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

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Xanatos said:

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Ubercat said:
The least he could do is let us know what is going on. It's very rude to keep seven other people hanging without a word. We could be on turn three by now, or even higher.

Does he even have a legal copy of the game? That might explain why he couldn't get his pretender loaded until I gave him explicit directions. He sat there for about two days until I said something. We'd probably still be waiting for it.

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.

Apology accepted. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gifSee you in a game soon probably.

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

Cor - thanks! But, no tutorial sadly - the guide would say something like 'first, write a couple of thousand lines of code'.

But I've written the LlamaServer so that it can host many games at once, and also so that people other than me can host games on it (see the 'admin options' page for one of the started games, not quite finished yet). I'm happy to take requests for new games to run on it. And eventually, my grand plan is to have a 'Create new game' page, where you can choose the map, number of players, mods and so on and it will create a game for you, without me even getting involved. But that is still some way off.

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

Writing one line of code is beyond my tiny brain's capablities, forget about 1000.

My concern is that one day that server will run out of processing juice, the demands will be too great. I just think it would be neat to have 20 Llama servers around so everyone in the world could play dominions 3! Ma Ha Ha! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

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

Sorry if I was hard on you, Xanatos. We have all had trouble with mp games at soem time or another.

I hope to see you in a MP soon.

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

There are signs of an ancient force, a nameless fear inhabiting the land. A deep darkness comes over the mountain and woods. The natives whisper of the return of an ancient God. They name the land the mountain and woods of the God. Then suddenly out of the deepest and darkest woods the eyes, ears and mouth of the new lord reawaken.

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

Cor - if it ever runs out of processing juice, I'm sure we'll find a way round it. I'll be pretty shocked if that happens though. Gandalf reckons a computer can run about 10x as many PBEMs as network games. I'd put the capacity of the LlamaServer up somewhere near 100 games, although that's a completely wild guess.

Coding is not particularly hard by the way, you just have to be taught. My older brother is a computer programmer and got me started as a kid, so I had a big advantage.

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

Guys, I'm going away for the weekend to visit my girlfriend's parents in a few hours, and I'm strictly forbidden from doing anything server related. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif So, hopefully there will be no problems. I will PM the admin password to Cor (chosen arbitrarily), so he can postpone the turns if anyone requests it.

I've e-mailed StrictlyRockers to ask him to take his turn, by the way. Perhaps this game has a one-player-won't-take-his-first-turn curse?

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

My email is corlew at gmail dot com. If anyone needs a postponement. or you can post to this thread, but my email is faster.

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

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llamabeast said:
I've e-mailed StrictlyRockers to ask him to take his turn, by the way. Perhaps this game has a one-player-won't-take-his-first-turn curse?

Certainly starting to look that way.

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

we are just waiting on Pythium to finish turn 2.