MP: Power Beyond Comprehension aka "My power is still raising!" newbie game - Running

[Fantomen]

That's weird.

My spinal jerk reaction is you managed to download the wrong mod or map, or isn't patched properly. But wrong mod usually gives a message about the mod being amiss, and wrong map usually just crashes game to desktop... And an unpatched game would prevent you from playing any MP games at all...

Since Klaus can play the turn, that means the turn file HE got was NOT corrupt, so it's definitely not an actual failure in the turn generation or the llamaserver. That means the issue is either on your part (client problem or mod/map failure etc.) or with your mail provider/download process.

I assume you have already tried a couple resends to make sure it's not an issue of the file being corrupted in the download process? I would also try another mail service to make sure the problem is not a failure with their file management. This has happened before, a change of mail provider solved it that time.

Try playing a turn file from a couple turns back and see if you get the same problem. If you do NOT get the same problem with that turn file, then the problem IS with the actual current turn and not with your client/mods/maps, but if you DO get the same problem then the problem IS with your client/mods/maps.

Ok, so assuming the old turn has the same problem and mail service malfunction is ruled out:

What I'd try first is DELETING the map and mod and THEN reinstalling them, and also reapply the latest patch to the game. Sometimes a blunt instrument catches the glitch in the process...

If nothing else works I'd recommend doing a clean install, patch, and adding the map and mod. You can do it in a separate directory so no need to uninstall the game first.

If all the above fails, you could PM Edi or take the problem to dom3mods and we'll let the more code savvy vets there look at it.

[Fantomen]

Also note that we are playing on the World of Warhammer map, not on Alexander as listed in the game description in the OP.

The proper map is here: http://dom3maps.wikidot.com/system:worldofwarhammer

[Tiavals]

Embarrassingly, I hadn't tried the resend for the turn. Something must've gone wrong with llamaserver. Now it works.

Thanks for the tip.

[Anaconda]

So, whats up with new turn?

[jimbojones1971]

Originally Posted by Anaconda

So, whats up with new turn?

Hey Anaconda. I think the timer just ticked over? Are you OK with submitting turns at the moment, or do you need a pause?

[Anaconda]

Originally Posted by jimbojones1971

Hey Anaconda. I think the timer just ticked over? Are you OK with submitting turns at the moment, or do you need a pause?

Aw, thats right. I got error message but it considered another game. Sorry about that. I draw lines between the error msg and the game because I did submit the turn but host didnt seem to have received it :/

[jimbojones1971]

Originally Posted by Anaconda

Aw, thats right. I got error message but it considered another game. Sorry about that. I draw lines between the error msg and the game because I did submit the turn but host didnt seem to have received it :/

Yeah, I am playing in a few games (subbing into three for a friend who is on holiday) and am finding it a real struggle to keep them all separate!

[momfreeek]

oops.. 1 min late :/

Seems there's not much I can do to stop Helmeim anyway.. at least I don't know what I could do.

[Fantomen]

Damn, I thought that lack of action looked suspicious. Now those battles feel a bit cheap.

Frankly I don't see how you could stop me in the long run either. I have only deployed my raiders, not my armies. And my main army carries the gatestone so can teleport, I'm just being careful to find out exactly what you have before dumping it on your cap. And while your Grendelkins are impressive, I don't believe they will stand up in the long run, I simply have the the resources to send in 5 times the number of SC you have at this point, producing new each turn. And I still haven't fallen back on kitting out vanjarls to anti SC, which I would if I had to deal with any serious raiding in my homelands.

If you were to march a big army against me you're looking at fighting 200+ recycling vampires under fog warriors, army of gold, rush of strength and rigor mortis etc. each step of the way (a way that gets longer for each slave I'm saccing to push my dom) while my main army teleports to take your castles before teleporting back home to beat whatever my vampires couldn't. All the while my raiding would go on with increased intensity. So unless you can both fight your way through that vamp defence and defend your homelands I don't see the tide turning.

That's not to say I would win fast or easy, you've been playing extremely good for a new player from what I've seen so far, especially considering you're fighting so many enemies at once. And you might have resource cards up your sleeve that I haven't seen yet.

The possibility I DO see is if you can make everyone else gang up on me right now, and muster a coordinated attack to force me back in defensive mode. That would let you retake your lands while my raiders fall back to defend. But that is supposing the combined punch outweighs my own counterstrike, which I'm not sure it will. And it would surely require dispelling the forge, or I will just be able to kit out far too many thugs and SC. But the likely leader after such a move, if sucessful and you kill me, is most likely to be Ermor I think.

I think Open the seal was a honeytrap in the situation you cast it. I believe it hurt you more than more than me to lose all the income, I was already pretty much a gem/blood economy and it didn't slow me down at all. While you would have made better use of the gold to push your PD to get darkness and buy more mages while using the death gems for massive remote raiding. Those ghouls would have been a different level of attack if made when you cast the seal and landing on every province I had while I was still fighting Niefelheim and Marverni. That + several blights at at my high income castles would have shut both my gold and my blood economy down.

But it's always too easy to say stuff like that in hindsight.

[Tiavals]

And this is a newbie game? Wow.