Druchii Net Campaign : Q&A
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:43 pm
Starting Date To be announced. Sometime after the SoC.
Requirements:
An email account and email client software that can handle email on your computer, for example Outlook Express or Eudora (both free). These are required to prevent cheating.
How to Set Up Email Software and as and example a Yahoo.com account:
If you have an ISP (internet service provider), the guys that are giving you the internet right now, you should have an email account with them. If you don't already have an account (one that uses an email client program on your computer) you can set one up with a few simple steps by getting a yahoo.com account. Trust me this isn't very hard to set up. You will need to know this information, if it is not set up already, if you want to use your own ISP email account: Incoming Mail POP3 server, Outgoing Mail SMTP server, Account name/login name, Email address, and your password. You can get this from your ISP.
1. Obtain Outlook Express from Microsoft (or comparable program like Eudora) by downloading Internet Explorer (it comes with IE).
2. Make a Yahoo.com email account by going to www.yahoo.com Go into your Yahoo account where you check your email and click on Mail Options, click on POP Access and Forwarding, click on Web and Pop Access, Click on Submit. Now write down what you see because you will need it.
3. In Outlook Express go to File, select Identities, Add a New Identity. Make a new identity for yourself, if you don't already have one.
4. In Outlook Express go to Tools, select Accounts, select Add, select Mail
5. Enter your name, enter your email address that you got from yahoo.com.
6 Select "My incoming email server is" a POP3 server.
7. In the incoming server type : pop.mail.yahoo.ca This is an example, yours might differ! You get this by following instruction 2.
8. In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server type : smtp.mail.yahoo.ca This is an example, yours might differ! You get this by following instruction 2. Note: Some ISP (internet service providers, the guys that supply your internet) do not allow you to use external SMTP servers, but would rather you use theirs. You can tell because the email client won't send messages from your account but will receive them. Contact your ISP and ask for your SMTP server address and put that in the Outgoing mail box instead. Since most ISP give you an email address, you really don't need a yahoo.com one. In fact this is part of the security that prevents cheaters in this campaign.
9. In the Account name : your email name (without the @yahoo.com)
10. In the Password : your password. Click the box to remember it.
11. Hit Finish.
12. Make sure when you are entering a battlereport that you have Outlook Express as your default Mail Client software and that you have Switched Identities to yourself if you are using a common computer.
How to Play:
Where do I fight? - on the main map each of the Battlesites is indicated by a status bar and icon demonstrating a contested area. Click on a site you are interested in and read about each of the races that may be involved in that area, and any particular scenarios or rules that may be involved. Then find a friend and play your game!
Entering a Battlereport - Click on the Battlesite where you fought your battle. Fully fill out the battlereport form and then press the button to submit it. Your email client software will ask you whether you want to send this, click OK and your email client software should start sending it. In your client software have the setting that keeps a copy of your sent messages in a folder and you can check your Battelreport has been sent as your client software will make a copy of the report.
Does Each Player Need to Enter a Report? - YES. For full points both the winner and the loser have to each enter a Battlereport with the other player's email filled in correctly. Otherwise you will not log a full points battle and only score minor points.
Can I play on multiple sides? - Are you Druchii? If you are then you are a murderous backstabbing bastard. Go ahead.
How many Battlereports can I enter a day? - As many as you played. People who enter 3+ a day will obviously be looked at with suspicion.
Cheating - No cheating. That means making a bunch of false accounts and entering false Battlereports. Occasionally one of our statisticians will send your email address an email asking for your home phone number, or a reply just to see if that account is really active. And he/she might call you once, to see if you exist. Don't be a loser and don't cheat.
What is the scale of this, is it epic or what? - Apart from one or two of the Battlesites, the campaign is not even close to as 'epic' in scale as the SoC. In other words in the Big Red Warhammer Fantasy Book, it says that each model can represent a scale of 10 or 50 individuals. In this campaign, each of those models generally represents 1 individual. This is because many of the Dark Elves haven't dared to fight on either side, or haven't chosen sides yet, in certain battles. You cannot expect a Dark Elf to chose the losing side now can you? So when you play a 2000 points battle, in the grand scale of things to an outside observer, it would look a lot like a skirmish.
Are other races involved? - Yes. They will each have an interesting part to play in the campaign.
What about Arnhelm? - You cannot expect the High Elves to remain in their dirty holes during all this can you?
Go ahead and ask more questions.
Requirements:
An email account and email client software that can handle email on your computer, for example Outlook Express or Eudora (both free). These are required to prevent cheating.
How to Set Up Email Software and as and example a Yahoo.com account:
If you have an ISP (internet service provider), the guys that are giving you the internet right now, you should have an email account with them. If you don't already have an account (one that uses an email client program on your computer) you can set one up with a few simple steps by getting a yahoo.com account. Trust me this isn't very hard to set up. You will need to know this information, if it is not set up already, if you want to use your own ISP email account: Incoming Mail POP3 server, Outgoing Mail SMTP server, Account name/login name, Email address, and your password. You can get this from your ISP.
1. Obtain Outlook Express from Microsoft (or comparable program like Eudora) by downloading Internet Explorer (it comes with IE).
2. Make a Yahoo.com email account by going to www.yahoo.com Go into your Yahoo account where you check your email and click on Mail Options, click on POP Access and Forwarding, click on Web and Pop Access, Click on Submit. Now write down what you see because you will need it.
3. In Outlook Express go to File, select Identities, Add a New Identity. Make a new identity for yourself, if you don't already have one.
4. In Outlook Express go to Tools, select Accounts, select Add, select Mail
5. Enter your name, enter your email address that you got from yahoo.com.
6 Select "My incoming email server is" a POP3 server.
7. In the incoming server type : pop.mail.yahoo.ca This is an example, yours might differ! You get this by following instruction 2.
8. In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server type : smtp.mail.yahoo.ca This is an example, yours might differ! You get this by following instruction 2. Note: Some ISP (internet service providers, the guys that supply your internet) do not allow you to use external SMTP servers, but would rather you use theirs. You can tell because the email client won't send messages from your account but will receive them. Contact your ISP and ask for your SMTP server address and put that in the Outgoing mail box instead. Since most ISP give you an email address, you really don't need a yahoo.com one. In fact this is part of the security that prevents cheaters in this campaign.
9. In the Account name : your email name (without the @yahoo.com)
10. In the Password : your password. Click the box to remember it.
11. Hit Finish.
12. Make sure when you are entering a battlereport that you have Outlook Express as your default Mail Client software and that you have Switched Identities to yourself if you are using a common computer.
How to Play:
Where do I fight? - on the main map each of the Battlesites is indicated by a status bar and icon demonstrating a contested area. Click on a site you are interested in and read about each of the races that may be involved in that area, and any particular scenarios or rules that may be involved. Then find a friend and play your game!
Entering a Battlereport - Click on the Battlesite where you fought your battle. Fully fill out the battlereport form and then press the button to submit it. Your email client software will ask you whether you want to send this, click OK and your email client software should start sending it. In your client software have the setting that keeps a copy of your sent messages in a folder and you can check your Battelreport has been sent as your client software will make a copy of the report.
Does Each Player Need to Enter a Report? - YES. For full points both the winner and the loser have to each enter a Battlereport with the other player's email filled in correctly. Otherwise you will not log a full points battle and only score minor points.
Can I play on multiple sides? - Are you Druchii? If you are then you are a murderous backstabbing bastard. Go ahead.
How many Battlereports can I enter a day? - As many as you played. People who enter 3+ a day will obviously be looked at with suspicion.
Cheating - No cheating. That means making a bunch of false accounts and entering false Battlereports. Occasionally one of our statisticians will send your email address an email asking for your home phone number, or a reply just to see if that account is really active. And he/she might call you once, to see if you exist. Don't be a loser and don't cheat.
What is the scale of this, is it epic or what? - Apart from one or two of the Battlesites, the campaign is not even close to as 'epic' in scale as the SoC. In other words in the Big Red Warhammer Fantasy Book, it says that each model can represent a scale of 10 or 50 individuals. In this campaign, each of those models generally represents 1 individual. This is because many of the Dark Elves haven't dared to fight on either side, or haven't chosen sides yet, in certain battles. You cannot expect a Dark Elf to chose the losing side now can you? So when you play a 2000 points battle, in the grand scale of things to an outside observer, it would look a lot like a skirmish.
Are other races involved? - Yes. They will each have an interesting part to play in the campaign.
What about Arnhelm? - You cannot expect the High Elves to remain in their dirty holes during all this can you?
Go ahead and ask more questions.