Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

His problem is that he's using Vista, which apparently makes things very different. I was helping him with getting his pretender in by e-mail, it sounded really quite tricky actually. I've never even seen Vista myself, which doesn't help.

To answer previous questions/comments: StrictlyRockers - having 8 players on this map gives you about 15 provinces each, which is perhaps a little smaller than average for multiplayer. I think you might meet people faster than you think.

Ubercat - yep, you're right about how quickhost works.

I'm not quite sure what to do about Xanatos, since he seemed quite keen (by e-mail). I think if he doesn't at least make contact by tonight (when 48 hours are up) I will take his turn for him and start looking for a sub.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Let's not jump to conclusions here.

He played a couple of blitzes on Gandalf server (anonymously) and a few Blitzes against people in the IRC channel, so I suppose that he just doesn't know what he has to do with this PBEM thing. He seems to be unable to find his game folder and his savedgames folder, it seems Vista is indeed unnecessarily complicated.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

IMHO Vista is no excuse, I am running Vista, never had a problem, works exactly like XP.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Well for some reason it is apparently treating all the contents of his savedgames folder as hidden files, so he can't see them.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Well I'm optimistic that Xanatos will show up, since he seemed keen. But just in case I thought I had better change the thread title to advertise for a new player, because I really want to make sure everything is running smoothly before the weekend, when I'm going away.

If we do get a new player, we will do a restart. I still have everyone else's pretenders, so we can start again as soon as the new player gets his pretender in. I think it is worth having everyone redo turn 1 in order for the new player to have a nation and pretender of their own choice.

We can probably even squeeze two new players in if people are keen.

So, if you are reading this and would like to join, please post and say what nation you'd like, and I'll reserve the spot for you should we have to do a restart.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Aww, I really like my position. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

I could see having trouble if he was not set as administrator, if it were not his PC. If it is, you can just go into the setting and change it to show hidden files. pretty simple. Its one of the first things i did on my new PC, because i knew that i would have to edit them for dominions.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Ah well, it's sad, but I haven't heard from Xanatos, so I've restarted without him. Sorry Xanatos!

In his place we have Yucky, with Eriu. And... we're off! Good luck guys.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

Your absolutely right Ubercat I apologize for putting you guys on hold like that, I couldn't figure out how to get the file where it needed to be to play until now, and my internet was down for a while yesterday-today which kept me from getting back sooner, I am very sorry that happened, when i finally did get to take the turn it said i needed the Heros mod as well?...i didn't even know that, i think i will stay out of this next game until i learn how to do PBEM faster, sorry again guys!

and yes, i have a legal copy:P.

Re: New game for new/newish players (recruiting)
 

llamabeast, thank so much for setting up you nifty server and hosting for us, your great. Your the best llama i know.

If you are ever in Hawaii you have a floor to sleep on in my apartment.

Do you have a tutorial for how to set up a server like llama aerver?