So since Dom 3 is being discussed

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:31 am

I'll give more detail about that once the game is underway. Mostly about the first school I research and the stuff in it I'm aiming for.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:09 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:
Avoraciopoctules wrote:[ashdod player] (Ashdod)
I am insulted, sir.

Ermor and Ashdod's files looked odd. The Ashdod one was entirely renamed and Ermor's ended in 1 rather than 0 (mid_ermor_1.2h rather than mid_ermor_0.2h).

Did it come in as 'mid_gath'? I'm pretty sure that's right, since Gath is the name of the Late Age version of the faction.

Sorry, I must have missed that on my second editing pass. Then again, I was in a bit of a time crunch at the moment. I had to finish some homework and then get enough sleep to be quasi-functional today.

Here's a picture of your file juxtaposed with a typical one.

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Kaelik wrote:
name_here wrote:Which series is this?
Black Magician.

Fucking parentheses.

Anyway, in addition to arbitrary plot syndrome, it's weirdly misogynistic most of the time.

Actually no. Think less misogyny, more Eragon. And this gem:

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:15 pm

Quick update: I tried starting the game, but the Ashdod file doesn't seem to work even after I rename it and stick it in newlords with the others.

angelfromanotherpin · Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:10 pm

Avoraciopoctules wrote:Here's a picture of your file juxtaposed with a typical one.

Very strange. I don't remember renaming it, but I suppose it's possible I did and forgot. I've just resent an unrenamed version.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:22 pm

That's an email client saving error.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:12 am

Here's screenshots of both emails.

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I will assume the problem is hotmail itself. And setting up a dummy email with another service is probably too much work.

Given that your email doesn't seem to be working, maybe you could put the 2h file on a filesharing site? And/or put it in rar or zip format and see if that does anything?

Mediafire is pretty easy to use and the graphical design is less annoying to work with than a lot of other such sites in my experience.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:07 am

Does the first link give it to you?

Zipping it should work.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:43 am

The first link in each email contains the text message in the body of the email. The second, "octet stream" file is the same sort of format the other 2h files were described as.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:03 am

The name should be:

Code: Select all

mid_gath_0.2h

-Username17

angelfromanotherpin · Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:27 pm

I've tried again from my gmail account. Let me know if it worked.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:55 pm

Yes, Ashdod works now. But a new problem comes to light when I boot up the game.

Worrying, but I start a test game so I can catch any other problems. I click on their turn file to see what up:

Man doesn't seem to have an awake pretender or any scales. Or a named god. Maybe file corruption?

The "cheated" message suggests that leaving mods on may have changed the point cost for some pretender abilities.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:35 pm

Alternatively, it might say "X has cheated" when you switch who you are controlling.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:46 pm

If you design a god with a mod or you start a game with a mod, then the world falls apart in zero time. Don't do that.

-Username17

Orca · Post by **Orca** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:56 am

No mods, and I didn't cheat. I'll create it again & resend.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:46 am

I think I've got working files from everyone. Game started and I tried sending an email out to everyone with their trn files attached. Now I just have to actually find time to take my own turn tomorrow and hope switching to an entirely different pretender type on a whim and spending mere minutes on both concepting and creation doesn't end up shooting my nation in the foot.

One person's email sent a robo-reply indicating that they were "out of the office" for something like a week. Didn't look at it too closely, since I'm putting off looking through a chapter of one of my textbooks and don't want to cut it too close time-wise. And I still needed to get this and maybe another post written down before sleeping as well.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:53 am

Got my file, will do at home tonight.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:54 am

Akula points out that I should remind you all of the game's name so you can make a savegame folder.

Dominions_of_Denizens

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:11 am

Well, turn 1 is in. Not much to say about it, save that my starting position is not super great. Good thing I'm Pangaea.

-Username17

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:40 am

Why is starting position less relevant as pangaea?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:53 am

cthulhu wrote:Why is starting position less relevant as pangaea?

Your starting castle has an admin rating. One of th things this does is take a percentage of resources from surrounding provinces to the province with the castle in it. Therefore a starting site like (57) on our current map is very good, while a starting site like (5) is very bad. More adjacent provinces mean that your home province can field larger numbers of troops out of it.

As Pangaea your capital only troops blow, so building a castle somewhere else isn't even a problem. But the real kicker is that Minotaurs and Centaurs really don't cost a lot of resources to begin with - the limiting factor is money. So acquiring a lot of adjacent provinces and hoarding resources is pointless.

-Username17

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:07 am

Thanks for the tip, I appreciate the answers. I will continue to ask pointless questions

Akula · Post by **Akula** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:21 am

Turn is in. I actually got a better starting position than I had in test games. Now if only my neighbors aren't on top of me...Though better isn't really great anyway. 3 adjacent provinces where I only got 2 in tests. This map seems to have lots of shitty starts.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:20 am

when I used to play combat mission PBEM, there was a tool that could manage all your games.

Does such a tool exist for this?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:25 am

cthulhu wrote:when I used to play combat mission PBEM, there was a tool that could manage all your games.

Does such a tool exist for this?

There is Llamaserver.

-Username17

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:53 am

Turn back.