Longturn Forum

The first turn will be 80 hours and 46 minutes. After that we will have 23h turns.

For connecting you will need a Freeciv client (I have 2.3.4) and you will need to select "Connect to Network Game"

From there you must enter lt34.longturn.org as the host and 5034 for the port

Send me a mail at peli.tili (at) yahoo.fi if you have issues connecting.

Good luck everyone!

Why is my account detached? I cannot see the game when I logged in.

Oh

Sorry. You have not confirmed participating the game.

http://www.longturn.org/game/LT34/

This must be done before the game starts.

I tried to use that but:

/take: No player by the name of 'john'.

There may be a possibility for replacing idlers

Looks like I didn't activate my account. I though all I needed to do was join in a game. That's stupid.

OK. I give up. I’ve been trying to connect to LT34 for a couple of days and I can't. I’m using Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon FreeCiv 2.4.2. Perhaps there are instructions somewhere but I haven’t got the time to find them. If someone can post a quick and simple howto than great but otherwise I'm out. Sorry, Marlowe.

Hi!

You will need to use Freeciv 2.3 because the server is 2.3 and you can't connect with Freeciv 2.4.x.

Installing 2.3 doesn't prevent you from using 2.4. At least not on Windows.

Once you have downloaded and installed 2.3 (I'm using 2.3.4 on Windows) you will need to click "Connect to Network Game" and there enter lt34.longturn.org as host and 5034 on the port.

marlowe,

You could probably get an older freeciv version from Mint repos just with apt-get if you enable the right repos in the source.list file. But in this way, you can't have both 2.3 and 2.4 unless I misunderstood how this works.

So you can compile and run it yourself. It's open source!

1) get the Freeciv 2.3.5 source code here and unpack it
2) on Debian and Ubuntu, I needed to install additionally zlib1g-dev and libgtk2.0-dev for proper compilation (you can remove these afterwards). I guess it's the same on Mint. You'll also need build-essential package. If there's still an error during compilation, check the Build-Depends line here and try to understand what's missing.
3) ./configure, make
4) you don't even need to do make install, just launch the civ executable available in the directory when all's compiled. Otherwise, you can install and run checkinstall so that's it's converted to deb.

buggy wrote:2) on Debian and Ubuntu, I needed to install additionally zlib1g-dev and libgtk2.0-dev for proper compilation (you can remove these afterwards). I guess it's the same on Mint. You'll also need build-essential package. If there's still an error during compilation, check the Build-Depends line

If you feel lazy and don't want to end up guessing what is missing, you can run just run apt-get build-dep freeciv. That will install all build dependencies. That may sometimes install packages that are not absolutely required for some configurations, but that certainly gets the job done simply and quickly.

Many thanks to Weider and Buggy. I'd seen the references to other versions but I didn’t realise it was a problem. I downloaded 2.3.5 and ran ./configure, make. You were right about zlib1g-dev and libgtk2.0-dev. I connected first time and made my move with about an hour to go. Thanks again.

Not a moment too soon

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