Ok, land of legends or Plane of Rusty nails. Can someone other than me check the starting locations in the fixed versions floating around the llama map browser? Otherwise just vote on wrap around or not, I don't care either way :)
By the way... Plane of Rusty Nails looks like a well sized map for those who want more room. There's also a 9 player fixed start version available which is probably pretty close for what we'd want, though somewhere would have a gap. It's also wrap around I believe, as opposed to Land of Legends which is not. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpo
Ahh, so it will :) So now the question is, which map? Do you have time/interest to relook at the starts on this one wonderloss? Then you'd have to send up the .map file. Otherwise it will take me til tonight to get to putting in a new map.
So I 'unstarted' the game. However, I cannot change the map file. We have 2 choices now. Restart and hope the positions are groovy. Delete the game, and remake a new one with a new map, or a fixed map.
Yeah, I wasn't really talking about you in this game, just used Niefel as a likely rush nation, there are others (though not too bad in this line up). I checked both the maps I suggested, and they are fine. Stream Lands has a couple starts with only 3 between them, but most are 4, and the 3 only if you know where you are going ;) Land of Legends has mostly 5 or 6 with a couple at 4, but someone would have to fix the star
Dawn of Dominions is *NOT* balanced, especially without the full set of expected nations. I would not suggest it for this game. Either of the two I suggested would work. One being a bit smaller, but with balanced starting locations (made for another 8 player game), the other being a bit larger, but again, with what should be reasonable starting locations. I don't see much reason to continue with this one unless Elana and ghostwes w
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=43144&highlight=land+legends Is another one, though I've not vetted it for 8 starts. But it is bigger with 16+ land per player at 8 players.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=44093 The map... 93 land which is 11.5 per player, so maybe too small. Lots of chokepoints though, and spread starts anyway.
Well, your discussion was fine, I've approached players about trades as well. We didn't stipulate anything for how communication should be held, so I think it's best to just leave it up to each player to decide how they want to conduct it. I'm in the shrap chat right now for anyone who want's to pop in there, I made a dotm room even ;) Restarting is fine, but we'll need to make sure everyone is on board with it, and h
no no, you are free to give up whatever information you desire ;) As you noted, it's not always wise, but it's your call. Are you sure it's 2 provinces on the map and not just in number? Anyway, if that's the case I have no issues restarting. With a different map :p Indeed I had one made for an 8 player game which 'should' have starts correctly assigned.
How can you tell you are 2 provinces away from each other? There is no dominion outside of the cap yet, and unless you have shared starting provinces (usually a bad idea, but anyway) there's no way to know. Now it's possible you do know this, and it's possible that wonderloss made a mistake in assigning starting locations. I guess he can confirm it, or explain it, or whatever. But still, how do you know thi
Heh. Well if anyone has a torrent then they are going to be screwed either way. I guess we'll see ;) And you don't have to use IRC Elana, it just may be easier in some cases. Also the shrap one never seems to have anyone on it. Well it matters little, whatever makes sense. The post I linked to also has a web based chat program linked in it. I wouldn't worry about the 'bad people' on IRC so much.&nb
I don't see anything in that change log which would have ramifications to this game. But if it comes in the next couple days I don't mind restarting. Otherwise you can upgrade mid game, just have to be sure everyone patches between the same turns. Yeah, maybe they should upgrade that IRC link, but meh, the people banned from shrapnel seem to be the ones doing most of the mod work anyway. Anyway, it's a place to go, if you have other IRC cha
Man, I hope not contact that soon. Unless both players are rushing at each other. Turn 1 you usually don't attack anything, unless you took an out of the box SC, and most nations only have one expansion army for the first 5+ turns, depending on what kind of indies you are up against. I wouldn't worry about super early contact though, wonderloss vetted the map starting locations, so hopefully it's not the issue it was in the other game.
Oh, and for those who are on IRC... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=33869 Instructions for where to go to do some live diplomacy or just dicuss stuff. As I've said, I'm happy to help, and it's sometimes easier to just do it in a chat rather than passing emails or PMs. I go by 'licker' in the chat rat
Awesome! And now underway :) So, anyone with a few extra air or earth gems who'd like to exchange them 1 for 1 for nature or death, or sell them for 20gc per gem let me know! I will take as many air as you wish to sell, and up to 3 earth at this moment. Don't hesitate! Remember only the warrior smiths of Ulm can meet all your elemental forging needs! At a reduced price, but traders
I have no idea in win7, but can't you just search for it?
The game will start as soon as your pretender is in I believe. If you need an extension on any turn just post here and either wonderloss or myself can set it. DotM is the map wonderloss generated for us. If you don't have it, you need to DL it. http://www.4shared.com/file/auiIwib8/Dawnofthemorning.html Just stick it in t
heh, ok, no problem I've got another 8 player map if we want to change. It's a balanced 8 player start as well. So long as everyone can get DotM not an issue.
Oddly this game seems to have triggered the 1st turn already, even though Marverni never got a pretender in. tophat? Are you still with us? Might be just as easy to kill this game are restart it, but let's wait a bit and see how this shakes out. GP- Not accusing you of anything. Server based is great too I'm sure, just I've never done it :) My point was that for this crap right now with ll
I think llama does, but really there are not usually issues with the server. From my past experience with it anyway. Well clearly he's having issues now, but it's his ISP or telecom or whatever, not the server per se. Anyway, don't worry until the first turn :) Get the pretender file in (*cough*Marverni*cough*) and we'll be off and running I hope.
llama is back up! If you got a bunch of 'invalid pretender file' emails back I think you're ok, so long as the last email you got was 'revised pretender file'. Anyway, we'll see when we start! Just waiting on one more pretender. If it bonks we'll just restart, so don't worry. Remember your pretender has to be made with NO MODS active.
Yep, seems to have stalled ;) Don't worry, when it wakes up you should hear back, and if not just resend in a few hours or so.
Hey guys, At a conference through friday, but I can admin if you really don't want to. If Wonderloss doesn't mind doing it for a few more days though that would simplify things for me a bit since I won't be as responsive as i otherwise can be. Looking forward to it!
Can you please turn ON renaming? Not sure if anyone would have an issue with that, but it does help cut down micro a bit with searching for your correctly pathed mages. Thanks again for your assistance!