Tournament - Invulnerable Challenge

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Joachim:
Hooray!
I hope you have kept notes of what and how you did the defence for discussion post comp?

Is there anything we need to do or will it appear on PBW? (forgive the Newb question).

Absoloutely!! I can't wait for the debrief. Most of the discussion will involve profanity, I expect.

I am setting them up on PBW. You should see your game shortly. This morning, however, PBW doesn't seem to let me set up the games. I'm checking with Geo...

[Stone Mill]

My apologies for this... but PBW can't be used for this tournament.

Instead, please get your zipped .gam files from the web page.

I'm very sorry, as it was my goal to ease the administration of these games. Now it looks like players will have to run the games on your local machines. Hope this isn't too big of a hassle. If it is, I understand.

The deal with PBW is that only one original .gam file can exist in the processing directory. And copying/remaming the files would not work, as the game would not recognize anything but the original.

So please email me with any questions or assistance. Good luck out there...

[Joachim]

Cool, So I have downloaded the game and race pics and started it off. Exactly how do I process it on my machine? Do I do my turn then reload as host and execute then do turn reload etc? Is there anything I need to know?

Do I need a specific AI race for the AI to be? How do I make sure it is the right one?

Sorry for the Q's.

[Baron Grazic]

A couple of good questions, Joachim.
I'll wait for the answers before I download the turn.
I'll be able to do the turns a lot quicker off-line anyway, plus my Wife will like me playing the turns on the couch next to her with the laptop, instead of the study...

[Baron Grazic]

No-one else seems to be around at the moment.
So I think these are the instructions.
You must have TDM 3.30 installed, which will give you the AI races and shipsets.
You sign in as player 1, and do your turn.
Then you sign in as the host and Process the turn.
Then sign back in as your self and continue the game.

I'm sorry the score is available, it doesn't give me much hope of surviving.

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
No-one else seems to be around at the moment.
So I think these are the instructions.
You must have TDM 3.30 installed, which will give you the AI races and shipsets.
You sign in as player 1, and do your turn.
Then you sign in as the host and Process the turn.
Then sign back in as your self and continue the game.

I'm sorry the score is available, it doesn't give me much hope of surviving.

Thanks Baron... that is correct! Only one clarification... the Space Sharks can be downloaded separately at State of the Art Spaceyards
(If you don't download the shipset, the game will assign a random one from your system).

Yes, I left the score on as a little intimidation factor. Again... my disclaimer... this game is not fair!

[ July 07, 2003, 13:27: Message edited by: Stone Mill ]

[Joachim]

Oh my .... The score is rather frightening

Ok, I do my turn, then load game and log on as host, execute turn, put new turns into new folder in save game directory labelled Inv_2 etc then load game and repeat...

is this correct (it seems to be working)
is there an easier way?