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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 16th, 2004, 12:59 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,051
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Why isn\'t my avatar updating?

[quote]Originally posted by Argitoth:
[b] <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">What's the size of the picture you're trying to use? Maybe that's the problem?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 16th, 2004, 11:46 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 5,051
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Why isn\'t my avatar updating?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Which, of course, they certainly should be doing. BMP files, even for small pictures, are just too large to be used on the web.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 16th, 2004, 08:46 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 4,674
Posted By Leif_-
What new random events would you like to see?

Just a few suggestions. (Not all of them are entiiiiirely serious... Okay, so none of them are really all that serious.)


(Winter-time only)
Overcome with the yule-time spirit, your...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 15th, 2004, 05:35 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 3,492
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Icons

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't have Dominions at work, so I can't check - but there isn't any icon for "season sensitive" either, is there?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 15th, 2004, 01:10 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,065
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Location for PBEM games being organized?

Also the usenet Groups comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic and (I suppose) rec.games.pbm
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 12th, 2004, 03:08 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,126
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Snowing underwater?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"><Rationalizing>

They are obviously not talking about "heavy snowfall", but instead a fall of "heavy snow" - i.e. frozen dideuterium oxide or heavy...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 11th, 2004, 03:52 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,051
Posted By Leif_-
Re: PBEM. Best app for sending turns out

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't really think there is any. I'm planning to write some procmail filters (for incoming) and perl scripts (for outgoing) to help with running a...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 9th, 2004, 03:33 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,111
Posted By Leif_-
Re: OT: Will anyone ever create a game...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Alpha Centauri would fit the bill - if your playstyle is low focus on combat and military strength.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 7th, 2004, 08:55 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,280
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Invitation to PBeM

At 12 players this game is now full, so no new entries.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 7th, 2004, 11:24 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,280
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Invitation to PBeM

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*whimpers* The typo-gremlins just won't leafe em elome! Yes, it's the "Kingdom of Karan" map.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 7th, 2004, 10:23 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,280
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Invitation to PBeM

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ack. Yes - March it is.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 6th, 2004, 11:32 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,280
Posted By Leif_-
Invitation to PBeM

I'm trying to start up a PBeM game, and this is an open invitation.

I'll start processing turns on Monday 8th of February, and I'm planning for a minimum of 1 turn / day for the first week, then 3...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 6th, 2004, 02:29 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 4,416
Posted By Leif_-
Re: C\'tis and Swamps

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">"What? The curtains?"
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 5th, 2004, 05:28 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 4,416
Posted By Leif_-
Re: C\'tis and Swamps

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ack. Let me correct that. Mictlan would have a Quetzalcóatl (At least I had the two first and two Last letters correct), which is a feathered serpent...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 5th, 2004, 01:25 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 4,416
Posted By Leif_-
Re: C\'tis and Swamps

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Since Man is grounded in Arthurian legend and mythos, the national dragon should be red.

Vanheim would have a linnorm or great serpent (re the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 4th, 2004, 06:17 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,474
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Is the programming contest too hard?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, I managed to hack into Illwinter's top secret development machine (both the user-name and password was "TopGod") and download the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 4th, 2004, 10:34 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,474
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Is the programming contest too hard?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I just unpacked a package from Amazon with my own copy of Knuth's, so sure! (Alas, I was only able to buy the three first volumes, and my loan...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 10:36 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,335
Posted By Leif_-
Re: New world map

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">RAR is nice, but I find that it's only slightly more efficent than zip. Using maximal compression on the 11Mb newworld.tga zip compresses it to 7.3...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 09:57 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,335
Posted By Leif_-
Re: New world map

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's really just to be expected, as the map consists of large areas of uniform colour, which compress easily both with zip's compression algorithm...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 09:55 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 6,778
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Better, Simpler Programming Contest

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This greedy approach will give you quite good solutions to the problem, but not necessarily optimal ones. The quickest way to find an optimal solution...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 05:17 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,335
Posted By Leif_-
Re: New world map

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I've seen the same, and I assume that this is simply because the new image-file is a compressed tga while the old was uncompressed.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 05:13 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 6,778
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Better, Simpler Programming Contest

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, isn't it just a variant of the knapsack problem, which is known to be NP-complete?
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 3rd, 2004, 02:39 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 5,544
Posted By Leif_-
Re: 3rd party Apps wishlist

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">as pointed out in another topic, just doing it that way requires some touch up as well and we're talking LOTS of pictures, so tons of work.

plus...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 12:27 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,335
Posted By Leif_-
Re: New world map

[quote]Originally posted by Torvak:
[b] <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm hardly an expert - but try "select -> choose by colour" followed by "select -> shrink" and then CTRL-i...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 2nd, 2004, 10:23 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,474
Posted By Leif_-
Re: Is the programming contest too hard?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Bah. Real Programmers write in machine code! http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

I vote that we hold the programming contest in either PostScript...
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