MP Game - Back to the Fray (noob/int game)-running

[Soapyfrog]

The cradle sounds great... never played it and besides I am already hosting an Orania game

[Edi]

Cradle is going to be a tight fit, max recommended number of players for that map is 12, and it starts getting real congested already with 10 players, 8 or 9 is best for it, so I say we just go ahead and get cracking with it.

Edi

[Thufir]

Edi said:
Cradle is going to be a tight fit, max recommended number of players for that map is 12, and it starts getting real congested already with 10 players, 8 or 9 is best for it, so I say we just go ahead and get cracking with it.

Edi

OK - so Zen's cradle it is, I've closed the game, as it looks like we've got enough players. I think we'll be fine with 11 players, that works out to 20 provinces per player, which is actually quite sparse (at least compared to what I'm used to).

I'll do another post in a little bit with instructions on naming files, but in the meantime, if everyone can get to work on their uploads, we'll be off and running!

[Thufir]

We're almost all uploaded now, just me and Cheezeninja left to go. I'll start as soon as everyone's up there.

jeffr, Boron and odd_enuf, you still have to claim your positions on mosehansen. No anonymous players allowed!

[Thufir]

Everyone will need to get Zen's Cradle, and make sure that it's named in the same way as it is on mosehansen.

To do that you can go to the Illwinter site:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/index.html

Go to the map section, and download the original Cradle, direct link:
http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom2/cradle.zip

In this file, rename "cradle.tga" to "cradlez14.tga" and copy it to your maps directory under dominions2. Then, on the initial post I've attached the map file, download that and take the unzipped cradlevz14.map and put that in your maps directory, and boom! you're done!

Edit:
Corrected the name of the .map file to: cradlevz14.map.

[Thufir]

We're running!

Good luck to all.

[Thufir]

BTW, I don't know if this is important to anyone, but there's a bit of a tiff going on the battlefield over what should or should not be done in a ladder game. As a result I've offered to make this a non-ladder game, since we have house rules, and I've restricted the game to non-veterans, both of which are probably bad ideas for ladder games. So, this may or may not be a ladder game, depending on how the argument shakes out.

For any that cares (and I don't care a whole lot, myself ), here's the thread:
http://www.the-battlefield.com/forum...&showtopic=255

[jeffr]

Thufir - I followed your zen cradle map instructions, but the unziped cradle map file you have attached to your post is named cradlevz14.map not cradlez14.map. Is this correct?

It seemed to work when I created a test sp game. I used cradlevz14.map and didn't rename it to cradlez14.map for this sp test game.

[Thufir]

jeffr said:
Thufir - I followed your zen cradle map instructions, but the unziped cradle map file you have attached to your post is named cradlevz14.map not cradlez14.map. Is this correct?

It seemed to work when I created a test sp game. I used cradlevz14.map and didn't rename it to cradlez14.map for this sp test game.

You are correct - my bad.

To make matters worse, the .tga file should still be named "cradlez14.tga". Not my naming convention - I swear!

I'll edit my original instructions to note your correction.

[Thufir]

Just waiting on Cheezeninja.

I was hoping to crank through a few of our opening turns this weekend <sigh>. Well, some of us just never stop dreaming.