We are happy to announce "Summer Madness", a game of strategic exploration.

The game has begun!

Settings:

Server: Llamaserver ................................. Era: Early Age ............................... Mods: CBM 1.5
Magic Research: Easy ............................ Special Site Frequency: 50 ............ Indie Strength: 5
Score Graphs: On ................................... HOF: 15 ........................................ Random Event Frequency: Common
Money, Resource, Supply Multiple: 100...Starting Provinces: 1.......................Renaming: On
Map: Urapparand (145 land, 35 sea)

Game Administrator: Anthropos

Hosting Interval: 24 hours.

Victory Conditions: Last man standing, or mutually agreed upon capitulation.

Delays: Liberal.

Qualifications: Players should understand the goal of the game is "Strategic Exploration".
Exploitation of known winning strats is discouraged. Deviating into new territory, experimenting with weird pretenders/domains is encouraged. New to MP? Check out the Llamaserver FAQ

Players:
SciencePro: Hinnom
Anthropos: R'lyeh
Binarysolo: Arcoscephale
Raiel: Yomi
RabitDynamite: T'ien C'hi
Sil: Formoria
Kianduatha: Pangea
Ossa: Ermor
Iainuki: Atlantis

Game is running.
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo....=SummerMadness

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Heh... in MP it's ALL new territory to me, so please count me in as Yomi.

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I really shouldn't join any more games, but I'm really tempted to try something incredibly stupid with EA Atlantis. *Incredibly stupid*.

I should warn people that if I do join, I'll be gone for a good chunk of time in August. (like 10 days and later ~4 days). If that's not too much of a pain let me know and I'm in.

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Which map is this going to be on anyway. I've just been noticing that my underwater fortresses don't receive any production bonus from adjacent non-underwater territories. That's rather annoying.

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If nobody minds another newb in the game, I'd like to take T'ien Ch'i.

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First I was insanely busy for two weeks and now I have huge amounts of time, so might as well join a game especially as EA has the most interesting nations. I'll take Fomoria.

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Ditto; If you don't mind another newbie in the game, I'd love to try something utterly silly with EA Pangaea.

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While I woud LOVE to see what silliness you do with Atlantis, I think that planning for 14 days out of the month is a bit too much AFK. So for now, I prefer not to add you to the game.
Sorry.

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Let's get started this week with the players we have signed up (+ or - one more).
This gives us 6-8 players.

I have been examining Maps.
I am considering the following three smaller maps:

Name (Land Provinces/Sea Provinces)
Ossya (49/12)
Silent Seas-wraparound (45/8)
Urgaia (51/8)

Does anyone have strong feelings for/against any of these?

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Since Squirrelloid's out, I'd like to take a turn at EA Atlantis. I will be gone later this month around July 25th, but otherwise I don't have any commitments that will prevent me from getting turns in that I'm aware of.

As for maps, my personal preference is for maps bigger than that. Especially, those are a bit short on water for 2 water nations.

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I'd like to join as... Ermor. This should be experimental enough;)

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If we're going 9 we could perhaps afford something a little chunkier. Land of Legends maybe? (131/18) That said, I think I favour bigger maps anyway, so my view may not be entirely trustworthy

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My personal preference if for about 15 provinces or more per player, but I'm in regardless and I will happily defer to the game admin/starter.

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Game is ready, please upload pretenders.

We are using the mod CBM 1.5
Get the mod here:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=43120
Load the mod
Use the game tools to create a pretender god (early age, for your nation)
Mail the god to pretenders@llamaserver.net

Further instructions here:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...16&postcount=2

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Quick comment: I uploaded my pretender, but Urraparrand is 150% money by default. The original post said 100% money. What is it actually? I admit I was planning for 100% gold/resources/etc. settings.

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I set the 'gold' setting at 100% in the map setting when making the game.
I assume we will then get 100% gold.
If some one knows more, and the map itself overrides that, please speak up.
Otherwise, expect 100%.

Bye for now
Anthropos

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It should be fine, then.

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Hey all:

I'm the "tbd" player; planning on joining in as Arcoscephale. I'm more or less a complete noob having only played Dom3 a couple times offline as the overpowered Nifelheim race and have no multiplayer experience at all, so hope y'all will bear with me. :)

Anyways, I'll tinker around with a build that should... well, at least be interesting, though probably not SUPER effective. :)

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Sorry I'm late! Is it too late to join?

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While I thought you might make it, looks like the game started just before you squeeked in.
As a lazy administrator, I am not inclined to rollback or remake the game so that everyone has to join again, so unless you joined as Arcoscepahel instead of procrastilogger, I'm afraid we cannot accommodate.

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Greetings Nations of the Earth and Sky.
Ullukulukas of the deep believes that your frail mammal forms may profit from knowledge of the deeps.
Speak to us in emails to warpweaver at in the yahoo dot com if you wish to negotiate.
We are amenable to all diplomatic overtures.

Wave upon Wave,
Sands ground to sands,
Until the tides take us all,
Ullukulukas.

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And I just sent in my pretender too.

Perhaps we could have two Summer Madness games?

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Sorry to ask so soon, I was hoping the game would get started sooner, but I will be at a wedding (a friend's) from Thursday to Sunday this week. Depending on how the timing works out, I can probably fit a turn in on Thursday morning before I leave and one on Sunday, but in any event I'd like a delay covering Friday/Saturday for certain, probably to Sunday midnight EDT or so?

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The game is afoot.
However, the beginning seems to have caught us by surprise.
We still await orders from T'ien C'hi.

As I mentioned in the beginning post, I wanted to try and get a few turns done as a lump, with us all logged on together. That may not be practical, but I would like to try. Our goal would be to do 5 turns in a row, each taking less than 10 minutes. I would expect, with a bit of organization overhead, we could get this done if we all had one hour free at the same time.

I am in the pacific time zone, but I can be up for an hour practically anytime.

Please respond here with your availability over the next 3 days.

Nation:Viable Time Range (GMT)
Ryleh: 00:00 hours till 24:00 hours

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9:00 to 22:00 GMT.

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12:00 to 23:00 (GMT), or so.

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General free time: 18:00-01:00 PST (GMT -8), with some flexibility in schedule; I'm busiest Tues/Thurs/Fri.

Converted to GMT that would be... 02:00-09:00 (I think, right?). Hrm, not compatible with you guys yet. Lemme see... my hours of nonoperation/sleep are 01:00-09:00 PST (which would be 09:00-18:00 GMT). I can try to wing a day 18:00-22:00 GMT given some advanced notice so I can schedule all my work and appointments around game time. :)

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I'm most free 3:00-13:00 GMT, but I could handle doing something perhaps on Friday from 19:00 on.

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Tsk. Sorry about that. Thought we wouldn't send turns in until after we'd agreed on a rapid group session and wasn't watching my mailbox. Just sent in turn.

I'm generally available from 10:00 to 24:00 GMT but I'm not sure of my availability on Friday - like iainuki, I'll be at a wedding, but I should be available long enough to send in a turn if we don't miss Friday.

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Sorry for the delayed response, guys... my house got hit by Denver's freak/surprise tornado a couple of nights ago. My time for gaming was limited, but now I should be back on track.

I'm available from 06:00 to 22:00 MST (12:00 to 04:00 GMT, I guess). I can probably work in something right before or right after that window, but I won't be at my sharpest. Just give me as much warning (via PM) as possible.

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Unfortunately given our wide time zone dispersion, some particular events and regular weekly periodicity, no hour slot is available to all in the next 72 hours.
We will continue with 24 hour turns.

Please let me know if you need a particular turn delayed.
To reduce my cognitive/note taking overhead and reduce my error rate, please message me immeditaley before you need a delay.

So far, I know to hold off hosting friday's turn until I hear form the wedding party.

Bye for now
Richard

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Hi there good sirs and esteemed Pretenders:

As the MP newbie, what's proper protocol for communication between players, especially those whom we've made contact with? Is it typically via the in-game chat (once per turn, in delayed PBEM-esque fashion) or outside through more real time forum/IM/email means)?

Your friendly, peace-loving, happy group of pacifists and lazy Greeks :)
Aaliyah of Arcoscephale

if preferred: procrastinating -at- gmail -dot- com (take that, spambots!)

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There seem to be quite a few of us noobs in this game, so while I imagine that PMs through this forum are probably a good place to start, I don't know the answer to that question.

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In my limited experience (two MP games, both still going)
the effective method of communication is through private messages on his forum

the dominions IRC channel is quite a good resource and can be used for negotiation
one can make deals there and learn all sorts of arcana which may help
irc.gamesurge.net #dominions

fell free to ping anthropos there if you want to negotiate

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Hey all:

Just checking, but I noticed the game's on hold this weekend?

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I'll be out of internet contact friday eve till monday morn. Hosting will be suspended during that period.

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Unfortunately I will be out of town this weekend, until Tuesday actually. If the game could be put on quickhost, I would greatly appreciate it.

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hmm, your comment is not clearly interpretable
quickhost is already on

i will assume you want automatic turn processing suspended until teusday

:(

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I'm on the road and won't be able to submit a turn before Monday morning; please delay the hosting of Turn 18 till 19:00 GMT on the 10th if turn 17 hosts between now and then.

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O.K... I didn't expect another turn to host so quickly. I've submitted turn 18, but I do not expect to be able to submit turn 19 in time. Please delay the hosting of Turn 19 till 19:00 GMT on the 10th.

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Fomoria is looking for Dwarven Hammers. Two would be preferable. We can trade items, A or D gems.

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Come on back Pangea, we hope you have enjoyed your long weekend.
Lets get this game rolling again!

Thanks everyone for so many prompt and effecient turn responses.

17 turns for 9 nations and only one stale turn so far is just great.

I hope everyone is enjoying the game so far.
Feel free to speak up if you need anything.

Please, if you can stay in the game even after you feel you have lost a good chance to win.
This is not only really fun, but its important to keep game balance. Setting your nation to AI after a major defeat can give a HUGE advantage to whover beat you down. You don't want THEM to win, do you???

Bye for now,
Anthropos

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Hail.

Our mystics are seeking water gems and have moderate amounts of fire, air, and astral gems for trade.

We are also willing to take commissions to construct any non-unique magical items provided that we have the paths available.

Kindly direct all inquiries to our trade representative on this forum, binarysolo. :)

Your humble servant,
Arcoscephale

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I could use some rainbow armor. I can pay in items (including hammers) or gems in W, F, or E. (Also nature gems.)

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Anthropos, you have RabbitDynamite's name spelled "RabitDynamite" in the first post.

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Quick check - did we move to a 48 hour hosting interval? Was expecting to process a turn right about now.

Edit: I guess someone (Fomoria or R'lyeh?) asked for a turn delay, since the game set back hosting by 36 hours from the email note of "The next 2h file is due in by 10:10 GMT on Monday August 17th." I guess delays are quite liberal as advertised (augh I'm going into withdrawals!) :)


In other news:
I'll be gone from Aug 30-Sept 8 (going to Burning Man). I've gotten a friend to sub for me (a fellow Dom3 newbie) so I won't imagine there to be much impact. Just FYI to all.

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Wanted:
Gems - D, N, E, A, W... okay, basically everything. :)



Arcoscephale's Shop of Wonders-and-crap-from-random-events:
Snake Bladder Stick
Black Steel Plate
Black Steel Helm
Pocket Ship x2
Berserker Pelt
Slave Collar
...as well as anything up to Con6, given appropriate magical paths. Prefer 1-turn prepayment (since I'm running low on stuff).

Items listed will be sold at cost, and things purchased in bulk are subject to a delicious discount! Outfit yer naked thug! Delightfully surprise your unsuspecting, non-NAPed neighbor with your watery ride! You're on a boat! :)

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I still need astral pearls. Trading FWE items or gems for them.

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Fomoria is looking for N boosters. Can pay W, A, D.

edit. Also 1-2 Dwarven Hammers. Can make lots of stuff in exchange as well.

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Need A and E gems. Will trade SWF gems, item forging services (const 4).