Re: New game for newish players- MA
 

huzzah

Re: New game for newish players- MA
 

LOL.. Yay on starting. Its been so long, I don't remember what my pretender is like = ).

Re: New game for newish players- MA
 

hey guys, glad the game got sorted out, I didn't wanna mess anything up by leaving. I'll see ya all later and GL with the game.

Host the game
 

Rather than look for a sub for vanheim.. why don't we just host the game?

Re: Host the game
 

Huh? Why would we need to find a sub for Vanheim? He only said he isn't available until Monday, just like you did.

Re: Host the game
 

Didn't cadel just say he was leaving the game?

If he wants to play I'm all in with waiting...

Re: Host the game
 

I'm confused. Cadel you're still in the game arent you?

Re: Host the game
 

Honestly I'd rather play as Vanheim than Pangaea. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Host the game
 

At least one person is confused, all right. I don't know what "Monday" means for Cadel regarding time zones, but I will reset the timer once, now, and send him a PM and email to remind him to play his turn, as it didn't sound like "I quit" to me the first time he wrote. If he doesn't want to play, we're in a predictament, I'll try to get a sub then. I do not want AI nations from the start in games that I am hosting.

Re: Host the game
 

The worst that would happen is that we restart? (I'm not terribly fond of my starting location anyways. >.>)

Is this fairly common for MP games? Not griping, just curious if I should expect starting delays, or delays in general to be fairly frequent.

Re: Host the game
 

It is quite common that it takes a while in the start until all the things are in place and everybody knows what to do. But after the initial difficulties are overcome, the game usually picks up speed from there on.

Re: Host the game
 

Awesome, I hope so. I am sating my bloodlust by trying out new things, and going through every nation/era in SP, but I want to get hip deep in MP action before I wear myself out. :O

Re: Host the game
 

So many people I've been at war with in another game are here...

This game sounds like so much fun http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: Host the game
 

wow that was realy strange i opened my turn and saw it was turn one. scary, thought my turn was pooched til i went to form. sigh.....

Re: Host the game
 

when this problem has finally been dealt with I look forward to the game

Re: Host the game
 

okay i'm really trying not to complain, but i feel like i'm going to die of old age before we start. i'm not as young as you all. once we start can we go to 12 hour turns for little bit?

Re: Host the game
 

thats a really bad idea 24 hour turns work better because we have people from all across the globe and if we did 12 hour turns a lot of people would miss their turns

Re: Host the game
 

didn't think of this as a global game. hmm ok...thanks Bwaha

Re: Host the game
 

my bad guys. played my 2 turns. Didn't realize I was still in it. Really srys.

Re: Host the game
 

sry for double post, but I just realized I think I got my turn in 15 seconds before the next turn opened up, lucky me. ;p

Server Down
 

OR at least, I can't connect to it..

Re: Server Down
 

Sorry about this, especially since we now finally managed to start. Here's the info on the server: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=610156

Server
 

Look, no offense, but I'm getting tired of waiting on this game. I offered host; I'm still willing to host. I don't know how people get the ip address to resolve to a name - but I am willing to setup a server and distribute the ip address.

I'll wait a few hours... but if I get into another game I'll probably just drop.

Re: Server
 

I'm not offended, and it certainly is very unfortunate that now that we finally started the game is down again. I don't make demands about hosting this game, it's just as a service for secretperson who can't do so himself. If the players are cool with it, then feel free to host the game yourself instead. I think that would be best for the game at this time.

I can't give you the game files, though, as all the backups are on the server which now has gone unavailable. As far as I understood Gandalf, no data is lost, but it's unavailable at the moment. What I could do is give you the pretender files and the email addresses of the players and then you start the game anew from scratch. Since we just started, I don't think it's too much of a problem - or did somebody get some awesome hero that he is going to miss if we restart?

Re: Server
 

Ich, I appreciate the offer. Why don't you forward the pretender files, we can get this working faster that way.

Even better.. zip em in one file... so I can unzip em.
Glory2 will be the name of the file.

Re: Server
 

Good, I'll do this as soon as secretperson ok's it. It's his game, after all.

Re: Server
 

in that case im going to take the opportunity to fix my pretender - where should I send the new pretender file too? =)

Re: Server
 

I suppose it's fine.

I DID get the nice crutch-old guy hero on turn 2 and he is pretty nice but that's okay. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

transferring the game over
 

Ok, then I'll transfer the pretenders and email addresses to chris right now. I'm really sorry for the mess, everybody, and hope that you bring a lot of patience with you concerning Dom3 MP games, in case this was your first game. They ARE very exciting games to play, much better than what the AI can give you in SP games. It will be worth it to stick to this game.

Re: transferring the game over
 

im still game once its set up Bwaha

Re: Server
 

Bah! Isn't he the disease spreading immortal one? I just can't find a use for him although he does have 2 death which TC lack otherwise. But really after a bit of site searching in empty provinces what can he be used for? Too weak to be much of a thug even with his magic. No stealth so can't be used as an assassin/disease spreader to your enemies. Nice magic but not that nice - he's no better than your average Celestial master.

Do you build him his own personnal lab and have him forge/ research in peace?

Re: Server is up
 

Hey guys, server should be up at ip 74.236.0.134. Port 1024.

I've never hosted an mp like this before.. sooo let me know if there are any issues.

Oh, and update to 3.17 while you're at it.

Re: Server is up
 

I can't connect to it...
Firewall issues maybe?

Re: Server is up
 

me either

Re: Server is up
 

same here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: Server is up
 

I have just connected to the new server, and everything seems ok. Apart from me having a lot worse start position than last time :-(

I used the following settings to connect :

IP address of the server - 74.236.0.134
Port number of the server - 1024

Chrispedersen - Thanks for setting this up so quickly.
Ich - Hope those server Gremlins get busted soon.

Re: Server is up
 

I can't connect.

Re: Server is up
 

im up and running thanks a lot Bwaha http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Server is up
 

This is strange.... I have seen that 3 people have connected. Does anyone have an explanation for why the others cant?

Re: Server is up
 

The IANA lists that port as "Reserved":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of....E2.80.9349151

But of course MicroSoft seems to be abusing it for various services: http://www.grc.com/port_1024.htm

It might be that ISP's are blocking connections to that port on purpose to hold back worms which are trying to infect other systems.

Re: Server is up
 

I can get in now so good on this end http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Server is up
 

It took me like 5 minutes to get onto the network the first time, so make sure you wait the full duration if it seems like it's not gonna get through.

Re: Server is up
 

Oh, maybe you're suffering from the mysterious "the remote server is hanging" problem then. I never experienced it myself, but it was a pretty big issue in some other games.

Re: Server is up
 

could the patch be the problem i started the game then after reading the post upgraded the game now it wont connect. Bwaha

Re: Server is up
 

I successfully connected with the patched version, but had trouble connecting earlier

Re: Server is up
 

I connected to the new server with Dom 3.15 if that's of any help to anyone.

Having my own separate crashing issues with the new patch at the moment, so not much point me trying to connect with it to test, as I won't know if any problem are due to the server / the patch / or my computer.

Re: Server is up
 

was the server created with 3.15 or 3.17?

Re: Server is up
 

3.17

Re: Server is up
 

3.17 ... perhaps that was a bad idea - but I wanted to get the bug fixes in.

Calahan, is having trouble with the game crashing. Speaking on that Cal, have you tried running it in a virtual environment like VirtualPC or VMware?

I find that works pretty darn well ....

Re: Server is up
 

Doesn't work here either.