MP Game: Ye Olde Dom2 Game
 

just announcing my first attempt at starting mp game, thanks to mosehansen free server.
standard game, indy 6, sites 50, orania or karan map depending on how many player, 48h-quickhost: no house rules.

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I would like to claim C'tis, if you will accept a newbie in the game.

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all are welcome to join - just upload and claim on mosehansen free server.

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I'll claim Abysia.

Krool

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Might be time to try my hand at the jolly old giants of Jotunheim.

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Cool - another slow game? I'm generating a pretender for Caelum. Time to give "Death from Above" a try.

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What's going on Cainehill? You have time to create a whole new race of Caelians while your Jotuns in hard_slog have been the only unordered nation for hours and hours today?

edit: you promptly put your turn in, I retract any criticism.

[ August 02, 2004, 05:28: Message edited by: Ozymandias ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yep, just got home after a long hard day - since the game creator implied that first claims on Mosehansen held, I wanted to get in there. Then proceeded all my outstanding game turns.

Edit : And since the first thing I did on getting home was check mosehansen, but saw 780 minutes remaining on the first due ( hard slog ) I felt justified in creating the pretender - didn't think I'd be holding anything up.

[ August 02, 2004, 05:32: Message edited by: Cainehill ]

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I would like to play as Jotun.

This would be my first mp game, but I've played a lot of singleplayer.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I had claimed Jotun, but you're welcome to it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Heh. That's the name of special type of attack in Mechwarrior-based wargames. It is exectuted when you fly your (preferably "heavy" or "very heavy" class) mechwarior over the oppenent, and than drop it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif One of my Favorites. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I'd like to claim Vanheim.

I'm pretty new, mostly a single-player guy, but I'd like to get into the whole MP scene.

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Oops, sorry Zap.

I will play as Marignon.

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Well, I'd change to Man, since none took it, and I want to try a new thing ^^

[ August 02, 2004, 08:44: Message edited by: Cohen ]

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Mictlan.

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dp

[ August 02, 2004, 07:45: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

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Well, another newbie ready to get his butt kicked. Ryleh´, if it's ok. (I tend to survive longer below surface(it's good to be a newbie :oD ))

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In as Ermor.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nah, take Jotun. I'm over-committed anyway.

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Well, another newbie ready to get his butt kicked. Ryleh´, if it's ok. (I tend to survive longer below surface(it's good to be a newbie :oD ))

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Oops, sorry about that. Something to do with my browser refreshing the wrong page. I'm ashamed of myself.

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Abysia Uploaded

Krool

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Since ya'll couldn't decide on who was playing Jotun I took the slot http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Actually took it before reading this thread since it stated no house rules. If someone else wants it still Ill back out.

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Since it looks like it'll be another day or two (at least) before there's enough players, I'm going to want to replace my pretender (Caelum). Found a serious flaw with it, so....

I'm going to set Caelum to Anonymous, if you could kick anonymous again please.

Thanks.

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You don't need to be kicked to upload your pretender. The new Md5sum system replaced the old "protection" system....and at Last report, the kicking thing was a bit unreliable anyway.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Kicking is sometimes unreliable, but you could only overwrite the pretender when the game's name used characters that made Dom2 and Esben's server not work with each other. (And I think the kicking not working was also because Dom2 used a different file name from what Esben was using for one nation.)

As is - the md5 is mostly useful as a way of double checking that your new pretender upload didn't take, because the md5 doesn't change.

As I just verified after trying to re-upload. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

It does need anonymous kicked still, and I've a new Caelum pretender ready to go when I see it's been kicked.

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Thanks Schmork - I've got my updated, new and more expensive yet more shoddily made, improved pretender in. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

How many players are you aiming for?

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we have 10 right now, and this is a good number for karan, so unless more people join i probably start game tomorrow sometime.

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In my (newbish) opinion, Karan is a good choice with 9 land and 1 water players, which is where it stands right now. Though there seems to still be one player who has yet to upload his pretender.

I note that I am not the only newbie player in the game, a fact for which I am eternally grateful. This way, I hope to Last long enough to enjoy the experience!

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okay, i start game now. good luck everyone.

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Oh, dearie me. Erm, hate to screw this game up for everyone involved, but I think it might be best if we restarted, seeing as we are on turn 1, short a few players, and so on.
It seems my pretender upload didn't quite take, and I'm stick with the "filler" pretender I used to claim the slot, so it wouldn't be taken in the 10-15 minutes I spent creating a more suitable pretender. I could always stick with it but, seeing as it's a Naga chassis without scales or additional magic or dominion, I suppose it'd throw game balance outta whack.
Really unspeakably sorry about this.

Update: Just preempting the irony here, next time I'll be sure to check md5sums before changing pretenders, not just after.

[ August 05, 2004, 08:38: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

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Bump?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Bah! I take it you haven't caught the Posts (in this thread even) about how you _can't_ overwrite the bloody pretenders? Esben implemented that to keep people from stealing slots.

You _HAVE_ to go anonymous and ask the game creator to kick anonymous players, just like I did.

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Ergh. I read every bit of that post except the very Last line,

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Which really seems to contradict all of the remainder of that post and the one that preceded it, doesn't it?
Only at first glance, of course. That'll teach me to skim.

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Turn 2's up, sorry for holding things up, I completely forgot.

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i don't know how to restart game entirely, restart only starts current game after stopping, does not reset game. how should restart game, and what everyone else think?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I believe you have to kill (stop) the game entirely, and immediately create a new game while the slot is open.

Then everyone has to upload their pretenders again. Then, in about a week, we'll find out that someone didn't set a password. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Feel the chagrin!

*slinks off*

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Restarting games take a very long time. One game in particular that I am in has taken over 2 weeks just to get going after a restart. And it is very hard to get everybody to get their pretenders uploaded again. Plus people will want to drop and new people will want in, thus starting the process anew. And, as Canehill just mentioned, someone will have forgotten a password and want yet another restart.

I do understand that Vicious Love uploaded the wrong pretender. But hey, what is the worst thing that can happen to him? Why, he loses and then simply enters another new game. Big deal!

I will probably be gone before him anyway because I do not know how to play this game very well.

Once a game finally gets going, it seems best to just keep it going. My vote is to fight on!

So, on to turn two for me!

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I have to agree with Panther - I'd prefer to keep the game going.

In the future, Vicious Love might consider throwing together -some- fully loaded pretender into a slot to reserve it. Takes what - 5 minutes or less to tap the scales, add some magic paths, and have something in place.

And also, to check the md5 value to verify that he hadn't gotten updated; I mean, that's one reason the thing is there, not so people can just say, "Wow, what a long hex value!". Worst case, a person can make a minor change to their pretender and attempt uploading again, to see if the md5 value changes.

When it _doesn't_ they should be able to figure out that their first update didn't go through either.

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It could be worse. At least it's not a no-magic crone with bad scales. At least now everyone knows your pretender is a dud, so you ought to die quickly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Works fer me.

Update: Even turns out I have Water 9 on that thing. Still no scales, castle, or dominion, but it's better than nothing.

[ August 06, 2004, 00:53: Message edited by: Vicious Love ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Or, he's a sly Vicious Love - "I've got a dud pretender, no scales, come kill me quick" when in fact he's W9F9 AE with holy horses from hell, just waiting for someone to pounce. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nah, we'd notice if he had scales. Besides, what if he got what he wanted and a restart DID happen? After all, be careful what you wish for....

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Say, Zen? Can we get this one moved to the MP forum? Thanks.

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Hey, Regen! Yeah, you with the gutter mouth. It's pretty uncouth to respond to in-character, role-played Messages in the game with profanity. Personally, I'm more amused by your lack of creativity in using four letter words than I am the words themselves, but it's still rather rude and uncouth, and other players might be more offended than someone like me.

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Go stomp his Sand-castle Cainehill!
-Yc