New & raw web based Dominion II game server - Page 37

Cainehill · #**361** July 20th, 2004, 04:30 AM

Cute, Cohen. You stopped a game slot that you'd been hogging for weeks (started on the ... 7th of July or so), and had someone else immediately recreate it. You think you're slick, eh?

Norfleet · #**362** July 20th, 2004, 04:51 AM

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
Cute, Cohen. You stopped a game slot that you'd been hogging for weeks (started on the ... 7th of July or so), and had someone else immediately recreate it. You think you're slick, eh?

Uh, Cainehill. As much as I know you love to hate Cohen, you really can't blame him for this one: The Battlefield folks, apparently devoid of a server for hosting Dom2 tournament games, have chosen to use the Mosehansen server, as their most logical choice: It's a neutral server not owned by any of the players. As Cohen happened to be a staffmember (a questionable move, which, I feel, among many others lately, is undermining the Battlefield's legitimacy as the Official Dom2 Tournament Organizing Service), it's only reasonable to expect him to operate such a game.

Since, of course, everyone has been rather irate with Cohen, obviously, the owner of The Battlefield has decided to take charge of the matter personally. I don't sense Cohen's involvement in this decision.

Beorne · #**363** July 20th, 2004, 07:50 AM

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Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
1. Go to the mosehansen.dk, click "View open games".
2. Find one where the description/settings/ whatever look attractive. Some needs separate registration at some forum, look at the comment.
3. Note the port number (listed under browse/manage game)
3. Fire up dominions, Network, enter "dom2.mosehansen.dk" as the ip and the port as the port (duh)
4. Select the nation you wish to play. Do not start the game. Instead, quit the game.
5. Do not start the game. Instead, quit the game.
6. Go back to the Browse/mange view (or just refresh if you're sitll there . Find the "confess" column, check the appropriate checkbox and submit,
7. When a turn is ready to be played, the game will appear on the bottom of the welcome page.

Easy as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,r ighT?

I'll try this evening (GMT+1), thank you

Zapmeister · #**364** July 20th, 2004, 09:51 AM

The following games look suspiciously like the computer playing itself.
Care to check them out Esben?

aran6to10plyrs
SixManAran

Zapmeister · #**365** July 20th, 2004, 10:49 AM

Any chance of a script that, just before a turn runs, scans the list of nations for a 'Yes' in the Turn Taken column and a 'No' in the Computer column?

In the absence of any such entry, all human players have staled and the game is probably defunct.

Perhaps an email to Esben when this happens would help to keep the maximum number of slots available (?)

Esben Mose Hansen · #**366** July 20th, 2004, 03:27 PM

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Originally posted by Zapmeister:
The following games look suspiciously like the computer playing itself.
Care to check them out Esben?

aran6to10plyrs
SixManAran

SixManAran seems defunct from the stat file. IN 4 hours, the game will host again, and if all human players stale again I'll kill it.

aran6to10plyrs is really, really strange. There is only one player! Look at the stats:

Provinces

Nation Provinces
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 107
R'lyeh 0

Forts

Nation Forts
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 63
R'lyeh 0

Income

Nation Income
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 3778
R'lyeh 0

and so on. Really weird. Especially the human player is still taken his turns(!):

Statistics for game 'aran6to10plyrs' turn -1
Vanheim played this turn

The timestamp match this. Really weird. Anyway, I'll stop this game now.

The script would be nice, but I must admit that I have tired of programming on the server, so it won't be right now... sorry

However, you do such a good job that it is hardly neccessary

alexti · #**367** July 21st, 2004, 03:45 AM

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Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
aran6to10plyrs is really, really strange. There is only one player! Look at the stats:

Provinces

Nation Provinces
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 107
R'lyeh 0

Forts

Nation Forts
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 63
R'lyeh 0

Income

Nation Income
Pythium 0
Ulm 0
Arcoscephale 0
Caelum 0
Marignon 0
Pangaea 0
Vanheim 3778
R'lyeh 0

and so on. Really weird. Especially the human player is still taken his turns(!):

Statistics for game 'aran6to10plyrs' turn -1
Vanheim played this turn

It looks like somebody was testing his brand new AI (which apparently did well), but forgot to program the behaviour after all opponents have been eliminated

Norfleet · #**368** July 21st, 2004, 04:16 AM

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Originally posted by alexti:
It looks like somebody was testing his brand new AI (which apparently did well), but forgot to program the behaviour after all opponents have been eliminated

Oh, that was you? Go Alexti, you dawg!

Cainehill · #**369** July 21st, 2004, 04:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Norfleet:

quote:
Originally posted by Cainehill:
Cute, Cohen. You stopped a game slot that you'd been hogging for weeks (started on the ... 7th of July or so), and had someone else immediately recreate it. You think you're slick, eh?

Uh, Cainehill. As much as I know you love to hate Cohen, you really can't blame him for this one: The Battlefield folks, apparently devoid of a server for hosting Dom2 tournament games, have chosen to use the Mosehansen server, as their most logical choice: It's a neutral server not owned by any of the players. As Cohen happened to be a staffmember (a questionable move, which, I feel, among many others lately, is undermining the Battlefield's legitimacy as the Official Dom2 Tournament Organizing Service), it's only reasonable to expect him to operate such a game.

Since, of course, everyone has been rather irate with Cohen, obviously, the owner of The Battlefield has decided to take charge of the matter personally. I don't sense Cohen's involvement in this decision.

The fact still remains that Cohen, and The Battlefield, have played dog-in-the-manger with a slot for going on three weeks without starting a game.

As you say, TB taking on Cohen puts them in a dubious light. Them also not using their own machine (c'mon, hosting Dom2 takes way less than hosting a website like that) is dubious, as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

Norfleet · #**370** July 21st, 2004, 04:35 AM

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
As you say, TB taking on Cohen puts them in a dubious light. Them also not using their own machine (c'mon, hosting Dom2 takes way less than hosting a website like that) is dubious, as is a for-profit outfit using a public domain resource like Esben's server.

This is true, although for reasons that similarly baffle me, other people, who also have websites of their own, have been known to still lack the ability to run Dom2. Perhaps it's because their shell is actually crippled and unable to run processes? I've heard of this sort of thing happening, where every time you logout, the system kills all of your processes.