Domination
Mon, 10/27/2008 - 21:09 — nathan
Domination is a Java version of the classic board game, with a simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, and many more features. It works on all operating system that run Java 1.4 or higher. Source is included and the game is licenced under the GPL.
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Domination Hamachi Network.
I opened up a Hamachi Network for Domination, the Hamachi server will be online 24/7
Games will be started at 5:00 PM EST on week-DAYS and 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST on week-ENDS
Hamachi Networks:
YuraDomination1
YuraDomination2
YuraDomination3
The Password for all rooms is 123.
How to join the Network
1: Download Hamachi and install it
Download it here: http://hamachi.en.softonic.com/
The installation is quick and simple.
2: Join the Network
To join the network click the tab title "Network" and a drop-down menu will appear, click "Join an existing Network"
Enter the Network ID and Password, then click "Join"
The Network tab is Located in-between the "System" and "Help" tabs at the top of the hamachi client.
To Join a game wait until the network host announces a game. When he does, open up Domination and click "[J]oin Game"
enter in the IP found next to the network host's user ID in the chat window(for your convenience he will likely announce the IP) and click "Connect".
3: Have fun while dominating all the other players.
Almost impossible to loose
Risk is one of my favorite games since I was a teenager. It is very challenging and need more strategy than luck.
Unfortunately, even if I'm always playing against hard AIs, it's almost impossible to loose.
The strategy in AIHard*.java should be rewritten.
For example: an AI conquers a continent. Instead of protecting borders, it continues attacking. Moving all the troops outside the continent.
The human player can almost always avoid that the same AI starts the next turn with an entire continent under his control, because can almost always break through the borders. But he also doesn't have to mess with that, because every other AI (hard, of course) would do the same.
Conquering continents and maintaining them is the key to win in Risk. Even if they are not in your mission, because they could be in the mission of another (AI) player.
I suggest that a check, if the borders of a continent (already under control) are also protected enough, should be performed before the AI decides to conquer the entirety of that continent. Which should also be done only if it is highly probable to protect it for at least one turn.
Again, when an AI attacks, it will do it until it's possible. Leaving, that way, a path of unprotected states behind. The human player who tries to protect every new conquer will most probably win against those AIs.
I'd like to give a lot more of suggestions, but I think the developers have already understand that there's a lot of work to do for the AIs.
But also thank you very much for this game.
Francesco
Unfair dice rolls
I noticed if you repeat an attack serveral times (loading a saved game and trying again), the dice results are always the same, shouldn't it be random? So it seems your destiny is already written.
Also, when playin with difficult AI's they have an insane obsession against the human, even if he is the weakest player at the moment. Very frustrating.
I liked the game a lot at first, but each time i played i became more dissapointed, so i finally quit playing.
Sorry about my english.
Cant Get started
I've played this a few times on my buddies laptop and I dont know a thing about computers but everytime I try and start the program it starts up and immediatly shuts down on what looks like to a DOS screen. I downloaded the windows 7 file along with java and still nothing is happening. any ideas?
RE: Can't Get Started
If you have this problem, open the folder where it is installer, open "run.bat" and where the file says "java", replace it with "%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" or "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" if you have a 64-bit operating system (without quotes).
If you installed Java to the default directory this should work.
Have fun!
Luke
How to Set up Server
Hi, I've been playing Domination for a while, and started getting my friends hooked on it as well (we definitely like it better than some other versions of risk we have tried). We've had problems getting our multiplayer games up, though (none of us is really a computer person). At first, we tried without Hamachi, but with little success (I got two computers in my house working, but it didn't work for anybody not in my house). After reading this forum, I downloaded Hamachi, but I'm not exactly sure how I should be using it. Could anybody who has had success with this explain it to me? Sorry for my general ignorance...
Online...
Hello, can you play on the Internet? Or I can play with my friends only if I have several computers within the same network?
Domination (Risk) game rules
I saw some do not know all the rules yet so.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)#Capital_Risk
Have a nice day.
Bug in cards handout in 1.1.0.1
In Capital mode, single player. Did trade in a set of cards once but after that did not get any new cards at all. In fact an AI player got at some point 32 armies and the next round the the same AI player got something like 54 armies! I left the building at this point... 8/
Ameroki
There is something very strange with the cards in the Ameroki map> masses of 'wild cards' are handed out, without an opportunity to trade them in.
kr
pluim
Bug with trading cards
There's a bug in the new version where you get ten armies when trading two equal cards and one different, which shouldn't be possible. Supposedly you only can trade when all your cards are the same or all of them are different.
fixed
this has been fixed in 1.1.0.1 and will be out soon! :-)
Few Suggestions
*You should really have the ability to set the default players whenever you create a game.
*An option to turn off cards for any map
changing default players
If what you mean is setting a different default for every time you START a game, there is a game.ini file in the main directory with the .jar that overrides what is in the .jar
It is a little strange, but the following works for me:
default.port=4444
default.host=localhost
default.map=risk.map
default.cards=risk.cards
default.player1.type=human
default.player1.color=blue
#default.player1.name=username
default.player2.type=ai easy
default.player2.color=green
default.player2.name=Bob
default.player3.type=ai hard
default.player3.color=red
default.player3.name=Sam
default.player4.type=ai hard
default.player4.color=green
default.player4.name=Y
default.player5.type=ai easy
default.player5.color=red
default.player5.name=X
default.player6.type=ai easy
default.player6.color=red
default.player6.name=Z
delplayer.X
delplayer.Y
delplayer.Z
It seems that the players have to be set up by number, but are deleted by NAME. That is why the 3 I delete have short names .
You can also change the default starting map if you want to. This also makes it easier to set your favorite color... I like blue, and to set it normally, you have to delete all the players, including yourself, and then reinstall yourself and the AI's you want. This file does the trick for me.
Suggesting about start new game
In the players list, the game allows 2-6 people to play the game. Therefore if players add 7th player into the game, the game should notice that ‘Please delete one or more player before add new player, this game can be play up to 6 players’. In fact, if we have more than 6 players in the players list, the game gives the notice after players ‘Start Game’ but it would be better if the notice appeared right after players try to add 7th player.
Posted by: Thananon
Game is awesome! Tried to
Game is awesome! Tried to start game with friend, started server, clicked on Join a game, left name as local host, and saw the main window pop up where you can add players. Told friend to join game, and enter my IP adress, but he kept getting a pop up window saying that it was unable to connect. What gives? This is what the directions for the game told us to do! Everytime i start a game and change the default name from local host to anything else, it says it can't connect. Am i missing something here? Do we have to buy the game instead of using the free version to play online?
How to do it
I had this same problem heres what to do.
If your starting the game hit start server.This basically turns your computer into the server.The other players don't hit that because there are not the host.
Then they all hit join game and type in the IP found in your about section on the main menu.
after they sync up you join game using the default "local host".
I have something to suggest about Network playing
I am using Risk game version 1.0.9.8. From my gaming experience, I think Client players should not be able to delete other players,especially player who create the server. Also client players should not be able to start the game. Generally, the person who create a server should control the game and change the map, server player should be the only one who can start the game.
By Wankhwan T.
Save the duplicated name
I found some minor bug about saving a duplicated name. The program allows player to save the duplicated name without any warning message. So, it should have a pop-up warning the users that user wants to overwrite or cancel a save.
Posted by Chinjutha
map for Game of Thrones / Westeros
I've had fun creating some maps for Domination based on the Westeros continent of the fantasy book series A Song Of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin, which was just greenlit for a series under the title Game of Thrones at HBO!
I made one sticking to your pixel limitations here: http://spacechampions.com/Westeros.zip
and also a large map that shows up well on my 1920x1200 screen: http://spacechampions.com/GameOfThrones.zip
I also created default players based on the ruling Houses: http://spacechampions.com/game.ini
I'm thinking of trying to port the game to Android or iPhone....
thanks for your great game, I've had a lot of fun playing it!
P.S. Anyone wanting to create a large map for Domination, here's what I did -- first create a normal map 677x425 pixels as described on Yura.net including all the territories and continents and cards and country markers, save the map, use a graphics program to scale both the map.png and map.gif files to the size you want (ex. 1920x1080 for big monitors). The country markers are placed according to 677x425 map coordinates, so edit the map in the Swing GUI again to move the country markers to where they should be and save the map again.
Android Port
are there already any android ports of Domination or any other Risk-like games?
Bug: No more Trade Cards
In almost every game it occurs, that after a while a don't get any more cards. Then I am not able to trade for more reinforcements, but my opponents are.
Does anybody have similar problems?
missing cards
Yes, I got the same prob. No more card - no more armys... Doesn't make it easier - or more fun :-(
Can you fix this?
Thanks a lot!
intended behavior
I believe this is actually intentional. It simulates running out of cards, as though you are not allowed to shuffle used cards back in. However, when setting up the game, there is an empty checkbox you can check that turns on recycling of cards. If you check that, it will never stop giving cards out.
The checkbox is under Card Options, at the bottom.
compiling the source file
is there any way to compile the source files that's included in the zip folder?
Opponents' cards
Is there a way to see how many cards opponents have? Pretty key for strategy -- maybe I'm missing it...
Is there a way to adjust the rate of trade in? For example, lowering it would be a less crazy game.
Great game! Thanks!
Opponent's cards
I agree with both of these comments. It would make the game even better.
cards?
Hey, I am a little confused about the function of cards and trading. There is nothing about it in the manual that I could find. Can anybody explain what's up, or point me to somewhere that will?
Cards = Reinforcements
Cards = Reinforcements (4 cards with 3 infantry, 6 with 3 cards cavalry, 8 with 3 artillery cards, 10 cards with 1 each). You have to go in the cards tab at the bottom of the map and click on those that match what I said. When there will be 3 consistent in the "Table" below the others, click OK. That's it;)
How can I get the Swing GUI version ?
Hi, can you tell me how can I get the Swing GUI version ? I only have the demo...
Otherwise, this game is superb, despite some problems, it is handy.
Improvement
It'd be nice to play with higer resolution (more then 677x425) maps.
How can I creat the Map?
How can I creat the Map?
Network play..
Hy..i tried to play this game with my friend over network...and yes..we do use hamachi,but every time we try to connect it says Unable to join game,unable to connect..does any of you guys..have the damn solution..it is getting a bit annoying...thx..
Try it on LAN first. I being
Try it on LAN first. I being able to play if I launch the server, then I join a game in localhost, then my friend connects to my server. The order is important. But it works only for two players :(. After that the game seems to stop listening for new players¿?
Tradeing Cards
Little confused with the trading cards, wont let me trade? am i missing something
Feature Requests
would be great if i could set all armies using only the right mouse button ( 29 = 3x rightclick)
if i attack the enemy.....there could be a checkbox fight to death or victory ;-) so i dont have to click 50 times.
would be great if the next version could import old savegames ;-)
Feature Requests
I second this. This would be a great time saver.
How uninstall?
I didn´t find "uninstall.exe". Only a "uninstall.rar" - but there isn´t it.
You can use JAVA to uninstall....
When you start the game, the file "cmd.bat" in the Domination directory is run; just copy that file to the sub-directory where the "uninstall.rar" is located. Open the copied version of the cmd.bat and replace the "risk.rar" with "uninstall.rar". Save the cmd.bat. Double click on it then, a window will open where u can uninstall Domination (but the directories may stay, just erase them by hand).
Hope to have helped.
Many greetings.
I just deleted the Domination
I just deleted the Domination folder from Program Files and Start menu shortcuts. No need to uninstall formally.
trade cards
I am having the problem that I cannot trade cards frequently. I try all combinations, but the trade-button does not activate...
Maximum armies in the beginning
Does anyone know how to set up a game so, that (like in the original game) only a maximum of 4 armies are allowed in a territory at the beginning of the game?
Playing Online
hey
Is there a way to play domination online versus guys i don't know. I still played a few times with friends via hamachi, but knows anyone if there exists a forum for domination, where i can connect to other players else than the current one i play with.
Furthermore does anything like a league for domination exist, wouldn't it be fun to have a ranking or clan wars ^^ xD
Me too
A forum or an IRC channel, or even better, an on-line game lobby would be great...
same time
What about adding a "same time" feature??
So that the moves are made at the same time (only able to attack one territory deep).
Seen in Risk II! It's the best part of that game!!
Cool!!
sounds awesome!! :)
Map editor for Mac
Is there a version of swing GUI that allows map editing on a mac? So far I can only run the applet and that doesn't load or save from the hard disk.... is there a stand alone?
Game title
Hi. Is the game called “Domination†or “Riskâ€? Are those identical? Or is one a part or an aspect of the other? The Changelog and the FAQ are talking about “Riskâ€, but the News page and some other places about “Dominationâ€. Preferably add the information on this to http://libregamewiki.org/Risk . Thanks.
Statistics
wouldn't it make sense to change the kills, casualties, reinforcemens, attacs, retreats, countriesWon, countriesLost and attacked from the overall counter to per-round countings? So you can see which round was the most aggressive round or the most costly one.