VesperBat - LA newbie game - upload pretenders!
 

Okay, since LeafNosedBat filled almost instantaneously, I'm creating an overflow. This will be another game for new/newish players. I'd recommend players who've already played 0-2 games - if you've played more than that and would like to play regardless, post here and you can play if we're short of players. This should be a nice, fun and friendly game, a reasonable size but not too huge, and generally ideal for new players (that's the plan, at least).

This will be an LA game and will use the Worthy Heroes mod. Renaming will be on, graphs will be on, and everything else will be standard. However, R'lyeh and Ermor will not be allowed - although they are fun they both considerably skew the game (everyone has to try to kill them!), so I think they're not ideal for a newbie game.

The map will be my modified version of Parganos, which is modified (a) to have a much more fair and even spread of terrain types, (b) to have fair-ish start positions, and (c) to have no gold or magic sites in the seas - so this will be a land-nation only game. I'll attach the map to this post.

Please sign up here and choose a nation! So far we have:

Man - AreaOfEffect
Caelum - Zogger
Pangaea - jmb
Bogarus - Real_friend
Jomon - Kyosti
Midgard - Profanicus
Arcoscephale - Wookie_1977
Agartha - Zenphos
Abysia - Zenzei
Mictlan - DemonicHick
Utgard - gowb
Ulm - bernardo
C'tis - edhel
Marignon - Arghaii
Atlantis - Kamamura

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Bump!

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I'm already in a LA game else I might be interested...
(and that game would be my 3th so I'm not allowed anymore too)

Ow and with 9 or something newb games running you might want to make one for moderatly experienced players (3-7 games?) since I think those who would not be allowed in newb games but unwilling to play 7 top players might find that attractive

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I'll bite. Sign me up for Man please.

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Hmm, seems I may have exhausted the newbie game demand for the moment (not surprisingly, really - 5 games almost all at once is insane and completely unprecedented). Looks like we may have to wait a little while to get this one off the ground.

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Y'know, I really want to play one LA game, but this would be my fourth simultaneous game so maybe not the best idea.

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Hi,

I would like to sing up for this with umm lets see, I'll try Caelum. I would be my first MP game if this gets full at some point.

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Cool cool. I'm sure it will fill up gradually. Lots of new players don't check the forums very often, so it's just a matter of waiting for enough of them to spot this thread.

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Count me in. I'll take Pangea, please

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Bogarus!

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Sing me up for Jomon please!

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I have recruited another brother who has just received his copy from GamersFront - all 3 of us would like to reserve spots if possible! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Myself and Wookie_1977 are already playing in the FunnelEared Bat game, so this will be our 2nd.

edit:
Profanicus: Midgard
Wookie_1977: Arcoscephale
Zenphos: Agartha

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I can manage a second game, so sign me up. Pythium would be nice.

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Is this game still on if enough players join it?

Thanks!

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Indeed. In fact, I'm counting up to 10 players so far. That's enough to get a game going. I'm sure we'll wait just a bit more to be sure.

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on 2nd thought I better not join.

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Okay guys, brilliant, we have lots of players.

So, now for the popular vote: Shall we go for an 8-player game, as advertised, and create another overflow game for the excess players? Or shall we make this into a bigger game (maybe 12-14 players) on a larger map, such as Cradle of Dominion?

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I can go either way. If we have enough players for the bigger game that's ok for me. More the merrier.

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I am happy to play a 10 player for my 1st MP game.

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Does that mean you'd rather it weren't more than 10 players zenphos?

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I think he means that there are 10 players signed up now and he is eager to get underway http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Profanicus was correct. Eager to get started. If 12 players were ready I would have said a 12 player game would have been fine.
Happy enough to go with the flow, so if everyone wants to wait for 2 or 4 more than I am fine with that as well.

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I vote for 12-14 player game on a bigger map, cradle of dominions is nice.

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Since that will be my first MP game, I have no a priori either way.

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Okay, we'll leave it over the weekend and see if we get any more players. I'm away all weekend anyway, so it's not actually delaying us. Then we'll decide on a map size and get the game started. Apologies for the slow start.

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Yay! Please count me in. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I'll try my hand w/ the Mictlan if they are available. If not, just give me whatever. I'm still a pretty big noob, so any practice at all should help. :p

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I called Mictlan Demonichick, but if u want em Ill play pythium.

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I'd like to join as Utgard, if possible. What is this mod? Can I get some instructions on how to install it / a review of what it does, exactly?

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@Hiker: I have reserved Pythium but I can also play Abysia as I originally planned so you can have Pythium if you want and we can all be happy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

@gowb: Worthy Heroes improves most national heroes in the game and adds a couple of new ones. To install it, just unzip the files into your dom3 folder and then activate the mod from the game's starting menu (preferences->mod preferences->worthy heroes). If you have done everything right, worthy heroes logo appears into upper right corner of the starting menu.

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Oh, ok! Thanks.

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Okay marvellous, we are up to an impressive 12 players. There is room on Cradle for a couple more, so I will still leave the game open over the weekend. But you can now start uploading your pretenders! Here's how:

- Make sure you have the same mods enabled as the game you're playing in (Preferences->Mod Preferences) although only mods affecting pretender design, such as Conceptual Balance, actually matter
- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions. Don't set a password, since for PBEM games they're not helpful and occasionally annoying (e.g. if you need a sub)
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. late_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name 'VepserBat' in the subject line of your e-mail

The server should send you a confirmation e-mail when it receives your pretender. Also you can see what pretenders have been received so far at www.llamaserver.net . In fact I recommend checking the site out anyway - it will be helpful all game.

So, please try to get your pretenders in by Sunday night (GMT), when I will be getting back from my trip.

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By the way, I did the shuffling of nations that Zenzei suggested. I hope that's okay with everyone - check the first post to make sure you know what nation you are!

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A question about 'Cradle of Dominion'.

Are we to use the version that came with the game? I ask this because that map has a few hitches, such as a few water sites being treated as land sites. My version is slightly modified and so I might need a copy of the original if that is what we're going with.

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IIRC, Cradle of Dominion map was fixed in 3.15 patch.

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Hi, everyone. I am new to these forums, and I never played Dominions MP. I would like to sign in as Ulm, Black Forest, if possible.

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Welcome aboard. You should send your pretender as per Llamabeast's instructions above.

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If there's room, I'll destroy the world as Ermor.

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Ok, Ermor's banned so I'll take C'tis.

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By my count we have 14 players now, should make for a great game. However, I just checked Llamaserver and only 5 pretenders are uploaded so far. There's going to be hurry if this game is to start tomorrow.

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Some people signed up for this game quite a while ago. It may be the case that some of them aren't checking up on this thread anymore. If this is the case then someone should send out a PM to each of the remaining players some time tomorrow. Just a polite update will do.

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Is there still time to join? If yes, then assign me to a nation and I will upload a pretender.

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Okay, I'm back. I suggest we accept all players who have asked to join so far (including Arghaii), and now close the game. Arghaii - choose a nation (not one of those already chosen, check the first post) and upload a pretender.

I wonder if anyone might volunteer to quickly PM those players who haven't uploaded yet? It's an excellent idea but I'm really a bit short of time to do it.

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By the way I'm extremely pleased to have so many really new players. This is shaping up to be an awesome game.

We'll use the version of Cradle that comes with v3.15, which I believe is thoroughly fixed. Anyway, it doesn't matter what version you have, only the server has to have the correct version.

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I'll up my pretender tonight after work, should be an interesting game!

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Sorry, didn't look at the forums, figure nothing would happen until after the weekend. Will upload my pretender tonight.

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I sent a friendly notification PM to everyone who has not yet uploaded his/her pretender, so hopefully we get this game going soon.

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Brilliant, thanks Zenzei! That's really helpful.

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I wanna join, I wanna join! Please! I will play anything, including crippled blind midgets with speech impairment, just let me in!

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Okay cool. Well, I said the game was full, but Kamamura has apparently been trying to get into a game for ages, so I suggest he can sneak in on this game. Kamamura - choose a nation which hasn't been taken (you can see which have been taken in the first post on this thread), and upload a pretender.

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No Ermor, nor Rylegh? :-) What a pity, no chance to pick a truly evil empire... I will pick Atlantis then, to spice it up a bit. I will upload my pretender after a few hours, when I come home.