EA PBEM Doom Chicken
 

Hi everyone

I'm thinking about to start a new PBEM game in the early age, as i have no server, it would be a very traditionally handhosted game (but i would not decline, if someone would have a server to use http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

The Map will Cradle of Dominion (fixed).

I will be playing Kailasa. (i suppose there would be no agreement on banning ranged weapons http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif)

I will start the game, if there are at least 10 participants, but i would have no problem with a full house either.

About the Rules:

Everything will be normal, with the exception that the Hall of Fame will be sized 15.

Mods:
I will use Velusions Big game Mod:
That means Arcane nexus will be very expensive, and also gem producing items will have a higher price.
Link
Worthy Heroes Mod will be used also.

Pace:
The game will move 1 turn a day until at least turn 18 (with maybe some sluggishness because of the manual hosting), and then i will change it to 2 days per turn when 3 people want it.

Nations:
Abysia: Janlm
Agharta: Szumo
Arcoscephale: PAR
Atlantis: Valandil
Caelum: Cor2
C'tis: Lazy_Perfectionist
Kailasa: Hadrian-II
Mictlan: Ubercat
Rlyeh: Sir_Dr_D
Sauromantia: duke_commando
Vanheim: Papastoss
Yomi: Burnsaber

Please state what nation you want, when you sign up.

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I think llammabeast might be willing to let you use his PBEM automated server. You should ask. I am in about 5 games right now so I will think about taking a slot here.

You should link to the mods you are going to use.

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I'd like Mictlan please. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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okay give me Caelum, never played them, should be fun.

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I'd like to reserve Ctis, please.

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i'll play, i'm going to figure out a nation once i get back from work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Can I suggest we play Epic Heros mod?

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As i see it, this Mod gives you a thug at start, so i dont like it, if you want something like that, you can get a SC god.

Also it looked like the mod only does work in MA.

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How does it give you a thug at start? I'm in several of llamabeasts games and they all use this mod. I didn't start with any thugs. The mod just gives you cooler heroes down the road, assuming that your luck is good enough. That's no different than aquiring regular heroes.

Ahhh, only MA? Oh well.

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Ubercat- you're confusing Epic Heroes with Worthy Heroes.
Llama uses Worthy Heroes in a lot of his games. Epic is a different mod.

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could you reserve arco for me, please

could you re post the link to the big game mod as it goes nowhere and i need to download it

cheers

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Sorry thats what I meant too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

Can we use worthy heros? If not thats cool.

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Ahh my bad about Epic. Yes! If we're voting I'd like to use Worthy Heroes.

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No opposition to worthy heroes- except that my nation already has a few. But that's a petty way for me to gain an advantage, so I vote YES on including Worthy Heroes.

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i'll be playing Abysia, and i'm ok with using worthy heroes.

and btw, you got a small typo on your mod link http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'd join, if it's on llamaserver (or velusion's one) - manual hosting seems too unpredictable/unreliable.

Name suggestion: Rapture

I'd like Agartha as the nation.

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Ok, Llamabeast has offered me to host the game on his server, so it will run there. (this also frees my from hosting the game when i will be death [what wont happen anyway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif])

For me its fine to use the Worthy heroes mod.

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Rapture? Fine enough name.
A few suggestions of my own.

Raptor - bird of prey
SamAndMax - adventure game
GrimFandango - adventure game
DoomChicken - random
VampireGourd - odd myth

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I'd like to join as Sauromatia. Rapture sounds good to me, reminds me of Bioshock.
I'm fine with Worthy Heros as well.

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If I may be so bold as to make a fairly irrelevant suggestion: Having tried both ways, I would suggest listing as:

Abysia - llamabeast
Agartha - LazyPerfectionist

rather than

llamabeast - Abysia
LazyPerfectionist - Agartha

because it makes it easier to see which nations have been taken. Not that it really matters.

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I would like to join and play as Vanheim

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I'm also intrested in joining as Yomi. I also vote for Worthy Heroes althought I'm going with Misfortune for my pretender.

Doom Chicken
 

Ok now that we are 10 Players the game will start for sure.

I called the game Doom Chicken, as this name is so wonderfully meaningless.

Id say the Map will be Cradle of Dominions.

Mods to use will be:
Worthy Heroes
Big Game Mod

Protestnotes will be answered till tomorrow, but then i have to inform Llamabeast about our settings so that he can set up the server.

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I'm new, but I like losing! Can I play?
Erm... Atlantis? Or, if you don't want a water nation, I'll play Niefelheim.

No opposition to worthy heros.

Doom Chicken
 

*SQUAWK*

/me casts evil eye towards Dire Wolf.

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??? Evil... eye... wolf.. wha?

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Since we're now Doom Chicken, I'm going to discard my Lamia strategy and build a pretender around either a Prince of Death, Dragon, Solar Disc, or Phoenix. Maybe Shedu.

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Hmm... yes... thanks for the information.
NOw, how would you describe your battle tactics? ASre there any easily exploitable weaknessess?

I am going to hope that 1) I;m allowed to take Atlantis and 2) that there are no other water naitons.

Then, I'm going to hide in the ocean and never come out.

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Hint. Hint. Banishment. Cause you know, I may have undead.
Hint. Hint. All my units are coldblooded.

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Wow. Thanks. You're very helpful.

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Take a pretender with high water, and HORDE water gems. Once you're "safe" cast the Global "Sea of Ice" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. No armies would ever be able to march on to your domain! (neither could you march into theirs, but who cares?). You'd be safe, forever!

Disclaimer; I'm not to held responsible if you get Dominion-killed, or if someone dispels your global.

EDIT: Unless it actually is me who dispels your global. Then you could held me responsible http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif.

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Hmmm. I remember one game where a friend decided to cast seas of ice with 2300 gems, and then couldnt get rid of his own ritual (It was cast by an immobile pretender).

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Wish for - Death!
Wish for - Armageddon

Flying pretender doesn't look as exciting as I originally thought. Sirrushes, for instance, aren't flyers, and I've got no air gems. Who knows what I really will do... I don't. But I'll try to have something ready.

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We still need a working link to the Big Game mod. I looked around in the maps and mods section and couldn't find it.

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The link is working, but here's a more direct one for you.
http://67.66.187.69/dominions3/bgmod.zip

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So.. we trying to get this one started before llamabeast heads off for a week, or waiting for a full house?

If we're going to kick this off before llamabeast leaves, then...
I'm voting for a full house, but it isn't essential to my enjoyment. I'll get my pretender ready for either case.

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I told Hadrian_II I'd get the game set up before I went so it would start when full (although I guess I need to know the expected number of players for that). If I do it right then all will be well! In the not-unlikely event that I bungle, you may have to wait a few days for a restart. But I will try not to bungle.

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Id say everyone that signs up until tomorrow midday (12 hours from now) will be accepted in the game. We are now 11 players, so its enough for Cradle of Dominion, we will even have a lot of space 20 provinces per player.

The only question is about atlantis being the sole waternation, i would be happier if there are 2 water nations or none. But Cradle of Dominions has only 20 water provinces, so it is not so much of a problem.

btw. is there a fixed version of the map where the sea in the northeast is really a water province?

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http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...;Number=501807

I don't know exactly, but this is probably what you're looking for.

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Yes, this is exactly what im looking for. so the map we use will be Cradle of Dominions with edis fix applied.

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So you have a probelm with not enough water nations. Let me provide a solution for that. I will play as R'lyey.

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OK, i sent llamabeast the information about the game, so as soon as he provides an address, we can start uploading pretenders.

We are now 12 players with 2 Water nations. As there are only 22 Water provinces on the map, the waternations will have it very cosy.

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Doom Chicken???? Jeez man, i coulnd't figure out what happened with this thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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can someone tell me what this big game mod is about?

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Quote from Velusion
"Large Game Mod Changes:
Arcane Nexus will cost 300 Astral Pearls to cast
Clam of Pearls will require a path 2 (instead of 1) in Nature Magic (Water will stay the same). This will increase the cost to forge.
Fever Fetishes will require a path 2 (instead of 1) in Fire Magic (Nature will stay the same). This will increase the cost to forge."

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Okay guys, the game is up (see www.llamaserver.net ). To upload pretenders:

- Make sure you don't have the Conceptual Balance mod enabled (since it changes pretender points costs)
- 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_kailasa_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name "DoomChicken" in the subject line of your e-mail

Assuming I've done everything right, the game will start when all 12 pretenders are in.

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Right. Dr_D, the toad people hereby propose a joint squishing of the ridiculous lizards of Lazy_Perfectionist. Once he has been squashed, the eternal and very uncomfortable war between the squids and the toads can resume.

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Umm... Who said we'd be using CB mod? I have nothing against it (it would make my pretender choice more powerful), but I don't recall there being any talk of it.

Is it confirmed? Will we be using CB?

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Tsar Ivan, God Above Gods, Prince of Near and Close, King of the Deeps, etc. etc. has been sent.

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We will NOT be using CB- hence, "Make sure that you DON"T have the CB mode enabled..."