Hi everyone,

This hasn't been talked about for a while so I thought I would remind people of it and ask who's gonna play?

Tales of Tamar will be having a "death-match" of MOS vs AOS4 starting early in April.

Wolfen's text for the the thing is copied in below:


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<Quest for all Amiga fans on either the red or blue side!>

In a high stone tower on Elerion, far away from the world known to us, there have been recent events of which you shall be told. Agannazar, high archmage of the First Ones, waved his hand over the crystal ball, and the confusing veils of mystery that shrouded the view lifted. In the candle light, Agannazar suddenly understood things that had puzzled him before. Next to him stood Landon, an old sovereign from the island of Exevor, the northmost island of the old realms and look at him questioningly.

'So tell me, what do you see in the crystal, Agannazar?'

Agannazar was deep in thought, and only slowly he began to mutter:
'There will be a great war. Greater than the Lords and Ladies of Tamar have seen before. And it will be fought more viciously than ever. On one side, there will be the blue Mosians, on the other the red Hombres. The war will take place on Annarrow, a secluded part of Elerion, and it will determine once and for all who is stronger, smarter and braver. Only one race will prevail and roam the lands of Tamar.'

Landon was alarmed at Agannazars words. Just recently, Tamar had seen the end of the first world war, and most lords had the hope that Empress Rajana would bring an age of peace.

'Are you sure about the coming war? Who are those Mosians and Hombres?
I've never heard of them before.'

Agannazar turned away from the crystal ball and reached for his pipe to take one, two long draws from it. Then, with much calm he replied:

'As you know, not everything I see in the crystal comes to pass. But I know of both races. They live in the southern parts of Elerion and for generations, they had nothing better to do than to insult each other over trifles. If you ask me, it was only a question of time until they would go to the battlefield. So if many of their noble men should found their own realms in the near future, it can only mean that they prepare for war.'

'So then there is only hoping that this war will end the fight for good. And maybe they will even realize that they are actually in this together.'

Agannazar nodded: 'It only remains to be seen which side will win this battle...'

Tales of Tamar, the turn based strategy and roleplaying game invites all owners of an AmigaOne or a Pegasus with MOS to play free for four month and fight 'The great war of Annarrow'.

If at least 100 players join on each side, we will open a new land on Elerion on April 2nd, 2005. One side will be populated by the Hombres, the other by the Mosians. Especially invited are both developer teams, Hyperion and the MorphOS developers. They will rank as the Overlords on each side and be especially protected (or attacked).

The race dominating the land by holding the most ground after 4 months wins.
The game direction will judge the result.

Some rules:

- Each player has to register by sending an e-mail to Wolfen@tamar.net, stating for which side he want to fight. Just put 'blue Mosians' or 'red Hombres' in the subject line.

- The event will only take place if there are at least 100 players for each side.

- The more players, the better for each side.

- Playing will be free for four months. Afterwards, all players will receive shareware status which, depending of the size of their realm, may mean they would have to buy additional turn to keep playing or can keep playing for free.

- Players in 'The great war of Annarrow' are not eligible for the ToT-Prize, since they are playing for free.

- All other rules of Tamar apply. Insults are allowed as long as they remain in-time and sound medieval.

- If you have questions about 'The great war of Annarrow', join the IRC chat on irc.euirc.net, port 6667, channel #Tales, and ask one of our OPs. Please use a suitable nickname (medieval/fantasy).

- Only one realm per player.

- Trolls are welcome

- The game starts on April 2nd 2005 and ends August 2nd 2005 with the final judgement.

Have fun
Your ToT-Team

I'm still waiting for more information about
when, where and how to sign up for the battle.

@ Robin :

"- Each player has to register by sending an e-mail to Wolfen@tamar.net, stating for which side he want to fight. Just put 'blue Mosians' or 'red Hombres' in the subject line."

So do that, then go to http://www.tamar.net/ click on "play for free", follow the "download other versions" link and download the amiga shareware version.

Install, load, goto the register screen, enter the keyword 'Shareware' instead of a serial number then wait till the game starts

(or at least i THINK thats how it should work - been a while since i did it.

Goto the Tales IRC channel and any number of people can talk you through things

Bifford

Thx But I ask for a reason.
I played Tamar two years ago (about).
What I wonder is that the normal game continues.
How do I have to sign up for "the war" instead of
the real tamar-game ... how does Wolfen know that
I want to play "the war" instead of the standard game ?

And atm it's still unclear to me if "the war" will
take place at all ... from the different announcements
of it I did not notice real interest for it.

btw, I checked my mailout and I wrote the mail
to wolfen 27.02

Well the easiest thing to do is to pop into #Tales on irc.vie.at.euirc.net and ask there :)

As long as you've sent Wolfen the email previously he will know to "hold" your account until the game.

:)

Bifford

Well, game-email and mail-email are recommended to be different.

I've sent an email but havent heard back yet.

Hi !

I've just ordered ToT, to support Amiga games development, but I must admit I really don't know how good (or not :) this game is :) Some times ago, I hade made a couple of turns with the SE version on my peg1 betatester, but it was completely unstable (peg issue or early tot version issue ? :) so I couldn't make up my mind :)

Any player here that could tell us what interesting things happen in the game ?

Really FEW people have it or even know what it is, despite the extremely low number of games :)

@mahen
Shortly after I got my Peg 1 I've bought
ToT ... tried to play it but had some problems
back then that kept me from playing regularly.
And like you I found it to be unstable like hell.
Until now I tried to update my old installation
and ended in 3 reboots, copied from a mag-cd the
amiga-sharewareversion ... which crashed, too ...

@Robin
Better don't mess around with old CDs.....

Go here and download the "basearchive" (V0.50) and the "public CD archive" (V0.52R1).

Unpack the base and copy the update over it.

You must now only reset your options for network and mail, enter the serial in the "anmelden"-screen (dunno whats it called in english) and your done.

Put "I wanna be a red hombre" into the buttom field and it's allmost sure that the blue side will win

Will I join in ? Sorry no, that would be unfair

I'm currently in the process of killing my Win-Betatest-game due to lack of time (which topped out at over 400 acres), and I just started one in the Amiga-client which will lead in a completly different direction (if all goes as planned), so no time for a 1000 acres games this would most likely turn out to be for me.

Bout stabilty, eversince that nasty closescreen-bug was found and squashed I never had a single crash of the public Amiga-client (and that was more than year ago).

I tried messing first
50 Megs with ISDN is a night long downloading.
Lukily I already have the 0.52R1 ... to bad
the basearchiv is not yet on my disk

But it seems someone doesnt want me to play.
When I started the download V crashed

Thanks Kronos
2 hours of download and now it works

I've sent my sign-up mail ... lets see if
it is really connected to "the war"

I send my email for the blue side some weeks ago but i got no answer. And i think there will be no war cos there are not enough warriors from the Red side.