Hoping that people will organise games on LlamaS..

llamabeast · #1 March 29th, 2008, 11:19 AM

...erver.

I'm a bit short of time lately, and don't have much time to organise new games. However, my server is open for anyone to use, so I really hope people will go ahead and organise games, which I'll be more than happy to host.

In particular there seems to be much demand for newbie games. So, if you're a newbie and want a game, please organise one!

Also there was much clamoring for a "casual" game - one not for real newbies, but aimed at non-hardcore players. If you're interested in such a game, I think you'll get plenty of people signing up if you organise it.

If you fancy organising something completely different, that's also cool!

Zeldor · #2 March 29th, 2008, 11:24 AM

When are you getting back and able to play?

I have enough games for next 1-2 months, but after that I wan a casual game and there is no really good casual game without llamabeast in it

llamabeast · #3 March 29th, 2008, 11:27 AM

Ah, but Zeldor, maybe I am a hardcore player!

Getting back on April 26th. I'm only away for 2 weeks, but that's enough to make it silly to join any games.

Zeldor · #4 March 29th, 2008, 11:32 AM

You don't look like one

I doubt I will have enough free time in just one month. Unless some games finish surprisingly fast.

Xietor · #5 March 29th, 2008, 11:32 AM

Llamabeast is hardly a casual player. I think we both passed that plateau in Alpaca.

Llamabeast has won at least 2 MP games, so he is definitely not included in the definition of a casual player. It is just his disarming personality allows for great diplomacy.

It will test even his great diplomacy skills to try and pass Arcane Nexus off as a "Oh never mind us, we are just studying botany in the garden. Quite harmless actually. Quite."

zlefin · #6 March 29th, 2008, 11:54 AM

i wanted to arrange something completely different, but signups were sparse; never got enough to actually make a game out of them.

DonCorazon · #7 March 29th, 2008, 11:59 AM

LLamabeast, thanks for providing this great service. I am getting close to organizing a game - just need to die in Alexander

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One thing I was curious about though is, in order to host a game, is it necessary to edit the map? It seems a number of games I have joined someone has messed around with the map for starting locations, which is something I have yet to learn. I looked through your organizing game FAQ and didn't see anything.

Zeldor · #8 March 29th, 2008, 12:09 PM

DonCorazon:

It depends on the map, in Alexandria I wanted it to be better than Urapara [look at Abysian location], though it didn't go well either [with some people getting 6 neighbours and others 2].

DonCorazon · #9 March 29th, 2008, 12:22 PM

Z:
agree, i want to be able to have a decent map before I start I game. I know from starting SP games if you leave it to the computer you can end up in some sorry spots.

llamabeast · #10 March 29th, 2008, 01:14 PM

I sometimes bother editing the map, sometimes not. Anyway, it's quite easy. What you do is load up the map in a new game, and note down the province numbers of provinces you think should be used as start positions. Then open the map file in notepad or whatever, and add some lines like this:

#start 74
#start 95

etc, one line for each player. Sorted.

Incidentally the in-game map editor is pretty horrible. Definitely editing the text files is the way to go. There is a guide in dominions3/doc.