Dawnstrike - JURRI WINS

Jurri · #1 November 6th, 2006, 03:55 PM

Well, while knowing beforehand that you'll get eaten by a grue if you get to the HoF certainly makes for a quaint environment, it's not necessarily tremendously unbalancing even if some nations benefit more from an active pretender than others and thus are at a disadvantage from the condition. You could still risk it with an awake pretender on research-duty until the next patch I guess (It could come early and thus give you the advantage over those who didn't risk it)... But that would be quite costly a gamble if you only got research (and not provinces as usual) out of your pretender in the first 12 turns. Nations like Niefelheim and Yomi and others that have expensive commanders that are in danger of getting into the HoF easily might want to rethink their strategies also.

That said, the bug makes for a silly game no matter which way I look at it, so I'd prefer to play unpatched. You need to reinstall the game to a temp directory to get access to the unpatched executable, but that can't be so big a hassle as to prevent anyone from doing so if they are willing to commit to a game that will probably last for several months. Also note that as far as I know the only problems you'll be likely to encounter if the host has a different version of the game are battle-replay related and only under certain rare conditions at that. So it shouldn't be impossible to play the game with the host running unpatched and the lazy part of the players running the patched version.

Meglobob · #2 November 6th, 2006, 03:58 PM

I am still good to go either way.

Migaaresno · #3 November 6th, 2006, 06:47 PM

I vote we play whit patch.

Since the bug will likely never annoy me more then a other and im too lazy to instal a second dominions.

YellowCactus · #4 November 6th, 2006, 07:20 PM

Dom3 came today!
Can I play, Can I play?
-yc

PashaDawg · #5 November 6th, 2006, 07:30 PM

Hi YC:

Sure! Why not? I am not sure, but I think the only slot left is Mictlan.

Pasha

Twan · #6 November 6th, 2006, 08:27 PM

If you want we can play with the patch and without pretenders killed by the hunter in turn 2. Just use the Hunter of Heroes nerf mod I've posted, he will eventually attack but has 10 hp and Light Inf. stats.

Jurri · #7 November 6th, 2006, 09:11 PM

Yes! Great work, Twan! I was just about to replace him with Dick Cheney (with a rifle and low prec) to fix the issue, but you beat me to it

Awesome, let's use the mod and the patched version of the game!

And welcome Cactus! Will CUnknown be getting the game as well? Would be fun