...the game is now running - good luck, everyone!
Ironhawk has been kind enough to offer hosting services for a multiplayer game based on my new
Recruitable Rebalance Mod. This game is intended to be somewhat low-magic, to better emphasize (and test) the balance between the recruitable units of various nations and independants, and see if they fit into their traditional roles... and provide a little relief from games with constant bombardment by artillery spells, Tartarian hordes, and so forth.
Currently in-game:
Ulm: Ironhawk
Vanheim: msew
Pangea: quantum_machani
Mictlan: The_Tauren13
Marignon: Patrick
T'ien Ch'i: Arralen
Man: Ighalli
Machaka: Tomahawk
Abysia: Grame Dice
Jotunheim: Cherry
(10 people)
Current game settings:
SET IN STONE
Mods:
Recruitable Rebalance Mod v7.1
Zen's God Mod v2.01
Level 4 Limit Mod v7.1 (Data ripped from Daesthai's Tome)
Map:
Arralyn's remade Parganos
Game Details:
Research: Very difficult
12-15 prov/player
Indy Strength 9
Hall of Fame 15
Richness: Rich
Graphs on - it's a test game, after all
Renaming Allowed
1 Starting Province
150% food (in rebalance mod)
Magic sites: 45
Affected magic items:
Clams and Fever Fetishes: Nerfed! (Clam WWWN, Fetish FFN)
Staff of Storms: Nerfed! (20 gems went to 40 gems)
Please download the attached modpack and read the spells readme. In general, levels 1-4 are unchanged, level 5 gets double cost, level 6 gets quadruple cost, and level 7-9 get 8x normal spell cost. But THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, particularly strong level 5 spells and weak level 2 summons.
The only items affected are the Clam, Fever Fetish, and Staff of Storms. I really hope nobody is annoyed by these changes (please consult the readme before deciding to be annoyed... they shouldn't really annoy anyone, I think...)
Edit. The attachment to this post has been removed. All needed game files are zipped together here.
This includes all mods and the map. After downloading these files, please put them in the maps and mods directories (happens automatically if you unzip them in the Dominions II directory). It may be necessary to add underscores to two filenames, since they were changed on the server-side:
Level 4 Limit.dm > Level_4_Limit.dm
Recruitable Rebalance.dm > Recruitable_Rebalance.dm
And then, please enable all three mods before desiging your pretender... and please password protect your god!
The commandline to auto-connect to the server is:
"C:\Games\Dominions 2\dom2.exe" --ipadr benatar.snurgle.org --port 2001
...depending, of course, on where Dominions II is installed.
Rebalance Mod game now running on a 24h timer.
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