Newbie Game
 

Hi. I'm looking for any new people who might be interested in starting a game for newbies. We'd use one of the standard maps, no mods.

Any interest?

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I've been playing about 2 months. I'd be interested. I'm not sure how "newbie" I am, but I like to play so...

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I'm interested.

I've only played 1.5 games via here.

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im interested, i hav only played sp games but not sure how much of a newb i am.

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Alright, that's four of us. As soon as I get everything set up, I'll post the information. Hopefully by sunday.

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I think we'll do Britian, which has a max of 7 players. What do people want to play?

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I'll take Marignon.

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Send god files to "dominions (at) verizon (dot) net".

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PBEM? I don't know if I'm down for that. If you want I can host.

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Alright, if you want to host, I'm cool with that. Let me figure out what I want to play.

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Sure, I'll put it up when everyone declares nation.

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If you don't mind another, I'd like to join in.

I've played sp for awhile, but this will be my first multiplayer.

What settings do you want to use for the game?

Indie strength? Research? Magic sites? Richness?

Barring something weird in those, I'd like to take Arcosephale.

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Can I play too? Pleeeeease? I'll take Ulm.

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If you either have a person drop, or need one more, I'd like to play. Tien Chi might be interesting.

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I'll take Pangea. Never tried them before so it should be interesting.

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I WANT C'TIS!!

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So, we have

Arholly- Pangea :

Hubris- Marigon :

Arkas-? :

CryingDevil:-? :

TheJeff- Arco :

Ioticus- Ulm :

Lear- Tien Chi :

Argitoth- C'tis :


Anyone have emails for Arkas or Devil?

Just a thought.

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I was thinking nothing wierd in the settings, maybe make indie strength 4.

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This is a TCP/IP game, yeah? If not I'll host for you. I wouldn't join a PBM. It's ok if you want to do PBM but I just won't want to play...

Crape, I just realized I'm way too experienced to be in this newb game. Count me out, don't want to ruin the game.

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Doh, been busy and havent checked here in the last few days.

I will go with Abysia.

I am going to change my settings and have it display my email addy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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sry bout not posting been busy i take r'lyeh if its ok.

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actually, after thinking it over for a while, i would like to take machaka pls.

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ok, game is up. hubrisrakarth.game-host.org port 2010.

Soon as all pretenders are up and I hear what settings you want, I'll start it.

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I don't much care about the other settings, but I'd suggest indie strength above 4. Britain's pretty small, less than 9 land provinces apiece. A little more resistance to the initial land grabs might make it more interesting. We're going to be fighting soon enough anyway.

In a few test starts, I was usually at war with the AI by turn 10. Either they or I were boxed in before then.

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Alright, I'll have mine up tonight I think. Tomorrow morning for sure.

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I put my pretender in for Ulm.

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What's the IP? I tried connecting and it wouldn't let me.

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On such a crowded map I think that I'll drop out. Well, that and the fact that I'm house-sitting for my cousin, and don't have my computer with me till monday.

That being said, I do agree with theJeff's suggestions for higher indis; 6 i would suggest.

So, next point of business, if anyone decides that they no longer have time to play (assuming you start before monday), I'll happily either sub for a couple of turns, or take over entirely. Just say the word. you can reach me at markoos at mail.utexas.edu . There we go.

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how does this work, am i suppose to send my pretender to someone or wut? and wuts the ip?

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I was able to connect and upload a pretender last night, somewhen between ioticus's and Arholly's posts.

I tried again later and again this morning and couldn't connect, so something has changed on Hubris site.

cryingdevil:
It should be simple.

Have your pretender designed.
Network
Connect to Server
Enter the IP/URL (from Hubris post above)
Enter the port
It'll give you a list of kingdoms
Select yours
Don't push "Start Game"

That's it. Of course you'll have to wait until the server's back up.

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well i guess i'll check back every once in a while to see if hubris put the server back up.

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It's been a week.
Is there still interest in this game?

Do we want to go ahead without hubris, or keep waiting?

I can host if we want to go ahead. I haven't hosted before, but it looks straightforward.

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Well, I can only assume you guys don't read the Gotterdamerung forum. I apologize for the delays, life's been kind of hectic. I'm surprised you guys didnt' start w/o me.

Anyway, server is up.
hubrisrakarth.game-host.org
port 2010

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Joining up tonight and no, i dont check the gotterdamerung forum.

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Excellent.

I did see your original post on Gotterdamerung, but that didn't sound like you'd be away long. After a while, I figured things had gotten more complicated and figured I'd see what people wanted to do.

Glad you're back.

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Cool, now who was I playing again?

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Well I uploaded my pretender again and am still waiting for the game to get off the ground.

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Uploaded my pretender.

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Pasted from the Gotterdamerung thread:

Oh, and uh... first off, man, this has got to be the most accident prone game ever. The only thing I can say is that I'm doing the best I can...

So uh... apparently my new connection is not stable enough to maintain a single IP address. It switches without even telling anyone. Good to know... now...

But this causes a problem. Since I don't know when it goes down, I can easily check and fix the URL once or twice a day, but not all the time. Which means it's unfair to have any time limit on the turns.

If there's one thing I will say about this game, it seems to be a VERY good game, and we have one of the most dedicated crowds I've ever seen. So I'm going to leave it on quickhost for now, and just trust everyone to do their turns. Also, this is all my contact information, so if it does go down, you can get in touch with me without me having to check these forums.

AIM: Uberd00d2
MSN: hrakarth@hotmail.com
email: hubris@ucla.edu (or hrakarth@hotmail.com)




If anyone else wants to host, plz do so.

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As I said before, I'm willing to host.

I've put a server up:
silverfool.com
port: 2010

I've set indies to 6, everything else default, which was, I think, the latest plan.

Hubris,

I've had similar connection problems in the past. There are several free
"dynamic DNS" services which can remap domain names when your IP
changes. I use ZoneEdit. You might want to check something like that out.

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Uploaded mine.

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Im going to pass on this now. Im going out of town for the weekend.

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I'm in.

Also, I'm using dyndns, but if it switches when I'm not looking, then there will be a several hours where you can't log in and the turn timer will still be going.

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Is the silverfool server still up? I seem to be having trouble with it.

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It was down, along with the rest of my internet connection, for a day or so. Apparently the result of a bad phone cord to the dsl modem. Last thing I thought to check.
It should be stable again.

Where do we stand on starting this anyway?

I see the following have uploaded:
Arholly Pangaea
Hubris Marignon
thejeff Arcosephale
King Lear Tien Ch'i

Of the other who'd shown interest:
Arkas Abysia
was going to pass, but since we didn't start last weekend, he can still come back.


cryingdevil Machaka
ioticus Ulm
Haven't heard from them since the original server problems.

Since we're down a few, I'd welcome any other newbies who want to try, but I'd like to get started soon.
Start tomorrow evening with whoever we have?

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I'm good with starting sooner rather than later. I do wonder however which map we're using? That might be nice to know...

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you can count me back in. I thought you all were trying to get it up and going this past fri/weekend. Can we also get a comprehensive list of what the settings are. I looked back and saw some changes and things, all of which has confused my fragile little mind. I just need a little clarification. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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It's already later.

Pretty basic settings.
The map is Britain.
Indies 6, everything else default.
No mods.

That's what I'd gathered from the discussions, so that's what I used.

Server is at silverfool.com
Port 2010

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Im in.

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No sounds of new interest, so as soon as Arkas uploads a pretender we can get going (hint, hint).