Joker: new game, new theme, HA Ha ha
 

:D Hi, I like to laugh, I want to make you laugh. This games goal is to reduce the Dom. community to giggles. The theme will be thematic humor. Here the details:

Server: Llama
PBEM
Players: I don't know yet. Lets see how many jokers are in this deck.
Map: Alexander
Turns: 48 hours, quick host.
Era: Middle
Hall of fame: 15
Mods: Worthy Hero's
Victory: The Master of Humor. (He that posts the best thematic humor.) There will be a vote at the end of the game.
Magic sites: Default
Renaming: On (Oh the hilarity.)
Graphs: On
Missed turns: Two in a row and you will be replaced.


Races
Bwaha: Rylah :D
Ossa: Tein chi
Gregstrom: Machaka
Starshine: Atlantis
Mithras: Ermor
Ylvali: Bandar log
Tifone: Abysia
Crust:C'tis

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Well, I'd be up for a laugh.

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I'd like to join as TienChi. I'd like to show you how to dominate the world with fly wisks.

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Well a Whit, Come on lads and ladies, We will entertain the notion of a few half's. Do you have a map in mind, Something thats easy on the eyes? Its kinda hard to pick a map not knowing how many players will participate. I hope for about 8-10 players.:D

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Hmmmmmmmmm, I will play and since I have never played MA (and I'm pretty bad anyway) I should get a Laughing Start if you all don't mind.

I will have to go eeeeeny meeeny mineee mo to pick a nation.

Ahhhhh, decisions...decisions:p

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OK, I will take JotunHeim , Iron woods

I figure IF I take them they can be no threat to anyone as I have a way of making the most Fierce kinda.....meek?

In fact I think I will name my Pretender 'Charmin' because its so...'Huggable'!!

(If you don't get it ...its OK because you have to be an 'Older American TV watcher to get it):doh:

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I'll go for Machaka, mostly because the idea of a Colossal Fetish pretender is far too good to miss.

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I'd like Atlantis please. Who else is up for fresh Lobster? *blublublub*

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Might i suggest you use Throne of Heroes. It is the Worthy Heroes 1.8 update for the Middle Era only. I would like to see it used in a game to get feedback.

Turin, the Worthy Heroes author edited and approved the Throne of Heroes update to WH 1.8.

It has some new Worthy Heroes, and uses onebattlespell feature on some. It also corrects some bugs in WH 1.8.

Burnsaber has several of his heroes added in Throne of Heroes, and I added a few myself.
All significant changes from WH 1.8 are included on the readme.

There are some significant upgrades to many of the human heroes. Oceania in the water got several Worthy Heroes, as they have no base game heroes. There are a few races that got no tweaks. regrettably, tien chi was one. Throne of Heroes fixed a bug with Jotunheim where the summoning of one of their heroes was not working.

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Well, I'm in favour of that.

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My first mp game, I'll go for ermor and my pretender shall be called George... or Gordon, now there's a decision
(note may need to be babied on the technical side of things but will happily be crushed IG, prefebaly by Tien Chi...)

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Okay we'll try it. BTW Batman the animated series is what inspired me to make this game. Truly awesome anime. Okay, any more jokers out there? Nows the time to sign up. :D

Ps. If someone would make a map of Gotham suitable for this game I would love it. Please remember that there will be at least two water races.:D

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I´d like to join in. As Bandar Log I shall swarm you with hordes of mighty markatas.

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K with me, do I need to D/L something? AND go over all the mods agian pLeaseeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Hi, the only mod. I'm comfortable with is worthy heros. I'm concerned about the new one, but I find myself trusting this community more and more. The mod. is Throne of heros. Heh, I had a amusing thought. Playing Dom. in gotham, The Horrors Modded to look like the Bat, Lesser horrors, the bat brats. Nah too much work.:D

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Here is a link to Throne of Heroes thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=40540

This is NOT a new mod. It is an update to Worthy Heroes 1.8 Middle Era only.

It does add new heroes. The readme includes the changes that were made. Human heroes which are generally underpowered and useless after the start of the game, receive new abilities tthat inflict afflictions. Four or five heroes got a new modding ability, onebattlespell.

Turin the Mod author, the guy who created Worthy Heroes, helped edit it and gave it his stamp of approval. It was not called WH 1.9 to avoid confusion with a planned future update that includes all 3 eras.

Throne of Heroes is an update to Worthy Heroes 1.8 Middle Era only. It makes no changes at all to the EA or LE WH 1.8.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Hey, every single person around with 2 eyes... oh ok, even 1, sorry Agarthans... can see I love thematic humour :D Just give a look at my sig! (expecially the LolDominions thread, my first posts there! *sigh*)

I absolutely suck at MP and even SP sometimes if it's a stormy day (bad energies in the air!) and never tried Middle Age as well. If you people accept this worthless man anyway, I'd join with pleasure (mostly for the bright theme I admit ;) )

Being a naturally warm guy, it is spontaneous for me to ask for Abysia. :mean:

My only concern comes from the very small time. Just 24h, and quickhost, could really come to a bad sinergy with my university duties. I'll do my best but if you see I start missing turns just replace or AI me :o

(Bwaha, can you clarify WHO THE HELLFIRE WINS THE GAME??? :angel)

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Abysia in Throne of Heroes gets a pretty serious new hero. you may want to take luck if Throne of Heroes is used.

Though heroes sometimes do not appear even with luck 3 and 200 turns. it is a random thing. But you double the chance they appear with 3 luck.

Your base chance is 3 percent a turn. luck adds an extra 1 percent chance. misfortune subtracts a percentage point.

So luck 3 gives you a 6 percent chance each turn to get a hero. Misfortune 3 makes it impossible to ever get a hero.

Good Luck.

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Oh, I knew the mechanics (tnx for the reminder anyway :D ) but didn't know about nice Abysian heroes. Thanks for the tip so Xietor :)

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Welcome aboard to this ship of fools Tifone. To clarify the victory conditions, the Master of Humor is the person who thru the course of the game posts the best in theme humor. After thinking about it, I think 48 hr turn is better. Sorry if I'm not funning around right now. I wrenched my back and I'm on some pain meds, so I guess I'm a half wit.:D

PS. Still trawling for a few more more bites.:D

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I can't find the folder where my created pretender is supposed to be... The manual said it should be in /savedgames/newlords but I can't even find the /savedgames folder... I'm using a vista operating system- are they hidden folders or something? I can still use the pre-created pretenders in my games... thanks in advance.

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Yeah Vista puts them in a funky place due to the "User Account Control" feature. Check under "\Users\[your login]<YOUR name user>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Dominions\". You should find what you're looking for there.

Or you can turn off UAC via ControlPanel->SecurityCenter->Other Security Settings. Then when you save games or pretenders, they'll be under your program files directory like you would expect.

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Find the folder Dom3 is stored in, and within that is a folder called \savedgames.

I'm not familiar with the Vista folder structure, sadly. A trick that works in XP is to find the shortcut you use to launch the program, right-click and select Properties, then click on Find Target.

Edit: Ninja'd! And by someone with knowledge of Vista.

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Thanks fungal and thanks Greg for trying :)
Got around the mod thing by sticking a new folder in the hardrive part of the thing, I'm suprised I didn't give the game an owie... now on with the funies!

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It is a pleasure, Bwaha! I'm sure we will have great fun and the thread will be populated of funny posts ;)

I can't think a better way to thank you about the 48 hours turn, than this one:


Looking forward to play with you all soon :D

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Still possible to join? C'tis for me.

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Welcome abord laddy, Ha, ouch, Ha, Ouch, ha, Ouch. Great, Tifone's gonna kill me with laughter before we even start. Tifone I would like to appoint you second in command, that way if someone drops a safe on me the game will continue. Well back to work. Yuch. :D

PS. If you are killed, You can still post. the downside is the comics worst fear, no new source material. for example I fully intend to rename the mages that I mind control. If I'm dead I have none so that plan would have to be thrown overboard. :D

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My friend, being your lieutenant would be an honour for me, but I'm a complete noob and already admining' my first newbie MP game (Principe); so taking your place here when Abysian troops will descend upon you like a ton of bricks might be far above my abilities. (Note to myself: not the best metaphore, a ton of bricks sinks in R'lyeh's water :( )

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Then again, so do Abysians, so it's probably not as bad as you think. The problem is getting them out hot and fresh like before. Nobody likes a soggy Abysian... except us water nations that is.

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Bwaha, I am going to have to Pull out of this game.

I am in 9 games and we had ahhhhh errrrrrrr discussion on the time spent on turns and I lost. Since I go to the gym 5 days a week, have Rugby Practice twice a week and Play on weekends Dom has to have limits....

I don't understand what she is so worried about....I see her twice a day in the hallway!!!!

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No problem Gb. Okay, we want one more player to replace Gb. Now we have to discuss what map we want. It really shouldn't matter much. Any suggestions? I would like to start the game Saturday. So any comments, questions, ect...? :D

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Hey someone get a copy of the game to Terry Pratchett. Hmm, on second thought, don't. I would easily be trumped by him.

On Illithid humor, it is a common occurrence for Illithid humor to be found too deep for the surface dwellers.:D In view of this we will open to deserving students, The most excellent Rylah School of Cuisine. There they will be taught the course, To Serve Man.:D More on this later.

Back to the subject of the map. What do you think of the Pangaea map? I want a map thats easy on the eyes, yet fun to play on. So please ask the more experienced players for suggestions. Thanks, I will be back at about 20:30 PST.

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Ooh another Prachet zealot!
Note I'm making ermor into a spoof USA,as satire isn't one of the most apreciated forms of comedy I will offer the following disclaimer:
If anyone is a Bush-ite (If I didn't edit this bit then my reason for editing would obviously be a lie- my first encounter with automatic internet censorship doesn't seem to have gone well, sorry serious again now), a fervont US patriot, support the rupblican candinates for the whitehouse (Thanks to whatevers up there for Sarah btw)and/or don't want to see anymore of my silly little sentences in brackets. Then speak now, if not then I'll just get on with my plans for exploiting Machaka's resources.
Thank you for reading

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Did you guy's know that the uncontrollable urge to make jokes and puns is actually a form of mental sickness called Witzelsucht? There have only been a few definite cases, but the first confirmed case, and the case credited with naming the disease was in a remote Ulmish castle on the coast. A local smith with a tendency to slur his words would often scold his apprentice, Witzel for making horrid puns during work with the line "Witzel, sucht up." How was he to know that during the next few months the rulers of R'lyeh would storm their castle, reducing everyone to gibbering madmen?

To summarize, if another player's jokes start getting worse and more numerous, it means Bwaha's punishing them in-game.

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Uh oh...

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That one was horrible, plain horrible, quite enjoyable though :D

(Bwaha, I think you're missing to update or at least answer to Crust's entrance in our little club with C'tis, see? ;) )

How many more players are we waiting for akshualy? :p

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Thanks Tifone, I missed that completely. I think one more player will be fine. If no-one else wants to join thats okay. Everyone ok with Pangaea map? Saturday I will close the game to new submissions. Thanks guys, I can see this battle of "wits" will be quite funny.:D

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I'll have to go familiarize myself with it, but I'm OK with Pangaea.

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Sounds fun, I can post around saying the one god George must have created everything otherwise we'd all be medium sized lizards trying to be bigger lizards... (Yes imagine what it will be like when I get Ry'leh starts beating me :))
Ps. I should really get someone to write a program that doesn't let me type anything on this machine after 22:00 because it obviously doesn't do much to benifit the internet community.

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Excerpt from textbook. "To Serve Man": On the subject of Illithid Mind Blasts, As you know the surface dweller use a similar method to paralyze their victims. But our method is much superior, we simply target one part of the brain, the part that controls reflexive humor. It is much easier to make the subject collapse from giggles than to freeze their whole brain. The benefits of this process include improved texture and a considerable increase in flavoniods...:D



Allright signup is closed. Sorry guys Llama server doesn't support the suggested mod. So Worthy Heros is the sole mod. So lets weigh anchor and set sail.:D Send in your pretenders. Bwaha ha ha ha.:D

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Ehm, as my extreme n00bness wasn't maybe self-evident yet, I'm gonna ask which "Pangaea" map are you guys referring to. Do you mean "A Pangaean Earth"? Not to split hairs on the name, it's that just I don't get what should I download :D

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Can't see joker on the awaiting pretenders list...

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I think you can use any mod you want, you just need to get LLamabeast to download it if it has not been used before. I sent him a pm. But I do not want to hold you up. So if you get started before Llamabeast gets it downloaded that is fine.

/cheers.:)

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Okay, I've set it up, sorry about the delay. I went to a new pub last night and it was really loud. Kinda messed with my thoughts. Imagine my suprise when I turned my computer on and found myself on the Llama Server game set up page.:D

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Waaait, there's a problem. The link to the map into the llamaserver page brings to the Mines and Farms map, not A Pangaean Earth. It does so even if you click it in the "Create Game" page, so the game might be set up in the Mines and Farms map and not in our one.

I think you should ask llamabeast about that, boss :D

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A rather pretty starchild wearing red pumps comes to the podium and taps on the microphone, Ahem, I have a urgent request, I'm really concerned about global warming. Too long have the surface dwellers dumped their pollutants into the waters. To rectify this problem We've created a new wing in our military branch. This new organization is called: Illitheds for the Ethical Treatment of Amphibians. In short this will be referred to as I E T A. The duties of said group shall be the surprise inspection of gross polluters in their labs. We humbly ask for your donations at this time. Also we view the threat of the spread of the Abysian heat to be of dire consequences.:D

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Okay then lets choose a new map, We will abanbon Joker and call it the new and improved Joker. I joker...:D

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The great George now has a target, the great armies of Mcdonalds and Oilcorps will descend into the seas to give those um... water huggers something elst to think about... you are now part of the axis of evil for trying to halt magical research and just plain being to for your boots. Global warming? Thats the3 sort of idea you get when you live under water... George has spoken.

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Okay, here's a link to the new map: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...0&d=1199233709
I know this map works. Kinda roomy for us but thats okay.:D
The new map is Alexander. Boy this last problem really suprised me. I hope that everything works smoothly now.:D

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Drats, tin foiled again. Llama please delete the following games: Joker, I, I, i, and jokester. I will try again not using a short cut. Arrgh, what the hells going on. I'm sorry guys. I don't want to fill Llama server with continued attempts. I typed the game name in very precisely, :confused: I guess we have to wait for help from above. Llama, HELP!!!

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Ahah, you're bringing your IETA from one game to another, man? :D

Abysia's government says that we've nothing to with global warming, which is by the way, our government still says, a wicked unproven plotted lie! ...unfortunately.

We've, nevertheless, a lot to do with the wave of hot temperatures which will PURGE THE WORLD OF THE INFERIOR BEINGS in the next months. We recommend drinking at least 2 litres of water every day , eating fruit and vegetables :bananas: :tomato: :orange: :cherry: :pear: :apple: :strawberry: :lemon: :grapes: :kiwi: :carrot: , and prepare an urn for your CINDERS.

Take care!
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