Another Newbie Slugfest - Restarted

[The Panther]

I believe this means that you will get a stale. It isn't great, but it is not disastrous either. The main problem is that you will be behind getting your first mage. You will also be behind on one turn of research with your pretender. And maybe behind getting your prophet too. But it is only one turn and on a large map like this, no one will be attacking you for many turns anyway.

At least you will have a ton of gold and can buy a lot of armies and/or mercenaries for your first attack. No one is attacking any 9 level indies on turn 1 anyway unless they are even more suicidal than Boron.

[Grim Knight]

Ahh, the hidden difficulties of using the same name for a game. As long as everything works out, I guess no harm done.

Grim Knight

[Aku]

new turn is up and I already found my first neighbor

[The Panther]

Server crash.

[DragonFire11]

The Panther said:
Here is another tip for you newbies. Make a shortcut on your desktop with the following executable:
dom2.exe --tcpclient --ipadr 69.10.97.69 --port 65000

This sounds like a great idea -- but I'm not exactly sure what to do. Can you elaborate a bit? Thanks.

And the server seems to be down still.

[The Panther]

Hmmmm..... Are you really THAT computer iliiterate???

The following only works for WIN XP, but the other window operating systems are similar:
1. Riht click on the icon which starts Dom2 and select create shortcut.
2. Go to the shortcut you just created, right click on it and select rename. Change it to GrimK or Newbiegame 2, or whatever floats your boat.
3. Right click on it again and select properties.
4. Copy the above shortcut inside the target box.
5. Hit apply.

And presto-chango! You now have a direct link to Grim Knight's server. No more selecting network and typing in a bunch of random numbers!

Ain't Bill Gates amazing???

[PashaDawg]

Can't connect to server.

[Beorne]

Can't connect to server.

[PashaDawg]

Still can't connect.

[Steerpike]

me too, cant connect... I fear a staleturn.