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Old March 12th, 2007, 04:01 PM
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Gandalf, Thanks. I guess the main thrust of my question was one of mechanics. Will we play by email? If not, how does the program work? Do I log in thru the network portal? And then does the server know I am on and send my turn automatically? Do I stay online while I play? When I am finished do I send the turn somewhere? Upload it? How does this all work??? Sorry....I've never done anything more tech advanced than PBEM!!! And, the Demo Tutorial doesn't talk about how this works.
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Old March 12th, 2007, 06:49 PM
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OK well you know PbEM and that this game was based on that, so you are way ahead of most.

The TCP/IP Connect method (internet direct connect) does the same thing but in the background.
When you connect,
A) if a turn is ready for you it will send it to you and open it
B) if you already sent a turn and the game is waiting for everyone else before hosting, then it will ask if you want to "continue where you left off" or "redo turn from beginning".
C) if you have finished a turn either while you were connected, or by working on it offline then your copy will send it
D) if the game receives your turn and begins hosting immeadiately (usually because you were the last one to send it in) then you can wait. It will give you your turn as soon as its done procesing everyones actions.

Because the game works on PbEM methods (you send file to host, host sends results back to you) you can break connect at any time as long as a file isnt being transfered right at that moment. By the way, the file you send to the host has an extension of .2h (to host) and the file sent back to you is .trn (turn file). This will be handy to know when you do get into a pbem game of Dom3.
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Old March 12th, 2007, 11:22 PM
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OK..Thanks....this helps a lot. Anxious to get started. BTW...I am playing a solitaire (about my 4th game) as Arcoscephale and gettin my arse kicked right now by Ulm. Fun stuff. Don't know if I can pull it out.
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You mentioned familiarity with pbem.
Any familiarity with IRC? There is a channel
irc.gamesurge.net #dominions
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Nice to have ya Jimkehn! Be prepared to lose lose lose your first few MP games and then lose lose lose a lot more! Ask lots of questions and be observant.

Playing with humans is completely utterly different than Single player games and a heck of a lot more fun and challenging.

Far far too much advice to ever fit in a single post but reading these forums will help a ton. Go back thru 10 pages or so and check out topics that seem interesting.

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