and_Dwarves

and attach the .2h pretender file.
Check for a confirmation email that it has been received without errors. If you run into problems, please post here.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I'm slated to play Ashdod, but someone else uploaded a Pretender for Ashdod. Can you delete it please?

Thanks!

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Ashdod has been deleted.
Whoever uploaded it needs to check his nation.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

what happens if u also send ashdod in? i bet it will overwrite the old one, so no problem.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

2 players left to upload their Pretenders;

C'tis and Ulm

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Once we will kick off:

Remember to keep an eye on the turn interval. I will update changes in interval in this thread.
Be sure to report EARLY if you will not be able to send in a turn in time.
WE CANNOT USE THE ROLLBACK FEATURE! Due to possible savegame corruption.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

after much teeth gnashing and crying, i beleive i have finally succeeded in uploading the pretender. let me know if i failed...

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I checked the game and Ulm does not show yet.
Did you get a confirmation from the llamaserver system?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

got a bounce back from llama. sent in subj giants and dwarves
instead of giants_and_dwarves. corrected it and resent. i think it should be ok now

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

All players are in! Let the game commence!

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

do we have to install the sprites update? well, i guess i should say, i seem to have to. anyone else? i don't mind. it's good for me to learn this stuff...off to do battle with windows(i hope none of you are as stern a foe as microsoft)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I suspect you will have to, yes.
But it installs exactly the same as CBM.
You got that right already, so this should be a breeze. ;)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Forgot to make a prophet :(!

Didn't realize we were playing without charts and graphs.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Well I made a pretender mistake, so I guess we will have to learn to live with it.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Small warning for Vanheim; the turn will get processed in about 2 hours.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

you'll have to tell us what your pretender mistake was later on yso. but don't worry, i've likely made 7 or 8 mistakes already...

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Did Vanheim stall his turn in the end?

Yeah I will tell you once either I am defeated or the game is over with Aria proclaimed as new God! ;)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I don't think so. I think you can see stalling data under admin options.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I didnt stall.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

what is "stalling"?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

When your turn doesn't get in in time.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I think it is when you don't get your turn in on time.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

skipping a turn

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Its means you dont get your turn in until it is dues, thus "stalling" the turn procession.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

This weekend is going to be tough for me. I'll able to turn in a turn Saturday morning, and again saturday night, but I doubt I can do anything in between.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

lego, are we supposed to play more than two turns per day?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

No, but I'll be off the grid for more than 24 hours.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

ahhh. sunday u mean. got it.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

oops. Good catch. I do mean Sunday night. yeah I am probable off the grid between saturday morning and sunday night.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Ok, duely noted. We will put the game on a temporary 48 hrs interval in time.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Ok the new turn has just been sent. Are you ok for this one, lego? Or do we need to put in the 48hrs now?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Nope, this one is fine, but I'm worried about the next one though, since I'm gone from Saturday morning till Sunday might.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Ok people, after this current turn in processed we will switch to a temporary 48hr cycle to make sure nobody stales. After that 24 hr is the cycle again.
Watch your in-boxes! ;)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Yeah, about that. I was up earlier than usual, so I was able to turn in my final turn this morning. I won't be able to turn in another turn till Sunday Night/Monday morning (I'm on the eastcoast, so here it will be sunday night). So, if this turn goes up quickly, I'll need the next turn extended instead of this one.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

i think it most probably was needless to delay hosting until monday 10 (or at all). in my experience it most probably leads to hosting not sooner than that, and in this case tien chi's turn was already sent in.

perhaps we can switch back to hosting on sunday?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Well here is the trick;
If everyone sends in their turn, the game will process and host the next turn whenever the last player has sent in his turn.
This means the game will continue normally if we keep sending in our turns. We only have more time before the deadline kicks in and autohosting of an imcomplete turn will commence.
Regardless, I have reduced the hours to 32. And will come back to 24 hours tomorrow.
Still, to be clear, the game continues normally and as quickly as we have sent in our turns. :)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

but here's the other trick...i think llamaserver is really struggling the last 12-24 hours. some guys turns may not have been accepted.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

I have seen no issues and game report shows fine too.
what do you mean, parone?

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Could the Lord who sent Caelum a message in game contact me via PM here please. We need to discuss something.
Our messenger has made the mistake to forget the contents of the message. ;)

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

ysko, just been watching the boards a bit lately and lots of games are struggling to get their turns in. llama posted that he had a lot of trouble with lost data, but had it all backed up. but even after he thought he had it squared away, their have been some problems with people getting turns in.

and i have noticed that our game is still waiting on 6 turns(including yours, i think) for 24 hours. maybe no one sent one in, but that seems unlikely. guys may have to resend their 2h files when this all gets sorted out.

then again, since i don't [i]really [I understand any of this, i could be pretty off base.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Usually what happens is that people take their time, considering the later resolve of the turn. It is not unlikely to have turns sent in in the last 4 hours or so.
I have not sent mine yet, for example. ;) But I do keep tabs on who sent in theirs, so I do not stall the game.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

ahh. perhaps i overreacted

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Llamaserver occasionally stalls and does not accept or process turns. Llamabeast eventually gets around to fixing the problem or restarting the server, and the issues clear up.

Basically, there's nothing for us to do except wait. The problem will eventually be sorted out. If you sent your turn in, it should be accepted when the server is working properly again. It's not a problem with this game specifically, as my other game is similarly stalled.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Okay, I am back and ready to play more games sitting down, and fewer games that revolve around being outside and shot by paintball.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

:D Great to have you back.
We will continue full steam ahead. If we get our turns in for this one, we're back at a regular 24h interval.

There is no problem with our game. People have just waited longer because of the longer interval time. Only Shinu has to send its turn and we're back in action.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

i guess shinuyama wont be playing this game with us for too long. already has 2 stales.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

that sucks.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Blubbernaught, im not sure u know, but ur PMs r disabled.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

Well, I wanted to say this over private messages, but oh well. Hi Pangea. Having fun? Let's have peace.

Re: Giants and Dwarves [MA; CBM ; Noob friendly] [Full 12/12]
 

i think shinuyama staled again. if he is out, i wonder if we should look for a replacement? although i would hate the delay...