New & raw web based Dominion II game server

PhilD · #1 February 15th, 2004, 10:09 AM

OK, I'm feeling stupid this morning.

I started a game, and the site tells me it's fine, running on port 2350 and all...

But I cannot find an IP address to connect to. Did I miss something, or is there, somewhere, a Dominions 2 server that's accepting connections, only nobody knows where?

Esben Mose Hansen · #2 February 15th, 2004, 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
OK, I'm feeling stupid this morning.

I started a game, and the site tells me it's fine, running on port 2350 and all...

But I cannot find an IP address to connect to. Did I miss something, or is there, somewhere, a Dominions 2 server that's accepting connections, only nobody knows where?

You may be feeling stupid, but not as much as I do

The IP is now on the page (it's 80.161.86.108). Somehow I figured that people would know it's mosehansen.dk since that is where the webpage is served from. And that is wrong in so many ways...

Sorry for the inconvience... I have already joined your game, BTW. It's me playing Man. And I'm no good at this game, BTW, but I will learn :-D

PhilD · #3 February 15th, 2004, 11:01 AM

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Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:

Sorry for the inconvience... I have already joined your game, BTW. It's me playing Man. And I'm no good at this game, BTW, but I will learn :-D

I joined as well, as Abysia. We can do a few turns if you like (I wasn't really looking for a new MP game, but since we're both in Europe and it's sunday anyway...

PhilD · #4 February 15th, 2004, 01:35 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:

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Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:

Sorry for the inconvience... I have already joined your game, BTW. It's me playing Man. And I'm no good at this game, BTW, but I will learn :-D

I joined as well, as Abysia. We can do a few turns if you like (I wasn't really looking for a new MP game, but since we're both in Europe and it's sunday anyway...

Wow, THAT was a fast game. I thought the victory conditions were "standard", and didn't check the VPs... (Is there a way on your server to use non-VP victory conditions?)

For those at home: Esben and I played a 7-turn or so game, which he won waaaay before we made contact because he had 3 VPs out of a total 6 on the map... thing is, he started with 2, and I with only 1...

PhilD · #5 February 16th, 2004, 02:16 AM

I just tried starting a new game, and it doesn't seem to work: the game isn't reported as created, and there doesn't seem to be a Dom2 server at the address and port requested.

Esben Mose Hansen · #6 February 16th, 2004, 02:24 AM

Well, no. The problem is that "capitalvp" is on by default. I'm just now updating my scripts to accept most of the game options provided to the textbased server, but I'm not done yet.

But playing with VP seems to so much more fun?

Well, anyway, thanks for the game! While short it was long enough for me to finish implementing another feature: The web page now shows a listing over the players that have not yet moved this turn. Also, I'm preparing a (short) comment field for stuff like: "Start this game at 5 players, please!"

Gandalf Parker · #7 February 15th, 2004, 03:22 PM

I was thinking that creating an actual account for each game might be simplest. Creating a game123 would allow for a game123@ email address, and a game123 upload directory, and a www.gameserver/~game123 web directory for game info. So far there isnt alot og game info you can put there but I was thinking "if you build it then some will come"

Esben Mose Hansen · #8 September 7th, 2004, 12:21 PM

As an extra note: I've just tested Jabber notification, and it seems to work. If anyone else would care to help test this... they could post their player name here and I could send a test message.

The Jabber system apparently attempts to send the message to whatever system it deems you are currently active at. This seems to be the client which logged in the latest. This can lead to surprising results. It is also rather wrongheaded, in my humble opinion.