LeafNosedBat- EA game (upload pretenders)

[Psycho]

Kailasa for me

[llamabeast]

Okay cool. I thought this was full and created an overflow game, but it turns out I just had a counting failure - one space left.

[llamabeast]

Well, there's still one space left, but in the meantime people can start uploading their pretenders. Here's how:

Right, everyone who posted has a spot except for seda (sorry; slightly too late) and Aezeal (surely you don't count as a newbie still?! - in any case, I gave priority to the newer players).

Re Worthy Heroes - what it does is add more heroes to the game, and in general make them a little more powerful. Not overpowered, but it's nice if, when you get a hero, they're quite useful. The latest version is 1.8 - I'll turn my mention of it in the first post to a link in a minute.

The next thing to do is to design and upload your pretenders. Here's how to do that:

- Make sure you have the same mods enabled as the game you're playing in (Preferences->Mod Preferences) although only mods affecting pretender design, such as Conceptual Balance, actually matter
- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions. Don't set a password, since for PBEM games they're not helpful and occasionally annoying (e.g. if you need a sub)
- Go to the savedgames/newlords folder in the dominions directory, and find your pretender file (e.g. mid_pythium_0.2h)
- E-mail the file to: pretenders[ at ]llamaserver[ dot ]net
- Crucially, you must have the game name 'LeafNosedBat' in the subject line of your e-mail

[Edi]

Sent. I hope it came through okay.

[kruton]

Count me in for Lanka

[llamabeast]

Great, so we're full. Please start designing and uploading your pretenders everyone.

[llamabeast]

Note to anyone who would have like to play in this game: VesperBat is open and waiting for players (although it is LA rather than EA).

[ComTrav]

I'm playing three games at once, and I suppose its inevitable I would do badly in one of them. I think things went really downhill for me when my huge army went one way and all the mages who were going to support it went another.

At least I managed to dodge the bullet on getting rushed in the other two games (and one as much-maligned MA Ulm, no less). And although things are looking pretty bleak against Lanka, I'm not done in yet.

I have initially expanded slower than I would've liked in any of my three games...next game I play I will try to go with awake SC pretender or bless rush. I suppose a lot of it is luck of starting position, though.

[Edi]

Luck and starting position play a huge part. So does the disposition of your first neighbors and where you manage to take things.

As far as this game goes, not to put too fine a point on it but you got caught between a rock and a hard place. No idea about Lanka, but your other neighbor's graphs say it all...

With regard to expansion, I must say that my own initial expansion was slower than I had hoped. It's picked up some at Vanheim's expense now, but we'll see how it goes...

[ComTrav]

Is there a problem with the server? I tried emailing my turn and received "delivery failed" message. (Earlier today I had no problem with Fruitbat, though, who knows?)