1000-post-jubilee

[Kristoffer O]

I hereby post my 1000th post. So lets make it worthwile

I hereby give you tw o command line switches:

--superhost: With this switch you can force the game to autohost indefinitely. The switch overrides victory (making the game go on after you have set all humans to AI control).

--allbutermor: With this switch you can autostart a game with 16 AI controlled nations (all but ermor).

The switches work well with the --scoredump switch that extracts scores.

It is also possible that the --superhost exports some kind of scores every 50eth turn (i do not remember).

This way you can plainly see that the AI is rather good at playing Ulm and not that good at playing astral nations. Testing with different magic settings, indep settings, research settings , maps etc is rather fun.

The switches was initially used to find late game bugs.

Have fun!

PS - thank Gandalf for this one. He was the one that thought you wanted access to these switches

[ April 20, 2004, 20:21: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]

[calmon]

--superhost is really fun!

Now i can use my favorit pretenders from each nation, set all computer control and look which combination works best as a AI player.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by calmon:
--superhost is really fun!

Now i can use my favorit pretenders from each nation, set all computer control and look which combination works best as a AI player.

Yep. I also expect the MOD and MAP makers to love it for testing.

For windows Users that want to try testing all their gods against each other:
you need to start the game first with all human players (so that it uses the gods you made). Then hit esc or use the options button to set them all to computer operated.

Now you can copy the Dom2 icon from your desktop and paste it back. Hit right-click and properties to change things like the name and the settings. Add --superhost and any other settings you want from the dominions2/doc/command_line_switches.txt

On linux I figured out how to get it to host over and over without having to hit it manually but I havent figured it out for windows. Probably some loopy bat file.

[ April 21, 2004, 13:17: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Endoperez]

Interesting, isn't it? I thought to bump this up, as I'm not sure what Johan's post count is... This could also be used to test which kinds of pretenders/scales suit the current AI nations. Unfortunately, we still won't be able to see what, exactly, the AI does, so we can't test if Fountain of Blood - Mictlan summons more devils/demons than Mictlan with some other pretender.

BTW, I quess lots of the 1700 posts Kristoffer has posted (now MUCH much later) were done to restricted forums (i.e. during DomII betatest).

[shovah]

im not sure how to do this (technically challenged) but sounds fun

[Endoperez]

In Windows, the easiest way is still somewhat complicated. Either you use Command line (Start - Run - "cmd" without quotes - enter), go to the Dominions path, then write "dom2 ---allbutermor", again leaving the quotes out.

The other way is to make a shortcut, choose its properties, and there write commands to the line where the program the shortcut executes is defined.

Command lines can also be used to e.g. make shortcuts that open spesific game (c:\path\dom2.exe EvilAbysia), or host spesific game at certain parameters (c:\path\dom2.exe -S -q -t 1 0 -t 3 0 -t 5 0 multi) [acts as Server, with quickhost on, hosting the game on Mon/Wed/Fri (Sunday=0, Mon=1...) at midnight (24.00=0, 01.00=1...), game name is multi].