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Old October 1st, 2006, 10:12 AM
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Default Starting a new game...

Have anyone tried to start a new game from the command line, without any user interaction? Naively, I thought it could done with something like
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dom2 --mapfile eye.map -g gamename


But that just gives
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�ot gick fel!
no fatherland file found
N�ot gick fel!
no fatherland file found


This is really a snag for my new server, so please help
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Old October 2nd, 2006, 02:00 PM
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Default Re: Starting a new game...

Are there really no way to do this? *sniffs* Even in dom3?
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I can't experiment with it now, but I don't think you want -g. That's the host switch, isn't it?
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Old October 2nd, 2006, 03:01 PM
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Yup -g is the host switch and should not be used for game createion. Starting a new game with switches only is not implemented unfortunatelly. But you might be able to get around that by start a tcp game and then quitting it and continue it as a e-mail game.
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Old October 2nd, 2006, 03:34 PM
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Yup -g is the host switch and should not be used for game createion. Starting a new game with switches only is not implemented unfortunatelly. But you might be able to get around that by start a tcp game and then quitting it and continue it as a e-mail game.
Most sad. So no way to make a pbm server :/ And I had a good part of the web frontend coded, too. Ah well.
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I din't say there was no way. It might be possible if you use the tcp server stuff to create the game, which might be possible to do automatically. But I haven't tried it.
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Old October 2nd, 2006, 05:07 PM
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YAY!
HOORAH!
CHEERS!
After two days of playing with switches and the order of the switches THIS WORKED!

dom3 -ST --port 5432 --era 1 --mapfile eye.map --uploadtime 0 pbem

We are BACK in business!
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Even MORE good news!
This one also works! The other one should work for Dom2 but this one is Dom3 only

dom3 -STd --port 5432 --era 1 --mapfile eye.map --uploadmaxp 6 pbem

OK definetly leave off the -g
And the uploadmxp thing is a new switch (one which I requested) which allows you to set the number of players that a game can have. It will auto-start when it hits that number. It was mostly for things like small-map blitz games where you wanted them to choose any nation you wanted but you wanted the game to start after 2 people joined, or 3 people, or 4. You could even start a full game and use --noclientstart so that it would start automatically when the nations were full.

ANYWAY.. it will autostart the game. If you have 6 gods uploaded to the game dir, and set it for max 6 players, then it will check the files and start the game. YAY!
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Johan, you've been turned into a Monster Toad? I hope you get better soon.
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So says the goose

The hardest part on ironing this out was getting past my thinking of the -g switch as being for naming the game. Well not the hardest part but that was my longest stupid roadblock. Definetly leave off the -g and put the game name at the end of the command string
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