Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Organization Thread]

[Native America (DoE)]

Unable to connect to server right now. When it does connect, it won't stay connected.

[Russia (DoE)]

btw Quite often we all get blank diplo messages in game. What I do to minimise it is always make sure the text is entered into the conversation list before clicking "Send offer", even though there is no offer. Quite often I add a redundant offer to ensure communication works. Any thoughts on this. I'm sure some important diplo has been lost in games because of this.

Good point here. The correct way step by step to send in-game diplo message is as follows:

- when the diplo-screen is open, type your message
- PRESS ENTER (very important) so the message appears in the conversation list
- press SEND OFFER which closes the diplo-screen and makes sure your message is sent

[Inca (DoE)]

Where are we supposed to place these summary posts on everything we want to be given points for?

I probably won't do it this month since most of my postings were near the end, but for future reference...

[Arabia (DoE)]

I can vote as soon as the vote is up.

Been very busy, and am going away again this weekend. As soon as I get a few hours I will attempt to get this to work.

[France (DoE)]

I'm away for a couple days. I will likely be able to play my turns, but won't be available for posting or correspondence.

[Robert]

There was a power-cut this morning. Server is now restarted.
I'll load the last autosave, which means that Japan has to replay his last turn.

[Inca (DoE)]

Beat the illness like as you would so many feral jungle cats with a sharp axe.

[France (DoE)]

I am ill right now and can't set it up. I hope to recover soon. .

Forgot to mention... hope you are feeling better soon.

[France (DoE)]

I see no reason why real Arabia won't be able to vote.
His internet works, only his game is a problem.

Ok.

Vote is delayed, I am ill right now and can't set it up. I hope to recover soon. If I die I hope that you'll all give me many sympathy votes though.

Depends whether you die "in character" or not.

Dibs on Bethlehem!

[mzprox]

I suggest you start looking for a perm. sub till you can.. :P

[Robert]

I see no reason why real Arabia won't be able to vote.
His internet works, only his game is a problem.

Vote is delayed, I am ill right now and can't set it up. I hope to recover soon. If I die I hope that you'll all give me many sympathy votes though.

[France (DoE)]

Question.

Will the real Arabia be voting for the month of November or will I?

[2metraninja]

I know a lot of issues comes with the auto-update function. So try these simple steps, but follow them exactly and say if it works.

- Make clean install of Civ4. Dont start it!
- Install Beyond the sword. Dont start it!
- Download THIS and install it.

- start the game and enjoy working Civ4 BTS 3.19.
- then close the game, go and read carefully the instructions where and how to install the Destiny Of Empires mod so you can play the diplo-game.

Hope this will help.

[America (DoE)]

I did a search of my c drive for "civ" and deleted everything I could. A few items wouldn't delete. I then used the uninstall program with everything checked off.

I really think this is somehow related to windows 7. I had a heck of a time just getting the thing installed with the 3.19 patch. Installing civ4 then installing bts causes a game crash when bts tries to auto update. The solution for that is to install civ4, then 1.61, then 1.73, then install bts, then 3.17, then 3.19.

I might actually try to install xp in tandem and install this there.

Yes I am installing from a DVD. One other item of interest is that I have been playing this on win7 since the start of the game, so it DOES work with win7.

Rough day today, don't feel like wrestling with this again tonight.

Aw man, poor guy.
You say bts causes a game crash when bts tries to auto-update; I wrote earlier that you shouldn't startup bts in between, but that you should install civ4, then bts, do not start up the game, and you can then do patch 3.19 straightaway, it's a cumulative patch according to Robert, you don't need the other patches. But don't start anything up in between.
I installed Civ4 with the DoE patch on two W7 machines, not a single hitch. Maybe your problem is somehow related to the things W7 does with regards to Administrator privileges and what that does to the directory structure. A few questions:
- is your user account the only administrator account on the computer?
- did you do the whole install process by running everything as administrator?
- is the crash exactly the same as before, the one you posted screenshots of?

[OzzyKP]

Hurry back Arabs or the cowardly French will surrender your whole kingdom!