Troubling Times: Game over, Marverni wins

[Aethyr]

Just to confirm, we're using the Faerun -466 Adventure Map thats on Llamaserver?

[Verjigorm]

I also still need the underwater mod if we're using it. I'm not downloading some stupid proprietary download manager just to get a 300k file.... or just put the most recent (0.94) version on the server. The current llamaserver version is still 0.7.

(I have also reviewed the mod notes, and approve of the use of the most recent 0.94 version of the Underwater Gameplay Enhancement mod).

[Aethyr]

Check the first post

[rdonj]

Also, nakido doesn't require you to install a download manager. It only wants you to think that it does. Just for future notice.

[Verjigorm]

I know it doesn't, but it was equally a pain in the *** to keep clicking the download link and then having to hit the back button (because once you click the download link, it changes to a "get stupid download manager" link after it fails to download due to server capacity.

In actual game news...

My pretender is ready. Is the game running yet?

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

Is the game running yet?

It is not. Numahr said he would look into fixing starting locations a while back. I PM'd him yesterday to see if he was still planning to do that. If there's no reply by this evening I'll just go ahead and start the game with random locations.

Originally Posted by Aethyr

Just to confirm, we're using the Faerun -466 Adventure Map thats on Llamaserver?

Yep. Uploaded it myself to see if I could figure out how to do it. (And guess, what I did! I'm so proud! ) Apparently no-one else has been stupid...erm... I mean original enough to use it in MP. (Not on the Llamaserver at least.)

[Zeldor]

Amhazair:

You don't need final map to create it, you can change settings later. So you can wait till all pretenders are in with fixed positions [which we really want] and create the game with normal Faerun map, without premade starts.

[Amhazair]

Well, in that case:

The game is up!

A reminder/help for those rare people who haven't used the Llamaserver before:

- 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 (For us, this is the 'inversions' mod attached to the first post.)
- 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 in the subject line of your e-mail. That would be TroublingTimes in this case. (Without a space, llamaserver doesn't accept spaces apparently)

I hope to start on sunday/monday, so have your pretenders up by then.

Good luck everyone.

[Numahr]

I can take care of the custom starting locations as suggested earlier, but is it too late? I can send the edited map tomorrow morning (i.e. in about 12 hours). It would be nice to have these custom starting locations, I think. Sorry that I was not available during the last 2-3 days to do it.

[Amhazair]

According to Zeldor it's not too late.

But yes, I can still alter all game settings, (including the map) so as long as you have it ready before the game starts I can still switch it around.