Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Man should be Kaelik. (not shure if this will be his forum name here.)
I think he allready registered here, but theres the holdup before he can post.
He get us up to 10 players again, after cwkgc got out.

Actual player list:
1: earwicker7--Abyssia
2: Domenje--Marignon
3: Colonial--Bandar Log
4: Nosantee--Arcoscephale
5: Korwin--Vanheim
6: CthuluDreams--R'yleh
7: fumanstu--Shinuyama
8: Patolixo--Atlantis
9: nrasch--Pangaea
10:Kaelik--Man

Domenje's Pretender is still missing.
I only hope he is still playing.

As CthulhuDreams said, we could change the E-Mail later.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

I'm pretty sure Domenje is still in, it's just his first MP game, so he may be having issues with posting his pretender.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

hmmm. any way i can re-upload the pretender file? forgot a passworld again...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

You should be able to send a new pretender file from the same eMail.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

brilliant

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

I'm showing EVERYONE is in! Woohoo! Let's get this party started.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Agreed, let this slaughter of non-humanoids commence.

Arco shall cleanse the world of of all non-humanoids. Demons, Monkeys, Monsterous Humanoid, Animaloid. There shall be no remorse. Human bretheran, let us join hands and slaughter the wicked.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Technically Monkeys and Monstrous Humanoids would still count as humanoids.

Also, this is Man checking in after a long wait for post approval. This will be my first MP game, and I haven't actually finished a SP game, because I mostly get tired of all the management and give up and go start a new one after about turn 50-70.

My strategy for dealing with that problem is to lose by turn 70 ;)

Or you know, it will still be fun against humans, because it won't be an inexorable march slog to victory by that point.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Let the Game of Pretenders begin.




Files should go out in a few minutes.
I did press the Start game button.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Huh, can anyone tell me what those little crowns are on some provinces?

First MP game. Does that mean where a pretender is? Some special item?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

If you mean the white star icons, it means the province is more likely to have multiple magic sites on it.

If you mean something else, I'm not sure.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

Nah those I know, I mean for about 5 provinces there are little crowns with red gems on them scatted through-out the map.

I HOPE it isn't marking a pretender/starting location for someone, cause they're about to get rushed really quick like if it is.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

I think that would be victory Point provinces if we played with VP.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

the crowns are strange. this map doesn't ship with them, which makes me think we have victory points on.

@ Nosantee & Kaelik:

Monkeys are totally humanoids. 2 arms, 2 legs. the nobility don't even have tails. how much more human can you get?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

I just said that monkeys are humanoid.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

yeah... I was agreeing...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

These are provinces that would grant Victory Points, if we were playing with VPs on. For a reason I do not know, maps on Llamaserver have these even when VPs are off.

And well, Shamblers are humanoid too, ok? And they have emotions, please make sure to not hurt their feelings, they are sensitive.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (Beginning--No More Open Spots)
 

r'ylah's shamblers don't have feelings...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Did Llama server send you guys a turn? I haven't seen one in my email yet. :(

Also, I warn you now, interlopers into my tree huger forest domain shall be attacked by angry killer bunnis!!!

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Check your junk mail. If that doesn't work, PM the admin, as he can (to the best of my knowledge) check to make sure llamaserver has the correct email address.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I got my turn file.
I did an resend turn for Pangea.
Hope it gets to you.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Also I don't think I can check the EMail, I could change the Email if thats wanted.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

What would llamaserver do in a situation where he didn't get his turn... do you have it set up to automatically "time out" someone, or are you giving approval before the next turn starts?

Oh, and as a side note... prepare to die! lol

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Thanks for the help all. I went to llama server and requested the turn be sent again. Ready to go now. :)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

i dont know how to join

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=35160

Make sure you have the current patch (3.24).

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

might want to update the first post of the thread... still says I'm playing ulm

(w/ link to llamaserver as well)

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Done.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

nice :D

also, you can't re-upload your turn... better make bloody sure that you aren't gonna change your mind...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Aw man you actually disabled score graphs.
Since someone else was hosting I was hoping they stay enabled

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Colonial, you should be able to resubmit (at least the FAQ says so).
Unless you are the last of course.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

yeah,just noticed my resubmit was in 'save drafts'...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Just as well, now you can't see my patented don't designate a Prophet and get a second province on turn one technique.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I think that means R'ley has an Kraken Pretender?

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Keep it in the water and I'll see to it that it retains all eight of its arms.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I would say atlantis has a Kracken, not r'yleh.

seeing as how hes sitting on top of the hall of fame with thirty nine kills by turn 3...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Day-um!

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

don't want to harsh out a patolixo too much, but the hall of fame place does have me worried. The Baalzian Kraken(eg. the pretender designed in the highly respected Baalz guide) is semi-immortal and able to take out all underwater independants solo. but he has no magic or bless:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=37457

if I find out intel on any other pretenders (maybe only from universally visible sources) I'll stick it on here...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Why do I have the feeling patolixo is going to put a Boba Fett on your a$$? :D

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

looking like we had our first missed turn this time around...

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Oh, that's never good.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Uh I just now looked at the stalling statistic. Looks like Atlantis stalled 3 turns allready.
Totally missed that, sorry.

So what do we do?

AI or has anyone someone to sub at hand.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

This is kind of why I wanted to avoid running something on an external server... if we were doing PBEM, I wouldn't have processed the turn until everyone had turned their files in, and if someone was running late, I'd hassle that person to either get the turn in on time, or tell us right away that they were out. This seems to be a very common problem with server-hosted newbie games... instead of saying, "Sorry, guys, I just don't have the time," players just drop off the face of the earth. Three stalls out of six turns leaves whoever takes over, AI or human, with one hell of a mess.

Did he miss three turns in a row? If so, I say try to contact him, and if he doesn't respond by the end of the day, set him to AI for the time being.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Agreed w/ Earwicker7.


Nathan

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Yes he took the first two turns, then stalled.
I sent him a message.

Hopefully he will respond.
Should I extent the turn time?

I should have seen it earlier, I was wondering Why Atlantis was allways last. I even sent an Message in-game, explaining He could take the next turn immediatly after his last turn, if he's the last... Dhoo, should have checked the statistic...

First time admining an game.
For the future: I shall check the Stall statistic after every turn!

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I did notice that scary-assed 39 kill kracken is, um, still at 39 kills :P

whatever happens, r'ylah's won the water minigame by this point.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

I say check the status about an hour before the absolute deadline, and if he hasn't responded by then, well... that's four turns in a row with no communication (he could easily have asked for a turn extension), which, IMO, warrants being booted from the game; other than death in the family, there's just no excuse (and to be honest, I'm the type who would still ask for a turn extension if someone in my family died). At that point, turn him into AI and start praying R'lyeh screws up at some point, because they've been handed a get out of jail free card lol.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

lol, I've already screwed up - three unrest events IN A ****ING ROW WTF THE **** in my capital and no SC pretender has crippled my early game. I'm actually in serious danger of dying to a dom push atm.

Perversely, the AI is more dangerous as it won't respect the NAP we had, and has a SC pretender that I can do literally nothing about.

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Eh, it's not like the admin is going to set the AI to aggressive... hint, hint :D

Re: Rock the Cradle--Noob Only! (RUNNING)
 

Anyone any idea how to set Atlantis to AI, without the PW?