MP: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Finished (Ulm won by agreement)

[Mightypeon]

Rosa Luxemburg is in, for the Proletariat! May the Ulmish revolution succeed with Hammer(s) and Sickle!

[BewareTheBarnacleGoose]

Thanks for the help everyone, but I still cant seem to get this to work. I've tried making a pretender a dozen times, and I can access them if I try to start an SP game, but I cant find the pretender file in the savegame folder. Nor did I see a "newlords" subfile. Is there something Im missing?

[jimbojones1971]

What operating system are you using?

I've got both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and they both put the file in a different spot.

BTW, it took me a while to work this out the first time, so it's certainly not just you whose had this problem :-)

[Lung Drago]

Yes, Vista and 7 will propably have permission issues if you installed the game to Program Files. The "real" savedgames folder that is used by the game could be located somewhere either in

C:\Users\[your user account name]\Documents\My Games
or
C:\Users\[your user account name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\dominions3

Note that AppData folder is most likely a hidden folder, so you need to turn "Show hidden files and folders" on through View tab in Tools -> Folder Options, accessible by pressing Left Alt in Windows Explorer.
If you want to avoid having your OS use these strange paths, there are two options: either do not not install games in Program Files folder on Vista/7 or explicitly start every game as an Administrator.

[BewareTheBarnacleGoose]

Thanks everybody, I finally got it. Just like Lung Drago said, it was in the AppData folder. The Barnacle Goose has been sent it, so..., um, beware it!

[Lung Drago]

All pretenders are in and with correct nations, so on Friday, 2nd September at 0:00 of Earth's GMT+1 time...

It has begun!

[jimbojones1971]

Originally Posted by Mightypeon

Rosa Luxemburg is in, for the Proletariat! May the Ulmish revolution succeed with Hammer(s) and Sickle!

Just wanted to say, I love the name and the theme. :-)

Given that Ermor's policy is to liberate the Proletariat from the drudge of every day toil by setting them on fire, then stabbing them repeatedly and finally raising them as undead minions to serve in the legions, I can only hope that we will have a happy and meaningful diplomatic relationship going forward Ms Luxemburg!

- Esmeralda the Good Witch of Ermor, aka Class Enemy Number One

(Edit: The above is entirely tongue in cheek, no offence intended and hopefully none taken.)

[krpeters]

I'm trying to update from 3.26 to 3.27

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Dominions 3 has not been totally updated because of the following reason:

The access to the following file is denied:

dom3.exe: error - cannot replace, denied access
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Yes, I have Vista. Vista sucks. Now what?

I'm going to try moving the whole dominions tree out of Program Files and see if that works...

[jimbojones1971]

Originally Posted by krpeters

I'm trying to update from 3.26 to 3.27

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Dominions 3 has not been totally updated because of the following reason:

The access to the following file is denied:

dom3.exe: error - cannot replace, denied access
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Yes, I have Vista. Vista sucks. Now what?

I'm going to try moving the whole dominions tree out of Program Files and see if that works...

If that fails, I think you can right click on the update exe file and run it as administrator, which should in theory get around the problem.

[krpeters]

Moving the directory tree to C:\ worked -- and now I don't have to deal with VirtualStore anymore either. Yay!

But thanks for the rightclick/administrator idea. That might be helpful in the future.

I'll have my turn submitted shortfully. Thankfully, it started me in the big lake. Does that mean Ryleh and Oceania start in the small lakes? Or does the 1 ocean player limit mean he always starts in the big lake?