In continuation of support for any other servers or anyone trying to iron out hosting games by providing copies of everything Ive worked out, I offer the following...
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO RUN MULTIPLE VERSIONS TO SUPPORT GAMES PRIOR TO UPDATE PATCHES
Running with -d will show something like this at the head...
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----- DOMINIONS ---------
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Version version 3.23b (323)dbglevel 1 pc_endian
datapath='/usr/local/games/dominions3'
confpath='/home/gandalf/dominions3'
savepath='/home/gandalf/dominions3/savedgames'
modpath='/home/gandalf/dominions3/mods'
mappath='/usr/local/games/dominions3/maps'
localmappath='/home/gandalf/dominions3/maps'
temppath='/tmp/dominions3_24145'
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Keeping a copy of the dom3 executable as a new name such as old_dom3 and using it might seem like an answer but it causes problems due to conflicts with some of the library files. Making a complete copy of the dominions3 directory and running the game out of that might seem the answer but in many cases it only changes some of the path variables, but not all. Most importantly in this case, the datapath directory.
This has worked for me. Setting DOM3_DATA= to the directory of the old copy, doing it on the same line but before the dom3 call (and not using a ; for some reason)
Such as....
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DOM3_DATA=/home/gandalf/dom3_v3.23b/ /home/gandalf/dom3_v3.23b/dom3 \
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