Chinchilla - Running

[Warhammer]

Count me in, but I'll need my hand held quite a bit. Need to figure out who I want to be...

[dmentd]

I have never played a MP game, Dominions or otherwise. I would like to try. I would like to try Ulm or Atlantis. I might need help on how to MP this program...

[sum1lost]

I'd like to try Tien Chi. They've always looked interesting.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Am I allowed to be in two of these at once?

[llamabeast]

Cool, I'll add you all to the list! Wow, this game is filling up nice and fast.

I'm going to write a guide tomorrow as to how to upload your pretenders. It's all reasonably straightforward, promise. I'm really glad to see some brand new players, by the way.

LazyPerfectionist - yep, of course, I can host as many games as will fill up so you are more than welcome to be in more than one.

[llamabeast]

PS Ubercat - glad to have you in this game, but be careful not to join too many games - later on they can get more time consuming if you aren't knocked out. I reckon 2-3 is probably a good limit for simultaneous games in general, depending on how much free time you have.

[llamabeast]

Looks like space for just one more if we're going for 14 players on the Cradle of Dominion map.

If you see this post after the game's filled up though, post anyway and I'll put you down for the next newbie game (which I can start as soon as I get the impression it might fill up).

[llamabeast]

Okay, here's an outline of how to upload your pretenders when you've got them designed:

- Go to Game Tools -> Create a pretender god in Dominions
- 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, 'Chinchilla', in the subject line of your e-mail

You can see who's joined so far etc at www.llamaserver.net .

I hope that's clear-ish. Let me know if you have any questions.

[llamabeast]

I suppose I should say when we're going to start the game. Let's set a target of midnight (UK time) on Wednesday - that gives everyone a couple of days to choose a race, design their pretenders and so on. If you want a bit more time though, just say.

Oh, I should also have mentioned - the game will be on 24 hour quickhost. That means it'll host 24 hours after the last hosting, or before once everyone gets their turns in. Generally people find this to be a nice speed.

[Salamander8]

Quick couple of questions.

Is this going to be like the 2 servers of Velusions' that I am on? The pretender sending via E-Mail is more like the one PBEM I did before, but the auto-host sounds like a TCP/IP game.

Should we use/not use passwords?

When I did a quick check on the server it said Chinchilla was a late age game, but this is MA I thought?