MP game - "Pantheons" Started

The_Tauren13 · #1 August 26th, 2004, 06:23 PM

cool, thanks sheap

Sheap · #2 August 28th, 2004, 03:52 AM

Um... so I've been a bad sheap. I set up hosting for a different game and thought that satisfied all my hosting obligations. But then I realized I was supposed to start TWO games today, not just one. And yours isn't done yet.

Oops.

Working on that now. Nuzzle.

Sheap · #3 August 28th, 2004, 04:20 AM

Hmm.

No one ever actually told me which nation on each team is being left out.

So I am going to make the map with all seven nations started, and one of them will be blank.

If you don't like it, send me a list of nations and I will fix it. Otherwise, I'll be posting the host/port momentarily.

Sheap · #4 August 28th, 2004, 06:31 AM

OK. Ready.

The mapfile: 'pantheons.map' is available for download from:
http://benatar.snurgle.org:8080/~fluffy/pantheons.zip

Everyone will need to unzip this into their maps directory.

Team A should be, generally, between the mountain range, and the sea. Team B should also be between these geographical features. But on opposite sides.

Team A should have the sea to their north and the mountains to their south. The mapfile description says "two teams of five players each" but that is a lie, all 14 nations have been placed.

Each pair of two home provinces is at least 3 spaces apart (i.e. a move 3 flying unit could cover the minimum distance from one home province to another). Where possible, they are farther apart than that. There will be "gaps" where the two unused nations would be. And no home province borders a sea, because of risk of natural disasters. While effort has been made to ensure starting positions are fair, not all starting positions are good, and definitely not all starting positions are in optimal places for the nation. This is because I am mildly sadistic. For a sheap, anyway.

The host is at:
benatar.snurgle.org
port 2006

#5 August 28th, 2004, 07:08 AM

Thanks, Sheap.

Mint sauce.

reverend · #6 August 28th, 2004, 10:19 AM

When does the game officially start?

The Panther · #7 August 28th, 2004, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Sheap said:
Each pair of two home provinces is at least 3 spaces apart (i.e. a move 3 flying unit could cover the minimum distance from one home province to another).

It would appear that there is a typo in the map file. T'ien Ch'i starts adjacent to Machaka.

And thanks for all your work in doing this for us.

The_Tauren13 · #8 August 28th, 2004, 02:52 PM

actually tien chi appears not to be in a fixed location...
and the indys seem a bit too weak to be 5...

Sheap · #9 August 28th, 2004, 05:48 PM

OK, perhaps I have screwed something up in the map file. I'll go back and double check. It was late.

I guess you have been checking this by starting test games, since the actual game is not started yet (have only 7 uploads). In that case the indy strength is determined by the indy level you set at game start, rather than the mapfile.