Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

Peter Ebbesen · #1 October 17th, 2004, 09:52 AM

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Peter Ebbesen said:
All your neighbours want to kill you before your dominion reaches critical mass

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Huzurdaddi said:
I'll be honest I have never seen this happen. I'm not 100% sure as to how the rules wrt. dominion flowing though other people's provinces work.

I have... Playing Ermor.

It is terrifying to the opposition (according to reliable information from said opposition after the game). Once your dominion builds up to 10 in each core area, it starts spreading like there is no tomorrow unless your enemies have as high a dominion (unlikely, but not impossible, until late game since Ermor usually have a much higher dominion pretender than most other nations) or are preaching like mad (which they will be). They can hold your dominion at bay with preaching, but as soon as you launch an offensive and clear an area of priests for a few rounds, their local dominion will be crushed and the population will soon follow. If timed with raiding to destroy temples in the rear, you will severely restrict their ability to push domain back at you, and even if you have to retreat from your offensive (which, quite possibly, were part of your original plan), you may have managed to destroy a province for gold purposes.

The Lich Queen is an excellent pretender for domain warfare and thematic to boot.

This works best on non-wraparound maps if Ermor can secure an area leading up to a map border (giving you a safe domain-side)

...And is wholly dependent on the oppositions' starting domain. Did all your neighbours start with dominion 8-9? Or do they have substantially more temples than you (each)? Then forget about it.

baboune · #2 October 18th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Good day all,

I am having all sorts of problem with this specific dominions 2 game. Let me try to describe it.

I have no problem connecting to the game and playing my turn. When I try to "End turn", it freezes and I get a "connection to server is broken". So far, it could be normal, so I relaunch dom2 and connect to the server, enter my password, then it freezes again, and I get a "connection to server is broken". I.E. I can not upload my turn.

Strangely it seems I have less problems when I do this in the morning (here in Montreal, Canada). If I try to upload my turn around 8-9AM, then the upload gets thru to the host.

I am in two other MP games, and while I sometimes have connection issues, it is nothing like this one.

Any ideas?

baboune · #3 October 18th, 2004, 10:35 AM

I am starting to worry that at some point this gimmick will stop working and that I wont be able to play.

Also I spend more time trying to upload my turn than actually playing.

Soapyfrog · #4 October 18th, 2004, 01:11 PM

Anybody else having connection problems?

BTW, I have noticed that if your internet connection (or I guess, the internet connection serving my server)hiccups while you are doing your turn, you will get this behaviour. Fortunately becuase you hit "end turn" you still have your turn file with all your moves...

Daynarr · #5 October 18th, 2004, 01:32 PM

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baboune said:
Good day all,

I am having all sorts of problem with this specific dominions 2 game. Let me try to describe it.

I have no problem connecting to the game and playing my turn. When I try to "End turn", it freezes and I get a "connection to server is broken". So far, it could be normal, so I relaunch dom2 and connect to the server, enter my password, then it freezes again, and I get a "connection to server is broken". I.E. I can not upload my turn.

Strangely it seems I have less problems when I do this in the morning (here in Montreal, Canada). If I try to upload my turn around 8-9AM, then the upload gets thru to the host.

I am in two other MP games, and while I sometimes have connection issues, it is nothing like this one.

Any ideas?

What sort of connection and what OS do you have? (Windows XP?).

Edit: NM, I'll post this question in another thread.

Edit NO2: Since you already answered it, I'll just try to solve it here.

baboune · #6 October 18th, 2004, 02:06 PM

ADSL thru a router + windows XP.

I had no problem previously. It started with that game.

Daynarr · #7 October 18th, 2004, 02:13 PM

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baboune said:
ADSL thru a router + windows XP.

I had no problem previously. It started with that game.

Ok, try this. Go to start-connect to-show all connections. Now right-click on connection you are using (for me it's local area connection since I have cable), then select repair connection (you can close that window afterwards).

Now try to connect and see if you can upload your turn. It should be saved so you won't need to do the whole turn again, but check it just in case.

baboune · #8 October 18th, 2004, 02:58 PM

Actually I am wondering if it could not be port throttling ?
(limiting speeds on certain ports used on file sharing software, like Kazaa, winMX, etc...), that would explain why I can upload at soem hours and not at night.

Soapyfrog · #9 October 18th, 2004, 03:25 PM

I think its the connection hiccuping. I have this problem occur occasionally myself, in the evenings. I think it is the cable provider (Videotron) that is at fault...

Since the server is in my home and uses that connection, that could explain why sometimes you are disconnected.

I am not sure why you have continued problems though. For me it is a one time thing, I reconnect and I am ok.