[llamabeast]

(apologies to everyone else for the off-topicness)

Gandalf and lch - I came up with an improved method for starting mod games. There's a thread about it in the main forum somewhere. Essentially it goes:

- Put all the pretenders in the game directory
- Open up the Dominions GUI
- Make sure the mod(s) are enabled
- Click "Create New Game"
- Click "Cancel"
- "Network"->"Host a game"
- Type in the name of the game (the same as the directory where the pretenders are).
- All of the mod nation pretenders will already be present.

(haven't got the game here, so the details may be slightly off)

The non-obvious and weird bit is the "Create New Game", "Cancel" bit. I think that makes it read the mod files.

The outstanding issue, then, is that we can't do it at all in text-only mode. This means I can't run mod nation games on the LlamaServer without a big faff, which is a pity - particularly because in future I hope to allow people to start games on the server entirely without my involvement, though some kind of "Create game" interface on the website. It would be nice if they could play with mod nations.