MP Game - Pandemonium (noob/int game) - running

[deccan]

Gandalf Parker said:
Is that SEIV or PBW?

It sounds like the standard email files arrangment done thru a web page. That can be done with Dom2 also (the game is a PbEM game). The "connect to the server" is an option added later which alot of players preferred.

The .2h file is the file your game creates (2h stands for "to host") and the .trn is what the host sends back to you.

PBW of course. I realize that this isn't really a failing of Dom2. It's just that on geo's SEIV server, players are free to either connect directly using an SEIV client to the server, or to download and upload files from and to the website using a regular browser, while on the mosehansen server, the only option is to connect with a dom2 cllient. And of course, I realize that since the server service is being provided for free, I should be grateful for what there is already (and I am!)

Still the fact is that for me personally, the PBEM approach would be a lot more convenient, since I use different computers at different times of day at different locations.

[Sheap]

I really don't see how uploading files manually is any more convenient than using the game client to do it. I suppose if you had one computer with internet access, but no game software, and another computer with the game, but no internet, and wanted to download on the first computer and copy to the game system with a floppy or something.

Another case might be if you are playing behind a firewall, and the firewall doesn't allow you to connect to the game server, but does let you contact webpages.

Are you in these situations? Or something else?

[Aku]

list of players again

Pangaea PrinzMegaherz
R'lyeh msew
Ermor Aku
Man jarenko
Mictlan Boron
Abysia Thufir
Arcoscephale frosted flake
Vanheim odd_enuf
Jotunheim anatoli11
Ulm deccan

and man(jarenko) is going to stale soon

[Thufir]

Aku said:
and man(jarenko) is going to stale soon

And so it goes - Jarenko are you out there?

[Aku]

lol the game just hosted and half of us are doing our turns right now lol

[deccan]

Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

[Aku]

Yeah I noticed also he has the most provinces and has no research. I found it a bit odd but if it works then use it. I am curious what his pretender is though.

[Thufir]

deccan said:
Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

Well, I haven't done much MP yet, but so far, in the opening game I always choose expansion over research, if I have that option. The fact that frosted has been able to expand at 1-2 provinces per turn since turn 1 is impressive to me. With the income from all those provinces he's taking, I expect he'll be able to make up on research soon enough.

I'm also wondering about his pretender design - sounds like it's capable of taking indies from turn 1. What kind of pretender can do that? And of course I must ask -what kind of weaknesses come with such a pretender?

[jarenko]

How the heck did I miss a turn?

Oh well - my fault everyone. Apologies.

[Thufir]

jarenko said:
How the heck did I miss a turn?

Travelling through a time warp and miss a day? Happens to me all the time.

Oh well - my fault everyone. Apologies.

So it goes - it's not like we're on warp speed anyhow. With a large number of players spread around the globe I think that's impossible, regardless.