Dolphin - EA game - restarted
 

I thought it might be good to host a non-newbie game as well as a new crop of newbie games.

Um, I'm a bit vague. Here goes:

Number of players: As many as sign up soonish. Lets assume it'll be a big game.
Map: We'll decide later. Probably not too much space per player - 15ish provinces.
Mods: Worthy Heroes (attached).

Please sign up!

I also need a volunteer to admin the game. This just means postponing hostings and stuff when people ask. I'm trying to not admin any games that I'm not in myself, lest I go crazy.

How to upload your pretender:

- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. mid_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name, 'Dolphin', in the subject line of your e-mail

Note that you have to post here if you want to play, not just upload a pretender. Otherwise the chupacabra will come and get you.

So far we have:

Abysia - Jazzepi
Agartha - Rytek
Ulm - Micah
Atlantis - Ferrosol
Tir na n'Og - Valerius
Vanheim - davegg
Yomi - Yucky
C'tis - krpeters
R'lyeh - carlosib
Sauromatia - Baalz
Mictlan - Ubercat
Niefelheim - parcelt
Pangaea - Papastoss
Oceania - Digress
Lanka - Sensori

The game status page is at www.llamaserver.net .

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Lanka please

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How about Tamarin?

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Arcoscephale.

hmm....what about Sloth?

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Absyia for me, kthx!

Jazzepi

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You seem to like those crowded maps Llamabeast. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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How about the South American Sea Lion?
Sea Lion? It's not as catchy, but maybe you could go with Otaria.

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Or more like Caelum. ;p

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Sign me up as Argatha.

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I think the game should be called Dolphin.

Jazzepi

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Is that possible for me to enter this game as niefel? :p

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Kailasa please.

As for the name, How about Tamarin?

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Think I'll give Ulm a go.

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atlantis please

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I think I will go with Dolphin, since it wins the originality prize. I assume there are dolphins around South America. All other suggestions duly noted though, thanks!

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Just as a general question, what size of games do people like? Myself I find big games exciting, but then later a bit daunting. Getting to the end of a smaller game seems a bit more feasible. So I reckon both kinds of games have their pros and cons.

If people prefer I can make this something like an 8 player game and start another game as an overflow. What do you think?

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I'd like to see a large game with enough room for players to survive early game rushes. Crowded maps always seem to give positions like Arco and Caelum an advantage. They just crank out elephants. I was wiped out in Capybara by Arco. At one point I saw he had a 110 unit army which was mostly elephants. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif In Armadillo, Caelum nailed me with elephants.

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Good news guys Lanka is now available again in this game.

I have to withdraw as I am sticking to strictly network games and this will be pbem, though a sort of automated pbem which is kind of in between a network and pbem game.

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count me in as sauromatia

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Tir na n'Og, please.

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can i play Vanheim?

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Helheim for me.

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I'd like to give Yomi a try in this game.

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Cool, I've listed you all.

I thought I might as well make it so you can start uploading pretenders. Here's how (I'll add this to the first post too):

- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. mid_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name, 'Dolphin', in the subject line of your e-mail

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OK, I'm claiming C'tis, beware my hordes of lizard critters!

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I suggest we go for a couple more players, and play on "Glory of the Gods (multiplayer)", which I think is a nice map.

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I think it needs to be fixed though. One of the sea provinces in the eastern lake isn't connected to the other sea provinvces. I was playing a SP game one time on that and poor Oceania's capital got stuck there, the only adjoining provinces were land provinces last time I clicked on it. 40 some turns in and I was wondering why the hell they only had one province still.

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i would like to switch from atlantis to lanka then please http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Are you sure? I'll fix the map. We'll need a couple of water nations I think.

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yeah im sure, i think i suck to much with underwater nation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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What's the hosting schedule going to be like?

I'd like to give Oceania another try.

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24 hour quickhost, at least until a fair way into the game.

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A killing pace for me. I relinquish claim to Oceania.

Oceania is open.

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Pity, okay I've removed you.

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I'm willing to switch to any of the water nations if someone wants to join as Yomi.

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i am willing to switch to atlantis if you want more water nations

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I'll like to join as R'lyeh if possible.

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NM

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Okay, having arbitrarily chosen to switch Ferrosol to Atlantis, I think we're full and ready to go. Send in your pretenders, guys (those of you who haven't already, that is).

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Oh, due to a tragic counting failure I thought we had 16 players, not 14. Well, I guess it doesn't make much difference but I think I will reopen the game, until all the pretenders are in at least.

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Hmmm, ok, so what is this "Worthy Heroes" thing, and what happens if I don't install it?

(The only free rar decompressor I've been able to find is broken, and I have no intention of buying one)

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It's a mod which just adds more national heroes - generally considered just to add a bit of fun.

Lots of people have problems with the rar file On windows you can download winrar if you can navigate the confusing website, and on linux, well, just typing unrar works for me, although I guess that's a feature of my distro. But all this is hassle you shouldn't have to deal with, and for that reason I present... my zipped version of the mod!

Edit: Actually I've attached it to the first post for ease-of-finding.

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Thanks for the zip!

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Another question... how do I disable it for when I'm playing other multiplayer games? Do I have to keep moving it into and out of the dominions directory, or is there another way to select/deselect it?

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Dom mods will automatically turn themselves on and off when you load a game to match the game setting as long as you have the mod installed. The only time you need to worry about manually changing the settings is when you're making a new game/pretender.

The mods can be turned on or off from the preferences menu if you need, no file manipulation needed.

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I'm in...lets see, guess I'll give Sauromatia a try.

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ok will reupload with an atlantis pretender

Edit: Pretender sent

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Oh shayt, I made my pretender without the mod, gonna remake and reupload!

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Doesn't matter actually Sensori - it only makes a difference if the mod in question affects the costs of pretender designs (so that's just the Conceptual Balance mod, to my knowledge).

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Just waiting on Agartha now.