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Gandalf Parker · #1 January 12th, 2004, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by Wendigo:
[QB] Boggle, this is quite of a chaotic upgrade guys.
You should rather have waited to upgrade after a turn generation & inform the players, much cleaner.

OK. I guess that should go in the admining FAQ.
I did remember to shut the server down while I upgraded then bring it back up. But some people had already upgraded... To catch it on a hosting I would need to script something to shut down the server right after hosting. Often the Last person making a turn stays connected and is first to make the next turn.

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Whatever. I have upgraded to v2.06 in one of my computers while leaving the other in the old Version, and resent my turn file as v2.06. I suggest everybody that already played t17 does the same, and Gandalf should probably make a backup before hosting.

I made a copy of the game dir just now but the server is still running on quick-turn so Im not really going to be able to catch the files right before hosting. Pros and Cons of PBEM I guess. If it were a email game instead of tcp/ip hosting this woul dhave been simpler.

alexti · #2 January 13th, 2004, 12:53 AM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
Alexti, did your battle replay give the same results as the text?

Nope, replay was showing pretty much opposite, but I'm used to it now. My replays are rarely related to the battle summaries. I have no clue which one are correct anymore.

SurvivalistMerc · #3 January 13th, 2004, 01:03 AM

That was a major battle, and I took quite a gamble on it. But with all those giants I felt rather certain you would have won, my gauntlet notwithstanding.

I was hoping you could tell me how my intrepid force of lizards managed to eek out a victory there. Alas, only Gandalf's computer knows how my (almost assuredly temporary but sweet) result was obtained.

SurvivalistMerc · #4 January 13th, 2004, 01:08 AM

can someone put the url for the patch here? I tried google "dominions 2 patch" 2.06 and got no obvious patch download hits.

Gandalf Parker · #5 January 13th, 2004, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
can someone put the url for the patch here? I tried google "dominions 2 patch" 2.06 and got no obvious patch download hits.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/d2/6.htm

If you dont see it then hit refresh or clear your Cache

alexti · #6 January 13th, 2004, 03:40 AM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
That was a major battle, and I took quite a gamble on it. But with all those giants I felt rather certain you would have won, my gauntlet notwithstanding.

I was hoping you could tell me how my intrepid force of lizards managed to eek out a victory there. Alas, only Gandalf's computer knows how my (almost assuredly temporary but sweet) result was obtained.

I have some suspicion, but only Illwinter could tell for sure. My army was moving, so I was wondering that maybe after your force was defeated (as my replay shown) my army has moved to its destination (it actually got there) and then your second army took the province. I don't know how this kind of situations is resolved, but maybe something along these lines have happened. However, I had plenty of other battles with unexpected results (and mismatching replays), so I really don't know what is happening. Maybe there's some nasty bug hiding in Dominion 2 code and instilling unrest in the games

SurvivalistMerc · #7 January 13th, 2004, 03:54 AM

Thanks, Gandalf

John Osterman (?sp) seemed to indicate that using different Versions would result in battle replay inconsistency. Perhaps that is the explanation.