Blitz Games on host.dom3minions.com
 

Server host.dom3minions.com
(63.199.8.157 if you would rather use that)
era 1 game bl_roundfish on port 8659
era 1 game bl_hickwall on port 8696
era 1 game bl_tronador on port 8881
era 2 game bl_cysteine on port 8885
era 2 game bl_aspectant on port 8066
era 2 game bl_wrecky on port 8093
era 3 game bl_freed on port 8694
era 3 game bl_Sturninae on port 8754
era 3 game bl_ormer on port 8082

These are blitz games. Small random maps.
Each one will start when 2 people have joined.

Here is the start codes...
dom3 -T --makemap $GAME --mapaa --mapsize 640 480 --mapprov 30

nohup dom3 -g $GAME --port $PORT -ST --statfile --scoredump \
--preexec $DIR/pre.sh --postexec $DIR/post.sh \
--era $ERA --indepstr 5 --hofsize 10 --magicsites 65 \
--uploadmaxp 2 --renaming --mapfile $MAP --masterpass $MPASS \
-q --hours 24 >$DIR/game.log 2>$DIR/game.err &

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Ok its a sloppy first effort but it shows the maps.
The name of the game is under the thumbnail

http://host.dom3minions.com/games/index2_bl.jpg

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Thanks for setting this up!

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Just so I am aware ahead of time, what happens if you attempt to login to a port that is currently being used to run a game?

=$= Big J Money =$=

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Pasha : Congrats on Maine getting 2 medals at GABF this past weekend, while NM got _none_ (and got me near crippled flipping a mountain bike http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif )

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How nice about the beer. Sorry about your injury.

What beers were they? I'd like to sample! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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You should try to visit the Oktoberfest in Munich sometime. Now that is really good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
Horst and Boron, have you ever visited it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I will visit it in the next year also with my babe + friends of course. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If the game has started? It will ask you which nation (already in play) that you want to play. Thats why its important to password the gods that you plan to use on servers. Otherwise anyone can play your turn.

Pros and Cons. It allows you to play from home, work, laptop, etc. But it allows someone else to play you unless you password protect your gods.

Anyway, dont sweat it. Connect to any and you will either get a screen allowing you to choose any nation, or a screen telling you to pick one of the two nations in play and you can just cancel off of that one to pick another.

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Oh, and on the screen to choose your nation, it will highlight the ones that you have a god made for. You do have to use the tools to make a god before joining one of these games.

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Come on people. Just pick a game and declare your challenge. Such as saying "Im in game cyan as Pangaea". Or are we not ready for head-to-head? Want larger games? larger maps?

Gandalf Parker

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I'd play, but I only got demo. I'm not going to be eaten alive by some eldritch full version owner who Cloud Trapezes has Lord of the Sky and proceeds to Wrath my forces to ashes.

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I'd like to be trashed by somebody, but sadly I totally fail to understand this:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I have the same problem with Dom2, never figured out how to do those connection-code thingies (unless somebody told me in easy two syllable words (one word at a time) what to do each and every time I did one of those)... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

Could I be rude enought to ask for an example how to join "era 2 game bl_cysteine on port 8885", please? I am running the Windows version. And yeah, I am capable of playing MP games (at least Dom2 games), I just "have to" do it from the game menu. Ie I presume I can't just start the game and connect to the server and port 8885, but I need to have done some of these fancy coding thingies?

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All you need to do is:

1. Start Dom3.
2. Click on Network
3. Click on Connect to Dominions Server
4. type dom3minions.com and press enter
5. type 8885 and press enter
6. select the nation you wish to play (have a pretender created using game tools beforehand)

Sorry that some of the words were of more than two syllables http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Hum it looks like it's possible to start a game alone. I wanted to look how the server worked, and I've started a game in the first port "roundfish" thinking that the program was just going to say "waiting for another player". But the game seem to have started even if I was alone (according to the first screen there was only my EA Ermor in the game, but I've got the message about hosting in 24 hrs and could give orders). Then I've clicked "end turn", and I've ascended and got a nagot gick fell.

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Did you click on Start Game rather than on Disconnect? If you are the first player to join a particular game, you need to select your nation, which will upload your pretender, then click disconnect. The game will then wait for a 2nd player to upload.

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Thanks Truper, well done, I have not played blitz games on a TCP'ie thingymyjig before, so thanks for the CLEAR, concise idiots guide.

Show me code like Gandalf Parker did and my brain shuts down. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Will try 1 or 2 now.

Lets see if I understand correctly, the pocedure, this thread is like throwing done a gauntlet, I start a blitz game, then issue a challenge in this thread giving the port no., yes?

Someone takes up the challenge, we blitz away at each another. I presume once I have done my turn, opponents done his, the games hosts automatically? So in a 24 hr period u could get throu. alot of turns?

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Yes. ^^ Thanks, I've only played in hot seat and pbem so I didn't know.

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I'd like to play some MP, but I have been tied up with learning the ropes of SP before I get started with MP. How long does the normal blitz game take?

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Thanks! This is exactly what I needed (and I even managed to understand some of the longer words http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ). Thumbs up!
Now all I need is to find an opponent http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I presume it is ok for me to open up just the port in question (and have it forwarded on my router)? Ie no additional ports needed for traffic?

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Actually the server is host.dom3minions.com
The dom3minions.com is a different machine

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OK here is an ugly little check screen which will let you know which blitz games on my server dont have 2 players, and a link to a how-to on how to join a game.
http://host.dom3minions.com/bin/blitz_chk.cgi

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Warhammer, it seems in my limited experience that a blitz takes 1-3 hours...

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Now to answer the questions:
At the moment I have only 2-player blitz games (posted in another thread) or 5-player demo games.

Under consideration are:

A)3-player demo games with a couple of AI's thrown in

B)MegaChallenge games that will start when all of the nations of that era are filled, there would be 3 of those

For later consideration:

C)MegaArmageddon game where all of one era gets filled by players and all of the other nation slots are put in as AIs (that comes to 79 total)

D) Chaos games where each province is filled with additional random armies

E) Ally-for-Survival which would have random armies added all over the map, and all 79 nations, and the AIs are randomly allied with each other while being set to impossible setting. I suspect this would be a game where humans allied to each other would be a necessity rather than an option

Ive hit a gap now so do I hear any "please" and "thankyou" for anything on that list?