New Team game, new(ish) players prefered

[Networkingguru]

llamabeast said:
Worthy Heroes takes zero learning. It's just nice. I would recommend using it, there's really no reason not to. If you get a hero, just look at him to decide how to use him like you would normally.

Conceptual Balance is very good, but does take a lot of readjusting to, to the extent that I still don't use it.

OK, thanks for the info. I have no problem with worthy heroes then, the second scenario is what I was worried about.

[Zeldor]

So how many people do we have? What map we take? World of Geometry? When do we send pretenders?

[Niarg]

I've just received my copy of Dominions and I'm looking to start playing online. Started to play a couple of single player games so I'm not completely clueless but close to it.

I have a preference for the unmodded game and teams of 3 rather than 2, preferably have one slightly experienced person on each team so that they can guide us complete newbies. I'd also really rather not have a random team or race.

Finally if anyone can explain the basic format of online games (how long will we have to complete turns etc) I'd be grateful.

[Bananadine]

I am somewhat interested in playing. I haven't played any multiplayer games before so I would need an explanation as well. Also, even though I'm sure I rank pretty low in the mass of players in this forum, I still may be much more skilled than the people in this thread who haven't finished any single-player games--I've played enough now to be able to beat Mighty AI's without much trouble. Does that mean I should just play in a regular, non-newbie game instead?

[llamabeast]

I am sure that anyone who hasn't played any/many MP games counts as a newbie. It is quite different to playing against AIs, really.

The general format of games is like this (I will explain for the LlamaServer although it is similar for all games):

- The server e-mails you your latest turn. You stick it in the right directory (see my FAQ for details), play your turn and e-mail it back.
- You can see who's taken their turns and when the next one is due at www.llamaserver.net (take a look now).
- Games normally run at least for a while on "24 hour quickhost". This means that the game hosts 24 hours after the last hosting, or when all turns are in, whichever is sooner. This might sound slow, but it actually works well. Around midgame the timer is often switched to 48 hours, depending on whether players ask for it.

24 hour quickhost actually takes a bit of thinking about. Both of these statements are true:
- You will always have at least 24 hours to take your turn from when you took your last one.
- Each hosting will happen 24 hours or less after the last one.

They seem contradictory at first. Anyway, it works well as a system.

[Bananadine]

Okay, cool. I would like to play then. I guess we are waiting for TrajanX to formally invite people?

[Zylithan]

I think he's waiting to get 12 people or to fill "full". Also, he's looking over maps I think (from PM)