one icon?

[Gandalf Parker]

OK I dug up some of the info from Dom1 on how to create an icon JUST for doing a turn in a game. this makes it easy for me to click on it to snag my turn file. This is for games that are done on a tcp server (someones machine up all the time to receive requests). If you already have an icon for Dominions2 on your desktop then right-click that and choose "create shortcut" to get another icon. Right click that one and select "Properties". Find the line that is calling dom.exe add this to it.

If you use -w on the command line, you get a window. Other useful
options include -i to skip the intro, and -f to skip the fade effect in
the spellbook.

In fact, if you are playing with a server, you can pass in the ip address
and port on the command line as well, here's an example:

"dom.exe" -wif --tcpclient --ipadr (ip_address) --port (port)

Where the content in the braces () is to be replaced with the correct numbers for the server of your game. If there are quotes after dom.exe be sure to add the switches OUTSIDE of those quotes. There are alot of other switches that can be added to do speed up or slow down the game for just that one icon (its a text file in the doc directory of dominions). This way you can set your daily-turn game to be ugly but fast with no music if you wanted, and still leave the other icon playing Dominions2 in all its glory.

You can create one for games done by email or by ftp but it would be different for each program people use.

[ November 23, 2003, 18:24: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]