TESTING New Game Type

[Gandalf Parker]

http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/Chaos_chk.cgi
You can start a game with one player (since there are AIs in the game).

I know Im famous for my insane games and maps anyway but I have to admit that I might have gone overboard this time. I might step it back to what I orginally had in mind but I thought I would give you all a chance to try this out while it lasts.

This is not a regular Dominions game. Do not EXPECT to win. There are some wildly variable things about these games which have not been seen before. Take nothing for granted. Scout carefully. PD heavily. And good luck.

Gandalf Parker

[WingedDog]

Thank you, I'll try one in the evening.

[WingedDog]

As I can see games are being started rapidly. So I would like to reserve this one for myself, if you please:

era 3 chaoticized game chaos_stunts on port 7385

Would you people be so kind not to start this one?

[Gandalf Parker]

My surprise was that Special Monsters can take such an important role in the games. Mine might have been randomly lucky for one of the SM players but it really kicked my tail marching an army that was made up of many specials that had landed in many provinces. But on the next game both SMs fell out fairly fast so it might have just been random.

[Tichy]

I started a game. It's acting very strangely. Perhaps I shouldn't have chosen a water race (MA R'lyeh)?

I made an awake pretender but he was not present at the beginning of the game.

I had a random land army parked in my underwater province. (Perhaps it overwrote the pretender?)

Turn 1 I had 120 unrest in my capital. The first province I took also had 100+ unrest.

With that kind of a start there's no way to keep going. I may try to start another a bit later and see if it works better for me. This looks really interesting, so I hope it works.

[Gandalf Parker]

That was a rash of bad luck. Im not sure what would have happened to your pretender though. It does tend to work better with land nations but then it also tends to balance some of the advantages that water nations have against AIs.

[Gandalf Parker]

OK Im getting a feel.
I think I need to lower the number of castles being scattered.
And increase the Special Monsters abit.
Maybe try allying the special monsters and independents.
I might also increase the amount of equipment being scattered around.

By the way, if you want to end a game early and clear it from the games list, just set yourself to AI then finish your turn.

[Hadrian_II]

i tried to start the:
era 1 chaoticized game chaos_spices on port 7214 with difficult AIs Rlyeh, Arcoscephale, Agartha allied against you
game, but i get the nice error:
N�got gick fel!
expected turn file, got crap
N�got gick fel!
expected turn file, got crap
in the console.

Do i need some mods installed, or is there just some error with the game?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Hadrian_II

N�got gick fel!
expected turn file, got crap

Do i need some mods installed, or is there just some error with the game?

No mod or map is needed.
Wow Ive never seen that error. Has anyone else gotten it?
The game is pretty good about server errors. It will tell you if a mod or map is missing, or wrong version of the game, or an old god file.

It seems as if the turn file was refused at your end. Try getting it again. Maybe there was a burp in the internet someplace as you received it.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Hadrian_II

N�got gick fel!
expected turn file, got crap

That was the error message that people on a 64bit Linux system got before the updated patch 3.20b was released for them.