Early Era - Glory of The Gods - Lost the Host!!

[Manuk]

cannot connect.

[Meglobob]

Manuk said:
cannot connect.



Neither can I.

I get 'waiting for info'.

[llamabeast]

Same here.

[DrPraetorious]

Likewise.

[Xox]

cannot connect

[Kydorias]

Ditto

[Strages Sanctus]

The game crashed, some memory related error; a first for me.

It is back up and set to 36hr turnaround. Please post here if you still can't connect.

[Meglobob]

Strages Sanctus said:
The game crashed, some memory related error; a first for me.

It is back up and set to 36hr turnaround. Please post here if you still can't connect.



Thanks Strages, alls working well now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Teraswaerto]

Vanheim would like to buy a certain magic item. We can pay in gold, gems and/or goodwill, details to be negotiated.

1 Skull Staff.

[Maltrease]

We will pay:
30 Gold per water gem.
25 Gold for any other gem.

We will Trade
4 Death for 5 water gems. Up to 40 death gems available at this ratio.


We will forge you:
Lucky Pendant, Amulet of AntiMagic, Spell Focus or Eye of the Void for 7 gems (any type).

We will forge you:
Astral Hats - 15 gems (any type).

[Manuk]

should we patch 3.06?
surely yes if strages do

[Meglobob]

Manuk said:
should we patch 3.06?
surely yes if strages do



Strages has to patch first. The usual sequence of events is everyone does there latest turn with 3.04, then the host patches, then all the players do.

[llamabeast]

I can't connect again - "waiting for game info" again.

[Xox]

trying to connect crashes my my system right now

[Strages Sanctus]

hrm I am at work, but seems like something bad is going on... maybe a player patched and that is causing problems?

I haven't patched yet. I have also never had the error I saw last night before (which seems like it might be the same error again) although I can't tell until I get home in 4 hours.

[hako]

I can't connect - "waiting for game info"... tried with patched ver - does not work at al... red screen flashes:)

[Strages Sanctus]

people that have patched will cause the server to crash since I have not patched.

[Manuk]

connected with 3.04 version but the server is down

[Xox]

i have not patched yet, but it still crashes my system to try to connect to this server.

[Strages Sanctus]

I have not restarted it yet. Nation 12 at least is what is causing it to crash, for me to restart I need to either delete nation 12s turn? or patch.

[Strages Sanctus]

I have not restarted it yet.

[DrPraetorious]

Go ahead and patch it - that's what I'm doing with my server there doesn't seem to be much choice in the matter.

[Baalz]

The nation of Mictlan wants to trade for Skull Mentors and one set of earth boot, one dwarven hammer. Can forge Armor of Twisted Thorns, Brazen Vessel, Thistle Mace, lifelong protection, soul contract, heart of life. Soon for trade (sooner with skull mentors http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif: black heart, blood thorn, hell sword, water bracelet, boots of youth

[FAJ]

I need death gems, I can get you a hammer and earth boots. PM me.

[Teraswaerto]

I can't connect to the server.

[Teraswaerto]

Still unable to connect. Wont be able to try again until some time tomorrow.

[Meglobob]

Can't connect to server to upload my turn.

Someones probably used 3.06 to do there turn and crashed the server again.

I love new patches but they cause utter chaos with MP games. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[llamabeast]

I still can't connect - I assume you'll tell us here when you've restarted it Strages? I'd hate to miss my turn because the problem was at my end and I assumed the server was still down.

[Manuk]

a tip. Copy dom3.exe and name the copy dom304.exe, then patch

so to play the old version use dom304.exe to play
to play new version use dom3.exe

[Strages Sanctus]

good idea manuk. Patching now

[llamabeast]

Okay cool, I see it's back up again. Good stuff. Will take my turn later on this evening.

[llamabeast]

How come we're on a 48-hour timer now? I thought the conclusion was that 36 hours would be enough? Whatever people think best, but one turn every two days makes llamabeast sad. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Baalz]

The power of Sauromatia is broken. After twice rebuffing our offer of friendship, the bloody god demanded the entirety of the Amazon noble line be consigned to the sacrificial pits. Tales of the killing fields at the foot of the holy ziggurat made their way back and took hold deep in the hearts of the Sauromatian soldiers. Their replacement army was set upon left and right by our cunning ambushers, Sauromatian soldiers disappearing in the black of night never to be heard from again. Tales of the bloody fate of those who oppose the will of the bloody god spread, along with starvation and disease as the skies darkened and the very rain which fell upon their lands turned to rotting toads. The last army of Sauromatia cowered in the mountains as their nation rapidly dwindled, too fearful from having been bloodied every time they turned their back to leave their camp even under the noon sun. Starvation and desperation take deep hold in their souls as they become resigned to their fate.

Now the armies of Inferno ravage their lands and bring their daughters to our pits to worship the bloody god with their essence. Hoards of imps descend every month, tormenting all they come across. As the countryside burns, the army of Mictlan, lead by our great prophet and legendary tactician Tlahuixcalp marches to the last Sauromatian stronghold. The blood of the amazons will run down the holy ziggurat within the fortnight, and all shall know Hi Bi Kami as the delusional snake he was.

[Strages Sanctus]

I temporarily set it to 48 to make sure people had a chance given all the patch issues.

[Teraswaerto]

Looks like Atlantis took a big hit there. Would the fishy folk like tell what happened? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Manuk]

They are the frog people, oceania would be the fish people.

[Teraswaerto]

All things that slither, swim or crawl under the waves are fishy. /threads/images/Graemlins/Fish.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Fish.gif /threads/images/Graemlins/Fish.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Teraswaerto]

Server appears to be down.

[Kydorias]

Yes it does.

[Meglobob]

Server still down, 48hrs nearly now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Baalz]

Hope it's not auto-hosting! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Kydorias]

So...anyone know what's going on? Server still seems to be down.

[Manuk]

Strages must had some kind of problem i guess.

[Meglobob]

Manuk said:
Strages must had some kind of problem i guess.



Has anyone got a handy wish spell?

If so wish for Strages...

[Meglobob]

I will be very, very, very sad if this game has died. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Maltrease]

It would be incredibly disappointing if this game ends.

Does anyone know Strages? Perhaps we can get the game files and have someone else host it?

[DrPraetorious]

I'd be willing to take over hosting.

[Kydorias]

Still no word on Strages, eh? Kind of a bummer.

[Maltrease]

Maybe some of you guys will post in the Game Server thread.
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=473740&page=1&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Personally I think Shrapnel should build and manage a multiplayer server. One well built server would handle ALL multiplayer game currently being played (and more).

I don't even want to know how many hours I put into this game... most in the build up phase to anticipation of what was to come. And now its possible that it was all for nothing. Very sad.

Of course I'm still hopefully Strages will return... even if its a week from now.

[Meglobob]

Maltrease said:
Maybe some of you guys will post in the Game Server thread.
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=473740&page=1&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

I don't even want to know how many hours I put into this game... most in the build up phase to anticipation of what was to come. And now its possible that it was all for nothing. Very Sad



Same here Maltrease, agree with you 100%. This has happened in 2 games I am in at the moment, this and cradle of dominion. Putting 40-50 turns play into a MP and then have them just end is sad.

[Manuk]

what if all the current players send their 2h files to someone like a PBEM?
shouldn't it host normally?

[llamabeast]

It doesn't work like that unfortunately, you need the "ftherlnd" file as well to host it.

[Kydorias]

I've waited enough time to say this, but the last turn we played this game I moved a quite powerful force into Atlantis' capital province. Strages Sactus is/was Atlantis.

Know that he attacked me first and continued to attack me relentlessly. Frankly I almost turned my game over to the AI several times since it seemed I was doomed. However, I was eventually able to prevail and the tides of battle turned against Atlantis. Finally since Vanheim cut Atlantis' land route of advance against me, I was able to take the offensive and move my armies against Atlantis.

I sincerely hope this is not the case, but Strages Sanctus might have taken down the server since he was about to suffer a terrible defeat, at least unless a miraculous event took place that would have saved him.

Regardless, if he did take down the server simply because he was on the verge of defeat, that is a dishonorable thing to do. I think that if you agree to host a game, you host it until the bitter end, even if you suffer a defeat.

If this is a case, I would warn everyone against joining a game that Sanctus is hosting. I would also warn against allowing Sanctus to join a game due to his possibly dishonorable actions.

I hope I am mistaken and that Sanctus will reappear and allow this game to continue.

[Teraswaerto]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I hadn't realized that Strages was Atlantis. This certainly looks bad, although there's no way to know for sure.

As Kydorias is saying, I began to attack Atlantis' land provinces, and on the last hosted turn wiped out an Atlantean army around 150 strong with practically no losses. He was on the fast track to elimination at that point.

[Baalz]

The REAL crappy thing is that this seems to be a really good game for a lot of players, and at least one (probably more) would be willing to take over hosting if we could just get the ftherlnd file. Strages, if you did drop from being eliminated (and see this), could you please, please, please give us that file so the rest of us could figure something out?

[Maltrease]

Please vote in my poll:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=496286&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

[Manuk]

Probably we lost the host of this game. Who was winning? Maybe tienchi or Acros?

[Teraswaerto]

Oh really? Vanheim! Vanheim! Three cheers for Vanheim!

I wouldn't discount Kailasa, Mictlan or Oceania either.

It was way too early to know the winner.

[Baalz]

Yeah, no way to call a winner yet, but I was very happy with my position. The game was just about to get real interesting....:(

[Meglobob]

Baalz said:
Yeah, no way to call a winner yet, but I was very happy with my position. The game was just about to get real interesting....:(



Snap. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

[Maltrease]

I'm still faintly hoping that Strages will return at some point with the game files.

I was only 4-5 turns away from seeing how my carefully planned and slowly executed strategy would work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Xox]

I, on the other hand, needed only another 50 - 100 turns for my carefully planned strategy to flower. Then, though, yes THEN, you all would have been in some deep trouble.

Barring, of course, any curves you all might have cooked up in that time.