Pillins tcpip game(was New server game) (full)

[Pillin]

Looking for players for a mp game, Map will be decided after I see how many players we are.
Post your interest here with 3 nations of your preference.

[ February 06, 2004, 02:19: Message edited by: Pillin ]

[Comandante Loko]

I'll play.

Arco
Marignon
C'tis

Waiting for further instructions.

[dire]

I'll play

My preferences are:

Ermor
R'lyeh (depending on map)
Pythium

[rabelais]

I'd also like to play...

Man
Vanheim
Tien Chi

[malcoda]

...Don't forget me! I'm in if you need a dedicated player.

would prefer to play Vanheim if possible.

let me know,

malcoad

smidolo@nyc.rr.com

[Pillin]

Commandante Loko will not be participating in this game, feel free to take any of his prefered nations.

Also some more info about the game, it will be a dedicated server running pretty close to 24/7 with game being quickhosted or forcehosted if no quickhost for 2 days. The prefered speed is once a day, but with some slack as theres always something that might get in the way.

You might want to change this to a specific name so that people can find it. OR altertantively have the post moved to the MP forum after the game is started so it's easier to keep track.

[Mardagg]

Hi, I am very interested:

1.Machaka
2.Marignon
3.Pythium

[Zapmeister]

Count me in.

1. Man
2. Machaka
3. Ulm

[Graeme Dice]

I'll play.
1. Mictlan
2. C'Tis
3. Marignon

[aldin]

Sounds fun,

1) Marignon
2) Abysia
3) Jotunheim

~Aldin

[navrunner]

I am interested

1) Pythium
2) Tien Chi
3) Rlyeh

nav

[Pillin]

Ok, Ill be putting it up so you can upload your pretenders now, remember to password them.

Ip is 82.164.48.36
port 5555

I've fiddled about a litte and working a little on first come, first served this is the players:

Dire Ermor
Rabelais Man
Malcoda Vanheim
Mardagg Machaka
Zap Ulm
Graeme Dice Mictlan
Aldin Marignon
Nav Pythium
Pillin Arcosephale

Game parameters will be as follows:
Map: Desert Eye
Indep: 6
Magic: 55
Victory condition: 35 provinces
Master password: enabled
Diplomacy: any

Game will start after the weekend, or as soon as I get all the pretenders.

Ps. Anyone getting force hosted 3 times will be Banned from all future games.

[Pillin]

James will be joining as Pangea.

also if you could pm me your email as you upload your pretender, that would be good. so i can nag you when/if your late with a turn and for better communication for server related things.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Pillin:
James will be joining as Pangea.

also if you could pm me your email as you upload your pretender, that would be good. so i can nag you when/if your late with a turn and for better communication for server related things. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">A PM here is probably the best way to reach me. This game should finish extremely quickly with a 35 province victory condition.

[Pillin]

Actually I think you'll be suprised by the time it will take. 35 provinces is over 2.5 times your share of provinces (not considering water) so should take some time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Pillin]

Ok now we're only missing:

Man
Ermor
Vanheim
Machaka

Looks like we might get the game started today or tomorrow if they turn in they're pretenders http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Pillin]

Oh no, the server keeps the pretender saved. You just need to connect again when we start up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Mardagg]

Just uploaded my machaka Pretender.
I hope I dont need to be Online,to reserve Machaka as human controlled, all the time until the game starts?

[Pillin]

Just waiting for Malcoda now, then we'll be off http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[rabelais]

Finally got my design finished... but the server is down...?

Pillin do you have a pretender for Man? I hadn't submitted one, so if so it might be an error.

I will send you my nation settings by PM to confirm....

Regards,

Rabe the Avalonian

[rabelais]

Found the server, had wrong ip in shortcut.


Pillin please confirm pretender name from pm.

tried to upload, though it said human controlled before I started and gave me the "your god is now in charge of man" msg after some vigorous clicking. Status unclear.

Regards,

Rabe the Lord in Limbo.

Rabe, you crack me up so bad.

[Pillin]

After sorting things out with Rabe I've decided to start the game. Vanheim will not be participating as I havent had any acknowledgment that hes in the game. So missing one player I decided to up the victory condition to 45 provinces. Hope this isnt a problem.

Good luck everybody!

Ps. I will also be sending out a email notice for this.

[rabelais]

Took my turn successfully. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

God, I forgot what a viciously bad terrain map DE can be....

Another thing I noticed is... we are on a map with a fair amount of water, and no water-based nations.

Any particular reason we avoided Inland?


Rabe of the Poor Starting Position.

[Pillin]

Bad news everyone. someone on this forum was kind enough to overwrite the ulm pretender with one of they're own, so we'll have to restart.

This time I'm not posting the port, but mailing it to you.

[Mardagg]

I didnt receive the Email with the new IP/port.
Could someone please leave me a Personal Message?

[rabelais]

Took my turn, it hosted... now I get hung at "waiting for game info" when trying to connect.... anyone else having this problem?

Rabe the Rejected

[Norfleet]

If the server's been up a few days, it's probably getting clogged by the unburied corpses of dead connections, and needs to be restarted.

[Pillin]

Game crashed when hosting, back up now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[rabelais]

Down again?

[Pillin]

Yes, I was without net connection for some hours today. Server is back up again.

[rabelais]

Crashed again?

I recommend NOT upgrading, for now....


Rabe the Late Adopter

[aldin]

heh - nothing like taking the naval Version of Marigon then winding up in the middle of the continent http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif Between that and my complete military ineptitude I have chosen to become computer controlled for the four turns it will take my neighbors to eliminate me entirely - have fun all!

~Aldin

[dire]

>Took my turn, it hosted... now I get hung
>at "waiting for game info" when trying to
>connect.... anyone else having this problem?

I get it pretty much every time. It takes a minute or so to get game info (another game I'm in it takes a few seconds). About 50% of the time it returns with "Got bad packet from server" so I just have to keep on retrying until it gets through. I guess this is why the server is getting clogged with dead connections.

[rabelais]

Pillin, did you upgrade the server to 2.08, or am I getting a unrelated weird error?

Rabe the Tired of posting on this board...

[Zapmeister]

I can't read my turnfile with 2.06, but I can with 2.08. I presume from this that the server has been upgraded. I'm preparing my next turn with 2.08 as that appears to be my only option.

[Mardagg]

Marignon didnt go computer controlled it seems...maybe someone should remind Aldin .

[aldin]

Whoops! Sorry, thought I did it right. Could someone PM me the current IP / Port so I can correct this?

~Aldin

[rabelais]

Seems to be crashed again.

I'd like to thank Pillin for putting up with hosting the server, since it seems to do this every turn and must be a pain in the a**.

Rabe the Network Leech

[rabelais]

Server crashed while I was logged in, dunno if it thinks it got my .2h.

Please do NOT host until I can make sure it's properly uploaded.

Thanks,

Rabe the Bad luck Charmer

[Pillin]

OK bad news everyone http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif That Last crash was actually my hd giving up the ghost.. its now in the supercomputer in the sky R.I.P. I was not able to recover the fathrland file and I didnt really forsee this so no backup either http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[rabelais]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

bummer.

Good luck with the machine.


Rabe the Suddenly Ethereal

[dire]

Darn, sorry to hear that the game is gone. I was so looking forward to seeing how my 300+ undead army was going to fare against your bordering Natajara SC http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Mardagg]

Thats very sad,I loved my Machaka Kingdom:(

[Graeme Dice]

That's annoying, since I had found a devil's lair on turn5.

[Pillin]

Yeah I was enjoying that game too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif and your undeads would not only be meet by my avatar (whos not built for undead slaying, too much encumbrance) but also a strong company of elephants and foot soldiers, backed up by a decent amount of priests http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif