Ryan Eye MP Game (thread name changed)

Teraswaerto · #1 January 8th, 2004, 03:10 PM

I've staled twice thus far. No problems with battle replays.

alexti · #2 January 8th, 2004, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Johan K:
This seems weird, especially since we regularly combine these options. Could you post the commandline used to start the game please. Or maybe it is a bug we have fixed after 2.02 and later forgotten about, but I don't think so.

I'm starting my client as

code:

dom2.exe -mui --tcpclient --ipadr 63.199.8.158 --port 7011 --res 1024 768 --filtering 2

Gandalf Parker · #3 January 8th, 2004, 04:10 PM

Heres my windows client line on WinXP for the game I saw this is in.....
"C:\Program Files\dominions2\dom2.exe" -mwaifx --tcpclient --ipadr 209.157.135.121 --port 10000

As far as I know the host is running on windows also. What happened was almost a game turner. Im playing Man and had a sneaking unequiped monk watching troop movements. The message said he had been discovered and attacked. I watched the battle and was relieved to see that the local defense took him out in one hit. But when I looked at the map I owned the province and he was still in it. OOPS. I wasnt trying to go to war with that player. Now I owned a province in the middle of his area and right next to a castle.

Multi-tasking WinXP a problem? Ive heard it blamed for things in other games.

[ January 08, 2004, 14:12: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

SurvivalistMerc · #4 January 8th, 2004, 04:56 PM

Well I'm knocking on wood, but so far my battle replays show exactly what happened.

Since I didn't know you had to create the pretender before logging on, it's understandable that I ended up not having a password since I don't use passwords in SP. This is really a learning experience for me.

I am looking forward to figuring out how the whole MP thing works.

Gandalf...don't tell me if you don't want to since I'm in this game...but how are you acting now that you have this territory right next to the other guy's castle? (And it probably isn't me but I don't know.) Are you sending a message apologizing and telling him he can have the territory back? Putting defense there? Sneaking your monk away so that it will be free of hostile units for recapture? Raising taxes to 200%? I don't know about the other players, but these considerations would apply for me with respect to whether this were viewed as an act of war.

I also don't know about MP etiquette with regard to sending Messages to players. If folks are annoyed by getting what they regard as "too many" Messages from me, please let me know.

Maybe the reason my replays are consistent (so far) is that I'm using XP also.

Teraswaerto · #5 January 8th, 2004, 05:03 PM

Gandalf is playing Pangaea in this game, not Man.

Karacan · #6 January 8th, 2004, 05:10 PM

I'm Man, not Gandalf. Gandalf wouldn't have lost his pretender in the first turn. *bleh*

Stupid barbarian ambushes...

So, I've been less hurt than others by two stale turns, I suppose. Well, at least I have an excuse...

SurvivalistMerc · #7 January 8th, 2004, 05:14 PM

Karacan, you seem to be doing pretty well in terms of total territory for someone who has had two stale turns and no longer has a pretender. Hats off to you.