Too many players in game?

[KGB]

Right now in the lobby there is a game setup to take place on the England 1066 map called 'trial by storm'. It's set for 8 players. However the map only has 5 starts.

How it this possible and how can this game ever start?

KGB

[Jeremy]

My map. Should be a 5 player free for all.

When I created the game, there did not appear to be a way to exclude the three positions that should not be in the game. You'd think that in Scenario Settings, in 'Player Settings', you could set positions to 'Not used'

So, long term, we need to solve that by adding the ability to exclude certain sides.

Medium term, when setting up a game, you can set certain positions to Closed.

Short term, it's possible that whoever set up the game can still set Orange, Black and Yellow to 'Closed'

Jeremy

[SnotlinG]

Looks like this gameis hosted as an FFA, while the map is in fact a scenario-map.
I think this is due to the bug earlier with lost maptype. Probably the game was hosted just before we fixed that bug.
You need to cancel that gamelobby and create a new one as scenario, it should then behave properly (I think )

[Jeremy]

But just to be clear, it's designed to be a Free For All, while having the scenario benefits of assigned production and money for capitals, and assigned starting units. That is possible, right?

[SnotlinG]

Yes it is possible

[SnotlinG]

If you let the player be in teamdropdown "no team", it will then be an FFA when it is hosted as a scenariogame. It is also possible to make a scenario-map with 1v1v3v2 for example, by letting the 1-players not be on any team while defining teams for only some of the players.

[Draxus]

Game id 7193. Supposed to be a 2 player game, only two starting positions, but lists 3 players in my account.

[SnotlinG]

Yes looks like a bug, investigating that game