MP: Smiting Season (newb-intermediate, LA, CBM 1.92) smiting has begun!

[Groundworm]

So I finally managed to submit the map to llamaserver. I hope it works.

The .map file I got when I extracted the map was called roaringrhinosfix.map. I renamed it to roaringrhinos.map, and llamaserver accepted it. Hopefully it won't crash when we try to actually run the game... I'm not sure.

[Carpetbagger]

Glad we are switching maps. Downloaded new map with no problem. looking forward to our game!

[decourcy]

Damn you snacktime! I am only computing a one in 237 chance of victory for myself, how do you rate so high?

Mike

[Snacktime]

Yeah my odds were wildly optimistic especially because I am quite sure I don't know all of the ways CBM 1.92 has changed vanilla so I look forward to planning a research path that leads to nowhere.

Speaking of which, is there any single document that explains the CBM changes vs. vanilla? As far as I can tell, every changelog for CBM is just listing changes from the previous CBM, but since I've been out of the loop for a while that doesn't help much especially since I find the hard-copy manual still pretty useful.

Then again maybe you would rather roll the Utgardian noob than provide info!

[Groundworm]

If you install EDM 1.21 separately and enable it (as opposed to the version that comes with CBM 1.92), it comes with a special testing feature. Start up a new game in the early age, and at the bottom of the nation selection list you'll find "Endgame Diversity Mod, testing nation". If you select this as your nation, you'll have access to every single summon available in EDM as recruitable commanders for 1g & 1 resource. This should allow you to see what they can do, at least, if not what they're actually capable of in battle. Hope this helps.

Let's try to have our pretenders submitted by Wednesday. Still waiting on Whollaborg, Bat/man, shard, and, well... me. Does this sound reasonable?

[HoleyDooley]

LOL, well I put it in only to see someone beat me to the punch with a slightly different name...lol.

Houston, we are GO!

[Nightfall]

Grrr...

In the future rather than asking for a change at the last minute, you should maybe bring it up a little earlier.

Especially since I tested several nations and pretenders on the original map to find a combo that I liked.

By the way, I've tried the dowload link for the new map from two different computers now and it has failed to work, which probably explains why I'm a little grumpy about it.

[HoleyDooley]

Download worked fine for me.

[Snacktime]

I tested my pretender on the original map, but I don't see any big issue and I'm fairly indifferent as to what map we use. I calculate a baseline 11 out of 12 chance that I will lose regardless, so I defer to others.

I am however a bit unclear as to what map file I should be downloading at this point, and from where. It seems there were some problems for some folks and maybe some file renames. I'd like to test out the map a bit before we start, if someone can clarify (also do we need to change the file name or anything else?)

Thanks! Snack

[Groundworm]

You shouldn't need to rename anything. Use the download link I posted earlier in this thread- it worked fine for me.

Nightfall, apologies for the confusion/last minute map change. It seemed there were a significant number of people in favor of it.