FOG PC Competition at IWF World Championships Athens

jdm · Post by **jdm** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:19 pm

I know its a bit late in the day but Panos has persuaded us to run a trial event. So there will be a FOG PC competition at Athens.

No idea whether or not we will have any players at this late stage but we are willing to give it a try.

I will knock up some rules and get them out there shortly

I suggest if anyone is interested that they drop me a PM
Regards
JDM

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:57 pm

Why not open it to virtual attendees - surely with the PC version you can play real time remotely!

jdm · Post by **jdm** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:07 pm

That may be possible. Let me check with the organisers

Regards
JDM

Morbio · Post by **Morbio** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:30 pm

Ohhh, now there's a thought. Playing all-comers at the home of ancient warfare!

Best let the Macedonian's and other 'Greek' armies win a few.... you might need to handicap the Roman armies

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:45 pm

I could bring my slaves to fight!

keithmartinsmith · Post by **keithmartinsmith** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:56 pm

I'll be there but not sure when there will be time to play given the punishing schedule playing FOG 15mm mini's. Suspect the easiest way to play a tournie would be playing a 2 player hot seat historical battle playing the same scenario, twice as both sides, back to back on a knock out basis. With access at the venue on-line games using the DAG would work. Another would be to have players play the AI and the best two performers play 2 player hot seat as a finale. Keith

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:28 pm

What date is this please?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:56 am

8th-11th April

More details here - viewtopic.php?t=15903

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:32 pm

I just wanted to let you know based on the suggestion above we will be accepting online entries for the IWF world championships. Entry forms will be goign up soon and places are limited so I suggest you keep an eye on the site and apply quickly when they appear!

Online players will compete alongside those at the event so it will be a pretty unique experience!

Entry is free, all you need is your copy of FoG. We will be limiting it to historical scenarios from the orginal game so anyone can take part.

iversonjm · Post by **iversonjm** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:26 pm

For timing considerations, it would be good to know as soon as possible, as it looks like we will have to choose between the IWC and Storm of Arrows BETA.

Thanks in advance.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:18 pm

iversonjm wrote:For timing considerations, it would be good to know as soon as possible, as it looks like we will have to choose between the IWC and Storm of Arrows BETA.

Thanks in advance.

I would expect you could do both if you have a second PC to install the beta test copy. Multiple VMs (virtual machines) would also work.

Chris

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:25 pm

Or you could set up another boot partition with another copy of your OS on it. Then you can cleanly keep things apart on one machine - lots of googleable tutorials on how to do it out there.

Cheers

Pip

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:39 pm

Sorry but where will the entry forms be posted please?

iversonjm · Post by **iversonjm** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:46 pm

batesmotel wrote:
I would expect you could do both if you have a second PC to install the beta test copy. Multiple VMs (virtual machines) would also work.

Chris

Wouldn't you also need a second copy of FOG and ROR on that second PC?

Multiple OS is too complicated for us lawyer types. I need an IT guy to boot up my computer each morning for pete's sake.

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:48 pm

Hey don't bring me into this - or my sake!

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:27 pm

iversonjm wrote:
batesmotel wrote:
I would expect you could do both if you have a second PC to install the beta test copy. Multiple VMs (virtual machines) would also work.

Chris
Wouldn't you also need a second copy of FOG and ROR on that second PC?

Multiple OS is too complicated for us lawyer types. I need an IT guy to boot up my computer each morning for pete's sake.

You would only need a second copy if you wanted to run both copies simultaneously. My understanding is that Slitherine licensing allows you to have the game installed on as many machines as you want. But you can only be signed in from a single machine at one time with a single product key for multi-player access. I assume the beta will be using a separate server due to being a different version number. So run on one PC to play beta multi-player games, then sign off and run on the other PC to play normal released version RoR games.

Chris

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:47 am

It uses teh same server but in a different list for betas so you could have bother versions as long as they were not used simulataneously.

iversonjm · Post by **iversonjm** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:51 pm

I don't actually have two machines, so I suppose this is academic, but is the beta a stand-alone version, or an upgrade that requires you to have FOG and ROR installed as well? If so, unless I have the extended download option (which I may have) wouldn't you have to purchase a second copy of FOG and ROR to run the beta on a second machine?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:02 pm

You should be able to copy it to another folder on the same machine, but it would not woerk to copy to another machine.