Creating new game with multiple friends

[BillCurtis]

I am trying to create a PBEM game with 4 friends, but it doesn't seem to like me entering more than one email in the CC for the dice server. Can you only do a PBEM game with 2 people? If so, what is the best alternative to play with more players in a asynchronous game?

[ubernaut]

@BillCurtis yes we upgraded the server and code for marti recently. currently lacking the multiple recipient feature. i would suggest using two team captains that can forward or using autoforwarding accounts until the feature can be restored.

[BillCurtis]

@ubernaut Disappointing news, but I appreciate your input in looking for solutions.

[beelee]

@BillCurtis

It's really not that big of an issue imo. I'm currently in a multi with two teams and four players. For some reason, only the first two emails get the die rolls.

That was with the old dice server. Anyway, most of us don't even look at the dice rolls. You can see them in History, which I occasionally check, if a battle went different than expected.

But it's actually kinda nice, as it's less stuff for me to delete

We all trust each other, so as I said earlier, no biggie to us

[BillCurtis]

@beelee I also was unable to add all the emails to the actual email list, not just the dice server. I don't really know why that is, I assumed the emails all had to be listed in the dice email, the program does not make clear why I could not add multiple emails to a list to start the game. It just made clear there was an issue.

[ubernaut]

@BillCurtis said:

add all the emails to the actual email list

unclear what you mean by this to me at least but currently marti only deal wth two emails at a time and we are aware of that issue at least if you mean something else please clarify

[beelee]

@BillCurtis

Yea the old dice server you would put a space between emails but it was still limited character wise. I think it was 56.

Anyway, the new dice server only allows 2 emails total. So, unless you're in a FreeForAll, select a Captain for each side. They will receive the emails.

Post to Forum isn't working, so you have to manually post the save to your Game Thread.

I do it like this. Actually will start at the very beginning.

Download 15640 from the Home Page.

https://triplea-game.org/

Hmm ... says 15650 now. Not sure what's up with that. Whatever, just DL the latest that it offers.

Then register at the new Dice server

https://dice.triplea-game.org/

Set up game. I use PBEM but it should be interchangeable with PBF. At least it used to.

Note
You can also register for the Dice server by hitting Register. It takes you to the above link.

Practice turn in Local mode, then do your real turn in PBEM mode. You'll see "Dice Server On" bottom right and it'll also show a "View Turn Summary" button. Top right.

Click on the Turn Summary window and do a ctrl a ctrl c

Save the game, ctrl s

Then post turn summary and save to the thread. Your opponent DLs the save, does their test turn in local and then repeats the above process.

The 2 Captain's will be the only ones to receive the dice rolls. You can look in History ctrl h under Combat and it will show the dice rolls.

Let us know if you get stuck somewhere. This from my game with Panzer if you wanna scan how we do it.

https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4286/exp-game-10-beelee-axis-vs-panzer-allies-operation-straweberry-fields-forever

[BillCurtis]

@beelee Thank you so much for being thorough trying to help. I notice on the first cropped image you didn't actually PBEM? You just registered 2 people for the dice server but then only emailed the save file manually? I hadn't seriously enough considered just essentially bypassing the email feature altogether and emailing the game file manually, is that what most people honestly do?

[beelee]

@BillCurtis

No you still click on PBEM. It'd be like this for a new game.

Click on PBEM

Takes you here

Then fill in the emails.

Edit
All Players need to be registered for the Dice Server

Edit 2
Including the ones whose email is not entered into the game

Edit 3
All Players need to be registered to the Forum too. We can set a test game up if you want