EA Newbie Game: "Take Two" Thread - Dominions 3: The Awakening

General Game Information
Name of the Game - TakeTwo
Network or PBEM - PBEM (llamaserver.net)
Hosting Schedule - 28 hours at start, may be increased later
Number of Players - 6 (give or take based on interest)
Skill level - Newbies and low inters please.
Game Settings
Age: EA
Default settings.
Diplomacy - Trades binding, everything else is not (but breaking a NAP without waiting out the grace period is to be reported on the thread)
General Rules -
No exploits!
No water nations
Map: Vale of Variance v2 - 6 players (unless popular demand dictates otherwise).
Commitment: High commitment expected. Delays may be granted occasionally, but try not to do this too often. If you will be absent for a long time, expect to be subbed out.

Mods- CBM 1.95b (fixed Ghost Ship Armada and such).

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So, this is the second attempt of the EarlyNoobs game. The settings are pretty much the same. I'm aiming for 6 players here, ideally. Those who signed up for EarlyNoobs get the first dibs, otherwise first come, first served. If more players apply before I start the game, I may change to a larger map and take them in too.

Player list:

1. Radiator (Tir na n'Og)
2. KestrelM1 (Ulm)
3. knightofni (Abysia)
4. parone (C'Tis)
5. Multipass (Sauromatia)

Edited by: Radiator

Yup, i'm in with Abysia

I'm going to play Acrocephale

I contacted support and had my issue sorted out, hopefully!

I'm not signing up, so move on without me if I don't contact you, but I too am attempting to fix the steam key issues.

Edited by: Ozfer

Alright. By the way, anyone who's already on the player list can upload their pretenders at any time.

Edited by: Radiator

ill be pythium!!!

Pretender sent! Can't wait for this one to start up

sauromantia please.

Support is dealing with me now . I do, however see that you have set a six player limit. I will concede if you would prefer to keep it small (No hard feelings).

we should get oz in. 6 is too few for this map anyway.

Vale of variance is better for 7 players ==> Z7.invisionfree.com

CBM 1,95b ==> Z7.invisionfree.com

Not my place to set the game conditions. But didnt CBM 1.95b create all sorts of problems last time? Wouldn't it be safer just to stick with the tried and true 1.94?

Well, last time there were some issues because i haden't initally uploaded the proper file. Now that the correct file is uploaded, and that it's already on llamaserver, everything should be fine (knock on wood)

imagine my surprise when I realized there was no EA pythium....

ill take a crack at neifelheim, I guess...

I figured I'd set 6 as I estimated that Ozfer's problem would be too long term to wait out. If we can expect the problem to be solved, it can go up to 7 without problems.

Edited by: Radiator

sounds good guys. Cant wait to redeem myself from the last game. PS Parone: let it be known if you try a double bless neifelheim strat on your head so be it. Not going to have a lot of friends with that one

Is parone playing C'Tis or Niefelheim? I see a C'Tis pretender uploaded to llamaserver...

I'm fine with either one, but yeah, if you go for double blessed giants expect the hammer to come down hard

sorry fellas.

didn't have time to make a pretender for Nief, so sent in my last lizard pretender.

shouldn't make much of a difference.

Very well. The 6 base players are in. Ozfer, any news with support? Can we expect a solution to your problem soon?

I have been in correspondence with support. I have sent them my key file's contents, but haven't gotten a reply yet. It looks like this may take a little longer than expected, so you can move on.

Alright. Well then... the game's starting! (I'm not sure why this would be significantly better for 7 players than for 6. There are about 17 land provinces per player with 16 players, less than Twiceborn, which was still not too big. Anyway, I like the map, so I'll start off with it. If y'all want something else, please speak up before the end of turn 1.)

hell radiator, lets just run this sum o bitch!!!

GAH I THOUGHT I HAD IT FIXED.

Oh well. Sorry guys, I guess restart the game without me in it too.

(cd key violation)

Alright, well, this totally sucks. One more reason to hate Steam. Well then, back to the drawing board! At least 1 more player needed...

...would you guys be willing to try again if I used a keygen?