"Weekender 2": resume?

[Reverend Zombie]

I'll be hosting 9 serious players on the Glory of the Gods (MP) map. Experience is not as important as your commitment to stick with the game till the end, complete turns on time and let me know if you need extra time for some reason.

The long-term hosting schedule will be twice on weekends, once mid-week (something like Friday night, Sunday morning and Wednesday night). I'm in the U.S. eastern time zone. (But see below for beginning-of-the-game schedule.)

We'll try this as a TCP game to start, but may need to switch to PBEM if problems with my server prove intractable. I will force host turns at the appointed times once all turns are in. This will ensure that problems with the server don't cause anyone to stale.

Beginning hosting schedule: To get things started, I will leave the game on quick host, but with no timer, since it is easier to get turns done in the early game. When players do not seem to be meeting or exceeding the 3X/week schedule, I'll take quick host off and start force hosting on the schedule mentioned above.

Age: Early

Victory: The winner will need to achieve a Dominion score of approximately 2070. Each converted province is worth 11-20 Dominion points.

Settings:

Renaming on, playing with master password.

Defaults for everything else.

Post here with your nation choice, and send me a PM with your email address in order to get the IP and port.

We'll start once we have 9 players' pretenders uploaded.

There will be a pause in hosting over Memorial Day (U.S.) weekend.

Players:

Lanka~Reverend Zombie
Zoshan~R'lyeh
Tichy~Tir Na Nog
johnarryn~Niefelheim
jeffr~Pangaea
FAJ~Yomi
Dallan~Arco
Sensoor~Mictlan
Thrawn~T'ien Ch'i

[Starshine_Monarch]

Interested, though I am completely new to MP games. I'll only be able to send in turns on the weekends. If you can host on Saturday and Sunday nights only, that would be best for me. If you can do that, then sign me up for Mictlan.

[Reverend Zombie]

Starshine_Monarch said:
Interested, though I am completely new to MP games. I'll only be able to send in turns on the weekends. If you can host on Saturday and Sunday nights only, that would be best for me. If you can do that, then sign me up for Mictlan.



Unfortunately, while I would love to have you join, the mid-week hosting is important to keep up the pace of the game.

[Zoshan]

I would like to play EA R'lyeh. I will pm you with my email.

[Tichy]

Hi -- mind if I play Tir N'a Og (or however it's actually spelled)? I'll send a PM shortly.

Thanks.

[Reverend Zombie]

Welcome Zoshan and Tichy!

[johnarryn]

I'd like to play as Niefelheim. Also pming you.

[jeffr]

Cool, I'm in as Pangaea. PMing you with my e-mail now.

[Reverend Zombie]

Zoshan said:
I would like to play EA R'lyeh. I will pm you with my email.



Zoshan, I have not received a PM from you. I'll send you the port and i.p. as soon as I do.

[Zoshan]

i thought i sent a pm to you i must have messed it up let me try again.

[Starshine_Monarch]

I'll see what I can do about my playing this game. Until I can confirm the fact I can't play, could you try to keep a spot open for me? Also, I'm thinking I might want to use Abysia instead of Mictlan...

[FAJ]

sign me up for yomi

[BigDisAwesome]

If you don't fill up by tomorrow morning I might join.
If I do I'm thinking Sauromatia. I've never played as them before and I've never used blood magic either.

[Starshine_Monarch]

Starshine_Monarch said:
I'll see what I can do about my playing this game. Until I can confirm the fact I can't play, could you try to keep a spot open for me? Also, I'm thinking I might want to use Abysia instead of Mictlan...



Yeah, as of now, I can't do this. Oh well...I guess that leaves me more time to work on Al-Murrah. I would like to see how this game goes though, so is there any way I can view the turns even though I can't play?

[Dallan_Invictus]

If there's still space, can I join as Arco? I'll PM you shortly.

As you can tell by my post count, I'm new to MP, but I'd definitely like to try it and the hosting schedule doesn't sound too onerous. So I'll have at'er!

[Sensori]

If there's space, I'd like to try Mictlan. PMing you anyway. ;p

[BigDisAwesome]

I'm sorry Rev, but I better not join this game. The next couple weekends I'm gonna be a little busy, and I'm in a fair share of games at the moment.
Guess I got a little greedy.

[Reverend Zombie]

Starshine_Monarch said:
Yeah, as of now, I can't do this. Oh well...I guess that leaves me more time to work on Al-Murrah. I would like to see how this game goes though, so is there any way I can view the turns even though I can't play?



Alas, there's no observer status for Dom3.

[Sensori]

So all I need to do is press Mictlan's open slot to make it human controlled, right? No pressing of the "Start Game" button? ;p I've been substituting in TCP/IP games and the only game I was in the starter group is a PBEM, so I'm not exactly familiar with how this thing works. :/

[Dallan_Invictus]

I'm presuming the reason it didn't ask me to choose a Pretender was because I only have one created EA Arco pretender, but it threw me for a loop for a bit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Anything else I need to do than press the slot?

[Reverend Zombie]

Dallan_Invictus said:
I'm presuming the reason it didn't ask me to choose a Pretender was because I only have one created EA Arco pretender, but it threw me for a loop for a bit. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Anything else I need to do than press the slot?



I think that is all you need to do. You can't create Pretenders on the fly for MP like you can in SP, so if you have only one pre-made to load, it makes sense that it would not ask you to choose.

[johnarryn]

Yes, if you have one it doesn't ask you to choose... I had three, so it asked me... when do we start?

[Reverend Zombie]

johnarryn said:
Yes, if you have one it doesn't ask you to choose... I had three, so it asked me... when do we start?



BigDis dropped out, so we need one more player--tell a friend!!!

We'll start once everyone's uploaded.

[johnarryn]

Somebody join this game!

[Thrawn]

Assuming the spot's still open, I'll be cannon fodder for you guys, and play T'ien C'hi. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Been curious to play them EA for awhile now.

[Reverend Zombie]

Game is full, please upload your Pretenders. Thanks!

[Reverend Zombie]

I believe we will be ready to start once Yomi has uploaded.

[Sensori]

Yomi has uploaded, so when are we starting? :O

[Reverend Zombie]

When I can get to my machine & start. Later tonight.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Looks like the game is started. Three first-turns are in already.

[Reverend Zombie]

Yep, we are underway.

Take your turns!

I won't be force-hosting this week due to the Memorial Day (U.S.) holiday, but it would nice if we could get a couple of turns done by/through the weekend.

[johnarryn]

Come on, guys... the first few turns should go pretty fast =)

[FAJ]

Sorry about that.

Maybe change the thread name to "Started" instead of "load pretenders"?

[johnarryn]

My giants were trounced on turn 1 by some Hoburg Militia. Amusing.

[Reverend Zombie]

FAJ said:
Sorry about that.

Maybe change the thread name to "Started" instead of "load pretenders"?



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

[jeffr]

I've taken my turn and the game is hosted. Turn 3 is ready.

[Sensori]

Now all we're waiting for is the host. :-D

[Reverend Zombie]

New turn is up!

[Reverend Zombie]

Is up!

[jeffr]

How do you know your Dominion score? Is there anyway to determine the other player's Domion score?

[Reverend Zombie]

On the Dominion graph, the victory level is highlighted, so you can see how close you (and other players) are. Each province of your faith is worth 11-20 Dominion points, and I think the number of points per province is determined by how many candles you have there 1=11, 10=20.

[jeffr]

Ok, thanks.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Turn 7 is up, for those of you who were waiting through the day for me to play my turn. Not all of us had today off. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[johnarryn]

I apologize if im delaying the game... i tried to connect to the server yesterday, but it wasnt up, and i havent had a chance yet today...

[Dallan_Invictus]

Server's been up all the times I checked today.

[Thrawn]

I am about of town today, but hope to play my turn tonight (assuming it's up, haven't looked). Definitely will play tomorrow.

[Reverend Zombie]

Cool!

The game is moving along at a good pace for a non-timed game. Good job everyone.

[Sensori]

Oh right fellas, I finally made my turn so... Let's go and continue. ;p

[Dallan_Invictus]

Finally got to submit, so 17 will be up shortly. Have at it.

[Sensori]

Oh crap guys, sorry about making you wait, but the wait is now over.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Is anyone else having trouble connecting, or is it just me?

[johnarryn]

Ive been having trouble as well

[Sensori]

Same, haven't been able to connect for a couple of days now.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Well, it's back up now.

Looks like Lanka got unceremoniously stomped. :|

[FAJ]

I can connect now too,

and just my luck, 2 moves, 4 battles :\.

Heres an apology to my two neighbors; sorry for the accidental conflicts. A special sorry to TienChi for accidentally killing your god http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

[Sensori]

I just figured I'd try doing my turn and turned out I was the last one again. ;p Well, it's done and stuff.

[Zoshan]

where is the game?

[Thrawn]

Looks down, eh?

[Reverend Zombie]

Yep--had a power outage last night, and forgot to put the game back up today.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Looks like the server's down again, just so you know, Rev.

[Reverend Zombie]

Rebooted, please retry.

[Dallan_Invictus]

Yeah, it works now, thankye.

[Dallan_Invictus]

New turn is up.

Incidentally, whichever pretender in that whole eastern mess has the 3 Death scale? I hate you so much. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Not, I suppose, that _not_ having a starving and diseased army would have helped much against those White Centaurs.

[Thrawn]

Really enjoying this game.

[Sensori]

Don't stop to enjoy yourself too much, since Pangaea is winning with his insane dominion gain by far now. ;p Bleh, not that I think much can be done about it, but we can TRY!

[FAJ]

Well, looks like Pangaea is about to win in a few turns, anything we can do to stop it?

[Sensori]

Other than by trying to fight him? No idea. :/ At least me (Mictlan) and Niefelheim are trying to fight him, but that durn haunted forest is kinda nasty. N stuff.

[FAJ]

I have a friendly relationship with him, but I think I need to declare war on Pangaea soon. Even if it won't make an impact on his dominion win, I at least want to try out some of my summons :\.

[Sensori]

I had a relatively friendly relationship with him until I realized that he was about to win and Niefelheim came and said he's fighting him and could use a hand. As it is, Pangaea has been eating up neighbor after neighbor, and, well, better take a stand before it's over, even though it's hardly possible anymore to stop him from winning.

[FAJ]

Might as well give it a try I suppose. Yomi isnt very good at stopping enemy dominion though.

[jeffr]

Game seems down.

[johnarryn]

Guys, im going to have to bow out of this game unfortunately. Im moving and won't have access to the internet for the next 10 days or so, and i've already fallen behind on my turns. If you can find a substitute that would be ideal.... sorry!

I'll try to check my account here, if someone wants to substitute let me know, I will message them with the situation.

[Tichy]

I could set the scattered last remnants of Tir to AI and take over, if that's not against the rules. I'm moving myself in about 10 days, so you could take back over then.

[jeffr]

Sure, I say go for it. The giants are in too important a position to go AI.

And, hey, maybe Tir will attack the giants or Arco instead of attacking me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Can anyone else access the game? It's been down for me for two days.

[Thrawn]

I can't access either.

[jeffr]

Server is down, just so you know Rev http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Zoshan]

Where is the game?

[Thrawn]

Has the Reverend abandonned us?????

[Reverend Zombie]

Server should be up momentarily.

[jeffr]

Server is up, thanks Rev http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

But the Giants still haven't taken their turn and johnarryn has indicated he can't play anymore. The Tir player has offered to turn Tir AI and assume control of the Giants.

I say that's a good plan. Does everyone else agree?

If so, let's resume play.

[FAJ]

I would be cool with it.

Pangaea is going to win, lets get this over with!

[Dallan_Invictus]

I'm good for Tir to take over the Giants. It probably won't make much difference, but, hey, let's just get this going again.

[Tichy]

Someone PM me Niefel's password and I'll get on it.

[johnarryn]

Just checking in. Tichy, I didnt set a password on Niefelheim (oops), so you should be able to take direct control without a password.

[Tichy]

Oh -- ok.

[Tichy]

Done -- Not a masterpiece of a turn on my part, but done.

[Thrawn]

Is the server up? Whenever I try and log in, the game hangs on "Waiting for Game Info". I have to alt-tab out. Is that a problem on my end?

[llamabeast]

Thrawn - try connecting again while you still have the dead window open. Quite a lot of servers have this mysterious problem, and people have observed that it will only hang one window at once, so you can connect with a sacrificial window, then try again with a new one once the first has hung.

[Sensori]

That didn't work for me. I ended up having 3 dead windows up. Oh well. Guess this game's as good as dead, then. :/

[Reverend Zombie]

Sensori said:
That didn't work for me. I ended up having 3 dead windows up. Oh well. Guess this game's as good as dead, then. :/



I'll reboot and you can try again.

[Sensori]

Nope, still not working for me, I had 4 crashed Dominions on and no dice. :/

[jeffr]

I'm getting the same "waiting for game info" message. I tried 3 Dom3 windows at once.

Arghh!!!

[Jazzepi]

Try clicking semi-rapidly on the window as it connects to the game, we had a similar problem in another game and that helped. If you checkout the Outriders' thread you can see it.

Jazzepi

[jeffr]

I tried as you suggested but no dice. Thanks for the tip, though.

What do we do?

[Reverend Zombie]

jeffr said:
I tried as you suggested but no dice. Thanks for the tip, though.

What do we do?



I deleted everyone's .2h files, maybe something there was corrupted. Could everyone try reloading their previous turns?

[jeffr]

I was able to get in. Thanks.

[Thrawn]

What's up with Tichy? Did he not take over Nief?

[Thrawn]

Guys, off topic, but check out my cooperative game i'm going to host that's forming.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=540583&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

We need 2 or 3 more.

[Zoshan]

I think tichy had to move this week so might be slow doing turn.

[jeffr]

Any idea when he might be back?

[Zoshan]

No idea when he will be able to do the turn.

[Tichy]

Hi -- I'm sorry, I'll get in and do it now. I kind of stopped paying attention once the server kept going down. I'm in Minneapolis now, going to climb into a rental and drive to Billings in an hour or so.

[Tichy]

It's in.

[Zoshan]

Where is the game? Every time I check the server I am unable to connect.

[FAJ]

I am leaving for vacation in a week where I won't be able to play. I am pretty sure pangaea is secure in its dominion victory, but if someone would rather sub for me instead of me going AI, let me know.

[jeffr]

I can't connect either. The server appear to be down. When you get a chance, Rev http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Dallan_Invictus]

I'm quite frankly inclined just to give Pangaea the game, but if anyone else thinks they can be broken I'll keep controlling what's left of Arco. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Very well done on their part.

[Sensori]

Well, yeah, I've thought this game's kinda pointless for the last 10 or so turns, since even if Pangaea's armies could be beat his dominion could not. ;p Not to mention that since the temples are only 200 gold for him, raiding won't hurt him one bit.

[FAJ]

I agree. I say give the win to Pangaea so I can stop checking this darned game/thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.

[Reverend Zombie]

FAJ said:
I agree. I say give the win to Pangaea so I can stop checking this darned game/thread http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif.



Happy to hear you say that. A recent power outage here seems to have fried my server, so the game is permanently defunct, anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Sensori]

Well, at least we had an obvious victor, so it's not that bad. ;p

[Tichy]

2 cheers for Pan, you bastards. Can I say "bastards" on the board? Well we'll soon see.

[Tichy]

Yup, guess I can. I mean it in the best possible way...you bas...

[Zoshan]

crap just when the game was starting to get fun. ok new rule read fine print before joining games.

[Sensori]

Tichy, you got to know twice what it meant to fight Pangaea, whilst I just got to do that once! So, what was it like? ;p

As for fun-ness, it was obvious ages ago that Pangaea was gonna win, his Dominion gain was just too strong all the time. :/

[FAJ]

I didn't even pay attention to the victory conditions. I tend to be oblivious as long as I am relitivly secure.

[Dallan_Invictus]

I believe that "bloody unstoppable double-blessed White Centaurs" come rather forcibly to mind. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Reverend Zombie]

Zoshan said:
crap just when the game was starting to get fun. ok new rule read fine print before joining games.



I'm not sure this was covered in the fine print... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

[Dallan_Invictus]

Reverend Zombie said:

Zoshan said:
crap just when the game was starting to get fun. ok new rule read fine print before joining games.



I'm not sure this was covered in the fine print... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif



Dominion wins were, server crashes weren't. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[jeffr]

Good game guys! This was my first Dom3 MP win. The game moved very quickly and was a lot of fun http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I was very fortunate to start in the lower right with basically the whole lower right corner to myself. I was also able to expand into the North and Center for a good bit until I met anybody, so except for an early war with Lanka (that was a tough decision to start that war), I had alot of time to build.

I built a bunch of temples early (only 200gp each) and as I started to see my dominion rise faster than I thought it would, I thought that I would be a target so I said the hell with it and just started building as many temples as I could each turn.

I then went defensive with Gift of Health and the Haunted Forest globals and just tried to wait it out, with a few excursions to try to pick up some buffer provinces.

So thanks again for the game, everyone and thanks to Rev in particular for hosting!

Sorry about your server. That's a real bummer.

[Tichy]

I didn't actually so much "fight" Pan as "got rolled over by" Pan. (Evil evil centaurs.)

It might have been about to get interesting if it wasn't a dominion victory game because Niefel had researched send horror. The one horror I sent routed a medium sized army. Niefel had a pretty decent blood income, and the horrors and disease demons might have started whittling away at him, horror marking, mutliplying afflictions.

But we'll never know.

Tichy

[Thrawn]

Grats Jeffr!

Rev, would love to be in your next game. Let me know.

[Reverend Zombie]

Thrawn said:
Grats Jeffr!

Rev, would love to be in your next game. Let me know.



Alas, with the dead server, it will be a while before I can host again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Reverend Zombie]

The machine I was using to host this game is working again. Is anyone interested in resuming?