Dedicated Servers?

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
Additional question for anyone who has the answer. Is there someway to get the stats out of the game (ie, Hall of Fame, graphs, etc)? It would be very cool to be able to browse game information from the web for people not involved in the game.

A delightful idea. I hope it is not too difficult to make. I would very much like to see the progress of other games.

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some exports of the general game status would be cool. I have not checked too much the fatherland file structure, but I suppose you have encrypted the whole thing, so doing it without your help will be slow and painful.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Richard:
If you guys want we can probably help out with some server space. We are running Windows2003, so I hope that isn't an issue.

I would like too to go a bit further with my small hosting utility (which is only used by 10 french speaking people or so).

What I lack is not server space, but server space with the authorization to run an executable on it, so that I can pilot at distance instances of dominions (just for hosting purpose).
Would your proposal goes as far as to do that?

[Richard]

Originally posted by Pocus:

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Originally posted by Richard:
If you guys want we can probably help out with some server space. We are running Windows2003, so I hope that isn't an issue.

I would like too to go a bit further with my small hosting utility (which is only used by 10 french speaking people or so).

What I lack is not server space, but server space with the authorization to run an executable on it, so that I can pilot at distance instances of dominions (just for hosting purpose).
Would your proposal goes as far as to do that?

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We have dedicated servers, so yes we have the ability to do that. Get with me offline and we can discuss further.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Pocus:

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Originally posted by Richard:
If you guys want we can probably help out with some server space. We are running Windows2003, so I hope that isn't an issue.

What I lack is not server space, but server space with the authorization to run an executable on it, so that I can pilot at distance instances of dominions (just for hosting purpose).
Would your proposal goes as far as to do that?

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Mine does. I can grant full access with no concerns for security. Im pleasantly surprised that Shrapnel has also agreed on the executable part. I guess now you only have to decide if you prefer a Windows or a Linux environment.

In any case Id be interested in what you do since most of it might be cross-platform capable.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:

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Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
Additional question for anyone who has the answer. Is there someway to get the stats out of the game (ie, Hall of Fame, graphs, etc)? It would be very cool to be able to browse game information from the web for people not involved in the game.

A delightful idea. I hope it is not too difficult to make. I would very much like to see the progress of other games.

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I loved the game journals that were done by some people for Dom 1 games. Almost like reading a book with an interesting storyline. More images would be fantastic for those as well as letting people "watch" games in progress on the net.

Putting in the ability to create screenshots (write out to picture image files such as jpg) would probably be too much. And those can be done manually using the"print screen" button on my keyboard, then pasting it into a paint program.

If the game could maybe have a switch to "export" some information to text files when the host processes then that would be great. It would be no problem to have a script pick that up and process it into html.

[Psitticine]

I adore those ideas! They'd make for some great reading, and maybe even get some new players to dive in and get hooked as they see all that goes on in a game!

[Tourmalyn]

Any insight into the format of the turns files wrt those stats? I don't want to start a discussion that will lead to people trying to cheat by modding their turn files, I just want the stats.