Starting a new game... - Page 2

Esben Mose Hansen · #11 October 2nd, 2006, 05:41 PM

Hey, that sounds good

Can't be done with dom2, though.... there is no way to add the gods. Still, I should be able to complete the server pretty quickly once I have the game

I think this server will be far better than the last one. At least, there shouldn't be a limit this time

a big thanks to Gandalf for doing the switch playing

And Johan for adding that last critical switch

Gandalf Parker · #12 October 2nd, 2006, 05:49 PM

The first one, using uploadtime, should work with Dom2.
It would take me abit to test it though

Esben Mose Hansen · #13 October 3rd, 2006, 09:05 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
The first one, using uploadtime, should work with Dom2.
It would take me abit to test it though

I tested it yesterday... it just waits for people to upload after the timeout, probably because there is no gods. If it didn't, I doubt it would auto-pickup the gods, unless there is something I am missing?

AMF · #14 October 3rd, 2006, 09:19 AM

So...does this mean that there's pretty definitely going to be a Dom 3 PBW server?

Gandalf Parker · #15 October 3rd, 2006, 12:27 PM

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Esben Mose Hansen said:

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Gandalf Parker said:
The first one, using uploadtime, should work with Dom2.
It would take me abit to test it though

I tested it yesterday... it just waits for people to upload after the timeout, probably because there is no gods. If it didn't, I doubt it would auto-pickup the gods, unless there is something I am missing?

Did you leave off the -g?
And yes, there does have to be gods. What I did was create /savedgame/pbem directory and copy 6 god files to it. Then I ran that command.

I did do it with Dom3 which might make a difference. I was just figuring that since uploadtime existed in Dom2 that it might work there also.

Esben Mose Hansen · #16 October 3rd, 2006, 01:50 PM

Hey! Copying in .2h (god) files did the trick! Very nice

I still have to kill the manually, but no problem there. Thank you!

Gandalf Parker · #17 October 3rd, 2006, 02:03 PM

My startup script creates a kill script in the same directory as the game.

PID=`ps a | grep $GAME | grep dom3 | cut -d" " -f2`
echo "kill "$PID >$DIR/kill.sh

That way to kill MyGame all I have to do is
savedgames/MyGame/kill.sh

You could add that to the post.sh but that doesnt seem to work on killing a game right after startup.

If you run the game with a -d to a log then you could watch for thing that says its watching for uploads and then run the kill command.

Esben Mose Hansen · #18 October 3rd, 2006, 02:30 PM

Killing it is not a problem, I'll just watch out for something suitable on stdout and kill it when I get it.

And yes, I am working on a pbm server. Whether it will be finished before or after I get the game remains to be seen

Psientist · #19 January 14th, 2007, 02:39 PM

Esben - have you made any progress on a play-by-email-server? I was considering doing the same, perhaps with a web frontend (which I guess would make it a play-by-web server).

Gandalf Parker · #20 October 31st, 2009, 12:42 PM

I banged my head on this for days! I needed to do a pbem which I havent done in quite awhile. I found this thread where I proudly proclaimed that I had beat this problem. But it didnt work!

OK I know I am raising-from-the-dead an old thread (ironic that its Halloween today) but I will add an important note here.
the incoming gods must be renamed to not have numeric designators.
In other words early_fomoria_3.2h must be renamed to early_fomoria.2h

When the game was patched to allow us to create and save multiple gods in the same nation and same era by adding a numeric on the end of each one, the command-line recognition of those files was not updated. So apparently they must be renamed to the old style in order to start a pbem.

Gandalf Parker