New & raw web based Dominion II game server

[Reverend Zombie]

I thought I had joined the Sundering game as Ermor, but it will not accept my password. Any thoughts?

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:
I thought I had joined the Sundering game as Ermor, but it will not accept my password. Any thoughts?

When I launched the game (I'm Abysia), Ermor (I believe) was reported as connected, which surprised me. Now it's reported as having played the turn.

Is there something to prevent a client from "stealing" a nation from another?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Re stealing: I would have thought that the passwords for gods were the way to prevent this. However, if it doesn't work...

I havn't tried, though. I could enable some logging and kill the IP of any perpetrators, but really wish to have the server open & free for all.

Do try to experiment... you guys knows as much as I do

I'm looking forward to making my moves... I know I probably suck in this game, but as long as I'm having fun being beaten up

Oh, and please avoid <,> in the comment field. Forgot about those. Will change it when I come home, doing tr/<>/()/g;

[CharonJr]

It seems like I will have a lot of spare time on my hands this weekend and since this sounds very interesting I will surely take a look

Expect me as R'lyeh cause I am fairly clueless about the other races

BTW, I might have missed it in this thread, but want map is used here ? Or is it possible to make a choice ?

CharonJr

[Reverend Zombie]

Re: passwords and stealing

I don't think the password prevents access until the game has started. During the nation-selection phase, it seems anyone can go in and "overwrite" another players selection of nation with their own pretender?

I am in the Urgaia game as Arco, would appreciate if no one "steals" that!

On another note, the Urgaia game seems perpetually stuck at around 83000 seconds for the countdown--when is it really going to start?

[ February 20, 2004, 11:06: Message edited by: Reverend Zombie ]

[PhilD]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:
Re: passwords and stealing

I don't think the password prevents access until the game has started. During the nation-selection phase, it seems anyone can go in and "overwrite" another players selection of nation with their own pretender?

AFAIK, there is no way to "protect" a nation until the game is started. It would be a nice added feature if "open" network games are to become more standard.

One solution, I believe, would be to have the game start offline, as a PBEM game, then go TCP/IP. Not counting the upload question, do the command line switch allow this?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

The HD ran full today. I did manage to save the quickSundering game, though, so I suppose all's well that ends well.

As you can probably see on the webpage, the participants/waiting for aren't exactly working yet. I will address this another day -- I need to take a day off from this, to regain my energy.

And yes, the WarsOfGaia demostrates (another) error in the game server: uploadtime doesn't work. It does count down, but not as fast as it should. My current theory is that it only counts down when somebody is actually Online.

Too bad about being able to steal each other gods. I would call that a bug in the game. Short of supporting PBM, I do not see what I can do about this.

I'll try to find a place to report bugs to Illwinter.And maybe I'll look into converting the server to PBM --- the TCP/IP server has a lot more bugs than I counted on Or maybe I'm just tired.