Last DOM-I PBEM party

[atul]

Originally posted by st.patrik:
Hey if the demo will be out early next week (let's suppose tuesday for the sake of argument) maybe we shouldn't embark on a PbEM for Dom I... what do you think?

I, for one, wouldn't have any problems with playing I even if II is out. I don't know if there's any sense in doing things only half-way, so: How many of you know they can keep playing even if demo / actual game is out? I know I can.

About hosting, sorry can't do it either. My university mail has some major lag problems and work address is not for major PbEM hosting... Was the thread starter prepared to host or just asking if people were interested?

[Saber Cherry]

I'm sorry, I'll quit the instant the demo comes out

[WraithLord]

I will continue the game to it's end regardless of DOM-II state.

I too can't host the game.
My web mail account (hotmail) can't handle much traffic. Plus at the end of the month I'd have to change my ISP.

[Pocus]

I can handle the hosting, if you are ok to use an hybrid system some of us use :

- you put your 2h files, or retrieve your .m files with an utility which is linked to a distant server.
- the hosting is done manually by me, if everybody is in. I check the files once a day, generally between 20:00 and 22:00, GMT+2 (thats evening French time).
- After the hosting is done, the files are put again on the server. You then get a notice by mail to retrieve them.

Just tell me.

edit :
for whose interested :
question : why I dont simply host with an IP address?
answer : I cant have my auxiliary machine run all time, because of noise and room constraints. (And it wont change before long)

[ October 24, 2003, 09:26: Message edited by: Pocus ]

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I'm sorry, I'll quit the instant the demo comes out

I'm afraid this is probably true for me also. However, maybe we could get a Dom II Demo PbeM game going...

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by st.patrik:

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I'm sorry, I'll quit the instant the demo comes out

I'm afraid this is probably true for me also. However, maybe we could get a Dom II Demo PbeM game going...

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I could go for that. If so, then dibs on Pangaea

[Psitticine]

Speaking of Pangaea, albeit on a total side-topic, I started a new SP game Last night, playing as a Blood and Nature wielding god of the Carrion Woods Pangaeans.

I adore this particular theme. The Manikin you raise (living vines that merge with the bones and other remnants of the dead) have many different forms, based on what kind of critter they used to be, and the new priest spells available under that dominion are intended to strengthen and heal Manikin, as well as providing the normal priestly benefits.

You get Manikin automatically from certain troops, plus you can set somebody to raising them either via a built-in ability or by casting the Create Manikin/Create Mandragora spells.

Unburied corpses are required, but since Carrion Woods is definintely human-hostile, the population of your provinces will nose-dive and bodies are widely available. It's much like the "Dead Ermor" varients, where you don't worry about supply or income all that much since your troops don't require it. You run on magic and unholy priest power instead.

The new Pan Apostate available with this theme lacks the power to attract Maenids, but can conjure Carrion Lords, Carrion Ladys, and Carrion Centuars instead. I'm using a Carrion Lord (think of the half-rotted remains of a dead Pan held together with living vines) as my prophet. If that doesn't scare some sense into the heathens, I don't know what will.

IOW, I think Gandalf is making a good choice for a future Dom II PBEM.