The Crow Road - MA 10 Players (started)
 

Since I'm itching to start playing MP again after spending 4 months in India with no internet access, I thought I'd start a game.

Ich has very kindly offered to host the game, since it seems my network is not cooperating/I'm an idiot.

All pretenders are in and the map is up: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=88C1ZXUE

The players are:

1.Tien Chi - Cicadian
2.Ryleh - janlm
3.Ctis - nozshand
4.Pythium - johnarryn
5.Ermor - BigDisAwesome
6.Machaka - ddavidd
7.Abysia - Griefor
8.Bandar Log - DocAquatic
9.Shinuyama - Herode
10.Jotunheim - wokeye


Era: MA
Max Players: 10
Skill level: Any. I myself only have 4 completed MP games under my belt.
Map: 15 prov/player random map. I thought it would be fun to have a semi-randomized map. For those of you unfamiliar with the semi-randomizer, it basically adds in random and fixed special provinces which can contain considerably tougher independents, guaranteed sites and commanders with magic items. I suggest you download it and play a test map just to see what sort of surprises may await. I shall set the % of special povinces reasonably low to ensure that there are still plenty of 'standard' independents. Also, I will try to make the starting locations as fair as possible, however there is still a chance you may be unlucky.

If the SR map is a big problem for people, I will reconsider, but I really think it adds a lot to the game.
Link to SR: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...art=1&vc=1

Mods: Worthy Heroes 1.8
Link: http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...art=1&vc=1
Other Settings: Score graphs on, renaming on, all others default.

Once 10 people have signed up, I will create and upload the map and off we go!

I am taking Tien Chi

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You're not going to find any takers with that IP... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

If you're behind a router/firewall and need a host, I could host the game when you organize it and send me the files.

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I am behind a router, but I thought I had forwarded the ports correctly. I did test it from another PC and it seemed to work OK. Can someone confirm?

If it doesn't work, I would be more than happy to take you up on your offer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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That's your local internal IP address. It'll work from somewhere on your local net, but not from the external world.

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Updated the first post to reflect the fact that I am stupid and Ich is a nice person http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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i'd like to sign up as rlyeh

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Cicadian, you should be able to configure your router to forward a port to your computer.

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That is what I thought I did, but it does not appear to be working.
I'm fine with Ich hosting though, especially as his server provides snazzy stats and graphs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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i'll sign up as C'tis if there is still a game going

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Id like to sign up as Pythium.

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I'm in as Ermor.

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I'd like to sign up as Machaka.

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MA Abysia if you please. If this one has normal indep strength then hopefully this game will be better than my first one where I was surrounded by obscene enemies.

Edit: I've flipflopped between Abysia and Marignion a few times but I'm sticking with Abysia now. I'll e-mail through the god for Abysia now, you can disregard the Marignon one

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I'd be interested in playing Bandar Log in this.

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I'm in with Shinuyama !!

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Ok we have one more spot left - first come first served!

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Other Settings: Score graphs on, renaming on, all others default.

What's about indep province defence ?

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It will be 5, but as I said we will be playing with a Semi-Randomised map, which means some provinces will contain tougher independents, along with guaranteed sites and commanders with magic items.

There will still be plenty of normal provs (especially around start locations) but quite a few will contain surprises!

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I will play - Jotun please.

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Thanks for the prompt response guys, looks like we are just waiting on Ermor and Ryleh.

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Sorry guys. I'm hoping to get my pretender in later tonight. It's been a very busy couple of days for me.

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Just a heads up - I might have to take 2-3 days away from the computer sometime within the next 2 weeks (baby is due). So if I suddenly disappear...you'll know why.

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Hey congratulations man! Hope all goes well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Just let me know (if you can) and we'll put the game on hold for you

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Ok just sent my pretender in.

And grats Wokeye!

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Thank you, all pretenders are now in and the map is up

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Thanks guys - yeah it is unlikely I'd be unable to post for more than 2 days I think. I'll try to keep in touch as best I can. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

EDIT: Ooo I can find my Megaupload date in Sydney! LOL

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Just a note... the master password was included in the zip file you sent us, Cicadian. This will allow anyone to look at anyone else's turns, should they care to do so...

I didn't password my pretender anyhow, so its moot for me, but it bears mentioning...

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Is there a way to re-run something (first turn, map randomizer?) or change the password to fix that?

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I can change the master password, but putting the pretenders into the file with the map probably wasn't the best of ideas... Anyway, the server will go up in some hours.

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The pwd of Jotun & TC are also visible in the .txt file.
@Wokeye : changing the pwd of your pretender => creating a new pretender.

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Uh, sorry guys, I made two archives, one with the map file + pretenders for lch and one with just the map for everyone else. It appears I put in the wrong link in the thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

If people would like to resubmit that is fine.

Edit- Actually I think the best thing to do is just for myself and BDA to resubmit with different passwords and for lch to use a different master (obviously).

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I didn't receive this zip file, Neither the way to connect server.
My mail : ddavidd1 at free point fr

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The file was not mailed : there was a link.

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Ok, I have taken this opportunity to redo the map as well, since I discovered that Ryleh gets kinda screwed every time with the original.

I have tested the starts on the new improved one 10 times and everyone got a fair start each time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Please replace the original map with this one.
Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=88C1ZXUE

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So um, you said to resend a password? So what am I doing?

Should I resend my god with a different pw?

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Yes please. Ich can then host the game

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would it be ok if i resend my pretender file?

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Sure, do it quick though, I just PMed lch asking him to host http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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my password was not included, so i won't be resending my pretender file.

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Any chance of this kicking off soon?

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I have all the pretender files now. However the server is acting up, Dom3 is segfaulting (aka crashing), as well as other OpenGL programs, I am trying to circle the problem at the moment. Probably a driver problem. I can start the executable when I disable optimized shared libs, but I don't like that as a real solution. I'm working on it.

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Well thanks for making me feel dumb Ich, cause I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

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It's not like I really know what I am talking about either. But it turned out that it wasn't OpenGL/driver/Xlibs related but the i686-optimized libc6 was the problem. I have removed that now and I can start games again. It will start shortly.

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Thanks for hosting, Ich.

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LOL sounds very technical - hope you can get it sorted OK, Ich!

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Linux geeks have a language of their own. But don't be afraid : I dissected one of them once ago and they look line plain humans inside. It's just the cognitive module and the sociolinguistic-behaviour related dll which follow their own ways. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Here we go http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I checked the status page : there is a minor bug in the list of players : the names do not fit with the nations. It's just about displaying the array : hosting works fine and my turn (Shinuyama) is correctly identified as completed. Its the first server hosted game I play, it's cool (no more mails to send, files to copy, & so on http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif)

Thanks for hosting !

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Dang. And here I thought I could just sort the players list by nation names when putting in the names. Would've been too easy: Shinuyama is named mid_bakemono in the filenames, that's why everything is off by one.

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Those Illwinter guys are really perverse http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Hooray we are underway!

Big thanks to lch and good luck everyone!