Loemendor PBEM (Finished)

[Dedas]

Only Darrel left.

[Ewierl]

Well, hate to say it, but I have a small break coming up. I'll be out of town Mon-Tue, but I'll be able to play turns Sunday night and Wednesday evening. I was hoping the ball would be well underway before then, but these things gather momentum at their own pace

[Dedas]

No problem mate.
I'm writing them down so you won't miss something.

Hopefully Darrel gets his pretender in soon so we can start. I'm eager to try out the lizards... *slithers away*

[Sir_Dr_D]

I am sending the pretender right now.

[Edit - sent]

[Dedas]

Ok, all pretenders are in! I will start the game right after my visit to the university. In other words in a few hours.

[Dedas]

Okay, I have a problem. I want to set the independents strength to 7, but I cannot find the switch to do this. Not in the GUI and not when I designed the map file. Anyone got a clue?

[llamabeast]

I think it comes up as an option in the GUI after you hit "Start Game".

[Dedas]

Yes I know. But as this is a scenario with fixed position it doesn't. You have to set it in the map file with a keyword. The problem is that I don't know this keyword and it isn't written in any of the documents that come with the game.

If this can't be solved quickly we will have to play with the default value (5).

[llamabeast]

Oh I see.

Okay, I think I got it to work, but it's messy.

On the command line, do dom3 -STq --indepstr 7

Then open up a GUI, and join the game using each of the pretender files. When you've done them all, click "start game". Back on the command line, you can choose the map to play on. Then once it's started to can just quit the command line, and treat it like a PBEM from then on.

[llamabeast]

Okay, I just did a test with indeps 1 on Dawn of Dominions, and it did indeed seem to work (there was hardly anyone to fight).

It's worth doing I think, because indeps 7 plays quite differently to 5.