LordsAWar

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	Great game! posted by moose @ 79.219.249.47 on Dec 19 2008 6:56 PM
LordsAWar is one of the games witch I enjoy to play. A lot of different armys, a good interface and nice music outweigh the graphic, which could be better and the bad german translation. To improve this game, which is already really cool, I'll help to translate it into good german.
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	vote: who wants networked multiplayer? posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Mar 12 2008 10:24 PM
I'm considering making LordsAWar be playable over the internet in a multi-player fashion. If 50 say yes on this forum, I'll implement it.
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Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Mar 12 2008 11:10 PM   yes. now   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 207.160.138.118 on Mar 13 2008 1:20 PM   That would be so much better than so many other things. (That's a 'yes')   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by charlieg @ 91.109.81.53 on Mar 13 2008 1:21 PM   That's a bit of an abuse of this comment system - could you post a thread in the forum instead?   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Mar 13 2008 2:04 PM   there's a forum?   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Mar 20 2008 10:37 AM   yes. + 50 times.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by charlieg @ 91.110.7.157 on Mar 20 2008 1:14 PM   Yellow bar, near the top of the patch, 3rd link in: "Forums" http://www.happypenguin.org/forums Post a poll there, then post a link to the poll here.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Apr 4 2008 6:18 PM   no thanks. i think this comment system is working fine.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Apr 8 2008 7:15 PM   Just implement the damned thing and shut up.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by shevegen @ 80.108.103.172 on Jul 19 2008 3:25 PM   He is the one who posed the conditions. 50 replies. If you dont care, then just shut up and leave the others who want to get to 50 replies to state their wish. It is YOU who is being ignorant here, NOT the main dev.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 208.101.77.188 on Apr 4 2008 11:49 PM   Yes, why not? :D   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Anonymous @ 81.168.143.197 on Apr 8 2008 7:56 PM   Sure!:)   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by jrodman @ 64.142.12.203 on Jul 19 2008 11:54 AM   ACRIMONY!   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by shevegen @ 80.108.103.172 on Jul 19 2008 3:24 PM   yes   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by sijmen @ 80.56.144.107 on Jul 19 2008 10:14 PM   Dugg. Oh, wait.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Irrevenant @ 220.253.17.100 on Jul 20 2008 6:29 AM   Firstly: Yes. Secondly: Have more confidence in your own judgement, dude. :) You don't need anyone's permission to work on the features you think would be interesting.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Aug 8 2008 11:52 PM   It's not a matter of not having confidence in my judgment, I just wanted to know that people were paying attention to the LordsAWar project. Adding the network play feature is a lot of work, and it's nice to know that there will be somebody out there to play LordsAWar against.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Tor @ 83.31.32.182 on Jul 21 2008 8:46 PM   Do it man!   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Aug 8 2008 11:38 PM   Network play has landed! Try it out with the tarball, or by compiling the source code from svn://lordsawar.com/lordsawar. I haven't released 0.1.1 yet, and I'd like to get more testing and feedback on it.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by charlieg @ 91.111.156.154 on Aug 9 2008 1:38 PM   Release early, release often. Release 0.1.1 now anyway. You can always make a follow up release! :)   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Aug 14 2008 2:09 PM   I'm still fixing bugs in it. Thanks to everyone who has tried 0.1.1 so far!   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by luojie-dune @ 122.106.29.82 on Sep 3 2008 4:43 PM   Yes! Please.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by luojie-dune @ 220.240.200.14 on Oct 8 2008 8:41 AM   yes 是的。   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by mannakiosk @ 79.136.51.247 on Oct 8 2008 10:46 PM   Yes.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by Draconishinobi @ 89.122.167.246 on Nov 7 2008 8:04 PM   I think the author might be a troll for doing this comment poll.   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by vktgz @ 87.207.133.163 on Nov 22 2008 8:33 AM   YES YES YES   [Reply]   Re: vote: who wants networked multiplay posted by wojtu84 @ 87.204.76.137 on Apr 12 2009 9:17 AM   YES   [Reply]

	LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Feb 17 2008 4:18 PM
Hey ben, could you please include the orignal W2 graphics on the next build?
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Re: LordsAWar posted by charlieg @ 91.110.23.11 on Feb 17 2008 7:02 PM   That would be illegal.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Feb 17 2008 9:06 PM   No it wouldnt. The version shown on the screenshots used some of the original graphics. Also since the graphics are on a different format, copying them trough printscreening or whatever technique he used, would make them perfectly legal. Finally, there's the possibility of copying the graphics by reconstructing them pixel by pixel, which wouldnt be illegal aswell.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Irrevenant @ 220.253.17.100 on Jul 20 2008 6:27 AM   Copyright doesn't work that way. If you sit there and write out a copy of the Harry Potter novels by hand, that's still copyright infringement. Replication of the content is forbidden, it doesn't matter how you do it.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Feb 17 2008 9:24 PM   Just checked the current version templates. As a matter of fact a lot of the current graphics still belong to the original game.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Mar 2 2008 7:56 PM   I am working diligently at removing all warlords copyrighted art from lordsawar. There aren't very many images left to replace.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Mar 2 2008 8:07 PM   I asked the copyright holders of Warlords 2 if I could use the original Warlords 2 artwork in LordsAWar and their answer was no. They seem to have a soft-spot for Free Software though, so maybe in the future their position will change on this matter.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 217.129.41.84 on Mar 3 2008 12:34 PM   A shame. But i suppose they cant sue if someone simply reconstructs the original artwork pixel by pixel. Taking in consideration the level of detail used in W2 graphs, i think even a brain dead monkey with access to mspaint could do it. I might take a shot at it myself.   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by jrodman @ 64.142.12.203 on Jun 21 2008 11:26 PM   If the result of your efforts is a pixel for pixel match to the original work, that's still quite obviously a derived work. Don't waste your time, it won't clear any legal issues. If your goal is to create something "similar in feel" that is not an exact match, by all means.   [Reply]

	Installing posted by Anonymous @ 203.59.123.154 on Jan 10 2008 7:11 AM
Maybe I'm just new, but I try following the install instructions but it doesn't seem to work at all? Can someone supply an install batch file?
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Re: Installing posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Jan 19 2008 9:46 PM   The game is provided in source code form, and installs on a GNU+Linux operating system with the following commands: $ tar -zxvf lordsawar-0.0.6.tar.gz $ cd lordsawar-0.0.6 $ ./configure $ make $ make install Debian users can just type `apt-get install lordsawar' to install the game, however the version in Debian might be a bit older than the very latest version on the lordsawar website.   [Reply]   Re: Installing posted by Anonymous @ 80.143.157.85 on Feb 18 2008 4:25 PM   This works for lenny/testing and unstable. For etch/stable neither the source from www.lordsawar.com nor from www.debian.org works due to includes (e.g. gtk::entry, cairomm, ...). Does someone have patch? If not, wait for lenny! PS: The guys from freelords.sourceforge.net try to catch up. But it's far from being Warlords 2 anymore.   [Reply]   Re: Installing posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Mar 2 2008 8:03 PM   My advice is for Debian stable users to wait until Lenny. I think most people use Debian unstable, which is good because LordsAWar works with that.   [Reply]   Re: Installing posted by Anonymous @ 80.108.103.172 on Feb 17 2008 2:55 PM   Are you on windows? I recommend you use Linux. Compiling works on Linux flawlessly (unless you use a crippled distribution that tries to prevent you from compiling if you so desire, which many distributions to by crippling programs by default without asking you if you want this or not)   [Reply]

	Good start posted by Anonymous @ 66.29.163.1 on Dec 25 2007 11:50 PM
This is so far a good start to making a Warlords II clone. However, I noticed a few flaws with it, mainly that it sometimes crashes. Also, the randomization seems to put some capital cities a bit too close together. Also, I seem to pay more for upkeep than I get for income. In the mac Warlords II demo, that was never the case. Also, of all the scenarios, only one loads. I hope this helps. I couldn't find a link to post a bug report.
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	typo in download link posted by Anonymous @ 141.80.188.29 on Sep 21 2007 9:13 AM
it says lordsawarl.com instead of lordsawar.com
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	Why the fork? posted by dejvid @ 82.43.179.219 on Jul 21 2007 4:54 AM
Why the fork from freelords? Is it a preference for C++ over Java? David
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Re: Why the fork? posted by Anonymous @ 75.100.202.32 on Jul 22 2007 5:17 AM   The website says that Lordsawar is based on the abandoned Freelords code. I was not aware that Freelords had been abandoned, but development does seem to be very slow. I also notice that this fork does not use PARAGUI, so it has some significant changes which the authors of the original code may not approve of. In any case, I have been playing Lordsawar, and am impressed with it so far. It crashes a lot, but that is to be expected with a first release.   [Reply]   Re: Why the fork? posted by Anonymous @ 85.20.234.146 on Jul 23 2007 3:30 AM   Freelords is not abandoned. It is being ported to java.   [Reply]   Re: Why the fork? posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Aug 26 2007 2:00 PM   Please submit your crashes in the form of bug-reports. I will gladly fix bugs! The lordsawar code base is based on the Freelords C++ codebase. The Freelords team has decided to swtich to Java.   [Reply]   Re: Why the fork? posted by benasselstine @ 205.210.52.80 on Aug 26 2007 2:04 PM   I was anxious to get the game to a fun and playable state, and I didn't want to wait for a new Java version of Freelords to come along. Also, I prefer hacking in C/C++ than Java.   [Reply]   Re: Why the fork? posted by Anonymous @ 78.8.10.103 on Jan 20 2008 3:45 PM   Ppl also prefer to use c++ than java.   [Reply]

	LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 80.108.103.172 on Jul 20 2007 12:33 PM
Looks very nice so far, i hope the dev(s) can get a little team together (especially in regards to improve the artwork) :>
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Re: LordsAWar posted by Flamma @ 83.60.162.80 on Jul 20 2007 1:18 PM   Have you seen Warlords 2? It didn't have much better graphics, except the big headed guy that interrupted the game saying things that I never understood (save for something like "Aaah, the expectation of the coming war", I think).   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 67.8.45.241 on Jul 20 2007 5:05 PM   Greetings Warlord! :D You're right about the gfx, they're very close in style. The background music style might be more challenging to duplicate maybe? BTW, does this game have or will have keyboard shortcuts and stuff? I hate using mice. Actually I don't even have one anymore! :D   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Anonymous @ 85.113.33.133 on Aug 9 2007 10:03 PM   The graphics was better. At least way more professional ;)   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by shevegen @ 80.108.103.172 on Aug 28 2007 9:20 PM   Yes, I know it, I played it a lot, I loved it. Still I cant help but the *feel* looked more like a Qt widget set than a game near 2007 now. :)   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by Stereocaulon @ 83.160.152.8 on Apr 10 2009 11:44 PM First of all: Thank you for attempting to recreate a game that I enjoyed thoroughly The basics are there, grafx are ok for now, but it is not balanced yet. I think that the game AI should be first on the list; to create a balanced game, with capitals as apart as possible and logical decisions of your adversaries. This should be the first goal for now. I know this is one of the most difficult parts of the game, but it is the bedrock. If you build on sand instead, the structure you build upon it will break down and crash. This will slow your development at first, but will produce a much better end product. Your progress so far is impressive, please keep it up :-)   [Reply]   Re: LordsAWar posted by benasselstine @ 92.251.255.13 on Oct 13 2009 11:06 AM   I don't have much interest in improving the artificial intelligence. I continue to hope that a good AI developer will come along and improve lordsawar. The capital cities being as far away as possible should be doable though. Thanks for playing LordsAWar!   [Reply]