PBEM game "Not Stupid But Slow": Running

[Vicious Love]

Ighalli said:
I'd like to join as Abysia unless the consensus is that blood nations are off limits here.

I just realized site frequency is still at 50(10 above normal, if I'm not mistaken). Methinks it's settled; With ordinary gem abundances, blood nations won't have an edge. At least, no more than an infinitesimal edge.
True, Mictlan can(Sort of) get by by only researching one path(Plus construction up to 4, for those sweet, sweet contracts), but they'll still need alteration/enchantment to make use of their summoned SCs, evocation and thaumaturgy(Or conjuration) for searching, and a bunch of other paths to exploit the full versatility of their priest-mages. And Abysia without evocation is hardly Abysia at all.
When all's said and done, I suspect Caelum and Ulm both need research far less than most blood nations.

[En Forcer]

I will be sending my pretender shortly. So far you guys are doing just fine figuring out the map. I'll go with whatever gets picked. No need to change or adjust my pretender.

All Hail CONIFEROUS! King of Berries!

[Blofeld]

Hello

Is it not too late to jump on board with Marignon?

[Alneyan]

Hello Blofeld, and welcome! It is not too late to join the game, as long as you do not mind our company. Feel free to bring up any suggestion or comment you may have about the map as well; this particular detail hasn't been decided yet.

On the matter of the game Version, we currently have two votes in favour of 2.13, and none for 2.12. So it would seem like we are going with 2.13 (if you are playing games using the 2.12 Version, you should be able to setup both the 2.12 and the 2.13 Version with the same installation of Dominions).

[Blofeld]

OK, I sent my pretender. Karan map seems OK to me. I don't recommend Parganos - it looks pretty and has nice chokepoints but suffers from the same problems as Cradle.

[YellowCactus]

Assume I know nothing of computerizing....
What steps will I take to set up 2.13 without over-writing 2.12?
-Yc

[Alneyan]

The following steps should enable you to use both the 2.12 Version and the 2.13 patch.

1) Download the 2.13 patch.
2) Copy and paste your dom2.exe file that can be found in the Dominions 2 directory (C:\dominions2 by default). It will give you a second file called "Copy of Dom2.exe" (I am not positive about the "Copy of" part, since I am using a French translation of Windows).
3) Rename the "Copy of Dom2.exe" file in "Dom2_212.exe" (or any file name you would like).
4) Run the patch file ("dompatch213.exe") and apply it to your Dominions directory (which should be found automatically).
5) The patch will make changes to the original "Dom2.exe" file, which will effectively be patched to the 2.13 Version. The other executable file ("dom2_212.exe" in this example) remains unaffected however, and will be used when playing 2.12 games.

The 2.12 and 2.13 Versions should be close enough to be comptabible with each other. However, there will be problems with combat replays should you use the "wrong" Version in a game, but hopefully nothing more than that (at least, Shrapnel says so on the download page for the patch).

[YellowCactus]

Hmm...I believe that actually worked!
-Yc