Fracture running
 

Beset by the Madness of the Dreamlands on one side and the Living Dead on the other the many nations of the world formed a Great Alliance to survive. After years of brutal war the Great Alliance did triumph and seal shut both the Void Gate and the Gates of Death.

With madness banished and the dead at rest a new spirit of tolerance and reason suffused the land. United by their common struggle and weary of war, the peoples of the world sought to cherish what bound them together and negotiate their differences in a spirit of peace. The beliefs of all peoples were respected and freedom of conscience was accepted across the land. The men of Chelms studied the texts of old Arcoscephale and lead a renewal of thought and learning. The merchants of Marignon built great ships to establish trade across the seas that knew peace for the first time in Ages. Many peoples opened their lands to refugees from the vanished realm of Atlantis, and even in the wilds of Pangaea progress came with the long peace. But even in the light of this Golden Age there were low whispers in the shadows and the drip of Blood on eldrich alters.

Two centuries of peace did not dim the memories of the glory of Atlantis and while others studied books and built palaces the Atlanteans pursued plans of their own in the ice floes of the north and the Ziggurats of Mictlan. They found what they were looking for buried in ice and then they stuck- the Sky Priests were slaughtered and the old ways reborn in Mictlan. Where once they had been grateful refugees the Atlantians now ruled as haughty lords, while elsewhere they established a new city dedicated to the Cult of Bone.

The Sibyls of Arcoscephale were first to see the signs, but soon every mage learned the truth as dwindling forces of magic surged anew. The Wheel had turned and the dark whispers became a public roar- "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!" The Dominion Wars had begun again.

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The late age is not played much, and i think it's because people are intimidated by Dreamlands and Ashen Empire and/or don't like the low sites. At least that's why I favor the other eras. But I hate to see all those neato nation going unplayed, so here's a chance to play without the killer free spawn powers and with plenty of gems.

Settings:

Late Era, no Ermor, no R'lyeh

Sites: 45

Renaming : On

HoF: 15

Mods: Worthy Heroes

Map:

Schedule: 24hr QH for the first 20 turns, 48 hr after that

Victory Conditions: 25 of 55 VPs {20x 1VP, 10x2VP, 5x 3VP)


This will be a Llamaserver game, which means automated PBEM.
I will post the Llamaserver procedures after sign up for those who need them.
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C'tis - Tyrant
Caelum - Karlem
Mictlan - Nihil
Abyssia - KIM
Marignon - calmon
Patala - cupido2
Atlantis-Jazzepi
Pangaea - kasnavada
Ulm - zenphos
Pythium - Cor2
Argatha - DryaUnda
Man - tg122
Utgard - Misaarenso
Bogarus - Xox
Jomon- fungalreason
Tien Chi- Cicadian

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Bogarus!!

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Utgard.

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Man

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I'll play as Agartha. My preferred victory condition is for total VPs with lots of VP provinces.

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I would like pythdom please http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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condition votes:
1) lots of vps 2)no bonus 3)no mod nations

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Ulm would be my preference.

victory conditions: VP provinces,

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I would like to join as Pangaea. I don't care about victory condition, as long as they are explained properly when the game starts.

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I hope you're accepting newbies, as this would be my first MP game.. You're probably going to have to guide me on how to play, step by step. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Anyway, i'll take T'ien Chi.

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If you want a tip from an ex-newbie, well I have played 2 MP games, expand fast. You don't have the time to stuff around at the start like you do verse the comp.
In my 1st game I thought I was doing ok when I had 3 provinces then looked around and found the experienced players had 6 or 7. It was very disconcerting.

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Patala please.
a) lots b) with bonus c) no mod nations

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I will play. Midgard please.

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Ulm Reborn and Vaettiheim are both good LA mod nations, if people are interested.

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I would like to join. Marignon please.

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OK, I´ll take Abyssia

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I would like to play C'tis please

Sorry didn't see C'tis was taken, I'm happy to play whatever other people don't choose http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I would like to sign up as Mictlan

a) Yes to victory conditions, I dont care which as long as they are clearly explained as someone said before.
b) No to this one.
c) No mods either.

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I'm also in. Caelum for me.

a.- Yes, VP is ok
b.- No
c.- No

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Two slots left, Jomon and mighty Atlantis, Fal will be taking one of them.

Looks like lots of VPs will be the victory conditions. I'll get the map together and iron out the details with Llama this weekend and we can get going early next week.

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I'll take Jomon if Fal doesn't want it.

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sure I don't mind, I will be Atlantis then.

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Aaah, sorry guys, it looks like i'll have to drop out. Sorry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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I'm working on the map today, hopefully we can be ready to upload pretenders tomorrow or Tuesday.

We will be using worthy heroes 1.8, so make sure you have that installed.

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Is it possible to use RANDOM so that every player has at least ,let's say, 4 neighbour land provinces and that there are 4/5 provinces between capitols? I think that makes the game more interesting and avoids situation where turn 0 luck is the most important thing.

What do you think?

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This game will be called "Fracture"

@Karlem - i am not familiar with that util, but i did edit the map to no start provinces with less than 5 neighbors. It's possible that i missed some 'cause there's no graphical display for no-start, but i tried three times with all 17 nations and nothing came up. It's also a big map, so even if you are close to someone else's capitol there should be room on another side.

The victory conditions will be 20 one VP, 10 two VP and 5 three VP for a total of 55 with 25 the victory threshold. If anyone has a problem with this speak up now or never.

Three things you need to know about VPs-

1) They spread dominion for their owner.

2) The big map and lots of VP provinces will make it more difficult for a player to get a cheap win by pouncing on a bunch they can't hold with TP etc, but not impossible. In fact it's pretty likely that someone will go for it once they are in spitting distance. So, Beware the Pounce - fortify your VPs!

3) The distribution of the VP provinces is good and gosh darn random, so it's possible that you will end up in a situation where you win all your wars and generally do well but have a hard time winning because all the VPs are far away. That's just the way it is. To me the randomness is part of the charm, but sometimes it works out badly for some players.

The forum outage this weekend has slowed things down a bit, but we are ready to go once Llama sets it up.

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Here's a the link to Llama's FAQ on how to join a game, but wait till he's ready.


http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=531117

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The game seems to be ready to accept pretenders.

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Sorry, but, where is the map? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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The map is now attached to the first post and Llmaserver is now accepting pretender. Also, Llama is going on a trip this Friday, so upload ASAP.

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Pretender sent. I had a really hard time choosing.

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Pretender sent. Fear the all-mighty Mizu !

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Pretender sent

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pretender sent

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Someone has posted a pretender for a nation called Chelms. What is that? Did we finally allow modded nations?

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Fracture

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This might be a stupid question but this is the first time I play under victory conditions so... how can I tell which provinces give out VP and how many do they offer?

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pretender sent

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Chelms is the late age kingdom of Man. The server names it that for some reason and I'm not sure why. Don't fret, its not a mod.

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Yeah, it's because the files are called late_chelms.2h/late_chelms.trn, so I figured Chelms was the proper name for the nation.

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A day is good if you learn something new http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

Thanks for the info!

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They show up on the map as crowns- one, two or three depending on what they are worth, and you need 25 to win.

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Looks like we are waiting on calmon and Xox (Marignon and Bogorus).

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Marignon pretender is up.

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Let's see if Bogarus is fast and Llamabeast can setup the game before his trip. Cross fingers http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I will send mine within 12 hours Sorry for the delay, but the The instructions on the directory to find the pretender file are not correct for my system for some reason. And people wonder why i dislike pbm games.

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If you're using vista check in:

~\users\<user name>\appData\local\virtualStore\program files\dominions3\savedgames\newlords\

for the pretender file.

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Bogarus pretender in.

finally found it, hidden folder for some reason and nto in DOminions3 folder.

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So can we start now?

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I PMed Llama this A.M. and asked him to start at the last possible moment, with or without Bogarus, but i have not heard back http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif, so I don't know. He may have left already.