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Be your own host - Private games are here Monday, April 04, 2011 After many requests to setup private games we've decided to make it possible for any of you to create your own game for you and your friends. If you've always wanted to design and host your own game, now is your chance. Use the Start Game button and select Private Game to design your game. At this time you can design the starmap width/height and number of planets as well as the number of players and win conditions. More game design options will be added as we progress. Note: Private games do not provide experience and achievement in the leaderboard. Have a great time designing your games and playing with your friends! Private games can be a great way to get new players to learn the game. Happy Nu Year!This Nu Year we've also added auto-selling of supplies when building mines, factories and defense posts and an updated player profile screen. We've also had a great month for growth. Our community had more than 700 new members sign up and over 100 new players added to standard games. Welcome to all the new players! CommentsThere are 33 comments - add your comment solkar - Monday, April 04, 2011 7:36 AM This is a really GREAT addition. More options (config parameters or even alternate shiplists in the future,...), will be great !!
I also think it could be very interesting for the host to be able to change or even stop the hosting rate once the game has started. This way it can be set to wait for players that are away (vacations, illnes,..). Now the bug,... I created a game and now I'm unable to delete it.... ^_^ joshua - Monday, April 04, 2011 4:00 PM Hi Solkar, you should be able to delete the game from the game page itself (in the top right above the game information). solkar - Monday, April 04, 2011 4:23 PM Yes, I tried,... It asks me twice if I'm sure about deleting the game, and even shows me the message that it has been deleted, but when I return to My Games it is still there.
O.O joshua - Monday, April 04, 2011 5:27 PM Try refreshing your page? solkar - Monday, April 04, 2011 6:03 PM Still there. If I detete it, appears a screen that informs "The game has been deleted", but if I hit Refresh, the game pops again. mjs68508 - Monday, April 04, 2011 10:27 PM I like this option.
My main problem with VGAP.nu is how dropped positions are handled. It is too easy for cheating to go on. So, how will dropped positions be handled? Will the "host" be able to approve a substitute? Or, will it stay the same where people can go in with fake IDs and mess games up? Mike mjs68508 - Monday, April 04, 2011 10:29 PM Of those 700 new players, how many were real people and how many were people useing 2nd IDs to cheat? dark'a'man - Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:25 AM Very nice feature!
Especially like the option to set each players race. Will be fun to compete 10 identical races :) aladrius - Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:26 PM Would it be possible to give the game creator a 'run host' button similar to what used to exist for the training games? orphanclone - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:04 AM So, kind of a dumb question, but how do you invite others to a private game? Similarly, how would one join a private game already in progress? I can seem to create a private game just fine, but this whole "playing with other people" thing seems to be beyond my capabilities. crowe - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:16 AM Yeah, I'm with orphanclone. Not sure how to invite people to my private game. Any help would be great! joshua - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:26 AM Hi guys, to invite a friend or anyone to your private game you just need to give them the link to your game. So if you create game 8394, for example, your private game page will be http://vgaplanets.nu/games/8394. This is a public link which you could give to someone to invite them to join your game. They can then go to that page and join. orphanclone - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:10 AM Sweet. Much thanks for the help. kite - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:22 PM Good. p.s. I am created game 8611 but i cant delete it. challengespaceyard - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:59 PM Delete seems to have no effect whatsoever. joshua - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:34 PM The delete bug is now fixed. We had some extra security in there so only super admins could delete standard games. Now the game creator can as well. orphanclone - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 3:41 PM Try leaving the game before deleting. That seems to work for me. solkar - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:53 PM Yes Joshua. Problem fixed !! I succesfully deleted the game. cadmus - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:00 PM This is great, it lets people who want to run all sorts of weird or wacky games do it! jhong - Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:54 PM Fantastic!! Thanks for your efforts joshua and team, this project keeps getting better and better. no one of consequence - Monday, April 11, 2011 1:30 PM Any way to have the Comp play races in a private game that are not taken by live players?
challengespaceyard - Monday, April 11, 2011 3:02 PM I agree. One of my friends notions the concept of "Comp Stomp". Basically a few humans versus many computers. joshua - Monday, April 11, 2011 3:48 PM We're working to put computer players in private games. Its high on the to-do list. slategrey - Monday, April 11, 2011 3:57 PM Joshua. I like the idea of computer players in private games. If I had the ability to set up one private game with 10 computer players and myself to play when I needed to test a strategy, or got bored waiting for the other games to be ready, that alone would justify paying a fee to use the site. It might be wise to limit the number of private games a person can host though. koros - Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:17 AM I'm a little confused. When starting a new game of 11 people in the largest galaxy setting, its putting all the players in the middle of the map right next to each other. Thoughts? koros - Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:18 AM A friend just created a couple games (including an all default) and they are all doing the same thing. All homeworlds are in the dead center of the galaxy. Looks like its broken. joshua - Friday, April 15, 2011 5:27 AM The bug where the homeworlds are all placed in the middle has now been fixed. pifpaf - Friday, April 15, 2011 1:14 PM Tried to host now 3 games with 7 players and always got the same problem. One or two of the homworlds got 0 or 100 degrees so your homeworld colonist would be lost one turn later. The settings were basic with a smaller map (1400 x 1400) and only 250 planets. Secondly, in at least two of these games the homeworlds of two or more players were placed at a distance of only 30 LY. The medium freighters met in turn 2 at opponents base. Is there anything the settings can do about this or is it just ttry and error ? aladrius - Monday, April 25, 2011 9:47 PM Two things: I set up a private game set to fast host for 20 turns -- it seems to have ignored that setting. (Game 9838) Second, would it be possible to set the ship cap lower along with the number of planets when creating the game? lasse kaihlavirta - Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:15 PM Is there any way to add computer players to a private game? challengespaceyard - Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:46 AM No... not yet at least. emork the lizard king - Monday, May 02, 2011 2:59 PM So many thanks for your effort to let us have fun! serondar - Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:14 PM I am one of the new players this month and glad to be here with you all .
I stumbled across this site on a bored web search to see what happened to one of my favorite old pass times. I am amazed at all the great work you have done porting this game over and wanted to say thanks to you all for the effort. I look forward to some good fights in the future.
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