HOWTO: Simultaneous 306 and 308
 

I tried setting up my Dom3 install with both 306 and 308. I want to run a 308 MP game in network server mode, but I'm in 3 MP games which at this point require a 306 client.

I'm using the following directory structure, <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 4 12:14 /usr/local/bin/dom306 -&gt; /usr/local/games/dominions306/dom3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 4 12:15 /usr/local/bin/dom308 -&gt; /usr/local/games/dominions308/dom3

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 4 12:19 /usr/local/games/dominions3 -&gt; /usr/local/games/dominions308
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May 4 12:09 /usr/local/games/dominions306
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May 4 12:12 /usr/local/games/dominions308
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But if I want to have a 308 game server always up and running, it may cause problems with the running server if I change the link to point to 306, in order to run a 306 client.

There is only one configuration file for Dom3 that I could find, /usr/local/.install_locations/dominions3, it contains just one line, <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
/usr/local/games/dominions3</pre><hr />

Has anyone figured out how to manage this? I don't see any command line switches available that would let me specify an alternate installation directory.

Re: 308 server and 306 clients, linux
 

Setting the environment variable dom3_data to /usr/local/games/dominions306 should do it. Otherwise use 308 data for all games. You will only run into problems for cave battles (incorrect battle replays there).

Re: 308 server and 306 clients, linux
 

Thank you!

Edit: Actually, dom3_data didn't work but DOM3_DATA works fine.

So, if you set things up in separate directories, you can run either like this, <font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>

DOM3_DATA=/usr/local/games/dominions308/ /usr/local/games/dominions308/dom3

DOM3_DATA=/usr/local/games/dominions306/ /usr/local/games/dominions306/dom3
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And use whatever command line switches you normally specify.