Swarm 2.5 (Ryleh wins!)

CUnknown · #1 February 20th, 2008, 12:06 AM

Let me know if anyone still has trouble connecting. My internet looks to be pretty stable at the moment.

IndyPendant · #2 February 20th, 2008, 12:32 AM

I can't connect at all, still.

And in all honesty, I am not sure I even want to play in this MP game any more. : ( The recent scale-loss bug/or/feature will completely *HOSE* me on this map, playing R'lyeh with most water provinces surrounded by land. R'lyeh really needs Order-3, and I don't want to play it without Growth-3. I'll get neither, which will royally screw my strategy, and my fun.

And the only other MA nation I'm currently interested in playing--Ermor--gets hosed by the CB mod...

AlgaeNymph · #3 February 20th, 2008, 01:43 AM

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IndyPendant said:
Ermor--gets hosed by the CB mod...

Oh! Thanks for reminding me about the mod! No need for me to re-upload my pretender, CUnknown, everything's fine when playing a game with the mod. (I forgot we were using a mod, it's been so long...)

quantum_mechani · #4 February 20th, 2008, 03:51 AM

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IndyPendant said:

And the only other MA nation I'm currently interested in playing--Ermor--gets hosed by the CB mod...

Changes to reanimation were I believe removed in 1.21.

Hetzer · #5 February 20th, 2008, 08:57 AM

Sorry but im still not able to connect

jeffr · #6 February 20th, 2008, 10:56 AM

I also can't connect.

CUnknown · #7 February 20th, 2008, 11:04 AM

It looks like my IP address is different now for some reason, that was the problem.

My ip: 97 dot 81 dot 86 dot 245
Port: 2000

Try that, it should work.

"The recent scale-loss bug" That doesn't affect every game, does it? I thought it was an intermittent problem. If you took order-3, you should have it, right?

IndyPendant · #8 February 20th, 2008, 11:56 AM

No. The old scale-loss bug was intermittent. The recent patch fixed it--and introduced a new one: now, a province's scales change depending on its neighbours' scales, regardless of dominion. So if you have Order-3 and Growth-3, but your opponent has Turmoil-3 and Death-1 for example, and he owns some of your province's neighbours, you can kiss your good scales goodbye.

Still, I...think...KO has recently indicated that this is indeed a bug, although he's being annoyingly murky about it, possibly due to ESL. If it is a bug that is going to be fixed soon, then my initial start will be rather severely weakened by a loss of roughly 25% of my wealth--but then a start could be hampered by poor positioning too, for example. If I get my scales back in another patch soon, I'll keep playing. ; )

--Oh, and changing the IP fixed things for me.