Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Running]
 

This game will be played on an edited version of the Glory of God (multiplayer) map. The only editing I have done is to make the two separate ocean region connected by two connections and the edited map is attached.

I am looking for 12 players (including two water nations), which puts this at nearly 23 provinces per player. If there is hue and cry enough, I could see going up to 14 players, but I'm looking for a spacious map which is disadvantageous to rushers. I am also looking for a long, epic game with big armies and big magic in the end game, so please don't join up unless you're ready to commit to a six month game.

I want this to be a relatively quick paced game, especially in the early turns. If at all possible, I would like to see this start out w/ a 1-2hr blitz on Saturday or Sunday, maybe starting at 8 or 9am PDT (GMT-7), which should leave us in a reasonable time frame all the way through European time zones. Ideally, I'd like to see us stay at 1 turn/day pace up to turn 40+, but changing over will be a matter of consensus (with some bias in favor of those that want to slow down).


Settings:
Game Type: TCP/IP
IP: 24.17.189.161
Port: 8982
Hall of Fame: 15
Magic Site Frequency: 50
Renaming: on
Graphs: off
Others are standard

Hosting Schedule:
26hr QH, moving to 50hr QH later

Victory Conditions:
60% of provinces (165 provinces) or consent of surviving players

Mods:
Worthy Heroes

Contacting Host:
kirkpp at yahoo dot com

Nation Selection:
First come, first serve by posting on this thread. Once you have posted, you must email or PM your email address and player password. Once I have received your email I will send you the ip/port for the game. This is not optional. As I have seen players disappear in the past, I will insist on being able to replace players going forward in the future.

Replacements/Extensions:
Players who wish to surrender (resign) should simply let me know so we can find a replacement or turn the nation to computer controlled. If you are having any kind of availability/motivation issues, please contact me - communication is always helpful! I will generally allow extensions, once contacted, although I would prefer to avoid any long extension in the early phases of the game (if you're going on vacation next week - this is not the game for you!).
If you will be unavailable for longer than a few days please let me know. Failing to do your turn twice in a row without letting me know will get you put on AI. If I think you are missing too many turns (e.g. 3 out of the last 6) I will put you on AI.

Players:
1. Agartha - cupido2
2. Caelum - LoloMo
3. C'tis - BigDisAwesome
4. Helheim - quantum_mechani
5. Lanka - Evilhomer
6. Marverni - JayThomas
7. Mictlan - Hellboy
8. Niefelheim - Meglobob
9. Oceania - GameExtremist
10. R'lyeh - Foodstamp
11. Ulm - Sandman
12. Yomi - Digress


Links:
Worthy Heroes 1.6

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'd like to play http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'm in as lanka

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'll try marverni again.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'd go for this, but it's not random nations. Have fun and I'll enjoy the AARs.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'll take Helhiem.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Great! I need a nation choice from you.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Can I take Ulm?

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

must...resist...joining new game...already...overcommitted...

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Might I join? With Agartha? (I couldn't resist... this game will be my end...)

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'd love to join as c'tis, i got rushed by mictlan and helheim in the other EA game where i got assigned them too quick to even play.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

If there is still room, I would like to play as rlyeh.


(edited to change vanheim to rlyeh)

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'll take Caelum unless I can convince Foodstamp to undo his edit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

edited:
Nevermind. I've convinced myself to stick with Caelum.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I would like niefelheim please.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Could I have a crack as Yomi ?

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

OK, looks like we have our 12 players, BUT, we need two water nations, and so far we just have one. GameExtremist, since I have no nation choice from you yet, I'm assuming you're willing to take a water nation, but I need to hear from you with a nation pick.

Everyone get your emails to me, I've got 4 so far, if everyone gets those in, we could be starting by tomorrow!

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Sure thing...I'll take either Oceania or Atlantis.

Never played a water nation before, so give me a few hours to think about it and I'll send that confirmation email and give my final choice.

I'm actually looking forward to playing a water nation for a change http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I feel a bit of a goose.

Somehow didn't see your Sat/Sun blitz plan http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif. In my part of the world that may prove problematic, timezone-wise - so I will have to bow out.

My apologies. I hope you all have fun.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Give me Oceania, and I like Digress and from downunder, so that means if a sunday blitz is planned, I'll have to bow out, saturday I might be able to do.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

The Sat/Sun blitz plan was desireable, but not a requirement. I rather like having a global set of players, and would prefer to lose the ability to blitz, than to lose a player.

So, would you care to stay in?

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

So to get this show on the road I need to verify that Digress is (or is not) still with us as Yomi,

AND, I need email/PMs from:

quantum_mechani
Evilhomer
Shovah32
Foostamp
Sandman
Digress?

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Gona have to drop out here-sorry.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Hi Hellboy, can I replace Shovah32 and play Nielfelheim?

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Certainly! Just email or pm your email address + player pword, and we'll be all set.

Assuming Digress is still with us, we're back at 12 players now. I got a couple more emails in but we're still short, so if you haven't gotten that to me, please do so!

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I apologize, I did not see the part about the email. I have not designed my pretender yet, once I do I will PM or email you my email address and user PW.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Thanks, I have emailed you my password/email address.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

No worries. But just so you know, you can actually send your email before you design your pretender. All I need to know is the user PW you are intending to use.

As soon as I hear from Digress, and I'm 100% sure about the nations in play, I'll start up the game. Then, once you've received your email from me you'll be able to upload your pretender any time.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Email sent!

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

OK, now we're just waiting on

Digress - confirmation & email
quantum_mechani - email

If I haven't got emails in 24hrs from the time of this post, I'll look for replacements.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Digress is on board and I'm just waiting on the email from quantum_mechani now.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I've got everyone's emails, and I've now set up the server. I'll be sending out all the emails in the next hour, so you should be able to log in and upload your pretenders.

Please DO NOT hit the "start game" choice!

I'll do that once everyone has uploaded.


Edit:
All the emails have been sent, let me know if you have any problems.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I cannot log into the server. I can log into the middle way game fine, but not this one, I will try it again tomorrow.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Anyone else having difficulty getting in? I see at least some of the pretenders have been uploaded.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Marverni uploaded ok.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Oceania uploaded ok http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Still having issues connecting to this server. I have downloaded the attached file and I have the lastest version of Worthy Heroes installed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Here is what I have done so far...

I downloaded the attached map file and placed it in the map directory of Dominions 3.

I have Worthy Heroes installed already because of the Middle Way game.

I type in the correct IP and port you gave in the email.

It tells me I cannot connect to the server.

I can can change the port to the Middle Way game and it connects fine.

What a great mystery!

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Here's the paramaters that I'm using under Windows

"-C --ipadr 24.17.189.161 --port 1025 --nocredits --nonationsel"

Does this match IP and port with what you're using?

Edit:
Foodstamp, I would also set up an entirely new shortcut (or the equivalent if you're on Linux or Mac) and try again. It sounds like you're editing the Middle Way game to see if you can get at Blood Bath, so maybe there's some weirdness there.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...9-56-36-49.jpg

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

BTW, here is the command line I am using...

"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe" -C --ipadr 24.17.189.161 --port 1025 --nocredits --nonationsel

I have tried it without the --nonationsel, I have tried doing it manually by starting dom 3, choosing network game and putting in the IP and port. I have tried connecting with worthy heroes mod on, off. I have tested the map file in a single player game to make sure it loaded correctly. I have checked my router to make sure some weird bug had not reset my ability to connect to online games. This is absolutely baffling.

I am going to try to redownload the map file, maybe it is corrupted in some weird way and that is causing the error. The only other thing I can think of is some weird problem connecting to that particular port with my computer setup.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

It seems unlikely to be related to the map file, I think you'd get other different kind of error messages. You actually don't need the map file at all, it'll take it off the server no matter what you have locally, I only attached it so people could see the changes I made.

This seems more likely. It certainly is possible that 1025 (and maybe most all ports) are blocked by firewall software. Is The Middle Way the only other TCP/IP game you're participating in? If you can give me a port # (other than 1024) that you know is working for some other game, I can setup a test on that other port.

Other than that I would suggest looking for Windows Firewall software settings (or anyother software, includind your router), that may have blocked outbound TCP/IP connections coming from Dom3.

Iirc, when the first time I ran Dom3 on a TCP/IP game Windows firewall asked me if I wanted it to allow it to make a connection. It's possible that that might be allowed only on a single port.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Currently I am only in the Middle Way game. I just finished another MP game with no problems.

I took one of your suggestions anyway though and went to Gandalf's page where he hosts random games. I was able to connect to one of his games using port 8982 without any complications. It took me straight to the upload pretender screen.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Hopefully you get it working soon, but in the mean time you just taught me a little more about command lines.
I used to always type in the ip and port manually, and now I can just make a shortcut for each game I'm in. That is basically awesome.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

HAHA, well I am glad someone is benefiting from my misfortune 3 scale! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

OK, so I set up a test game on port 8982, try the following IP and Port and see if you can upload:

IP: 24.17.189.161
Port: 8982

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

No luck. Maybe our versions of the game are incompatible? I am running 3.06.

It doesn't make any sense to me that I can connect to The Middle Way with no problem, even after your IP change. I can connect to other hosted games that have not started. Yet I cannot connect to a brand new game that you are hosting.

I am at a loss. If I cannot figure it out by the time everyone is ready to go, I will bow out and you can find a replacement for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

I'm pretty much at a loss, as well. One more thing I think you should look at (if you haven't already). In the control panel, look at "Windows Firewall". If it is turned on, then go to the exception tab, and see if under the list of "Programs and Services" there is a dom3 checkbox. If it is there, make sure it is checked. I doubt this will solve the problem, but it's worth looking at.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Oh, 2 more things to do before giving up:

1) Turn off Windows firewall altogether (and no, I don't mean permanently - that would likely be a bad idea, unless you're quite confident you're protected through your router).

2) Reboot your computer (preferably a cold boot - i.e. by powering the computer all the way down). Never, ever give up on debugging a PC problem without going through a reboot! (or 2 or 3 reboots!)

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

Don't know if we'll get any answers, but I just posted a new thread on the main forum describing the problem we're having here.

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

OK, sadly, at this point I'm going to have to open this back up to recruit a replacement for Foodstamp.

Foodstamp, if you figure this out before we get a replacement, that'd be great, but otherwise we need to get this game started (and everyone else is uploaded, at this point).

To the potential replacement, we need a 2d water nation, and Oceania is already taken, so that leaves Atlantis and R'lyeh.

- Hellboy

Re: Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Recruiting]
 

whatever you did it worked! trying the real game now