New Horizons - New Diplogame Set-Up Thread

[deity]

I really hope we can do Rhys.

A few things I like:

* religion can't be expanded too easily
* land settling can't be expanded beyond historical bases
* easy to build armies and develop allowing easier war opportunity
* The GNP Science/Gold is much more biased to gold; ie you end up around the time of Guilds with 30% science so building Libraries/Unis is less important as modifiers than Markets/Banks because gold is around 70% - because there are so many specials I tended not to build too many cottages which would make a difference of course
* I like the three objectives set for each civ BUT it does force you down certain tech paths - again historical accuracy

PS The game actually crashed once as SP btw

[Heraclitus]

I'm available for testing next week, if anyone is interested.

[OzzyKP]

Dubhghlas, able to do more testing?

[OzzyKP]

We need more testing. It looks as if I may be stuck at home all day today, so if Dubhghlas wants to test RFC out some more, I'm happy to do so.

[LzPrst]

all cool. so we will try RFC?

[OzzyKP]

After a fair amount of testing on my part tonight, it appears that last night's issues may have had less to do with RFC, and more to do with my cable modem. After a cable modem reset, and some testing, I have been able to access an MP game of RFC, and have played it for several turns, and have been able to log out and back in successfully, without any OOS issues. So it might be worth trying the experiment again.

I'm around to do some testing tonight. Hit me up on AIM.

I just played the SP version of RFC that comes with BTS and loved it - many changes. Upgrading units far cheaper btw (Warrior to Axe = 40 gold). This improves game play I'd suggest. Brilliant map. I played the Chinese at Monarch level and now the top civ - still going though as not achieved any goals yet

The only thing I don't like is the succession side but Iliked seeing civs born at historical times. I prefer competitive games.

Maybe we could also look at that modpak Capo was putting together?

Or perhaps ozzy could refine the RFC map?

Yea, RFC is awesome. It is definitely important for everyone to play around with it some on your own, there have been plenty of changes. I'm not sure what I could or should do to refine the map. The map is a pretty important part of the game, tinkering with it would throw things out of whack.

[deity]

I just played the SP version of RFC that comes with BTS and loved it - many changes. Upgrading units far cheaper btw (Warrior to Axe = 40 gold). This improves game play I'd suggest. Brilliant map. I played the Chinese at Monarch level and now the top civ - still going though as not achieved any goals yet

The only thing I don't like is the succession side but Iliked seeing civs born at historical times. I prefer competitive games.

Maybe we could also look at that modpak Capo was putting together?

Or perhaps ozzy could refine the RFC map?

[Dubhghlas]

After a fair amount of testing on my part tonight, it appears that last night's issues may have had less to do with RFC, and more to do with my cable modem. After a cable modem reset, and some testing, I have been able to access an MP game of RFC, and have played it for several turns, and have been able to log out and back in successfully, without any OOS issues. So it might be worth trying the experiment again.

[Robert]

Did you also try to play not at the same time?
(1 player in the game at the same time)

[OzzyKP]

Ok, bad news folks. Dubhghlas and I tried both the regular RFC that comes with BTS and the RFC-MP version. Both resulted in OOS errors.

When we first played RFC-MP we played for a while and everything worked great. But as soon as we tried to log out and pick a different civ things went OOS. Then we couldn't even pick our original civ again.

It seems Rhye's is a bust. Sorry.

So, the vote also approved another mod (but not Colonization). So now we need to find another mod that is compatible with Pitboss.

[OzzyKP]

Logged in and it worked great.

Lets give RFC a try now. Anyone else available right now for some testing?

I'm LazerKP on AIM.

[Dubhghlas]

After some work with the router, I believe the necessary ports are open. I was able to log into the game as Japan (Tokugawa), and am currently waiting for you to become Izzy.

[Dubhghlas]

'K, Ozzy, I've PM'ed you info on the game. Work on getting into it at your leisure. If you have trouble, PM me; I'll be checking for PMs off and on all evening.

[Dubhghlas]

First things first, let's make sure that getting into Civ IV on the computer from outside works. I'll put up a game by 1930 hours EST. I'll also post the IP here by then.

[Robert]

I still have to try out how RFC works with pitboss.
Feel free to try it from your side as well