Invisible Swarm 2: Ended. Hail YC!
 

New MP game starting soon!

Honestly. It is actually happening this time.

We will play on a relatively small map, I'm looking for maybe 6-8 players. It will be Difficult Research, normal magic sites, Rich World, Indep. strength 5, HoF 15. No House Rules.

I'm going to play Ryleh.

Space reserved for:
1) Bale Blackmoon (I assume he's playing Marignon)
2) Yellow Cactus (He will probably play Mictlan)
3) Rob_Core (I think he is going to try Abyssia)
4) Bale's friend Joe. Bale, is he playing?

That leaves space for at least 3 more people.

If I can figure out how to host over the internet I'm going to do that, otherwise it will be PBEM. It'll be 24-h quickhost at least for the first 30 turns or so. Then maybe 48-h quickhost.

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Edit: Putting in an up-to-date list of players / nations to help with sorting out diplomacy.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
Rlyeh : CUnknown
Atlantis : Yellow Cactuc
Marignon : Bale Blackmoon
Jotunheim: Cainehill
Pangaea : jeffr
Arco : AI
Vanheim : anatoli11
Machaka : Krooldeath
Man : LegacySpy
Abysia : Rob_Core
</pre><hr />

I think that's everyone - hard to tell with nation info turned off.

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I don't know Cainehill, Zen's mod sure seems like a lot of changes. I don't understand most of the reasons for them...I wouldn't feel comfortable using that sort of mod. Making the ghost king a little more expensive seems like a good idea, though.

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I would be interested - I'd like a couple of days to test Zen's mod out though if that it what you are going to use. I'd like to play Van if Cainehill doesn't play them.

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Sign me up for Miictlan!
-Yc

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Now that the world of Lost Memories has fallen inot destruction, I am more than willing to battle over this new world. The Blood Lord of Marginon will never be defeated. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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So far we have:

Me: Ryleh
Yellow Cactus: Mictlan
Bale Blackmoon: Marignon
Cainehill: Vanheim, Jotunheim, or Pangea
anatoli11: Vanheim?

Maybe 3 more people and we'll start.

What map do people want? I think Desert Eye and Karan are good maps, but I'd like to try something different. Any suggestions?

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Edit:
Ctiss For Me?

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Pls not Desert Eye, cant stand that map.

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For a map, Zen's Europe or Parganos are both pretty good and should be suited for 8 or so players.

Also, if Anatoli wants Vanheim, I'll take Jotunheim or Pangaea - still not decided for sure yet.

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I'm in for Van then!

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Perhaps you would accept a n00b and take me as Arcoscephale?

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If this is an internet game, I'll take Pangaea (if that's ok with Cainehill).

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*mutter mutter* I'll take the Jotuns. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Acutly, I might like to take man.

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Or ctiss

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thanks, cainehill.

I'm still trying to figure Pan out. I've only played Pan in my 4 MP games: have lost 2 games, am losing in another one (Ulm attacked me early on), and am one of 4 players left in another (my best showing so far, although I just got hit with a couple of 30 strength devil armies).

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Make it man for me

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Players:

Me: Ryleh
Yellow Cactus: Mictlan
Bale Blackmoon: Marignon
Cainehill: Jotunheim
anatoli11: Vanheim
Legacyspy: Man
jeffr: Pangea
Jarkko: Arcoscephale

Also I believe Rob_Core is actually interested in playing, he's going to be Abyssia.

So, that's 9 players. All I have left to do is figure out what map to play on and set up the server. I'll do that tomorrow. Then we can start!

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I'd like to play on Zen's Europe, but it says "water nations have a significant advantage" and I don't want to cherry-pick my own map. What do other people think?

Has anyone played on "Sea and Sky"? It looks pretty funky.

We could just play Karan, I guess. I need opinions.

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Hmmm. Yeah, Europe really should have either 2 water nations or none.

Parganos is nice though; Sea and Sky (just looked at it) looks ... different, but may or may not be balanced. Also, too many water provinces compared to land, for a single water nation imo.

Karan - Karan Dry might be good, but not so much normal Karan, as the water nation can readily hit almost _any_ province because all lakes are connected and whatnot.

Myself, I'd recommend Parganos as first choice, Karan Dry as second, Sea and Sky 3rd (unless someone else can chime in with firsthand reports saying they've played it and it was balanced and good).

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No no not not Karan, or desert Eye. If some one could show me where to get parganos I would be greatly interested.

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Parganos (and a bunch of other great and/or popular maps such as Cradle of Dominion or Tyrande (which is great, but only for SP games - sites embedded in the map make it bad for MP games)) can be found here on Illwinter's site.

Gandalf and Arryn both have other sites with good maps, in Gandalf's case, a plethora of random maps that are regenerated anew daily.

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I believe Yellow Cactus has agreed to play Atlantis, so we're going to try out Zen's Europe.

The server IP is 192.168.0.3 port 2000

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That is a local server address... Don't we need the regular IP?

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heh yah. you might have to go into your router and port forward whatever port you choose, CUnknown.

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Does this work? IP = 68.190.44.112

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Yup, that works!!

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Hmm... I can't get contact with the server.

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I'm in as Atlantis.
-Yc

Last one to invade Poland is a Rotten Egg!

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I've got Jotunheim uploaded.

(Remember folks: IP is 68.190.44.112, port 2000.)

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i've uploaded Pangaea.

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I *still* can't get a connection to the serve http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Does anyone have any ideas on why Jarkko can't connect? I'd hate to start without him. I'm not doing anything wrong, am I?

I think I will probably start the game tomorrow, reasoning that if people don't want to connect, they will probably go AI anyway soon enough. But, this thing with Jarkko is concerning me.

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Given that everyone else can connect, odds are that it's something on his end - firewall / router settings or whatnot. It occasionally happens....

Or it might be the "usual" connection error, where someone can get in with enough tries, or by starting a second attempt while the first is hung - hard to say, since Jarkko hasn't said what exactly happens when he tries.

Depending on his operating system, he could either enter cut and paste this into the command line (linux) or set up a short cut with these properties and try:

"C:\Program Files\dominions2\dom2.exe" --tcpclient --ipadr 68.190.44.112 --port 2000

Cutting and pasting will more or less eliminate chances of there being something wrong with his shortcut / command, editing the "C:\Program..." bit above if he's on linux or installed somewhere else.

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Note also that only 5 pretenders are uploaded out of 8(?) players. Looks like Bale Blackmoon (Marignon), Legacyspy (Man) aren't uploaded, as of course Jarkko's Arcoscephale isn't.

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Well, I do know about ports etc and I haven't had problems connecting to other servers. Will have to test again once I get home today...

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The following factions are taken:

me: Ryleh
Yellow Cactus: Atlantis
Bale Blackmoon: Marignon
Cainehill: Jotunheim
jeffr: Pangea
anatoli11: Vanheim
Jarkko: Arcoscephale, since he has at least tried to log on

All other positions are open on a first-come first-serve basis to a maximum of 10 players. The IP is: 68.190.44.112, port 2000.

Let's get this show on the road!

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Ill upload soon

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Well, whaddaya know. I come home from work, try the connection with a doomed feeling, and I finally get connected http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif My Pretender uploaded.

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Is this game still open?

Krool

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Yes KroolDreath, but do not take Man or Abyssia. All other nations that are open are open. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'll take Machaka. I'll upload a pretender tomorrow.

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Okay.
Call me impatient, but if people make no attempt to load their pretenders in four days, I don't see them playing. Shall we start this one up?
-Yellowcactus

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Where I get europe, I could not find it at illwinters site.

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You can get Zen's Europe map here at Arryn's site.

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We have 8 players, game is starting very soon guys. Get your pretenders in!

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Machaka: Uploaded.

Cainehill wants to thump me, so I thought I would give him the opportunity. Not that I will not die trying...

Krool

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Game started!

Victory condition is 100 provinces out of 135. Good luck!

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