Master of Magic - Implode's Multiplayer Edition

Version 0.8.8 is now available :) Took a little longer than I hoped, but as is often the case I kept finding one other thing that needed doing. I just gave it a quick test split across 3 PCs and only found one trivial bug so that's good enough, that can wait until 0.8.9 to get fixed. So, enjoy :) an...

Richf, Yes... you're right about there being little difference between 7-10 books. If you want to eliminate the 11 book super-starts, my suggestion (for my version at least) is to play on a customized difficulty level and only start everyone with 10 books. Actually I think it might be fun to play wi...

I think that depends on your monitor/graphics card. My monitor has a setting on it where you can tell it, when using a mode like 640x480, whether to expand the image to fill the monitor (i.e. no black bars, and the aspect ratio is then incorrect), or preseve the aspect ratio. So I leave it set to pr...

Ok got it, thanks :) I haven't looked at it yet though. Before I release 0.8.8, I'll try to do a merger of what I extracted from the LBX files and what you sent to me.

Thanks very much!

Implode.

Ah, right, yes I am aware of that. As you say, it writes everything to HKLU, so if you install as one user (admin or otherwise) and then try to run as someone else, it won't work. I do plan to fix that at some point, by splitting values appropriately across HKLU and HKLM. Its too big of a change to ...

Add the fact you can get spells by trading, as treasure etc, it's clear to me that multi-color strategies are far superior. Single player, I've got my best ever high score using multi-colour. But I just don't see it working multi-player. Someone who picks 11 books is going to show up with Wraiths, ...

No problem, I've been out of touch for a while too - I had to go away for a few days for work, and have been frantically trying to get 0.8.8 finished, and not checking the forum. If you can, send me whatever you've got done on the French XML file ASAP. I'll be releasing 0.8.8 in a few days, so I'll ...

Lord Budweiser wrote:how can I single play if I can't set the number of human players below 2?

You have to set the number of AI players to more then zero BEFORE it will let you reduce the number of human players down to 1 :)

Implode.

if run in 640x480 mode you dont all of the screen (bottom is cut off) and not by taskbar That's to be expected - the client window is 640x480 large, so by the time you add on the borders around the window, taskbar, etc. its going to be larger than 640x480. It should still work fine if you hit alt-e...

0.8.8 will be out in hopefully a few days now. In the meantime I've put some screenshots up with some of the new features in here :) All I have left to do is: When you cast a unit enchantment (e.g. Heroism), and click on a map square, the screen that pops up so you can pick which unit to cast it on....

I'm not really sure sorry. I'm using a widescreen monitor too (24" Dell monitor 8) ) and when I hit alt-enter, it preserves the aspect ratio correctly by leaving black bars on the left & right. And I'm using a fairly cruddy old ATI Radeon 9000 chip in my laptop, with hacked driver files. Ev...

Using the registry makes it difficult to run your application as a normal user (I also don't see a big reason the info should be hidden), would you mind moving a configuration file instead (an ini specifically)? Umm, I agree the registry is overcomplicated for normal users - but INI files are so Wi...

You can play single player - although you can only attack nodes, lairs and towers - you can't attack cities or units that are just wandering around. Even single player, you need to create the game in the server program (with human players = 1) and then join the game from the client (specify 'localho...

Since its been dead here the last few weeks and you might be wondering if 0.8.8 will ever appear - I've been stuck, trying to work out the best way to add in the graphics for city spells like Wall of Fire or Altar of Battle. I'd started doing it a few ways, but I really didn't like that I had 3 diff...

Oh no! Someone out there doesn't like MoM IME, first my hard drive dies, now yours! You have my sympathy, having had to just go through reconfiguring two PCs myself (one to use while my laptop was dead, and then to reinstall the OS and a ton of apps on my laptop once the new hard drive arrived). In ...