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Time for another newbie game I think.

If we can get enough players I think this one will be 14 players, on Cradle of Dominion. Otherwise it'll be 8, on Parganos.

I will actually be away from the boards for most of the weekend (friends visiting), but please sign up below and I'll get the game set up to accept pretenders on Sunday evening. Because I won't be here to keep track of who's taken which race, make sure to read other people's posts before you pick a nation.

The game will be EA, with just the Worthy Heroes mod (a simple mod that adds to the variety of national heroes that turn up). All settings will be standard.

One thing I should add for newish players: I don't recommend playing in more than two games at once, or three if you have lots of free time. Early on it will be fine but later on it can get a bit taxing. Always better to be playing too little Dominions and wishing you had more than the other way round.

Players so far:

Tir n'a n'Og - duke_commando
Ulm - Firewalker
Abysia - Aapeli
Niefelheim - DonCorazon
Ermor - Cicadian
T'ien Ch'i - everz
Agartha - shogi
Fomoria - Freakboy
Kailasa - sum1lost
Oceania - Wokeye
Caelum - Sivoc
R'lyeh - darkchampion3d
C'tis - Janlm
Helheim - spacht

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By the way, a capuchin is apparently a South American monkey. The observant among you will have noticed that most of my games have South American mammals for titles.

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Well, if I play EA Mictlan I definitely won't qualify as a newb. I think I will as any other EA power, however. If no one objects to my participation, I'd like to take EA C'Tis. I've been/am in about 6-8 MP games so far. I've only played one other game as EA C'Tis which is on turn 3 now.

-Ubercat

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I'd like to join as Tir An Og.

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I'd like to join, but I haven't decided on a nation yet. Maybe R'lyeh.

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Abysia for me. Just been waiting to get to play whit EA abysia.

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I am in for Niefelheim..someone has to cool down the Abysians.

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I'm in as Ermor.

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I'm interesting in joing with Mictlan.

Will this be PBEM or server, and is that mod known to be balanced?

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I'd like to join as T'ien Ch'i.

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The game will be on the LlamaServer, which is my automated PBEM server. Basically it is PBEM, but it checks its e-mail every five minutes, updates the website (www.llamaserver.net ), hosts automatically and so on. I think it is quite convenient.

The Worthy Heroes mod is very widely used, so I think it is thought to be balanced.

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I'll take Ulm

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I would like to join as Agartha

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I would like to join as Fomoria

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On further reflection I'd better bow out of this one. I'm in enough games already. Please remove me, Llammabeast.

-Ubercat

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Kailasia

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Okay cool, we are up to ten players. Still space for a few more.

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I'll play! Total DOM3 n00b here...
Pangaea looks fun. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Will grab that mod and get a pretender together tonight.

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if there are still a free spot, then I'll like to join up with Caelum

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I'd like to play as well. R'lyeh for fun http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Okay guys, you can now upload your pretenders when you're ready. To do this:

- 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. early_kailasa_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name 'Capuchin' in the subject line of your e-mail.

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

We still have space to squeeze one more player in.

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i'd like to play too if its not too late, as c'tis.

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Cool, in that case we're full. Please start sending your pretenders in.

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If anyone is interested in switching to a water nation that might be a good idea. Otherwise we will have an unchecked R'lyeh in the seas.

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Watch out for my legions of aquatic troops! They will shake their tentacles menacingly at the landlubbers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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OK, I'll switch from pangaea to a water nation. I'll repost my Pretender tonight (about 12 hrs from now).

I'll take Oceania. Being from Australia, this side is rather apt.

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Cool, thanks Wokeye.

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I'm going to have to back out of this game, sorry guys.

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I'd be happy to take Potatoman's place as Ulm.

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Okay, no worries Potatoman and glad to have you Firewalker! Feel free to change race by the way if you want to.

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Actually, I'm going to step out as well. I'm already in two games, and am probably going to pretty busy for the next month. So, Mictlan is open.

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Just out of interest, when does a player graduate? (ie when should they stop playing 'newbie' games?)

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I always leave it up to individual players to decide (although I will ask them not to play if I know they're very experienced). Some players here have played a few games, most have played none to completion I think, and quite a few are completely new.

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Llamabeast, I meant to submit a replacement preteneder for Oceania before we started, but accidentally sent in a pangaea guy which was registered with the server - is there a way you can remove it? My apologies for stuffing it up.

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The title suggest that there might be a slot available on this game. If this is still true I would like to join up as Helheim.

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spacht - great, you're in the game. Please send in a pretender soonish. Please could I request though that you don't use two level-9 blesses, as that is strong to an unfun extent on Helheim.

Wokeye - no worries, I will delete it.

I hope to get the game started tomorrow (Thursday) evening (UK time), so if people can aim to have pretenders in by then that'd be great.

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my thoughts exactly

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I just sent in my pretender but got the automated response that the game is full. Shall I resend it after you delete Pangaea or will it work regardless?

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Oops sorry, fixed. Would you mind sending it in again please?

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Ok, I sent it in yesterday.

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Just waiting for Fomoria now

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Yep. Still waiting. I PMed him this morning.

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I tried to post my pretender and got invalid nation error. This is for Formoria.

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Is it Formoria or Fomoria?

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Aha, sorry Freakboy, that will be my fault. Fomoria hasn't played on the server yet - most likely I didn't add it correctly.

I will fix that, resubmit Freakboy's pretender (I will have it backed up) and start the game tonight (UK time) (probably pretty late).

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Okay, the game is started! The first turn has 48 hours on the clock, subsequent turns will have 24 hours.

I hope you all enjoy the game. Here are some tips from me on making it a fun game:

- Engage in lots of diplomacy. It's fun. Send messages to your neighbours, preferably in the character of your nation. Make threats, deals and alliances. One thing though - if you actually agree to a deal (such as peace for n turns, or exchanging items), do stick to it, otherwise you are likely to upset other players and make the game unfun.
- Post in-character stuff on this thread. See Tuidjy's posts on the "Neo Xekinima" thread for an excellent example of this. I really enjoy reading that thread.

People always say the most fun games are the ones with lots of messages flying around and posts on the forum. Silent games are fun too, but miss out on one cool element of multiplayer play - they're a bit more like single player versus very competent AIs.

Have fun!

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For you guys that doesn't have worthy heroes 1.7 here is the link to get it:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=537578

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Oh yeah - thanks Sivoc!

Also, I'd like to ask a favour - would anyone be willing to volunteer to be the admin for this game? Basically that just means that if someone asks for an extension, you sort it out via the llamaserver website. Also later on in the game players may come to a consensus that a longer timer will be needed (in fact they almost certainly will), and again the admin would need to sort this out. But it only takes a minute or so to do. Basically it's just hard for me to watch so many threads so it's really nice to be able to delegate a bit.

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I wouldn't mind helping you there

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Noob here. Won't let me take turn - says: Worthy Heroes 1.7 needs to be installed. But I have Worthy Heroes mod enabled, although the one I downloaded is 1.8.

What did I screw up? Is there a 1.7 version somewhere? Thanks.