Primea, newbie MA game (started)

[StormCrow434]

And Turn 2 done...I seem to be outnumbered 2-1 by all my immediate neighbors. And Shinuyama got those Mercs...

[fungalreason]

Good luck everyone. And those status pages are neat Ich, thank you for hosting!

[chrispedersen]

Tien Chi or Lanka barring that please.

Chris

[kasnavada]

Funny : it looks much the same to me about independants...

However, the mail speaks to me about some Rhoscrowther game... Anything wrong or will it correct itself in time ?

[lch]

StormCrow434 said:
Got in, got the turn done. Had to resort to a DOS prompt with Ich's suggested path; I was unable to get to the server in-game. It kept saying 'could not be found' or some such.

Strange, that should not happen. If you enter the host name in the game or as a parameter shouldn't matter at all.

kasnavada said:
Funny : it looks much the same to me about independants...

Do NOT underestimate the independants. Especially do not try to rush independants with a lone pretender god without gear.

kasnavada said:
However, the mail speaks to me about some Rhoscrowther game... Anything wrong or will it correct itself in time ?

Ugh. I have improved the game scripts before hosting. I used to have to edit things everywhere, now I only need to update game name and port variables on top of the script. But it seems that I failed to remember doing so in this script. Thanks for reporting this, it is fixed it now!

[kasnavada]

No problem about reporting it. I'll tell you that it worked for the next turn.

[Holy_bricklayer]

I have a question, what's those crown around the map ? Never see something like this before even when i was testing primea. I thunk it's players position first but, there aren't 12 of them.

Anyway, i wish everyone good luck and fun for that first game ( you see Caelum god is nice, remeber that, we're just little birdys, you won't hurt a little bird will ya ? )

Edit : wow ! an other question concerning the validations of turns. I ve just look at the result here, and i was'nt suppose to play my turn, i was planning to do that after lunch. Anyway i just use the commend "save and quit" and i saw that my turn was considering done ( on the internet page for primea game ). Is there a way ( for the next turn, those which need more time, to save our orders and don't validate our turn ? I hope i'm clear enought to be understood.

[StormCrow434]

Holy_bricklayer said:
Is there a way ( for the next turn, those which need more time, to save our orders and don't validate our turn ? I hope i'm clear enought to be understood.

A 'Save and Exit' is treated the same as an 'End Turn'. In other words, it treats your turn as complete. However, you CAN go back in and make changes to the turn any time before the last person completes it. Right now we're waiting for Ulm, so if you get back in before he finishes you should be able to make some changes.

I am assuming that if you are in and making changes, the game will not host until you finish, even if Ulm signs on and completes his turn while you are 'working' on your corrections.

Ich posted elsewhere that it is best to download the turns and play 'offline'...I am not sure how to do this. Ich, could you give a brief explanation how to do this for us newbies? Or give us a thread where we can look it up?

[lch]

Holy_bricklayer said:
I have a question, what's those crown around the map ? Never see something like this before even when i was testing primea. I thunk it's players position first but, there aren't 12 of them.

They're called victory points. I haven't quite figured out how to start a game from the command line without having some of them in the game. If you conquer this province, it will raise the Dominion of your god by one (like temples).

StormCrow434 said:
I am assuming that if you are in and making changes, the game will not host until you finish, even if Ulm signs on and completes his turn while you are 'working' on your corrections.

If the last player hands in his turn orders then the server will host, regardless if there are other players connected or not. The server doesn't know you might still be preparing that turn.

StormCrow434 said:
Ich posted elsewhere that it is best to download the turns and play 'offline'...I am not sure how to do this. Ich, could you give a brief explanation how to do this for us newbies? Or give us a thread where we can look it up?

Connect to the server, enter your password. Then your client will download the (new) turn file to your computer. When you then can see the server overview with the nation flags, immediately disconnect again. You can then prepare your turns offline via the "Play a local game" menu. When you are finished preparing the turn, connect again and your client will automatically upload the turn file. Do NOT connect again until you are completely done with preparing the turn.

[kasnavada]

Hum, I don't receive mails about the whatever other game, but ain't I supposed to receive a mail for every turn for the current game ?

If not, ok, it's fine but else there is something wrong.