"Songs Dead Men Sing" [ GAME STARTING, finally! ]

[Anaconda]

WHAT'S NEW?
18.12.2012 - Arco and Ulm dropped at some point; Ulm went AI, Arco was wiped out.
7.12.2012 - We have a new Marignon player; Ossa.
12.10.2012 - Hosting interval now 96H.
15.8.2012 - Gath was beaten turn 52.
23.8.2012 - Hosting interval now 60H.
22.7.2012 - Two nations seem to have dropped while I was sick, Man and Agartha.
15.6.2012 - Hosting interval now 48H.
22.5.2012 - The game finally started.
21.5.2012 - CyborgKillerMonster joined as the last player to join!
19.5.2012 - a new map needed, waiting for one moar player. please download the new map from this link: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=804192




THE INTRODUCTION

I was wondering if there would be any interest in a new Late Age game?

Treat: Soyweiser's new Zombies! -mod, just to have a bit extra fun...


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SPECS
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Interval: 36H (extensions available when needed, relaxed pace and atmosphere)
Mods: CBM1.92 Etting fix and Zombies!1.0
Graphs ON
Renaming ALLOWED
HoF entries: 15
Research: Standard
Map: "Rhinos"
Players: 12


Player Level: All welcome

Game-spesific rules:
- Machiavellian diplomacy
- Trade agreenments binding
- No Lab filling, Bogus orders, or movement blocking
- Rather dont give up even if feeling beaten



LINKS:

map: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=804192
CBM 1.92: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=47741
Zombies! 1.0: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=48731
Ettin fix for CBM: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=804194&postcount=441
The game on llama: http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=SongsDeadMenSing

(READ THE INSTRUCTIONS for all of them!!!11)




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Anaconda: C'tis
P3D: Atlantis
Ragnarok-X: Patala
Ossa: Marignon (started by Mightypeon)
Mattyburn: Bogarus


Vishniac: Arco (DEAD)
Reverend Zombie: Ulm (AI)
Ghoul31: Gath (DEAD)
Jolly Roger: Pangaea (DEAD)
CyborgKillerMonster: Man (DEAD)
Musseboy: R'lyeh (DEAD)
HoleyDooley: Agartha (DEAD)

!!!11

[Anaconda]

Well, it seems the Ettins just got fixed, so why not use the fix while we are at it...

[HoleyDooley]

Sounds good...La Agartha.......

Re maps...Please oh please oh please go any wraparound....far out weights any square map.

[tratorix]

Ermor please.

[Anaconda]

Welcome!

(...I was actually expecting Ermor to be the first one, considering Zombies!... :D)

[ghoul31]

Gath

[mattyburn7]

Bogarus Please

[Anaconda]

Map proposals:

Rampaging rhinos,
Land of many tomatoes
Parganos
Land of ethereal squirrels
Broken Kingdom
Streamlands
Cradle of dominion

[P3D]

I'd try Atlantis.

[Executor]

Hmmm, I really shouldn't... but I want to!
Gimme Pythium.

[Ragnarok-X]

Im in as PATALA.
thanks

[Executor]

No, no, sorry. I'm saving myself for MA Pangaea and I won't have time for this. Good luck with the game.

[HoleyDooley]

Depending on numbers,

I vote for:

Rampaging rhinos,
Broken Kingdom
Streamlands
Land of ethereal squirrels

[Jolly Roger]

I choose Pangaea

Cheers, Klaus

[Anaconda]

Howabout we close recruiting here at 9 players, and choose Broken Kingdoms? A little bit over hundred provinces?

[Anaconda]

I changed my pick to C'tis, because of Executor, and would like to stay with C'tis even when hes not joining us now.

[mattyburn7]

I would vote for a little bigger map...Something in the 15 province/player.

[HoleyDooley]

I double what Matty says. Current map is 11.44 provinces per player....a few people will not be in this game very long.

[Anaconda]

More provinces mean longer game, I am fine with that, however having fewer provinces aint bad, it just means as pointed out shorter game overall and even shorter for some of us. We are not playing to stay alive for long but to wipe out neighbours and come out victorious, right?

From my point of view the only problem with Broken kingdoms is it favors ambhibians, I am perfectly confortable with an intense game, for once.

But bring in suggestions?

Rusty Nails, then (Llama database "Allforone")?

Or a bit longer game with map like Riverlands (or recruit one or two players more, and then Riverlands)?

[HoleyDooley]

Rusty Nails looks good.

Its 155 (143 + 12) which is a smidgeon over 17 provinces each. Might be just a touch too many.

[Vishniac]

So how is it, do you want someone more?
I could be interested...if you let me a day or two after the map is chosen to playtest a little and configurate my pretender; all the nations I know how to play have been taken.

Tell me!

[HoleyDooley]

Well one more player would turn Rusty Nails into a 15.5 provinces each nation map.

Thats pretty close to the money for me.

HD

[Anaconda]

So, Vishniac aboard and Rusty Nails it is?

I remind you, that having theoretical number of 15,5 provinces aint gonna mean people would not drop out fast if it comes to that, it just means that those still fighting will have more to manage in endgame.


Remember Zombies! -mod!!!11

[Mightypeon]

Is there still a slot open?
Given that my 2 remaining games are winding down, I would be up for some Zombieburminating with Marignon.

[Anaconda]

Well, Rusty Nails with 11 players is around still around >14 provinces per head. Thats totally acceptable and I would welcome it with open lizard paws!

[HoleyDooley]

OK here, and pretender made with Zombie mod. Ready to roll.

[Anaconda]

Dont forget CBM :P

[Anaconda]

I will update the opening post tomorrow, as I will create the game also. Please submit your pretenders asap after that, but hopefully during tuesday, latest.

[HoleyDooley]

CBM was enabled as well.

[Vishniac]

If the world must go down in zombie apocalypse, better go down with style then: give me Arcoscephale!

"My son, ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muI6csrBdu4&feature=related

A question though: if a goul bites a horseman or an elephant...what happens? :D

And if you could put the links to the mod and the map in the opening post, thanks!

[Anaconda]

Yes, I will tomorrow, as for tonight its lights out for me.

[Anaconda]

Links add to the opening post.

And, a little poll:

Graphs ON or OFF?
Research: STANDARD or DIFFICULT?

please participate!!!11

[HoleyDooley]

Graphs on...research...difficult.

[Mightypeon]

Research standart, graphs on.

[Vishniac]

Graphs ON. Research Standard (we'll definetly need it to resist the mindless R'lyeh/Ermor hordes)

That said, what is the victory condition(s)?
Last God standing or something more...scenaristic?

And the toughness of independents? 5 by default?

[Ragnarok-X]

i vote for graphs off. i hate it when people team up because they look at the graph instead of using scouts.

[Jolly Roger]

I vote for graphs off too !

Stronger independents would make things more challenging too, I assume.

However, I´ll be fine with every setting.

Cheers, Klaus :up:

[ghoul31]

i vote for graphs off. i hate it when people team up because they look at the graph instead of using scouts.

with graphs off, someone just runs away with the game, and the game ends very early

[tratorix]

Graphs on, research standard.

[Anaconda]

Graphs ON won the poll.

heres the link where you can send your pretenders:
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=SongsDeadMenSing

[Vishniac]

'scuse for the question but:
in the first post, there are 3 links: the CBM 1.92, the Ettin fix and the Zombie Mod.
But when I go to my Preferences (and when I see the page of the game), it seems there is a "CBM 1.92 complete-ettin fixed"
So: do I enable 3 things (CBM 1.92 + CBM 1.92-Ettin fixed + Zombie) or only 2 (the CBM 1.92-Ettin fixed + the Zombie) ?

[Anaconda]

2, as in the end of your post.

Etting fix is an extension to the original CBMx.xx. Copy Etting fix over the original, a little bit like updating a game happens. Etting fix aint self sufficient - you need files from the original also, thus the link to the original CBMx.xx also.

[Anaconda]

Yea, if I am not wrong enable the etting fix, thats enough (+Zombies).

[Vishniac]

You should not be wrong: the other option (enabling 3 things) gives me the Nagot Kick Fell! :D

Another question unrelated:
I notice now that...it's not a newbie game. As it's only my 4th MP game, I wondered what is the level of the other players. What should I be waiting for? :cold:

[P3D]

You should not be wrong: the other option (enabling 3 things) gives me the Nagot Kick Fell! :D

Another question unrelated:
I notice now that...it's not a newbie game. As it's only my 4th MP game, I wondered what is the level of the other players. What should I be waiting for? :cold:

Getting rushed by Ghoul. :p

[tratorix]

I honestly think it's better if I drop out of this. Been busy and haven't found the time to make a pretender, so I definitely won't be able to keep up with the actual game. Sorry to hold you guys up, you should either find another player or just start with 10. :o

[Anaconda]

So, ONE PLAYER SLOT OPEN. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED!

[Reverend Zombie]

Ulm?

[Mightypeon]

My pretender is in and the game apperantly started.

[P3D]

Could we restart? The Atlantis and R'lyeh capitals are next to each other.

[Anaconda]

If this is the case we really should.

However, there might be a problem: the map has fixed starts for 10 (non-water) so R'lyeh WILL appear randomly close some1. How close, I dont know. We could ask Calahan mod us a map with fixed starts for 10+1? (I think this current map's fixed starts were his handwriting already...?)

[Calahan]

I thought there was a 10+1 Rusty Nails map on the llamaserver, as I uploaded it for a game around ~18 months ago. But having just looked for it I can't seem to find it in the map list. Odd. (I might have named the map after the name of the game. Need to find the game I used it for)

I can upload this 10+1 Rusty Nails map for you if you want me to (fairly sure I still have it), or I can post the files here for you to do it. All depends if you have VP marked capitals or not, as if you do I'll just post the files since no point keeping start locations secret if they're marked anyway. But if capitals are not VP marked then if I upload the map the capitals will have to be found in-game. In which case I'll just post the image file rather than the image and .map file. (although I'll check first before posting the image file, as it might be exactly the same one you have already meaning you don't need to download a new one)

Rusty Nails is a tight map for a water nation though, so the best you will get is R'yleh's cap being one province away from a land nations (so X-1-Y). Which of course is better than directly adjacent, but it's impossible to get more distance than that as some land nations need to start on the coast line otherwise the land nations start becoming too close (space for capital placement on a wraparound is always harder to find than a non-wrap), and maps without coast starts will mess up for some games if certain nations are present.

Let me know.

[Anaconda]

We dont have VP capitals, so please if you could, would you upload the needed map...?

[Calahan]

I've just taken a look at the map and it looks like the Water nation will only have 10 provinces connected to his start location. As the two provinces at 56+64 are not connected to the main area of water.

Some options are...

1 - Use the map anyway.
2 - Find another map.
3 - Connect the two isolated water provinces to the main water provinces. If you go for this option then...
3a - Ignore the fact the map image will not make sense (as there are no rivers connecting the two provinces you will be joining up)
3b - Edit the image to add rivers to show the new connections.
4 - Find another land player and switch to either GreeceStain or Realm of Rhinos map (which are a better fit for a Water nation IMO. I have versions of both these maps for 11+1)
5 - Something else I haven't thought of.

I'm happy to help with any of the above, and can probably do any of them more or less straight away. Apart from that is 3b as that will take me a bit of time. Time which I'm unlikely to have until late on Sunday (I have zero talent when it comes to using image editing programs so quick image edits always take me more time than it should.)

[Anaconda]

Guys, how about Rhinos?

As Calahan said, we should get one more and Soyweiser expressed his interest before in joining us b/c it's his Zombies! -mod we are using?

So I ask him again and we use larger map (Rhinos)?
Or?
R'lyeh, what you say?

[Ragnarok-X]

bummer. i dont mind whatever we do.

[Jolly Roger]

Everything is fine with me, in case there are forests for my Pangaeans.....:D

[Reverend Zombie]

I'm all for Rhinos.

[Calahan]

If you end up going for Rhinos, and in case I'm not around much tomorrow, the 11 Land + 1 Water version I've done of that map is already on the llamaserver (it's currently 5 from bottom at time of writing), and here is the download link to the image you will need. (as I've made some changes to the original image)

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=804192

Not sure if it's 100% bug free as it's still very early in its first MP game right now. No bugs reported so far though. The map is based on the 'fixed' version of the Rhinos map, so hopefully there are no bugs left in it. I checked all the connections and they all seem as they should be, so if any errors are there then they are likely to be missing terrain tags. Although certainly not impossible for a connection error to have crept through the net, but I hope not.

[HoleyDooley]

Go Rhinos!

[Anaconda]

I contacted Soy. If hes up to it, we take him. If not, well just find some1 else. Now creating a new game...

[Anaconda]

I contacted Soy. If hes up to it, we take him. If not, well just find some1 else. Now creating a new game...

I lied. No new game needed. Old pretenders will do, also. We just wait a green from Soy or recruit another player if his not up to this.

YOU CAN, if willing, alter your pretender at this point.

AND you NEED to download the new map. Updating the OP right after this one.

And Calahan, thank you!!!11

[Anaconda]

So theres one slot open, first come first served!

[Anaconda]

Bump, one moar needed!

[CyborgKillerMonster]

May i play?

[Mars76]

I'm in if you need a punching bag.

[Anaconda]

CyborgKillerMonster, you were first so wellcome. Mars76, I hope you can fit in next time!

[CyborgKillerMonster]

I`ll play Man.

[Anaconda]

Just send in your character when ready.

[Ragnarok-X]

yay so we can start again !

[Vishniac]

I should pay more attention: I only just noticed that Ermor didn't make it to the final selection...:o

So, who will profit the most from the Zombie Mod now: C'tis, Ulm, Atlantis and Agartha if I'm not mistaken?

[Anaconda]

I think its good Ermor aint with us.

If I understood it correctly, Soyweiser said he is not completely sure how this mod affects the MP game but soulless spam and arouse hunger should be valid choises. This means all with easy access to D got some additional edge.

[Mightypeon]

And I actually took Mari to give the living world a chance :)

[Anaconda]

Turn 10 and no stales at all! Nice

[P3D]

I need 24h extension for the next turn, I will be traveling.

[Vishniac]

Turn 10 and no stales at all! Nice
Is it really so unusual?
I'm a newcomer on these forums but I feel very motivated (turn 25 in Blood Sacrifices) to play my turns, planning them in my head during my work. Are stalling or turning AI without warning so widespread here?

[Mightypeon]

Stalling can happen on 24 hours schedules quite frequently, going AI without warning is rare though.

[Anaconda]

Stalling can happen on 24 hours schedules quite frequently, going AI without warning is rare though.

Yea, fast-paced beginning calls for unintended stalls. We are doing very good, kudos to our fine and eloquent player base.

[mattyburn7]

Wow. First Time I've ever been called fine and eloquent!

[Jolly Roger]

You deserve it my friend !:up:

Regards,

Klaus

[Mightypeon]

You are watching: Loreal news, Marignon Fashion news that really matter!

Breaking news! Man is apperantly holding a suprise party at Bogarus Capital! We do not know how Bogarus will react to this suprise self invitation, Man currently attempts to gain fans with free applications of long range accupuncture, but we dont quite know if this is overly popular with the people of Bogarus that are more into new age than into traditional chinese medicine, we have no idea why Man is suddenly interested in accupuncturing people, perhaps they conquered Tien Chi when nobody was looking...

Meanwhile, Loreals shares are further up! After having struck two excellent Shampoo providing deals with 2 immortal neighbouring pretenders, Marignon has no reason to be out of buisness any time soon!

Stay tuned for more updates from Loreal newscorp, the scout network that just cant shut their mouth!

[mattyburn7]

Ah yes, but tis ashame. Man ran away faster than he came. Tis ashame. My welcoming committee was just arriving. Ah well, perhaps a party in Man's capital will be more fun!

[Anaconda]

What do you say if we increase hosting interval up to 48H starting from the turn 20 latest?

[Vishniac]

A good idea.
Next two weeks, I'll have business travels. That disrupts a little my playing pattern.

[Ragnarok-X]

Man, the apes really want Shampoo for the fur, but Loreal refuses to deliver any. How can this be fixed ? The big apes are breaking down their huts in rage already. Is this an embargo ?

[Vishniac]

To whom it may concern:
http://forums.nvmmc.com/images/smilies/sparta1.gif

[Mightypeon]

Considering the "Embargo" we are a bit at a loss as precisly why you would want this precise province.
It also seems that Ape leadership is currently playing Quake! That game is really popular close and in Man I hear! You propably cant play long range accupuncture all day without getting bored after all!

[Anaconda]

To whom it may concern:
http://forums.nvmmc.com/images/smilies/sparta1.gif

Wellcome to Hot Gates!

[Ragnarok-X]

Considering the "Embargo" we are a bit at a loss as precisly why you would want this precise province.
It also seems that Ape leadership is currently playing Quake! That game is really popular close and in Man I hear! You propably cant play long range accupuncture all day without getting bored after all!

Oh might this be an misunderstanding ? I asked for Graveyard of Rhinos only for flavour reason (name) and my talk about apes wanting shampoo has nothing to do with the province. Im just chiming in on the trashtalk.
I now see why you would mass your army, but there is really no reason (in my eyes).

[Ragnarok-X]

Ill be out until Sunday evening. Please turn off the autoresolve until then.

[Anaconda]

Host delayed. It cant be turned off, I think. Turning quickhost off wont help either.

[Jolly Roger]

Hi.

I know that´s a pain in the ***, but I´ve just received a message I have to speak on a congress in Prague, means I´ll be out of town from Thursday (14th) morning to Saturday(16th) late in the evening.
So I could continue on Sunday morning (GMT).:doh:

Sorry, hope that´s not too annoying. The good message is I´ll be available without any break until the 11th of August.:D

Regards, Klaus

[Anaconda]

Thats fine, I am sure! Thu-Sat aint that long of a delay. Let us just get few quick ones in between Mon-Thu.

[Jolly Roger]

Thanks !

That´s much appreciated.

Regards, Klaus

[Anaconda]

I staled because server didnt heed to my efforts of delaying the host.

[Jolly Roger]

Please don´t forget, I need a time out, as I´m in Prague until Sunday. Can´t play the next turn before Sunday GMT 12:00.

Thanks, Klaus

[Anaconda]

I shall remember!

[Mightypeon]

I need a delay of about 6 hours.

[Anaconda]

Postponed until monday.

But there is a bigger problem that most likely prevents me from playing. Random hero Uru'gullu crashes the game when trying to manipulate army composition. IN EVERY SINGLE PROVINCE HE HAS BEEN. And ofc he appeared first at the gates of my seat of power...

[Ragnarok-X]

Wow. I never heard of anything like that ?
That would be very, very aweful.

EDIT: Maybe you can upload the savegame and PM, i will check it out. We arent enemies, so no worries. I would hate to see you leave.

EDIT2: According to my intel, you might be missing the according unit sprites for the guys your hero summons. Check the mod files for the hero and check with units he spawns. Then check to which sprites this units refer and check if you have the sprite. If you want, PM me, and i will archive up a fixed folder for you. In that case, PM the savegame to me.

[kianduatha]

Postponed until monday.

But there is a bigger problem that most likely prevents me from playing. Random hero Uru'gullu crashes the game when trying to manipulate army composition. IN EVERY SINGLE PROVINCE HE HAS BEEN. And ofc he appeared first at the gates of my seat of power...

Make a folder inside your mods folder and title it "Worthy_Heroes". Copy out of CBM_Sprites(also in your mods folder) the two Son_of_the_Alligator sprites and put them in the Worthy_Heroes folder. Everything should work then.

[Anaconda]

Actually what was needed was to copy those mentioned files from worthy_heroes into CBM_sprites . . . but now it works.


Thank you guys!

[mattyburn7]

I'm on vacation from 6/22 through 7/1. Would it be possible to change hosting to 72 hours over that period. I"m going to try my best to get turns in. Don't panic if I stale in there.
Cheers

[Ragnarok-X]

Need a small extension, 12 hours please.

[Mightypeon]

Breaking news!

On a side discovery, Loreal super cool Shampoo Labs have apperantly discovered a new way to protect the world from the doom horrors that have destroyed earlier civilisations! As each Doom Horror can only be at one place at one time, pilling enough horrormarks on a certain immortal pretender, we hope to have him eventually be attacked by all doom horrors once a turn before being reborn! Such a feat would mean that everyone else is safe from those doomhorrors! Three Cheers to Rebourne or great and totally willing research subject!!!

P.S. Horror Marking Rebourne appears to greatly increase his Royal-guard-cidial tendencies, I need to loose less people next time :)

P.P.S. We are not claiming all of the current Horrormark testing range as our own, and are indeed willing to share with others interested in furthering the cause of SHAMPOO SCIENCE!!!

[HoleyDooley]

I'm not sure how the Horror thing works, so I am looking forward to finding out for future reference.

[Mightypeon]

In theory, a horror mark gives a certain unknown chance to summon a horror in a turn. This Horror will then, Assasination like, attack. This Horror will also make the Horrormark worse, because it has Horrormarking attacks. Eventually, ****ing scary horror will turn up, that should have some good odds at even killing an SC.
I really hope for this guy to show up:
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Eater_of_Gods

Being Horrormarked will also cause Horrors Summoned in battle to prioritize the horrormarked dude.

[Ragnarok-X]

12 hours extension please. I will send my turn tomorrow after work, which would be 3-6 hours after the usual deadline.
thanks.

[Anaconda]

The turn is due saturday evening UTZ

[Mightypeon]

My My, Mr. Rebourne took aa slightly non optimal time for vacation!
Tsss, I do that fat horror communion and the bugger doesnt show up! Typical!!!

[Ragnarok-X]

yeah, its Holey Doley. He always get lucky with his guy. Like when he against all odds won magic duels against my druids in another game.
But he got so many horror marks now, i guess its about time for a tiny horror to show up pretty soon.

[Vishniac]

That's it, our final battle for survival.
It's "Enemy at the gates!" now, I have armed and sent them all, even the priestesses.

It's time to leave home to fight for those we let behind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-wKe0DNdhI

[Mightypeon]

I have to ask though, how long is this going to be delayed?

[Anaconda]

R'lyeh informed me today that he is experiencing problems with hard drive, so another 24H from now. We know more tomorrow, he says.

[Ragnarok-X]

More hold up ?

[Anaconda]

The thing is, R'lyeh is down. The player I mean.

Things piled up while he staled last week...... He got his harddrives working, save Dom3 and then we needed to fix that. Now, when we got that done hes moving and traveling later this week to Iceland for a week, so considering all those stales and downtime occuring if we are to wait for him from now, we discussed if some1 kind soul would check his current situation and turn him AI. I already sent a request for it, so let us see...

[Anaconda]

Now, R'lyeh is AI.

However, my turn crashes again. When I click play new C'tis turn the application will crash. Any simple ideas how to fix this, like last time?

[P3D]

Does it crash before the messages window come up? Are you using the same copy of Dom3? Is there any error messages?

Ask someone to reproduce the crash and send them the save. If it is reproducible, the only solution I'd see is stalling the turn and hope it works next turn. In this case, if anyone is attacking you, I'd ask them to hold back for a turn.

[Anaconda]

I could not get it working, sothe reason for crash remains unknown. My enemies ride fast, knowing this ride was their last. Now I can take the field again.

[Ragnarok-X]

So, it is working again or not, Anaconda ?

[Anaconda]

Yes, so far all good again.

[Anaconda]

Its getting close to T50, anyone see why we should not add more hours to hosting interval?

[Ragnarok-X]

Im fine with the current hours. It probably depends on Mari or Atlantis.

[P3D]

I am fine with the current hosting.

[Anaconda]

Well, if no-1 has anything against it, I am adding 12H because I am finding less and less extra hours in my week.

And, whats up with Marignon?

[P3D]

Mightypeon hasn't visited the forum for a month. You might want to send a message to him through llamaserver.

[Ragnarok-X]

Heh. Only now do i see that Mari has been stalling the last 2 turns. That is really, really dissapointing.
The permanent 12 hour extension is fine with me.

[Anaconda]

Done, with pm and email. The game is on hold until we come up with a solution or Mightypeon shows up.

[Anaconda]

He is back with us.

[Ragnarok-X]

Well, looks like Marignon is back :D

[Anaconda]

Sry guys, cant play before tomorrow morning UTZ.

[Ragnarok-X]

No problem.

[Anaconda]

Sry guys for lagging a bit, I still have crashing problems.

This time I think they are because of Zmey sprites or icons... I cant click on a province where Zmey looms... Any known problems related to this creature, or any other ideas?

[Ragnarok-X]

Hm. can you check to see if your dom3 mod folder has the sprite / icon for a zmey ?

[Anaconda]

Zmeys' missing, now it wont crash. How come my mod -folder can be so ****ed up when I have NOT manipulated it manually at all (untill ow...)

[Mightypeon]

I would like a 12 hour delay if possible, currently at a conference in Membrane biophysics.

[Mightypeon]

Didnt get the turn done sadly, I will definitly manage this evening!

[Anaconda]

I will adjust the hosting time accordingly.

[Ragnarok-X]

So, are Marignon and Atlantis finally at war or is it just a friendly exchange of provinces ?

[P3D]

So, are Marignon and Atlantis finally at war or is it just a friendly exchange of provinces ?

The former.

[Ragnarok-X]

Great. So i can be kingmaker.
Now, whose side will i chose ?
If anyone of you guys is interested in working someout out, PM me.

[Anaconda]

I think you should try and steal the crown.

[Ragnarok-X]

Doubtful. Both Marignon and Atlantis have a considerable lead. I think i (and others like Ctis and Bog) could have considerable influence in the outcome, but cant subdue the two leading parties at all.

[Mightypeon]

Marignon has started operation massive hair cair improval, but Atlantis really doesnt have hairs. We hope that the funny stuff we will use with get rid of the scales!

Although frankly, I would bet on Atlantis, I waited way to long.
At least things are going to heat up now.

[P3D]

Could the game be delayed 24h?

[Mightypeon]

Well, that battle was interesting! More such battles and everything will look like Ermor! I first thought life after death was bugged when your dudes were also standing up, but then I found out you got the Ankh! No worries, I got it now!

[P3D]

Well, that battle was interesting! More such battles and everything will look like Ermor! I first thought life after death was bugged when your dudes were also standing up, but then I found out you got the Ankh! No worries, I got it now!

I won't be loosing many troops from now on, so be happy while it lasts.

[Anaconda]

How Ankh works exactly, and how it is ought to be used?

[Ragnarok-X]

I think it casts the spell that revived all friendly dead units once as soulless ?

[P3D]

So, with the dogpile starting, I need one more day this turn, then extending the follow-on turns by 24h. RL strikes again.

[Ragnarok-X]

Considering the amount of time we players need at this point, i would like to request a permanent increase of the hosting intervall. That, and a 12 hour extension on the current turn, please.

[Anaconda]

It is 60H now, how much you guys want it to be?

[Ragnarok-X]

Lets wait what Mari and Atlantis have to say. I think 60 is fine with me, 2.5 days each. Though i would prefer 72, because due to my schedule 60 is pretty much like 48.

[P3D]

Honestly, I am very busy until November 3, so I'd prefer 96 hours until then, then switching back to 75h.

[Anaconda]

Will do!

[mattyburn7]

Sorry. Can you delay 12 hours please? My weekend just got really crazy. Thanks!

[Anaconda]

sure.

[P3D]

Most probably I cannot submit turn until November 5th.

[Anaconda]

Over a week from here? We will go on hold, please do your best...

[Ragnarok-X]

No problem with me. Once the hiatus is over, it will be HOT.

[Ragnarok-X]

Holy mow. Can we finally get on with this ?

[Mightypeon]

I had submitted my turn during the downtime of llamaserver apperantlz, I currently dont have access to dominions 3, I will be back home from the conference I am on Friday evening, and could resend mz turn friday night.

[Ragnarok-X]

yay.

[Reverend Zombie]

....and?

[Ragnarok-X]

I second that :D

[Mightypeon]

Yay!
We will continue in our quest for better hair care! Sending particularly bad hair care offenders to hell, in order to reeducate them in their hair care choices was of course an important feature in this!

That battle went surprisingly well!

[Mightypeon]

Also, scripting all of that stuff took me about 3 hours.... Was worth it though!

[Ragnarok-X]

Holy mow. We are live again.
And i was lucky with random astral window so i got the battle, too :D

But now i have an angry grendelkin in my empire :(

[P3D]

I have to admit that playing this game is very low on my priority list right now, so forgive me for the subpar effort.

[Ragnarok-X]

Eh, any reason for staling, Marignon and Atlantis ?

[Anaconda]

My bad totally. Came here to postpone the turn maybe an hour too late - however, I had postponed already twice it, IIRC.

[Ragnarok-X]

Yes, the turn was long due anyway. But since both stalled, its no loss for either of them :D

[Ragnarok-X]

Anaconda, what the hell is up with the constant delays.
7 days for a single turn, over and over again ? Really ?

[P3D]

That half of the players apparently could not care less about the game?

[Ragnarok-X]

So what ? At the least it means that the other half of the players care about the game. If you want to throw away your position, fine. But dont spoil the fun for me because i sure want to reap the rewards of 70 turns of play.

[Anaconda]

Anaconda, what the hell is up with the constant delays.
7 days for a single turn, over and over again ? Really ?

Trying to keep every1 playing.

At this point Marignon is the one missing, I will submit my turn right away, which brings me to another question, do we need or do we need not update DOM3?

[Anaconda]

Based on the tread in the root, we all should have updated so hope every1s done it.

[Anaconda]

I'v tried to contact Mightypeon, if we wont hear from he in, say 24H, well need to figure out do we want a sub or what...

[Anaconda]

Ok, no answer from Marignon. Will post for sub.

[Ossa]

Taking over Marignon.

Who is at war with me, and who is allied to me?

[Ragnarok-X]

You are bordering Patala (South) is who is your ally. You are bordering Bogarus (West) who is your ally.
You are bordering Atlantis pretty much all around the map, who is your enemy and there is a huge war going on since maybe 10 ? turns in which so far i believe Marignon did have the upperhand due to blood magic mostly. Basicly its Atlantis vs Marignon, Patala, Bogarus.

Atlantis is using conventional armies, kitted Tarts and a teleporting prophetized grendelkin.
You have blood and globals while Atlantis has most uniques.


The position is time demanding, i would assume 1 to 2 hours per turn due to scripting.
Id say top is split between Marignon and Atlantis, with Patala being third and Bogarus and Ctis as 4th and 5th.
Thats pretty much it.

[Ragnarok-X]

Can i please get a 12h extension ?

[Anaconda]

Host delayed.

[Ragnarok-X]

wuuuuuut.
Lost 2x 50 Gems on Atlantis PD.
yay for OP magic weapons on PD !

[Anaconda]

Back on track again.

Next turn due Thursday, but I personally hope we can get turns faster now!

[mattyburn7]

Can you delay 12 hours please. I'm on a business trip. Will be much faster with turns moving forward

[Anaconda]

ofc

[Ragnarok-X]

Well, i got my revenge.
Last turn i lost 2 Queens of Air, this turn i killed a prophet and grendelkin in one and while doing it salvaged a 120 gem kit. yay.

[Vishniac]

Arcoscephale is down...

Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

[Ragnarok-X]

Well, at the very least they will know your people were no friends of diplomacy cuz i never got a "help" message.

[Vishniac]

There was nothing anybody could do, and nothing I could offer. :(
This game should have already ended for me at least 30 turns ago but I made a point to fight C'tis to the very end.:D

[Ragnarok-X]

Fair enough. Even though ctis was not in winning contention, keeping the pressure up is an important thing. Who knows how fast Ulm would have fallen if you would have went AI 30 turns ago.
Keep it up, thats the spirit !

[Anaconda]

It was definitely a good war. War that ruined my changes if there ever was any.

[Ragnarok-X]

12h extension, please.

[Anaconda]

Any need for season break of some lenght?

[Ragnarok-X]

Not for me, not yet. Ill be gone early January though.

[Ragnarok-X]

Can i please get a 12 h extension ? Christmas shopping time, sorry.

[P3D]

Sorry guys, I am quitting this game. I cannot force myself to do more than move an army and a few mages every turn.

[Ragnarok-X]

So...do we end the game ?

[mattyburn7]

I'm content with whatever the leading players want to do.

[Ragnarok-X]

That will be difficult to figure out. Ossa does not like a forum or communication at all.
I guess we continue playing. I would Marignon is the winner with globals, gems and army but i would like to do some more fun combat things.

[Anaconda]

So, do we look up a sub for Atlantis?

[Ragnarok-X]

Seeing how Atlantis position is lost and several turns have been stalled, this decision (Sub or not) should have been made some time ago. The game is a lost cause.
In addition, i was on vacation last 2 weeks and i would have appreciated it if you, Anaconda, would have paused after seeing the stalls coming up.

[Anaconda]

somehow I failed on that, my bad.

However today I postponed it about an hour before d-line and the lamaserver still ran a new turn... dont know where it went wrong. Log doesnt show anything of this, anyways.

It buggers me if Ossa wins - nuthing personal but he didnt put any effort in it :P

[mattyburn7]

No offense to Ossa, but if we call it, MightyPeon should get the win. The machinery was alreayd in place wen he left.

[Anaconda]

Because Patala seems to be again on vacation, we call it for MightyPeon and end here?

[mattyburn7]

I am ok with that.

[Ragnarok-X]

Im not on vacation. I have stalled the last 2 or 3 turns because i WAS on vacation. Then, Atlantis is not playing anymore. Its pointless to continue the game without any resistance. Even trying it fun lategame things is kinda mood point, because Atlantis wont set up scripts.
Basicly, i dont want to spend 1 or 2 hours for turns that have no reason to be played (imho). Sorry.

[Anaconda]

yes, right.

MightyPeon it is then! GG

Apologies Ossa :P

[jimbojones1971]

Does Ossa really exist? Or is he actually a bogeyman made up to scare children?