Pretenders Playtime: Pretenders playing in this thread!
 

Hello all,

In my eagerness to get involved in the MP scene I'll be administrating this game (hosted on llamaserver, courtesy of llamabeast) for new/inexperienced players. I've tried to make the conditions as simple as possible in order not to alarm, confuse or shock any potential players.

Details:
Server: LlamaServer (automated play-by-email)
Hosting interval: 24 hours moving to 48 hours in later stages.
Age: Early
Graphs: On
Settings: Default
Mods: None
Map: Cradle of Dominions
Players: 10-12

So please feel free to sign up with your preferred nation, and then we can move onto uploading pretenders.

Cheers

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List of Players

1) RadioGibbon - Marverni
2) Pelthin - Hinnom
3) Executor - Lanka
4)
5) Coreyh2 - Ulm
6) Juffos - C'tis
7) Das123 - Ermor
8) Calahan - Atlantis
9) Rtyffg - Pangaea
10) James243 - Helheim
11) JimMorrison - Sauromatia
12) Grudge Bringer - Arcosephalae

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I would love to play.

Hinnom, If I could.

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Isn't Glory of the Gods a little too big for 12 player, but it sure sounds tempting,
I'd take Lanka if it's OK?

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Hmmm, Glory of the Gods (MP) claims to have 227 Land and 47 Sea, which would come out at 22 or 23 provinces each, which does seem a little high (although on the other hand might provide time for players to totter around and learn to walk so to speak).

The Map doesn't have to be finalised until sign up is complete, and if the twelve slots fill up really quickly I might see if we can't get another couple of players or so interested.

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I would also think that perhaps Glory is rather too large. For 10-12 players I'd recommend Cradle as a lovely and good-sized map.

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Alrighty then. Map changed to Cradle of Dominions.

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I'd like to join as Mictlan.

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I think I'll stay out of this game. I have a few going on, and I think I'd have too much of an edge in experience, although I'm still pretty new.

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I'll play Ulm.

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I'd like to play as C'tis, please.

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I'm just in the final stages of being crushed in my first multiplayer game (Peccary) so would love to sign up again for another.

I tried Ermor in the last one and would like to try it again if possible.

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I'd like to join please if I may.

I'll take the token water nation since nobody else has yet. Don't know much about any of them, so will find out which one I prefer and get back to you.

(Edit) Think I'll give Atlantis a bash.

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I'd like to join as Pangaea.

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I'd love to be involved. Helheim please!

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I'll join as Agartha

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I was thinking that (unless there any objections) we'll wait another 24 hours to see if the last place gets taken and if it doesn't then we'll start with 11 players?

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Sounds good http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I've decided to go Atlantis. (Just in case the edit of my previous post went un-noticed)

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It did. I've updated the list now.

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I'll take Arco if there is a spot left....

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Nice work Grudgebringer...so now we're full?

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Yep. I'll change the thread title as soon as the game is setup and we can upload pretenders then. No reason not to be working them out now though (I know I am...)

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Thanks for putting all of this together RadioGibbon - really appreciate it.

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Awwww yeah....

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Got my pretender...where do I send it?

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Okay guys, you can now upload your pretenders (see my FAQ if you're not sure how). The game name is "Playtime".

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Thanks Llamabeast, much appreciate your hosting this.

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I think I'll start the game with 11 players tomorrow morning if the final pretender hasn't been uploaded.

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I recommend PMing him if you haven't already. Sometimes people just haven't been paying attention.

By the way, don't start the game until I say it's okay. As a result of work on the LlamaServer you now have the option of starting the game, but because of the incompleteness of the work, if you start it it won't work properly.

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Yep, I've PM'd him,

and thanks for the warning about starting the game, I would have just gone blundering in.

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Are we about ready to start?

Just trying to get a timeline.

Thanks

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Sounds like llamaserver is being updated - I'd say a few days at least.

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No no, I am working on it maniacally at the moment, but it is still working in the meantime.

RadioGibbon - PM me when you want to start. It wouldn't have been unreasonably to go blundering in with the "start game" option in fact. I'd forgotten it was visible in fact. Yours was the first game for which it was visible, and will be the last for which it doesn't work.

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Okay, the game is all ready to go, and the "Start game" button should work now. However, Ermor appears to have made a mistake with his pretender - I think he must have had some mod enabled (probably the Conceptual Balance mod) when he sent his pretender in.

So, Ermor (sorry, Das123 apparently) - could you remake and resend your pretender please? When you've done so let RadioGibbon know and he can start the game.

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Oops. File rebuilt and sent.

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I'm getting an error message saying the Ermor is already taken when I tried to upload. Any other ideas?

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Oh, weird. Are you using the same e-mail address?

I'll remove Ermor anyway.

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Removed. You should definitely be able to upload now.

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Ah. It was because I sent it from my work email address. Should be OK now.

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Alright then, lets get this show on the road. You should all be getting your first turns in a few minutes.

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WooHoo!
May the best nation win, and by best nation I mean Lanka!

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Has the game started yet? I haven't received an email with turn info yet.

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Heh, bug, sorry. Still a few little flaws to iron out following a large number of changes in the server lately. It turns out the "Start game" admin option does not, in fact, cause it to start.

Anyway, this is all very helpful for the debugging. Game started now.

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Heh. I would have posted something after telling everyone I'd started the game that in fact it hadn't started, but the forums seemed to be down.

Anyway, I imagine I have a turn to go do.

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Is it possible to send an email message to Agartha and Arcoscephale? Don't want them staling their first turn, and they may not realise the game has started. I'm IM'ed them, but you only get those if you check the site, and if you checked the site then you probably checked here anyway. Maybe we should delay the first hosting? I think patience is much better than people missing their early turns, and infinitely better than having a couple of AIs early on...

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I think that the admin has the email addresses so that would be a good idea. There are less than eight hours now before the turn is missed. Perhaps another 24 hours would be an idea.

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I've been playing a single player game on the map just to get used to it. It says that provinces with asterisks have higher level magic sites. Is this the case? In my game they are worse than the other provinces.

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This is Arco....I have turned in my pretender but have not received a turn yet.

We are on llamaserver correct? I am in 3 games and all on llamaserver and never missed a turn yet.

My e-mail is sfyke[ at ]kc[ dot ]rr[ dot ]com

Edit by llamabeast: Munged address to prevent harvesting by spambots.

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Hi GrudgeBringer,

You can request your turn to be resent...

http://www.llamaserver.net/doAdminAc...;action=resend

I've just asked for yours to be sent again.