Re: Middle Era, Cradle of Dominion PBEM
 

I see you like easy pray. I think I will set Agartha to AI then, to be even more easier for you guys.
Thanks for the game.

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Don't be afraid to take a lickn' once in awhile. It's a good character builder.

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Well, this was my very first dominions 3 game...

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ya, you will bounce back. And besides we only ganged up on you cuz we were afraid! (I was at least)

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Man was more powerfull then I was. And at this time he is EVEN MORE powerfull. I understand ganging up agains the most powerfull nation, but to team with the most powerfull against someone weaker...

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Well, this was my very first dominions 3 game...

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Believe it or not, this is my 1st Dom 3 multiplayer game ever as well...

However, many moons ago (like 10 yrs), used to play, Play By Mail games. Its the experience of playing in those that is helping me now.

Good luck WsaboPeter in yr future games, don't be disheartened by 1 defeat, I have had my butt kicked in 4x strategy games countless times. Just come back stronger, learn from yr mistakes, from my point of view it was yr diplomacy that failed, u were too demanding, alot of take, want, but no give...

Other than that, yr game was sound, excellent pretender design (better than mine) and great expansionist start. Remember if u have more provinces than another player u can afford to be generous. A good ally or several good allies in multiplayer r worth far more than a few provinces.

I will eventually be hosting Dom 3 PBEM's, (I have a few interesting ideas to try), in the future and u r more than welcome to join any time. Good Luck.

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WZabo, you played the game of planning to attack Marignon and it backfired. I'm sure Man can present the evidence of this plan if needed. That's all, nothing personal.

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I think a 4th or better 5th nation should join Man and Marignon, since they don't seem to be brave enough. Only 3 against one... That's not cheap enough.

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What's the current turn number, 14 or 15? I, ahhh, forgot. And I have one turn that I didn't send yet, but I'm not sure if I just plain forgot to send it or if I didn't play it at all.

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kids, it is just a game. Szabo, this is your first DOM 3 game but this is how things happen. The reason you were ganged up on was because of your starting point.

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We have just had turn 15, sending in orders for turn 16.

Can I request moving the game to a 48 hr turnround?
The turns r getting more complicated now.

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"Can I request moving the game to a 48 hr turnround?"
Lol, now you need more time to think how to gang up on easy targets.

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Have you ever heard of the term "Bowing out gracefully?"

Just wondering,
Chris

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Yes, but this applies only to fair fights in my opinion.

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Asking Man to gang on me wasn't very fair now wasn't it? You played the game, your plan backfired and now you're reaping the consequences.

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There r no fair wars, there never has been or will be. Clever people only fight when it is likely they will win.

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Now mobbing up is a thing, and lieing is another. I did not asked Man to gang up. I simply agreed a common border with him and told him that I have no intentions on attacking him, and I tough his agreement means something. But then he attacked me. First alone with his pretender. When it died, he recruited some friends to help him. If you wish I can forward you some of his letters. But if you believe a word he sais you are a fool like I was.

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First you've whined about them mobbing you; now you're saying it's not because they mobbed you, it's because they _lied_ to you. It's getting old, and you're probably in danger of getting on people's lists of who _not_ to get in their MP games.

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Cainehill, I beg your pardon, but it was not fun to loose the first game without chance in the 12h turn.

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I think you may annoy more your ennemies with a guerilla war on the map than with a flame war on the forum (you have access to amphibious units when they don't, so may be able to harass them a moment; and more if your pretender is an immortal -don't know).

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Twan, agreed completly. The "flame war" was ment only for other people to be warned about those "friendly" nations.
I think it served that goal, so I will not say a word about it in the future.
I declare Agartha, Golem Cult as beaten, and I resign from it's control giving it to AI!

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To All Whom It May Concern,

With the Agartha leadership in disarry, the remaining lands will be taken and new borders will be arranged between Man, T'ien Ch'i and Marigon. It is my hope that the northwestern continent can enjoy a period of peace and development. War can be a tiring and mucky business.

Man, has plenty to keep us occupied over the next year or so, consolidating our borders, increasing our research, trade with neighbours, our first sea venture, mass production of magic items, creation of the champions of man and watching events with interest in other parts of the Cradle of Dominion.

So it is written, so it will be...

Prophet Tywin Lannister,
Hand of Crystalmist,
Man, Tower of Avalon.

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The Immortal Empire of Tien'Chi

We rejoice at the defeat of our enemies the Agarthans, may their dangerous golems plauge the world no longer! The North Western Alliance (NWA) will now consolidate our rule of the continent! let none interfere!

Yushu

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Marignon celebrates the defeat of the inhuman Agarthans. Our atlantian auxilaries and imperial crossbowmen will restory order to the land.

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Blech. Trying to get Koen's email address from upstreamedge since last night to do some diplomacy, but haven't heard anything.

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Pythium has turned AI since turn 4 or 5 IIRC.

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Feh. Wish that had been posted (if it wasn't). Guess I have to prep to annihilate an AI, 'cause it seems to be coming for me.

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I suggest to make a little pause, until IW answer about an eventual hotfix of the horror bug (in fact I don't know if we are playing with a patched host game or not, if not better not to patch for the moment, this bug can have heavy consequences in MP -I think I'd stop to call my god if the bug is there http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif -).

(the horror bug...
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...o=&fpart=1

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=467761&page=0&amp ;view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
)

Edit : the bug won't be fixed before next patch so let's continue

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Greetings All,

Whatever happened to Ulm being weak in magic?

Earth deep blood well...a sign of power...enchantment 7, even more impressive...with all those earth gems, the forges of Ulm will be busy. Perhaps we will see the smoke all the way in the north. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Little news reaches us from the south, perhaps someone can enlighten me as to the state of play down there.

Time to visit the forests of Avalon and get those crones working harder...a mother oak would be nice...

Prophet Tywin Lannister,
Hand of Crystalmist,
Man, Tower of Avalon.

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Magic 3 helps speed up those Dwarven Smiths a bit.

Be nice and I might forge a nice Christmas present for you, as I am ready to wheel and deal!

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General message from the Machakan stock exchange :

The kingdom of Machaka will be glad to buy your extra gems. Our minimum guaranteed prices are :
- 18 gp for fire
- 14 gp for earth
- 11 gp for astral, death, nature
- 8 gp for water, air
Never alchemize for money, we offer more.

Re: Middle Era, Cradle of Dominion PBEM
 

Ulm offers:

19 gp fire gems
15 gp earth gems

Magic items can be forged to fit your needs and budget.

Let's make a deal!

Progress Report
 

Just over two years have passed in the Ascension wars, and much has happened. The nations of the north-western continent rallied together and drove the cave-dwelling Agarthans from the face of the world, leaving a shattered (caved-in) husk where their kingdom used to be.
The smiths and miners of Ulm dug deeper than any man before them, and tapped a vein of the world's own blood itself. It remains to be seen how the world's other nations will deal with this affront to the planet.
Machaka has defined itself as the largest power on the planet in terms of land, forts, dominion, and income. Ulm has the highest gem income and research. While AI Pythium has the world's largest army.

6 famous heroes live on the world, and I encourage their nations to write a little of their amazing exploits here for the world to see.

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The Cradle Economist (spring of the year 3 issue) :

When the offer seem to be small on the earth gem market, the demand is huge and Ulmish and Machakan companies have started an economic war. After hearing that the first producer was speculating on these gems, the Machakan merchant's guild has increased its prices and now offer to pay 20gp for Earth Gems.

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In the north east all his quiet. For a young sorceror, the life in the Machakan court is terribly annoying. Machaka has ended its expansion, and now live a terribly quiet golden age. The relations with its neighbours are globally good (if there were some tensions on the Jotun border some months ago, the two empires finally got along) and Machaka looks asleep in its peace and opulence, asleep like its god who refused to be called back after he had strange dreams featuring him chased by a big horror.

The only distractions are the fights in the many arenas the kingdom have, the jewelry expositions, and the site searchers supplicied for having found more arenas or mines instead of interesting gem sites. From time to time some barbarians invade a province or two or destroy a temple, providing some exercice to the army, but the help of sorcerors was not even needed since the coming of a vampire count 6 months ago.

So, no heroic story to tell for the moment, nor many news to give. The most popular tale for the Machakan is still the story of Kigoma, our first prophet, who died in the second month of the first year of the ascension war trying to convince his soldiers that their faith will protect them from arrows. His last words were "Look they can do nothing against us". Marked by his death and the defeat of our first army against only a dozen of lion tribe archers, and fearing his fate to be somewhat prophetic, the Machakan then become very prudent prefering to build as many forts as they could to have walls to protect them from arrows. They also appointed an heavily armored commander of foreign origin as their second prophet.

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In the east of the map, the peaceful nation of Arcoscephale is slowly beginning to prosper and magical gems begin to fall from the heaven, our only problems where some skirmishes with the gigants from Jotunheim, but after short negations they went back into the cold.

Now the people are eager to see the Awakening of their god who will bring great joy to the people. The prophet Achilles is the great hero of the people, and in power only surpassed by the gods of Man and Machacka.

The only bad thing that happened to us was that some far east forest province was conquered by evil villains, but our phalanxes are on the march and will soon eradicate them.

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Like I've said arena fights are a speciality for Machaka. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

We salute the 3 courageous champions who perished in the death match.

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Jotunheim's champion, with more brawn than brains forgot to bless himself before battle making it just a bit easier for his opponent to put him to task.

There's always next year....

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Personally, the 'champion' I sent was hoping no one else turned up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Ah, nifty. Despite sending in the correct .2h file with plenty of time to spare, I got staled. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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I think something is wrong, Chase sent me a 2h file, but it is still showing him as stale.

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I think we should redo the turn with new orders for him if possible (don't know if the game can be re-hosted if you have not kept your trn, at least you should have all trn 28 you sent to other players and orders perhaps it can work using another player turn and the master password). As Cainehill seem to be attacked by a Pythium boosted by its AI statuts it's too bad if he stales without reason in addition.

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Once a turn gets hosted, the master file, ftherInd is updated, the latest version overwriting the previous one. A game will not run without this file.

Unless a backup copy of ftherInd is saved in another folder before hosting, I don't think a turn can be rehosted, even if all the other previous .trn files are available.

Some likely causes of a "stale" move even when a player sends a .2h file in time can be:

1) That player forgot to exit the game before attaching the .2h and sending it.

2) That player inadvertantly attached a .2h for that nation from a different game's folder in which that nation is also being played.

3) The host received a valid .2h file, but copied it into the wrong folder.

4) The host received a valid .2h file, but during the file transfer, the existing .2h was not replaced by the new one.

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I have yet to receive my turn. I sent my last turn out 11/20 at 7:38pm and have not received a turn back since then.

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i know, chase sent me a 2h file and it did not work so I am giving him an extension

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The last turn we got was turn 29. I got my last turn on 20/11/06 and have already done my orders for turn 30 and sent them to upstreamedge/Adam.

I hope all this does not delay the game too much.

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Edit : Just got turn 30.

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Greetings One and All,

The kingdom of Man stopped today, for news that we have been waiting for as arrived, the physical representation of our god has returned to us...Crystalmist is back.

A week long holiday as been called and there has been much rejoicing with in the kingdom of Man.

It is only fitting that on the same month Crystalmist returned to us, all presence of Dreamslayer (who grieviously slayed Crystalmist in combat) has been utterly removed.

Let this be an abject lesson in what happens to those who try to harm Crystalmist...

Prophet Tywin Lannister,
Man, Tower of Avalon.

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Ooh,
A pretender vs. pretender battle. Can we have any details about that fight?

P.S. Thanks for hosting the game upstream. You've been doing a great job so far.

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I did have screenshots. But it happened turn 15'ish or earlier so I deleted them some time ago. Enough to say Dreamslayer won because he equiped his pretender with a magic sword and buffed him up with spells. Dreamslayer then died a turn later causes unknown? Dreamslayer turned up a few turns ago at is former Agarthian capital (now mine http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif), my army made mincemeat of him in a 2 rounds of combat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif Now he is dead forever. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif