VesperBat - LA newbie game - upload pretenders!

[llamabeast]

Okay, since LeafNosedBat filled almost instantaneously, I'm creating an overflow. This will be another game for new/newish players. I'd recommend players who've already played 0-2 games - if you've played more than that and would like to play regardless, post here and you can play if we're short of players. This should be a nice, fun and friendly game, a reasonable size but not too huge, and generally ideal for new players (that's the plan, at least).

This will be an LA game and will use the Worthy Heroes mod. Renaming will be on, graphs will be on, and everything else will be standard. However, R'lyeh and Ermor will not be allowed - although they are fun they both considerably skew the game (everyone has to try to kill them!), so I think they're not ideal for a newbie game.

The map will be my modified version of Parganos, which is modified (a) to have a much more fair and even spread of terrain types, (b) to have fair-ish start positions, and (c) to have no gold or magic sites in the seas - so this will be a land-nation only game. I'll attach the map to this post.

Please sign up here and choose a nation! So far we have:

Man - AreaOfEffect
Caelum - Zogger
Pangaea - jmb
Bogarus - Real_friend
Jomon - Kyosti
Midgard - Profanicus
Arcoscephale - Wookie_1977
Agartha - Zenphos
Abysia - Zenzei
Mictlan - DemonicHick
Utgard - gowb
Ulm - bernardo
C'tis - edhel
Marignon - Arghaii
Atlantis - Kamamura

[llamabeast]

Bump!

[Aezeal]

I'm already in a LA game else I might be interested...
(and that game would be my 3th so I'm not allowed anymore too)

Ow and with 9 or something newb games running you might want to make one for moderatly experienced players (3-7 games?) since I think those who would not be allowed in newb games but unwilling to play 7 top players might find that attractive

[AreaOfEffect]

I'll bite. Sign me up for Man please.

[llamabeast]

Hmm, seems I may have exhausted the newbie game demand for the moment (not surprisingly, really - 5 games almost all at once is insane and completely unprecedented). Looks like we may have to wait a little while to get this one off the ground.

[ComTrav]

Y'know, I really want to play one LA game, but this would be my fourth simultaneous game so maybe not the best idea.

[gowb]

I'd like to join as Utgard, if possible. What is this mod? Can I get some instructions on how to install it / a review of what it does, exactly?

[Zenzei]

@Hiker: I have reserved Pythium but I can also play Abysia as I originally planned so you can have Pythium if you want and we can all be happy

@gowb: Worthy Heroes improves most national heroes in the game and adds a couple of new ones. To install it, just unzip the files into your dom3 folder and then activate the mod from the game's starting menu (preferences->mod preferences->worthy heroes). If you have done everything right, worthy heroes logo appears into upper right corner of the starting menu.

[gowb]

Oh, ok! Thanks.

[llamabeast]

Okay marvellous, we are up to an impressive 12 players. There is room on Cradle for a couple more, so I will still leave the game open over the weekend. But you can now start uploading your pretenders! Here's how:

- Make sure you have the same mods enabled as the game you're playing in (Preferences->Mod Preferences) although only mods affecting pretender design, such as Conceptual Balance, actually matter
- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions. Don't set a password, since for PBEM games they're not helpful and occasionally annoying (e.g. if you need a sub)
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. late_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name 'VepserBat' in the subject line of your e-mail

The server should send you a confirmation e-mail when it receives your pretender. Also you can see what pretenders have been received so far at www.llamaserver.net . In fact I recommend checking the site out anyway - it will be helpful all game.

So, please try to get your pretenders in by Sunday night (GMT), when I will be getting back from my trip.