How do you play over email?

[ceremony]

Originally posted by teacherjames:
That's where I think the problem is. I've tried to install the patch, but I'm pretty sure I've been unsuccessful. Maybe my computer doesn't do what it should automatically, but for some reason, the dominions2 patch (I think that is what it is) is just sitting on my desktop waiting for me to tell it where to go. Problem is I don't know! Any clue where to put it on OS X?

That's definitely the problem. See this thread for a full explanation.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=001098#000000

[atul]

Originally posted by teacherjames:
Thanks for all your help, but I still can't get this to work. Is it possible that PC games and Macs are incompatible?

Don't know if this is relevant in any way, but. At work I've transferred files from mac to windows or linux (email attachments and usb storages, same thing in both), and they seem to appear 'double'. The catch is, only one of the files is real, the second is some definition file or such used by mac system and does nothing, just has identical name but different size. Obviously, the wrong file doesn't work.

From other OSs to mac, no problem noticed.

This is just general remark, haven't tried with dom files...

Originally posted by ceremony:
Have you ever sent a ftherlnd file to someone, though? I'm curious whether this would allow them to host.

I think you are supposed to be able to change host this way, should the host quit (his nation gets wiped out or something). At least in dom1 this worked.

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Coffeedragon:

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Originally posted by Argitoth:
Not to be ignorant...

But why do people play PBEM when a network game is one thread-request away?

I'm always hosting new Dominions 2 Network games and so are a bunch of other people. I feel PBEM is a waste of time.

Why should you want to host a 2-player-game between me and a friend where 1 turn every 2 days or so is played?

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I dunno, that would be pretty stupid. I usually host for around 6 players. Right now I am running a 12-player game. my 6-player game just ended.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by Argitoth:

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Originally posted by Coffeedragon:

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Originally posted by Argitoth:
Not to be ignorant...

But why do people play PBEM when a network game is one thread-request away?

I'm always hosting new Dominions 2 Network games and so are a bunch of other people. I feel PBEM is a waste of time.

Why should you want to host a 2-player-game between me and a friend where 1 turn every 2 days or so is played?

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I dunno, that would be pretty stupid.

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That´s my point.

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
Not to be ignorant...

But why do people play PBEM when a network game is one thread-request away?

I'm always hosting new Dominions 2 Network games and so are a bunch of other people. I feel PBEM is a waste of time.

If none of the players in a PBEM can reasonably have a server running all the time, tcp/ip may not be an option without third-party hosting. And if the pace is slow enough, PBEM isn't such a hassle - if everybody password-protects his own game, the host can just zip the whole lot of .trn files and send them to the whole list of players.

That way, you don't even depend on the goodwill of someone not in the game. As long as you can trust the host, it's a perfectly viable option.

[Argitoth]

blah, pointess reply

[ February 06, 2004, 22:28: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by PhilD:
if everybody password-protects his own game, the host can just zip the whole lot of .trn files and send them to the whole list of players.

That way, you don't even depend on the goodwill of someone not in the game. As long as you can trust the host, it's a perfectly viable option.

It also opens the door for something smoother. If a webpage form can be made to make it easy to upload a 2h file (apparently PHP can do that) then it would be easy to dump all the trn into a web-directory so people can just click-download them like they do anything on the net.