Epic Heroes Mod MA game(finished)

Lily · #1 May 27th, 2007, 04:00 PM

Aargh, the website is intermittently down too! I've worked out that it's the people who I bought www.llamaserver.net off who are screwing up, which is why both the website is going wrong and some e-mails not arriving. I guess they're having problems and there's no-one to fix them because of the bank holiday weekend (um, that's a public holiday, don't know if you have bank holidays elsewhere).

So sorry guys, it seems to be a cursed weekend. I'll make sure order is swiftly restored when I get back (Monday night/Tuesday morning).

Xietor · #2 May 27th, 2007, 07:18 PM

Well the game has started!

Good luck everyone!

Dragonninjaakira · #3 May 28th, 2007, 12:23 AM

Ok...total noob question but...how exactly do I play PBEM? This is my first one. Sorry guys...

LoloMo · #4 May 28th, 2007, 12:32 AM

You create a folder named "EpicHeroes" inside your savedgames folder. Then you download the file that was emailed to you into that directory. Then you fire up dominions, and use play existing game, you should have an entry named EpicHeroes. You do your turn normally, and press endturn. Close dominions, and look into the epicheroes folder again, and there should be mid_*.2h file in there. Email that file back to llamaserver.

It takes a long time to explain but is actually quite easy.

Xietor · #5 May 28th, 2007, 01:07 AM

You do not mail it back to his pretenders address, but the turn address.

Once you do a turn or 2 you will see that this method of play is easier than most.

By the way, WHO STOLE MY STARTING SPOTS ON THE FAR WEST SIDE!

Jeezum, after setting up the map you would think the least i would get is a decent starting spot near a border(: I think Llama "fixed" it so i got the worst starting spot on the map.

Sir_Dr_D · #6 May 28th, 2007, 01:17 AM

Thanks Llama for hosting this game, and putting all that work into the server. But I am curious as to why you just done host as IP host game. Isn't that easier.

This Epic hero thing sounds like fun. I first I wasn't excited about it, because starting off with a set hero (as apposed to a random one) sounded boring. But then once I started setting up my pretender things got fun. You actually end up desigbing your entire pretender around your epic hero. By the way, I thought at first that the Machaka Immortal Assasin was overpowered, until I took at the Mictlan Jaguar Warrior spawning hero. Now my assasin is scared and is hiding under a rock somewhere.

Xietor · #7 May 28th, 2007, 06:21 AM

One of the complaints many had about Machaka MA was they were tough late, but vulnerable early. The assassin is pretty good insurance against an early attack in your own dominion.

Mictlan's Epic hero is overpowered by design, because they are a terrible race. Did you notice even with an overpowered epic hero no one played them?

llamabeast · #8 May 28th, 2007, 03:15 PM

Darrel: There's quite a few advantages to having the LlamaServer PBEM in fact. At least, these are why I decided to have a go at designing it. Obviously there are advantages to network games as well, though.

- It has essentially unlimited capacity. This hasn't come into play yet, but it will be able to have tens of games running on it.
- It's possible to arrange it so that the games can be controlled via the website. No more running home to postpone hosting on the server.
- Other people can be set as admins for games on the website. Xietor can now postpone turns etc without me getting involved (see the admin options on the website). This will be great when there are more games running.
- It's more robust and reliable (*cough cough*). Okay, it should be. It can't crash and so on. Version upgrades should be much cleaner.

Unfortunately this weekend hasn't done a very good job of demonstrating the last point. The fact that everything went pear-shaped on the same weekend as a new game started, and I was away on holiday was quite unfortunate. Sorry again guys for the mayhem.