Newb Network EA Aran (Full and Playing) - Page 15

Eressil3 · #**141** May 4th, 2007, 08:12 AM

Tir na n'og is EA i believe ? May be you meant Eriu but vfb wanted to try it. Unless vfb switch back to C'tis ?

jimkehn · #**142** May 4th, 2007, 08:14 AM

Oh....I didn't know..It sounds from his post he wanted C'tis. OK...I'll be Ulm instead.

lch · #**143** May 4th, 2007, 10:57 AM

Heh, I started reading this thread after I found it via the map download in the new game you're starting... very informative!

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llamabeast said:
You can see the contribution to dominion spread by right clicking on a province with a temple, then clicking the Temple button in the bottom right. It tells you the number of candles produced on average per turn from each source, multiplied by 10 to give whole numbers. Victory points are shown on there as a source of dominion, I think.

Good, I have these in my game aswell and I'm surprised that they do anything even if you didn't intend to have them as victory condition. How come that do they pop up on the map? Can they be turned off at all?

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vfb said:
I thought I could just use the timestamps and if the .2h files were newer than the .trn, then I could report the player as having played. Sorry the web page is not accurate.

Heh, you know what, I used the exact same thing when I wrote my MP Game statistics PHP script which is being used in my game and Velusion's games. I made a couple of guesses about the game purely by looking at the game files, but because of a few quirks I later had to settle for workarounds: Save the *.2h file sizes for comparison instead of looking at the timestamps, and looking at the scores.html files to determine if a nation has been defeated (dominion 0). I no longer need this filesystem-based method since I found on this board how to request the turn status from the server remotely just like the client does nowadays, though.

thejeff · #**144** May 4th, 2007, 11:05 AM

I poked at the vp a little bit, before real life got in the way.

It looked like they get added if you start the game as a server. Probably not if you start it as PBEM. It probably should get reported as a bug.

vfb · #**145** May 4th, 2007, 11:16 AM

lch said:

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Good, I have these in my game aswell and I'm surprised that they do anything even if you didn't intend to have them as victory condition. How come that do they pop up on the map? Can they be turned off at all?

I tried to do this in the .map but it didn't help, I still got crowns:

#victorycondition 0

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I no longer need this filesystem-based method since I found on this board how to request the turn status from the server remotely just like the client does nowadays, though.

I'd love to do that! Is that what the scripts in your dom3stats-1.0.rar do now? If not, can you please point me to the thread?

lch · #**146** May 4th, 2007, 11:42 AM

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vfb said:

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lch said:
I no longer need this filesystem-based method since I found on this board how to request the turn status from the server remotely just like the client does nowadays, though.

I'd love to do that! Is that what the scripts in your dom3stats-1.0.rar do now? If not, can you please point me to the thread?

I'm still working on it, it will take some more days to release. I have working proof-of-concept code, though. At the meantime, you could use the filebased version. I intend to make them compatible with each other in a sense that you can plug the socket-based code where you were using the filesystem-based code before and vice versa.

I've got the link to the thread where JK describes the communication protocol from MarcinM who created the Dom3 Status monitor which I "fixed" for Linux/Mono. WraithLord programmed a command-line interface coded in Python, too, which is sadly only released in binary format.

vfb · #**147** May 4th, 2007, 07:06 PM

Thanks, Ich!

BandarLover · #**148** May 4th, 2007, 07:11 PM

Will this be getting it's own thread?

lch · #**149** May 4th, 2007, 07:18 PM

If you mean vfb's new game, then yes, he already has a new thread. Or do you mean my "remote PHP stats" script?

EDIT: Nevermind, I noticed that you're already playing in that game aswell. How many games are you playing simultaneously?? I'm limiting myself to four, and it already makes my mind boggle. You should restrict yourself to playing fewer games and doing more awesome write-ups!

BandarLover · #**150** May 4th, 2007, 07:58 PM

All i really have time for are turns it seems. I try not to over think my games so my turns generally go quick. My write-ups take several hours a piece, and those are short compared to the other crap I write. I think I'm playing four right now, with two more possibly atarting soon.