n00b questions

[alhoon]

OK, I downloaded recently the 1.0 version, and spent about an hour doing nothing but listening to the awesome music, checking between the factions and the building browser etc.

The game really seems very, very good. Now, I have some questions:

- What 1.1 actually changes?
- Why can't I play custom battles?
- How many regions are there in the game? They just seemed... a lot.
- I try to download 1.1 from filefront. For the love of God... I get 20kb per second! I will need 5 hours to get the game!

[TM Is Back]

I suggest you download this for that 20kb/s problem.

Clicky

With that you'll get way faster downloads.

[alhoon]

Nah, I managed. I downloaded from a mirror.

[RedFox]

There are countless changes compared to v1.0. I strongly recommend you get v1.1.

Changelog:
v1.08
- Fixed a serious bug in the installer (should not crash anymore).
- Tweaked AI experience bonus to account for recent stat changes
v1.07
- Added new installer option: Insanse AI Exp bonus (+5 exp)
- Installer now properly detects your installation folder and version
- Increased all stats: *1,5 + 4; If you loved old stats, check export_descr_unit_OLD.txt
- Missile units aren't super deadly with high experience now
- Decreased AI money bonus, hopefully less stacks now
- Fixed background script: Roman Polybian reforms now trigger properly
- Major improvement to maps: Imperial Campaign, Wars of the Diadochi, Pyrrhic Wars
- Fixed a few missing textures
- A bunch of Minor bugfixes
- New unit models with unit cards:

v1.06
- Custom battles allow all siege equipment built for Wooden Walls (DTW)
- Custom battles allow siege towers and rams for Stone Walls
- All problems with walls in Campaign mode fixed
- Siege equipment now works flawlessly with all wall types (no more ladder units!)
- Other minor balances to campaigns
v1.05
- Improved stability on BI
- Wooden Walls in Campaign and Custom battles should get siege towers, ladders and sapping points (untested)
- Celtic Tribes are now less powerful
- Added Parthia in WotD campaign, maybe this can make Seleucid’s life in the east a little more difficult
- Added Celtic Tribes in Pyrrhich Wars campaign
- Fixed some errors in the BK_Script and in the Campaign_Scripts
- Renamed Beneventum back to Capua.
- Thrace and Egypt can now choose between 2 barracks and have both colonies
- Colonies have 4 levels, with a fourth unreachable Native level
- Changed the location of some settlements in the Iranian\Afghan area
- Culture bonus errors in EDB fixed
- Other minor bugfixes
v1.04
- Fixed bad river placement in Pontus
- Fixed incorrect chariot model reference
- Minor bugfixes
v1.02
- Fixed missing textures bug.
v1.01
- Movement point bugs for characters fixed.
- Fixed an odd Hoplite animation.
- Visual artefact with Wooden Walls fixed.
- Fixed Polybian units appearing in Camillan era.
- Added new Thureophoroi models and Unit Cards.
- Added new Thorakitai models and Unit Cards.
- Removed lvl 5 Barracks, since they are useless.
- Other minor fixes of bugs and annoyances.

[alhoon]

Thanks.

Still, I cannot play custom battles!

[RedFox]

Make sure you have the correct version of RTW. The DTW installer will warn you about it.

[alhoon]

I have the steam version of RTW, so it's the last version. Also, I have Alexander and I cannot use the mod with it, eventhough I did the same things I did in order to get the mod playing with Rome.

[RedFox]

It really depends on what DTW detects as your EXE. If you play with Alexander, then you have to have "RomeTW-ALX.exe" in the folder you install. Otherwise it will default to BI "RomeTW-BI.exe" and if it can't find that, then it installs it for RTW 1.5.

These versions are not compatible with each other. The bad thing is that I don't have a Steam version of Rome myself, so practically, DTW isn't Steam compatible.

[alhoon]

You cannot imagine the frustration I've got from steam so far.

But... I have lost my kingdoms DVD, and I never had BI. So... I bought empire, Kingdoms and BI with a single buy.

So? What with the custom battles? I have the latest Rome patch but hey don't work.

[RedFox]

That's because you have the wrong version of BI. It should be patched to 1.6

Since you are playing with BI, make sure the folder where you install DTW has RomeTW-BI.exe

[alhoon]

But I have the latest Rome patch. Not just BI, but Alexander. Version 1.9!

[RedFox]

Then play with ALX?

[alhoon]

I can't. Steam problems. I'll work on it though. Is the game better with Alexander? What are the differences?

[Spartan 666]

ALX has a far better AI, basically.

[alhoon]

That's good enough for me to try it there.

[CaesarVincens]

DTW is also far more stable on ALX.

[RedFox]

We're hoping to fix that though.

And it's not merely 'more stable' on ALX. I've never had it crash on ALX.

[alhoon]

Yeah, I managed to play in Alex. Thanks for your hard work!

[Spartan 666]

Nice to hear that! Good playing!