MP Game - Yet another MP newbie game!

[Minrhael]

Well, if you're using XP, you do the following:

Create a shortcut to Dominions2 on your desktop. Right-click this shortcut and select properties. In the target box, change it to the following:

"C:\Program Files\dominions2\dom2.exe" --tcpclient --ipadr dom2.mosehansen.dk --port 2246 --clickvol 0

This assumes you installed the game in the default directory; if not then change "C:\program files\dominions2\dom2.exe" to wherever your dom2.exe file is located. The --tcpclient tells it that you're joining a multiplayer game; after the --ipadr you put the address of the server; after --port you put the port #. The line above is correct for this game. (The --clickvol 0 just turns off the mouse clicking sound, you can leave that part of the line out if you want to hear the mouse clicks drive you insane)

Then you just make your pretender like you would as if you were going to play a single player game. When your pretender is ready, exit the game and click that shortcut to connect to the mosehansen game, and you will see a list of nations to choose from. The spot next to your nation should say open; click it and it will change to human controlled, then click disconnect and you've uploaded your pretender. If it already says human controlled then someone else took your spot, you'll have to come back here to clear it up. In the future just click the shortcut to take your turns.

If you're running something other than xp (well, that probably works for all windows, except perhaps the location of the game) then someone else will have to give you the proper commands. Hopefully that's all correct, it's really past bedtime here!

[Skolem]

Originally posted by Minrhael:
Create a shortcut to Dominions2 on your desktop.

First thanks a lot, actually, after some thinking, i managed to join the game, but I doesn't know there was such shortcuts, I'm using Mac OS 10.3 does anyone know where I could find how to build these shortcuts?
thanks

Skolem

[odd_enuf]

I'll join up as mitchtan. This will be my 4rth Online game, and only 1 of my other games have reached the poitn where i'm fighting other nations.

odd_enuf

[ioticus]

Originally posted by Huzurdaddi:

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Can I join?

Are you a MP noob? Have you played fewer than 2 or 3 multiplayer games ( game with pals don't really count, game with random people on the internet do! ).

If so tell us what race you want and I'll put you down!

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I've never played people before and only played the computer a few times on average difficulty. I'd like Jotun if there's still room available.

[Sly Frog]

I've taken Ulm.

[Huzurdaddi]

MrAres, odd_enough, Splooger, SlyFrog

You are all in. I put you all down.

Tumba -- I'm probably going to set it to 24 hours but with quick host. Hopefully we will get below 12 hours on average.

So Tumba if you want in claim your race from what's left it's filling fast!

[Huzurdaddi]

Two question for people that have used mosehansen before.

1) How the heck do I start up the game ( not that I want to start it now, but when everyone has signed up ).

2) How do I turn off graphs? I like graphs they are cool. But they give information which is a bit too accurate it kind of removes a lot of the reasons for spies. I like having to build a couple of dozen spies to see what the heck is going on in the world.

[Huzurdaddi]

So I made a mistake when SlyFrog said "he took Ulm" I just marked him down without looking over the list. Uhm was taken a while ago by Yvelina.

So I guess the correct thing to do is for SlyFrog to Go anonymous and I will kick him, allowing Yvelina ( who has not said anything about this ... I don't even know if he/she is still around ) to take Ulm.

Sorry about that SlyFrog. There are still a number of nations open though.

[ May 31, 2004, 19:11: Message edited by: Huzurdaddi ]

[Huzurdaddi]

Ok it looks like we have a player who did not register in the forum 1st say hello to Wyxard proud owner of Machaka.

We are waiting on Yvelina and Splooger to start.

[Tumba]

Errr... I messed up?

While selecting my race on the server I clicked on Atlantis (just being curious since Atlantis and Ermor were the only ones I could select). It's status turned to human control and I couldn't change it back. So I clicked on Ermor to see if the status of Atlantis would change. It didn't. I can see that these were the only races I had created a pretender for. Neither were human, so I couldn't use them in this game. I disconnected and made a human pretender for Joitunheim. Selected Jotunheim on the server, and all is ok with that.

But what about Atlantis and Ermor? How do I disable them or can the host disable them somehow?

Sorry about that...