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Reverend Zombie
May 19th, 2007, 12:05 PM
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
May 19th, 2007, 12:14 PM
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
May 19th, 2007, 12:41 PM
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
May 19th, 2007, 02:23 PM
I would like to play EA R'lyeh. I will pm you with my email.

Tichy
May 19th, 2007, 03:32 PM
Hi -- mind if I play Tir N'a Og (or however it's actually spelled)? I'll send a PM shortly.

Thanks.

Reverend Zombie
May 19th, 2007, 07:11 PM
Welcome Zoshan and Tichy!

johnarryn
May 19th, 2007, 07:22 PM
I'd like to play as Niefelheim. Also pming you.

jeffr
May 19th, 2007, 09:06 PM
Cool, I'm in as Pangaea. PMing you with my e-mail now.

Reverend Zombie
May 20th, 2007, 03:35 PM
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
May 20th, 2007, 04:47 PM
i thought i sent a pm to you i must have messed it up let me try again.

Starshine_Monarch
May 20th, 2007, 05:12 PM
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
May 20th, 2007, 05:44 PM
sign me up for yomi

BigDisAwesome
May 20th, 2007, 05:56 PM
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
May 20th, 2007, 05:56 PM
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
May 20th, 2007, 09:43 PM
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
May 21st, 2007, 07:07 AM
If there's space, I'd like to try Mictlan. PMing you anyway. ;p

BigDisAwesome
May 21st, 2007, 09:52 AM
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
May 21st, 2007, 09:55 AM
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
May 21st, 2007, 10:39 AM
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
May 21st, 2007, 10:57 AM
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
May 21st, 2007, 12:07 PM
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
May 21st, 2007, 02:19 PM
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
May 21st, 2007, 03:20 PM
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
May 21st, 2007, 06:11 PM
Somebody join this game!

Thrawn
May 21st, 2007, 10:41 PM
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
May 21st, 2007, 11:23 PM
Game is full, please upload your Pretenders. Thanks!

Reverend Zombie
May 22nd, 2007, 09:30 AM
I believe we will be ready to start once Yomi has uploaded.

Sensori
May 22nd, 2007, 03:18 PM
Yomi has uploaded, so when are we starting? :O

Reverend Zombie
May 22nd, 2007, 03:25 PM
When I can get to my machine & start. Later tonight.

Dallan_Invictus
May 22nd, 2007, 09:18 PM
Looks like the game is started. Three first-turns are in already.

Reverend Zombie
May 23rd, 2007, 09:33 AM
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
May 23rd, 2007, 11:37 AM
Come on, guys... the first few turns should go pretty fast =)

FAJ
May 23rd, 2007, 12:00 PM
Sorry about that.

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

johnarryn
May 23rd, 2007, 12:24 PM
My giants were trounced on turn 1 by some Hoburg Militia. Amusing.

Reverend Zombie
May 23rd, 2007, 02:03 PM
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
May 24th, 2007, 12:03 AM
I've taken my turn and the game is hosted. Turn 3 is ready.

Sensori
May 24th, 2007, 12:21 PM
Now all we're waiting for is the host. :-D

Reverend Zombie
May 24th, 2007, 10:18 PM
New turn is up!

Reverend Zombie
May 28th, 2007, 10:42 AM
Is up!

jeffr
May 28th, 2007, 02:46 PM
How do you know your Dominion score? Is there anyway to determine the other player's Domion score?

Reverend Zombie
May 28th, 2007, 06:32 PM
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
May 28th, 2007, 08:54 PM
Ok, thanks.

Dallan_Invictus
May 28th, 2007, 09:05 PM
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
June 1st, 2007, 02:17 PM
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
June 1st, 2007, 05:57 PM
Server's been up all the times I checked today.

Thrawn
June 2nd, 2007, 06:22 PM
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
June 4th, 2007, 09:48 AM
Cool!

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

Sensori
June 10th, 2007, 06:47 PM
Oh right fellas, I finally made my turn so... Let's go and continue. ;p

Dallan_Invictus
June 10th, 2007, 09:59 PM
Finally got to submit, so 17 will be up shortly. Have at it.

Sensori
June 14th, 2007, 04:55 PM
Oh crap guys, sorry about making you wait, but the wait is now over.

Dallan_Invictus
June 17th, 2007, 10:12 AM
Is anyone else having trouble connecting, or is it just me?

johnarryn
June 17th, 2007, 02:02 PM
Ive been having trouble as well

Sensori
June 17th, 2007, 03:10 PM
Same, haven't been able to connect for a couple of days now.

Dallan_Invictus
June 17th, 2007, 05:38 PM
Well, it's back up now.

Looks like Lanka got unceremoniously stomped. :|

FAJ
June 17th, 2007, 08:21 PM
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
June 18th, 2007, 01:36 AM
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
June 20th, 2007, 01:35 PM
where is the game?

Thrawn
June 20th, 2007, 01:57 PM
Looks down, eh?

Reverend Zombie
June 20th, 2007, 02:23 PM
Yep--had a power outage last night, and forgot to put the game back up today.

Dallan_Invictus
June 24th, 2007, 04:30 AM
Looks like the server's down again, just so you know, Rev.

Reverend Zombie
June 24th, 2007, 03:27 PM
Rebooted, please retry.

Dallan_Invictus
June 24th, 2007, 04:11 PM
Yeah, it works now, thankye.

Dallan_Invictus
July 11th, 2007, 12:56 AM
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
July 11th, 2007, 02:05 PM
Really enjoying this game.

Sensori
July 11th, 2007, 02:18 PM
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
July 16th, 2007, 04:38 PM
Well, looks like Pangaea is about to win in a few turns, anything we can do to stop it?

Sensori
July 16th, 2007, 07:37 PM
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
July 16th, 2007, 09:35 PM
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
July 16th, 2007, 10:32 PM
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
July 16th, 2007, 10:44 PM
Might as well give it a try I suppose. Yomi isnt very good at stopping enemy dominion though.

jeffr
July 19th, 2007, 10:56 PM
Game seems down.

johnarryn
July 20th, 2007, 10:36 AM
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
July 20th, 2007, 11:28 AM
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
July 20th, 2007, 08:48 PM
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
July 20th, 2007, 08:51 PM
I can't access either.

jeffr
July 21st, 2007, 05:59 PM
Server is down, just so you know Rev http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Zoshan
July 22nd, 2007, 07:15 AM
Where is the game?

Thrawn
July 22nd, 2007, 04:31 PM
Has the Reverend abandonned us?????

Reverend Zombie
July 22nd, 2007, 11:00 PM
Server should be up momentarily.

jeffr
July 23rd, 2007, 10:05 PM
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
July 23rd, 2007, 11:08 PM
I would be cool with it.

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

Dallan_Invictus
July 24th, 2007, 12:46 AM
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
July 24th, 2007, 03:04 AM
Someone PM me Niefel's password and I'll get on it.

johnarryn
July 24th, 2007, 03:57 AM
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
July 24th, 2007, 09:40 AM
Oh -- ok.

Tichy
July 24th, 2007, 10:25 AM
Done -- Not a masterpiece of a turn on my part, but done.

Thrawn
July 26th, 2007, 01:03 PM
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
July 26th, 2007, 01:20 PM
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
July 26th, 2007, 07:04 PM
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
July 26th, 2007, 08:22 PM
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
July 26th, 2007, 08:37 PM
Nope, still not working for me, I had 4 crashed Dominions on and no dice. :/

jeffr
July 26th, 2007, 09:52 PM
I'm getting the same "waiting for game info" message. I tried 3 Dom3 windows at once.

Arghh!!!

Jazzepi
July 26th, 2007, 10:15 PM
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
July 26th, 2007, 11:13 PM
I tried as you suggested but no dice. Thanks for the tip, though.

What do we do?

Reverend Zombie
July 27th, 2007, 08:39 PM
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
July 27th, 2007, 09:03 PM
I was able to get in. Thanks.

Thrawn
August 2nd, 2007, 12:23 PM
What's up with Tichy? Did he not take over Nief?

Thrawn
August 2nd, 2007, 06:45 PM
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
August 2nd, 2007, 07:21 PM
I think tichy had to move this week so might be slow doing turn.

jeffr
August 2nd, 2007, 11:24 PM
Any idea when he might be back?

Zoshan
August 3rd, 2007, 09:17 AM
No idea when he will be able to do the turn.

Tichy
August 3rd, 2007, 10:48 AM
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
August 3rd, 2007, 11:05 AM
It's in.

Zoshan
August 5th, 2007, 12:43 PM
Where is the game? Every time I check the server I am unable to connect.

FAJ
August 5th, 2007, 01:42 PM
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
August 5th, 2007, 02:44 PM
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
August 5th, 2007, 05:37 PM
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
August 5th, 2007, 07:10 PM
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
August 5th, 2007, 07:32 PM
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
August 6th, 2007, 09:25 AM
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
August 6th, 2007, 11:23 AM
Well, at least we had an obvious victor, so it's not that bad. ;p

Tichy
August 6th, 2007, 12:15 PM
2 cheers for Pan, you bastards. Can I say "bastards" on the board? Well we'll soon see.

Tichy
August 6th, 2007, 12:15 PM
Yup, guess I can. I mean it in the best possible way...you bas...

Zoshan
August 6th, 2007, 01:28 PM
crap just when the game was starting to get fun. ok new rule read fine print before joining games.

Sensori
August 6th, 2007, 03:01 PM
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
August 6th, 2007, 03:18 PM
I didn't even pay attention to the victory conditions. I tend to be oblivious as long as I am relitivly secure.

Dallan_Invictus
August 6th, 2007, 04:17 PM
I believe that "bloody unstoppable double-blessed White Centaurs" come rather forcibly to mind. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Reverend Zombie
August 6th, 2007, 09:15 PM
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
August 6th, 2007, 09:40 PM
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
August 6th, 2007, 11:50 PM
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
August 7th, 2007, 01:20 AM
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
August 8th, 2007, 12:54 PM
Grats Jeffr!

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

Reverend Zombie
August 8th, 2007, 01:17 PM
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
September 10th, 2007, 09:53 AM
The machine I was using to host this game is working again. Is anyone interested in resuming?