.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

BCT Commander- Save $8.00
winSPWW2- Save $5.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Illwinter Game Design > Dominions 3: The Awakening > Multiplayer and AARs

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old March 16th, 2007, 12:18 AM
DrPraetorious's Avatar

DrPraetorious DrPraetorious is offline
Major General
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Lake of Hali, Aldebaran, OH
Posts: 2,474
Thanks: 51
Thanked 67 Times in 27 Posts
DrPraetorious is on a distinguished road
Default 11p very large (TURN 69)

SERVER INFO:
IP addr: 160.39.37.168
Port: 11145
Game name: 390mp

By my clock, the blitz should begin 2 hours and 15 minutes after this posting. I'd be satisfied to get 10 turns in, but we'll keep going until people want to call it a day.

This is a final testrun before I try to run a tournament.

I'll post login info and we'll upload pretenders and blitz, say, Sunday? Time is negotiable. By blitz I mean - we do several turns (as many as we can manage, really) and then switch to a 24h quickhost. After a few weeks I'll lengthen the host interval or turn it off entirely.

The map is slightly larger than I'd planned at 390 provinces. It has 11 start locations, none of them underwater. The following table shows the remoteness (total pathlength to all other start locations) of each start location:

-- remotness,170,98
-- remotness,272,91
-- remotness,370,80
-- remotness,3,95
-- remotness,118,87
-- remotness,234,100
-- remotness,236,84
-- remotness,360,104
-- remotness,88,107
-- remotness,349,96
-- remotness,65,82

The map itself was generated by Paradoxbringer's map gen and then slightly modified by hand. Frank Trollman drew most of the sprites.

Do people want to try special provinces again, or no? I can add them back easily enough (no fortresses this time) but I'll see if people want them. If there are special provinces, they'll each be worth an extra VP.

Settings:
Late era.
Gold: 125%, Supplies: 125%, renaming allowed, hall of fame 15, site frequency 45, 1 VP/capital (VP required will be 6, or 15 accumulated, or more if I add special provinces with VP in them).

Each player begins with a small additional army of low-quality independents:
commander x 1 (34)
commander x 1 (35)
priest x 1 (240)
scout x 1 (426)
light infantry x 15 (29)
archer x 15 (33)
heavy infantry x 10 (38)
light cavalry x 10 (26)

These additional forces are meant to blunt the impact of various sorts of early ill-luck, and also to make "face hugging" a little bit harder. I'm not 100% sure if this is a good idea - feedback appreciated.

Positions:
TNDP - T'ien Ch'i
Baalz - Ulm
StrictlyRockers - Caelum
JayThomas - Agartha
EvilHomer - Marignon
Shmonik - Arco

eliminated:
*CPU Controlled* (was WSZP) - Man
*CPU Controlled* (was Shovah32 and Folket) - Patala
*Dead* (was Wikd Toths) - Abyssia
*Dead* (was Catquiet) - Utgard
*Dead* (was Reverend Zombie) - Mictlan

So far everyone either supports or is indifferent to the bigger starting armies; I see slightly more in favor of special provinces than opposed. Unless there's a clear consensus in favor I will leave them out.

ON SCEHDULING -
How do people feel about 10AM EDT? That ought to be 2PM in London, but we've got funky daylight savings time now so it might be 1PM in London, not sure.

ON MODS -
Unless Baalz complains about being unable to bless ghoul guardians, I will not run the blessing hotfix.

If he does, I'll add the blessing hotfix (and everyone will need to download it, but it's real small.) I've gone ahead and added it to the attachment since it's a handy file to have in any case.

I have a blessing hotfix mod that enables Ulm to bless Ghoul Guardians (also enables blessing of the crypt thing, a few other sacred undead units that show up for non-Ermor.) The only thing it does is remove the no-undead tag from the blessing spells. Should I add it? If Baalz thinks he wants to bless his ghoul guardians I'll definitely add it - otherwise I'd just as soon avoid the hassle.

I *will* be running that mod for the tournament games, unless the issue is addressed in the main executable by that time.
Attached Files
File Type: zip 504604-390mp.zip (3.39 MB, 310 views)
__________________
If you read his speech at Rice, all his arguments for going to the moon work equally well as arguments for blowing up the moon, sending cloned dinosaurs into space, or constructing a towering *****-shaped obelisk on Mars. --Randall Munroe
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old March 16th, 2007, 12:51 AM
Baalz's Avatar

Baalz Baalz is offline
Major General
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 2,435
Thanks: 57
Thanked 662 Times in 142 Posts
Baalz will become famous soon enough
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

I've been wanting to give LA Ulm a try.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old March 16th, 2007, 02:37 AM

GameExtremist GameExtremist is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Newcastle, Australia
Posts: 246
Thanks: 12
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
GameExtremist is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

Sounds pretty grand : )

LA Arcoscephale please.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old March 16th, 2007, 03:07 AM
WSzaboPeter's Avatar

WSzaboPeter WSzaboPeter is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 277
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
WSzaboPeter is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

Greetings, LA Man please. Good luck and have fun.
I think those special forces are a great idea, but I vote against special provinces.
I think I could or should give a try to Ermor, Ashen Empire, but in other LA games it's banned, and usually (due to bad D2 experience) people tend to gang up on Ermor. Anyway if you think it's okay to be with Ermor then I should be with them.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old March 16th, 2007, 03:12 AM
Ighalli's Avatar

Ighalli Ighalli is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 133
Thanks: 2
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Ighalli is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

So, is the game starting Sunday or being played out then? I'd love to play as Pangaea, but I'm busy for the whole day Sunday. To me 390 provinces and blitz seem mutually exclusive, so I don't quite understand what's going on.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old March 16th, 2007, 03:19 AM
WSzaboPeter's Avatar

WSzaboPeter WSzaboPeter is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 277
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
WSzaboPeter is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

I think by blitz in this case we understand that we play the first few turns as fast as possible, then switch to something like 24h quick host.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old March 16th, 2007, 05:31 AM
StrictlyRockers's Avatar

StrictlyRockers StrictlyRockers is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 259
Thanks: 4
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
StrictlyRockers is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

LA Caelum please. Looking forward to starting with blitz session on Sunday.

SR

__________________
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old March 16th, 2007, 06:03 AM

Catquiet Catquiet is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 286
Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
Catquiet is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

LA utgard
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old March 16th, 2007, 06:50 AM

Folket Folket is offline
Major
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,122
Thanks: 5
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
Folket is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

LA Patala, unless it gets to late on sunday in which case I drop out.
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old March 16th, 2007, 08:08 AM

JayThomas JayThomas is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
Posts: 143
Thanks: 0
Thanked 4 Times in 1 Post
JayThomas is on a distinguished road
Default Re: 11-player, very large, slightly rich wrap game

I'll give LA Caelum a try. I'm home Sunday.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:26 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.