Capybara - restarted

lch · #1 June 6th, 2007, 05:16 AM

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Ubercat said:
It appears that Xanatos may be a no show. I sent him a PM a while ago and no response yet. He hasn't posted anywhere in the forum since his one post in this thread which was three days ago.

He is in the dominions channel almost daily. I'll tell him to check back on this thread when I see him.

Ubercat · #2 June 6th, 2007, 10:42 AM

The least he could do is let us know what is going on. It's very rude to keep seven other people hanging without a word. We could be on turn three by now, or even higher.

Does he even have a legal copy of the game? That might explain why he couldn't get his pretender loaded until I gave him explicit directions. He sat there for about two days until I said something. We'd probably still be waiting for it.

llamabeast · #3 June 6th, 2007, 10:46 AM

His problem is that he's using Vista, which apparently makes things very different. I was helping him with getting his pretender in by e-mail, it sounded really quite tricky actually. I've never even seen Vista myself, which doesn't help.

To answer previous questions/comments: StrictlyRockers - having 8 players on this map gives you about 15 provinces each, which is perhaps a little smaller than average for multiplayer. I think you might meet people faster than you think.

Ubercat - yep, you're right about how quickhost works.

I'm not quite sure what to do about Xanatos, since he seemed quite keen (by e-mail). I think if he doesn't at least make contact by tonight (when 48 hours are up) I will take his turn for him and start looking for a sub.

lch · #4 June 6th, 2007, 10:56 AM

Let's not jump to conclusions here.

He played a couple of blitzes on Gandalf server (anonymously) and a few Blitzes against people in the IRC channel, so I suppose that he just doesn't know what he has to do with this PBEM thing. He seems to be unable to find his game folder and his savedgames folder, it seems Vista is indeed unnecessarily complicated.

Xanatos · #5 June 6th, 2007, 11:07 PM

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Ubercat said:
The least he could do is let us know what is going on. It's very rude to keep seven other people hanging without a word. We could be on turn three by now, or even higher.

Does he even have a legal copy of the game? That might explain why he couldn't get his pretender loaded until I gave him explicit directions. He sat there for about two days until I said something. We'd probably still be waiting for it.

Your absolutely right Ubercat I apologize for putting you guys on hold like that, I couldn't figure out how to get the file where it needed to be to play until now, and my internet was down for a while yesterday-today which kept me from getting back sooner, I am very sorry that happened, when i finally did get to take the turn it said i needed the Heros mod as well?...i didn't even know that, i think i will stay out of this next game until i learn how to do PBEM faster, sorry again guys!

and yes, i have a legal copy:P.

Cor · #6 June 6th, 2007, 11:23 PM

llamabeast, thank so much for setting up you nifty server and hosting for us, your great. Your the best llama i know.

If you are ever in Hawaii you have a floor to sleep on in my apartment.

Do you have a tutorial for how to set up a server like llama aerver?

Ubercat · #7 June 6th, 2007, 11:25 PM

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Xanatos said:

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Ubercat said:
The least he could do is let us know what is going on. It's very rude to keep seven other people hanging without a word. We could be on turn three by now, or even higher.

Does he even have a legal copy of the game? That might explain why he couldn't get his pretender loaded until I gave him explicit directions. He sat there for about two days until I said something. We'd probably still be waiting for it.

Your absolutely right Ubercat I apologize for putting you guys on hold like that, I couldn't figure out how to get the file where it needed to be to play until now, and my internet was down for a while yesterday-today which kept me from getting back sooner, I am very sorry that happened, when i finally did get to take the turn it said i needed the Heros mod as well?...i didn't even know that, i think i will stay out of this next game until i learn how to do PBEM faster, sorry again guys!

and yes, i have a legal copy:P.

Apology accepted.

See you in a game soon probably.

llamabeast · #8 June 7th, 2007, 04:18 AM

Cor - thanks! But, no tutorial sadly - the guide would say something like 'first, write a couple of thousand lines of code'.

But I've written the LlamaServer so that it can host many games at once, and also so that people other than me can host games on it (see the 'admin options' page for one of the started games, not quite finished yet). I'm happy to take requests for new games to run on it. And eventually, my grand plan is to have a 'Create new game' page, where you can choose the map, number of players, mods and so on and it will create a game for you, without me even getting involved. But that is still some way off.

Cor · #9 June 7th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Writing one line of code is beyond my tiny brain's capablities, forget about 1000.

My concern is that one day that server will run out of processing juice, the demands will be too great. I just think it would be neat to have 20 Llama servers around so everyone in the world could play dominions 3! Ma Ha Ha!

Cor · #10 June 7th, 2007, 01:02 PM

Sorry if I was hard on you, Xanatos. We have all had trouble with mp games at soem time or another.

I hope to see you in a MP soon.