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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 5th, 2003, 09:50 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

I'm going to go ahead and start something just for the sake of doing it. I've been needing an excuse to learn PHP or JSP anyways. As far as the platform, I would probably lean toward Microsoft...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 5th, 2003, 07:10 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Ok... Let me bounce this off of people who are thinking of or have written code already, and those that are thinking of running host servers. This is just my personal opinion on how a system could...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 5th, 2003, 06:51 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Any insight into the format of the turns files wrt those stats? I don't want to start a discussion that will lead to people trying to cheat by modding their turn files, I just want the stats. ...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 5th, 2003, 06:43 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Something I thought about while pondering ideas... What would be the best policy for keeping 1 player from masquerading as multiple players in an attempt to gain an advantage in a game? This was a...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 08:50 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Also, a method for organizing a large group of people into playing a long term game is lacking. That is part of the goal here. With an automated server management system, people could find a game...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 07:31 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

btw, my talent wrt graphics (buttons, borders, backgrounds, etc) rises to the level of totally inept. I can probably handle the actual coding aspect, but the pages will look grotesque.

*hint*...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 07:28 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,542
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Thanks for all of the tips

How do you remove existing afflictions then?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 06:27 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,057
Posted By Tourmalyn
Purchase Location?

Does a person have to buy Dom2 off the shrapnel games website, or do any retail outlets carry it?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 05:13 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

I guess I will start playing with some asp/javascript to refesh myself. Are there any databases on those servers that we can store information to (user accounts, game information, etc)?

No big...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 06:57 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Question about launching on windows machine. I can launch successfully using the command line args described below, however, once its running there doesn't seem to be a way to modify the values...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2003, 01:54 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

My experience is actually C++ and VB. I have had a dose of JavaScript lately. VBScript/JavaScript don't have to much of a learning curve to them anyways. Haven't done HTML in a while, but thats...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 3rd, 2003, 10:29 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

If there is the possibility of people really taking advantage of it, I would be very interested in helping to build a game/server managing website.

If only to be able to join large scale games...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 3rd, 2003, 05:52 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Oh, yeah... And...

"dom2demo -g name_of_game"

How do you supply the turn data?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 3rd, 2003, 05:50 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Dedicated Servers?

Does the command line way of launching a server have any way to include the map name and game settings? I tried launching it that way on a win2k machine, and the process launched successfully. Only...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 1st, 2003, 02:38 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,607
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Auto Admin for PBE?

The problem of hosting a TCP/IP server game is that many residential connections while broadband and always on, don't allow the outside world to "see" the actual machine.

[ November 01, 2003,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars October 31st, 2003, 07:47 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,607
Posted By Tourmalyn
Re: Auto Admin for PBE?

I was thinking of something along the lines of a standalone Dom2 Server Server app that anyone could d/l to support automated PBE.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars October 31st, 2003, 05:52 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,607
Posted By Tourmalyn
Auto Admin for PBE?

After reading a thread about how a lot of people wanted to play a PBEM game but couldn't find someone willing to take the time/effort to host, I thought, an automated admin app would be great! Maybe...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars October 30th, 2003, 05:47 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,673
Posted By Tourmalyn
Dedicated Servers?

Are there plans by any idividuals/Groups to host dedicated servers for long term games? ie in the spirit of MUDs like Tradewars?

It would be cool to have long running games with 17 players...
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