Playing a mod nation in multiplayer?

[Aezeal]

never tried this... you can't just load the mod and then select the nation cus that would seem the way it is supposed to work, not any different than usual.

[Sombre]

The host has to be running the mod and so does the client. Apart from that there isn't much that can go wrong as far as I know. It's just the standard procedure, but with the mod enabled - send pretender for pbem, create pretender and join for server games.

[Gandalf Parker]

Its fairly difficult.
The server does not "see" mods at the player-joining stage the way it does when running a local game. One of the many differences between how things work locally vs network.

When I setup the first mega-game (every nation in the game, all 3 eras, playing at one time) the only way I could come up with was to have everyone provide their gods, then create the game locally on my machine joining as each nation. Once it created the first turn files I could trasnfer everything to running in server mode from them on.

[paparapapa]

Gandalf Parker said:
Its fairly difficult.
The server does not "see" mods at the player-joining stage the way it does when running a local game. One of the many differences between how things work locally vs network.

When I setup the first mega-game (every nation in the game, all 3 eras, playing at one time) the only way I could come up with was to have everyone provide their gods, then create the game locally on my machine joining as each nation. Once it created the first turn files I could trasnfer everything to running in server mode from them on.

This looks like what I'm going to have to do.

Okay, so I have everyone's pretender file; now what?

[Sombre]

That doesn't seem to gel with what lch has described re: server based (non pbem) mod nation games. Maybe I misunderstood though.