MP Game - Pascentiful 2 starting Saturday 22 May.

Cohen · #1 May 22nd, 2004, 05:48 AM

Players are warned.
^^
Dunno the exact time however ...

[ June 01, 2004, 17:10: Message edited by: Zen ]

Esben Mose Hansen · #2 May 22nd, 2004, 02:26 PM

Did you read the top news item?

Change the game options to have "Disallow clients to start game" turned off. Then you can start the game.

Daynarr · #3 May 22nd, 2004, 06:19 PM

Hmm, some strange things I've noticed in pretender roster. There are 2 pretenders with exactly same name; Man and Vanheim and Man haven't ID himself. Is it possible that it's the same player?

Also, there is a "The Queen" pretender for Ulm. I sure hope it's not Vampire Queen since they are forbidden in this game.

Cohen · #4 May 22nd, 2004, 06:22 PM

Well I cannot know what's the Ulm pretender ... perhaps she's a Great Enchantress ... I dunno.

However I've master password to take out who isn't respecting houserule, or halt the game, I left 1 anonimous counting on MasterPass if he doesn't show up soon.
(well it is stupid too to not set your name there cause in welcome page you can see where you've turns to take... great thing that Esben ^^)

Tuidjy · #5 May 22nd, 2004, 10:58 PM

Guys, I am playing Ulm, and I can assure you that
the Queen is still alive. It is still only turn
one, you know?

As for Man/Vanheim, I am pretty sure I know what
happened. 'The *****' is what my girlfriend uses,
and Man/Vanheim is what she usually plays.
She has not played on Mose before. She must have
signed for both slots. Please wait for a few
hours before you boot her, I'll ask her which
one she wants to keep.

... *sigh* Getting her to try Dominions was not
easy. But I am really getting frustrated since
she started trying to play on-line.

Mose has done an incredible job (for free) to
ease the pain, but maybe something official should
be done? While waiting on that, would it be
possible to make it so that a played who remains
annonymous can be kicked out by anyone? I.e. if
one wants to give up the slot, change the
pretender, one could do it?

Maltrease · #6 May 23rd, 2004, 01:16 AM

Is the reasearch at normal settings now? I think it was set to very difficult in the first game.

Either one is fine with me.

I'm heading out of town for about 30 hours. So if possible wait 6 or 7 hours before starting the game, or start it within the next few minutes so I can play my turn before I leave.

Daynarr · #7 May 23rd, 2004, 01:49 AM

I would like it if we could wait a little longer so someone else could join. 12 ppl so far, 11 if you don't count Man who didn't sign up and is probably going to be kicked.

Cohen · #8 May 23rd, 2004, 01:53 AM

Well ... the "Start Game" button is disappeared ... I've asked Mose how to start the game ... in fact I cannot start it!

Daynarr · #9 May 23rd, 2004, 02:34 AM

Maybe it would be better to restart the game so we can all pick our slots again. She can chose to be either Man or Vanheim (I figured it could be such a mistake, that's why I pointed it out).

Didn't mean to accuse you for using forbidden pretender, its just that user for Ulm is Peter and I don't recall any Peter on forums so I thought he could have joined the game without noticing the rule and selecting BF and VQ. Glad to be wrong about that.

I have also forgotten to put a password on my pretender so it would be nice if I could upload it again.

Btw. this is one reason why we should be able to overwrite our own pretenders (as mentioned in a discussion on Mosehansen thread).

Esben Mose Hansen · #10 May 24th, 2004, 01:32 AM

1. Master password will not work before the next patch. It should really be removed from the game creating screen, but I'm too lazy.

2. Anonymous players can and should be kicked before game start. The one to do this is the game creator, and the time is when he removes the "Disallow clients to start the game" checkbox. It cannot be everybody because kicking means restarting the program on my server, and I don't want this to run rampant.

3. While I'm usually opposed to restarting games for any reason, I'm ennough of a romantic to agree the reasons below

However, if it's just a matter of choosing between two nations, the other could just be set as a computer player.

4. You cannot kick anyone by any means except by knowing their real password. The kicking feature on the server only works as long as the game has not started. If you want to know why, ask Illwinter, though I can guess, and so can you

Lots of sunshine to everyone and so forth...