Blood Bath - EA Glory of Gods [Running]

[Meglobob]

I just noticed Helheim's forge as gone...wonder who dispelled it?

It would be nice to get a message telling you about those important events. I assume it went this turn and not last turn or whenever?

[quantum_mechani]

It went down last turn I think.

[Hellboy]

quantum_mechani said:
It went down last turn I think.

That sounds right - who do we congratulate, btw? Anyone care to take the credit?

Out of character: Any chance of everyone getting their turns in tonight? With all the restarts our last turn hosted more than 48hrs ago (I think).

[quantum_mechani]

I can't seem to connect (with 3.06). Is it down for anyone else?

[Meglobob]

quantum_mechani said:
I can't seem to connect (with 3.06). Is it down for anyone else?

I just connected with no problems.

Just Agartha & Marverni to do there turns.

[cupido2]

I made a 3.06 version of dominions but the server now says its too old... and I don't dare to reconnect with the 3.08 (I take the credit for the last crash ). Tell me what to do...

[Hellboy]

cupido2 said:
I made a 3.06 version of dominions but the server now says its too old... and I don't dare to reconnect with the 3.08 (I take the credit for the last crash ). Tell me what to do...

I think the safest thing to do at this point is in the following instructions. I am assuming you are on a PC w/ Windows, and I have also made some assumptions about your knowledge of Windows file management. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask! And sorry about the hassle, but this is kind of file management really is necessary to support two versions of Dominions.

1) Uninstall all versions of Dominions, and delete all dominions directories. Be sure to copy the saved games directory, and any directories where you've added custom content (such as mods or maps).

2) Reinstall vanilla Dominions

3) Patch to 3.06 and install the Worthy Heroes mod.

4) Make a second copy of the entire Dominions game directory, call this Dominions directory Dom3_3.06 (or something similar).

5) Redo your turn, connect to the Blood Bath server and upload your turn. You will probably not be able to do this until I get the server back up and running, which won't happen until about 7pm or so PDT (GMT-7). I'll be up and around this evening, so if something goes wrong we can iterate until we get this right.

6) Once you've established you can connect to the Blood Bath server, set up a shortcut for the game on your desktop, and make sure that it points to the executable in the Dom3_3.06 directory.

7) You can now patch the original Dom3 directory to 3.08 and play that at will. You will just need to be careful which version you are running when you play various turns of various games.