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Pillin
February 5th, 2004, 05:58 PM
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
February 5th, 2004, 06:18 PM
I'll play.

Arco
Marignon
C'tis

Waiting for further instructions.

dire
February 5th, 2004, 07:38 PM
I'll play

My preferences are:

Ermor
R'lyeh (depending on map)
Pythium

rabelais
February 5th, 2004, 09:05 PM
I'd also like to play...

Man
Vanheim
Tien Chi

malcoda
February 5th, 2004, 09:24 PM
...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
February 5th, 2004, 11:51 PM
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.

February 5th, 2004, 11:56 PM
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
February 6th, 2004, 12:02 AM
Hi, I am very interested:

1.Machaka
2.Marignon
3.Pythium

Zapmeister
February 6th, 2004, 12:07 AM
Count me in.

1. Man
2. Machaka
3. Ulm

Graeme Dice
February 6th, 2004, 12:31 AM
I'll play.
1. Mictlan
2. C'Tis
3. Marignon

aldin
February 6th, 2004, 12:48 AM
Sounds fun,

1) Marignon
2) Abysia
3) Jotunheim

~Aldin

navrunner
February 6th, 2004, 02:23 AM
I am interested

1) Pythium
2) Tien Chi
3) Rlyeh

nav

Pillin
February 6th, 2004, 04:05 AM
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
February 6th, 2004, 04:38 AM
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
February 6th, 2004, 05:22 AM
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
February 6th, 2004, 05:34 AM
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
February 6th, 2004, 12:37 PM
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
February 6th, 2004, 03:22 PM
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
February 7th, 2004, 02:10 AM
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
February 7th, 2004, 12:15 PM
Just waiting for Malcoda now, then we'll be off http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

rabelais
February 8th, 2004, 04:21 AM
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
February 8th, 2004, 04:37 AM
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.

February 8th, 2004, 04:43 AM
Rabe, you crack me up so bad.

Pillin
February 8th, 2004, 01:53 PM
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
February 8th, 2004, 04:40 PM
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
February 8th, 2004, 10:43 PM
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
February 9th, 2004, 12:53 PM
I didnt receive the Email with the new IP/port.
Could someone please leave me a Personal Message?

rabelais
February 11th, 2004, 08:48 PM
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
February 11th, 2004, 09:12 PM
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
February 11th, 2004, 09:37 PM
Game crashed when hosting, back up now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

rabelais
February 14th, 2004, 06:22 PM
Down again?

Pillin
February 14th, 2004, 09:51 PM
Yes, I was without net connection for some hours today. Server is back up again.

rabelais
February 17th, 2004, 04:50 AM
Crashed again?

I recommend NOT upgrading, for now....


Rabe the Late Adopter

aldin
February 17th, 2004, 06:40 AM
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
February 18th, 2004, 01:05 AM
>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
February 18th, 2004, 04:52 AM
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
February 18th, 2004, 09:01 AM
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
February 19th, 2004, 03:51 PM
Marignon didnt go computer controlled it seems...maybe someone should remind Aldin .

aldin
February 19th, 2004, 06:43 PM
Whoops! Sorry, thought I did it right. Could someone PM me the current IP / Port so I can correct this?

~Aldin

rabelais
February 20th, 2004, 02:35 AM
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
February 25th, 2004, 07:40 PM
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
February 25th, 2004, 11:11 PM
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
February 26th, 2004, 12:47 AM
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
February 26th, 2004, 02:31 AM
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
February 26th, 2004, 01:17 PM
Thats very sad,I loved my Machaka Kingdom:(

Graeme Dice
February 26th, 2004, 03:17 PM
That's annoying, since I had found a devil's lair on turn5.

Pillin
February 27th, 2004, 02:44 AM
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