Urapara - [finished - Abysia + TC win]
 

I am a little bored with playing SP only so I think about hosting a PBEM game for new people. There are many that got their copy recently thanks to that discount so it makes a good moment to start a game.

There are already 2 new games starting, but they are network ones and have different settings. And are full. And you can play more games at one time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

IF you are interested please write here.

I would opt for that settings:
Age: MA
Map: Uraparrand [wraparound] or Glory of the Gods [multiplayer], but that one is know for a bit undair starting positions
Players: 8-10, either single or in teams of 2
Research: normal or difficult
Score graphs: disabled
Gold, Resources, Supplies: higher than normal
Races: You choose yours

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I'd be interested in playing. I'll probably lose but hey. I'd like to be C'Tis, the lizard dudes.

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I'll play! I'd like to be Abyssia.

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If you want to play write what map and setting you prefere [or just write "whatever" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif].


1 turn every 24h is OK?

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yeah seems ok. any map is ok.

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any map is ok with me too. I always like difficult research and indies a bit higher than standard.

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Ok, we need some more people to start http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Zeldor - I've been going back and forth on whether I have time to join a new game (I'm a noob, currently just into my first pbem). I'm not sure if I want to join.. put me in the maybe column if that exists?


As far as maps, may I not so humbly suggest one that I made a while back? You can check it out at:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...&fpart=all

It is balanced for MP games more than any map I have played, has pretedermined nonstart locations to insure equal surrounding provinces, and avoids putting players in corners and edges which is also considered imbalanced. Also, its pretty and has a few fun quirks.

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Zeldor - I have an automated system thingy that can automate the PBEM for you. Take a look at www.llamaserver.net and poke around. Basically it checks its e-mail every five minutes, accepts any turns it receives (and sends a receipt e-mail), and hosts turns and sends out the trn files when everyone's turn is in (or after a certain amount of time). You'd be very welcome indeed to use it.

I was actually about to organise a newbie PBEM myself, so I'm pleased you've beaten me to it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Llamabeast and his llamaserver are awesome. Highly recommended.

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Complete Noob here. Just got the game yesterday. If you can handle my Noob-idity I'd be interested in playing. I have no preference on Nation, other than I have played my first couple SP games with Niefelheim. No preference on map either...

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Another Stardock noobie here. I'd love to join this game; put me down for Arcoscephale.

Any map is fine with me, and 24 hours per turn sounds good.

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I'd like to join up as Shinuyama. I would prefer a map not as large as Glory of the Gods, otherwise any setting is ok for me.

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I'm interested in joining, not sure what nation though.

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Zylithan:

I think I really prefer Dom style graphics, but I will download and check it anyway.

llamabeast:

It looks great, I will surely look at it.

spacht:

There are 2 versions of that map, single-player is huge one, but multiplayer is much smaller. But I think we will go with Uraparrand as it is more balanced for MP.

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Potatoman:

Are you sure you haven't played any MP games? You are 4 years here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Well I've played two games in the past and am currently playing in a third. That averages out to 0.75 games every year, so I don't play that often. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

However, if I am judged too awesome to participate I will graciously step aside, no problem. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon17.gif[/img]

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How many people do we need to get started? Im kinda anxious lol.

Oh and will it be teams of 2 or ??

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If I may poke my nose in, I would recommend not playing in teams. Team games are still quite played only quite rarely, and the diplomacy (which is a very fun part of the game) will be better if you are all independent.

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<----also wants to be on his own.

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I'd prefer not to have teams, as well.

By the way, Zeldor, you left me off of your revised list. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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If you're still recruiting, I'll play as Man.
Thanks

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Potatoman :

I am afraid that you qualify as somewhat experienced player. I would prefer to have only people that have never played any MP game, both in Dom3 and Dom2.

HJFudge:

Everyone for himself http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Eomi:

What race?

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Hi, Zeldor;

I'd like to join in as Kailasa. I've only played SP for a week now and already see the AI is not very smart. ;-)

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If you end up overflowing I will start another newbie game for the excess players.

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Arcoscephale, please.

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Ok, so it looks like that now:

Map: Urraparrand
Turns: 24h
Score graphs: Off
Age: Middle
Research: Normal ?? [but it makes lvl9 spells researched really fast, so maybe difficult?]
Gold: 175 [or 200, map suggested is 150]
Resources: 150
Supplies: 125
HoF: 15 [max]

Participants:
Me: T'ien Ch'i
HJFudge: C'tis
parcelt: Abysia
DonCorazon: Ulm
spacht: Shinuyama
cleveland: Man
eomi: Arcoscephale
Firewalker: Bandar Log


It would look like full, map suggests 8-10 players and for a first game it is better to have some more provinces to expand.

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If you would like to use the LlamaServer (do! it will make life much easier and you have just as much control), all I need is a name and I will get the game ready to accept pretenders.

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llamabeast:

I am sure I want to use it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I am lazy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif Name can be hmm... "Urapara"

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So what do we do now? Do we need to send you our Pretenders...where do we send that?

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I'll try Ulm...heard its pretty easy since I don't know all the spells and stuff yet. What next?
Thanks for organizing this!

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♠♠I think that very nice person named llamabeast is making our life easier and helping with hosting, so we wait for him and then upload pretenders.

llamabeast:
Could you advice me with research settings? I am opting for difficult but I have no experience with that so if you could suggest a best solution it would be great http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

To all:
Setting are pretty much done. So look at the map. Think about pretender. And check the nations you will be facing. We will be starting soon.

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I'll join this too if theres room - since its MA i'll pick any of Tienchi, Ulm or Jotunheim since i've actually tried those out in SP

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Hmm, well personally I would set all of gold, resources, supplies and research to normal, since almost all MP games have them on those settings.

If you are set on having gold higher than normal, setting research to difficult might not be a bad idea since players are likely to end up with more mages.

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Okay, I've created the the game, and you can all now start uploading pretenders. Here's how:

- Make sure you have no mods enabled
- 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 'Urapara' in the subject line of your e-mail

You can see who's joined so far at www.llamaserver.net.

Zeldor - you seem to have two players playing Shinuyama. You can't have that.

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I should be Arcoscephale.

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llamabeast:

This server is currently offline as it is being recovered from a security breach. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

shard:

We are already closed, sorry.

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The Cambridge hosting site is down, but the mailing daemon seems to work just fine.

I just successfully emailed my pretender & got a confirmation email.

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llamabeast:

Ok, so difficult research.

How do I admin the game and so on? You choose the map, set that parameters and so on or I do it through some tools?

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Same here. The pretender submission this morning was confirmed, but the webserver was unreachable at the time.

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I think this is out of llama's hands (hoofs?).

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Zeldor - you have to tell me the settings and map etc at the beginning - at the moment I'm the only person who can administer the starting of games. But after that there are admin options on the website to run the game once it's going.

As you guys have spotted you can still send pretenders in, but unfortunately you can't see which ones are in so far (although I can look - see below). Unfortunately the site may be down for a day or two apparently. Quite a bummer.

So far you have pretenders from:

Bandar Log
Shinuyama
C'tis
Abysia
Man
Arcoscephale

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Ok, I will upload my pretender tomorrow and we will wait for other people. I think we could start on Friday.

shard:

If someone does not show up you could replace him, but we will know it on Friday.

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The server is back up again.

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Checked out the Nations Joined So Far section of the game and it says none have joined. But Llama said that 6 of us had...hmm...

Should we send again or..?

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Just sent mine in (Ulm).

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HJFudge - that was just because the site hadn't fully recovered and wasn't up to date. Your pretenders are listed now.

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Ok, it looks like we have all pretenders and we can start.

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Hooray

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Yep, I will start this in the morning (UK time). Have to crawl off to bed now...