DLV 6.3 openbeta_01 02\21\2010 (BB2.48 Update3)

[Novusordo]

I'm at 1212 playing as England (as always) and had one CTD around 1205 but luckily the autosave file worked fine after.
I've started to play according to the excellent stickied strategy guide and I am amazed at how easy the game is once you stick to the rules and advice given in said guide. It is 1212 and I have taken over most of France, Northern Spain, wiped out the Spanairds and my econemy is booming with 11000 florins per turn.

[Jochem Hraback]

Thanks Repman Thanks to the team to make MTW2 as in my dreams

[LaMuerte]

Got another bug. When I started my campaign I built a few templar chapters , and could thus recruit templar units . After that I went on a conquest rampage , and conquered many towns with hospitaller chapters in them . At one point during the campaign , I lost the ability to recruit templars , and now I can only recuit hospitaller units . Can't retrain / recuit any templar unit .

It's not something I am overly worried about ... Ok , my experienced templars will soon go extinct , but at least I get those very cool looking black clad killer knights , which I prefer somehow. (And I'm not the only one if I remember all those templars/hospitallers polls correctly)

Any word on the ability to control reinforcement armies? Did it get removed , and if yes , why? Is it an unfortunate side-effect from a script? I posted it before , but haven't received any feedback on it , except from Taiji a while back while I wrote something about it in the BB thread. But I'm not sure if it's because of the BB implementation in 6.3 , or from something else...

It would be nice to get some feedback on this , because I use reinforcement armies a lot during my campaigns , and I am a control freak.

Edit : O yeah , in 1362 I encountered one CTD which corrupted a quicksave at the beginning of a battle

[Taiji]

The first post still hasn't been changed to reflect the fact that BB2.48Update4 is not in this beta.

So I am mentioning it again

And BTW I have tried PMing Repman about it but with no response.

[repman]

@Taijii
You are correct, but the only missing thing are the stat_health changes in the edu file. so the behaviour on the battlefield would be the same.

@LaMuerte, ptg, Furin
Thanks for the feedback
I asked the general public some threads before what the effects the activating of the Taijii + germanicus5 battle scripts have on the battlefield in testing the open beta, but nobody answered. So if they have no effects , should i delete them for greater stability in the future ?

repman

[Furin]

I am happy to test and help, about stability I think that Taiji made a great improvement there with his changes to the campaign script, I am currently working with him on some mods to his mod and while playing it I have+/- 0.001crashes (well to be honest I had one crash after playing 6 hours straight), also not the ones I seldomly get at the end of the Ai turn in 6.3 unmodified, so the culprit for the remaining crashes must be in what Taiji did to clean up the campaign script.

Also I made some changes to the Ai behavior and I hope Taiji will like them and he and later you'll take them too in a future version, because it's like a different game with them, totally awesome stuff there, very lively campaigns with permanent fear of the AI and simulated semi-smart AI diplomacy/behavior. I am amzed that I finally got enough experience with modding all these files to actually get a result i was aiming for.

[_Tartaros_]

Hello,
i´m playing hre - vh/vh with most options on and large unit size.
here´s the log:

17:41:10.008 [system.rpt] [always] CPU: SSE2
17:41:10.337 [system.rpt] [always] ==== system log start, build date: Sep 10 2007 version bld-medieval2-kingdoms-111 (47072) ===
17:41:10.337 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_0.pack
17:41:10.337 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_1.pack
17:41:10.337 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_2.pack
17:41:10.352 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_3.pack
17:41:10.352 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/data_4.pack
17:41:10.352 [system.io] [always] mounted pack packs/localized.pack
17:41:14.493 [game.script] [error] Condition parsing error in mods/DLV_ext/data/export_descr_character_traits.txt, at line 15255, column 46
trigger not found
17:44:11.602 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

the game crashes every time i load it. last time i played it was 12.03.2010. my earlier ERE with similar stats loads without ctd.

[Taiji]

Tartaros, at least update to kingdoms 1.5 if you are going to play DLV 6.X

@Taijii
You are correct, but the only missing thing are the stat_health changes in the edu file. so the behaviour on the battlefield would be the same.

You're wrong about what has changed but I'm not going to push it any more. Just please stop claiming to include a version you have not included and I am fine with it. And thankyou, it is of course an honor for me to have any work included

[Kjertesvein]

The merchant cavalry issue should be fixed in order to ballance the game. The danish stone arhus is pumping out armour piercing swords attatched to the merchant cavalry like some 20th centurys war factory. Just saying.

[Taiji]

Sivil is right, and it's my mistake. They need to have 'ap' replaced with 'no' on the weapon attribute line.

[Philippus]

Have you seen this idea?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=342275

[Taiji]

It's an idea of Konny's (a modder from the 'Das Heilige Römische Reich' mod) as far as I know, but Sensei Kiisu got the idea from Demont's mod in our minimods section!

Funny thing is that DLV already allows this function when the player has attained multiple legendary swords. We can already boost authority with transferable ancillaries.

It's nice for those that don't like to have to play the game to earn the function. And it can provide a stronger assurance than the +3-6 auth we might be able to generate with 3 swords or so.

[Philippus]

I liked the possibility of creating a line of succession.

[pastolie]

That would be pretty sweet, I always liked the idea of selecting whoever I want as my heir. I don't know why it wasn't put into the orignal game in the first place.

Been away from DLV for 2 months, and I come back to a beta.. SWEET!.. Starting a camp now.

[maxpirk]

The Jewish synagogues are useless now they used to make a good amount of money now they don't. Totally ruined the game for me. I love the symbols though is there a way I can apply that to 6.2 ?

[tuxrouge]

with me it's impossible to begin a campaign. I choose the faction and, next brig me back to the choice of the campaign. Strange.

[Tokus*Maximus]

Been away from DLV for 2 months, and I come back to a beta.. SWEET!.. Starting a camp now.

Aye, DLV - practically a planet - any day now.

[Furin]

In export_desc_guilds there are some references to units that no longer exist, fe. byzantine infantry for swordsmith guild.

Edit: I have stripped the camapign script of most functionalities and started a test run. No crashes whatsoever. So the remaining crashes (end/middle of ai faction tuns), at least for me using winvista hp, come from stuff in the campaign script, not from traits or edb/edu etc. I am currently trying to rebuild the thing with my limited knowledge, similar to, but not exactly as, Taiji did with his BB campaign script. Okay I said that too early, even with a fully cleared out campaign script, the possibility of crashes at the end, or the middle, of the AI turn, increases as the campaign develops to the midgame (around and after 1240). I have no idea what is causing it though and don't really know what to do.

[_Tartaros_]

Tartaros, at least update to kingdoms 1.5 if you are going to play DLV 6.X

Ohh yeah, i´m such a noob...

i noticed a small bug (don´t know if it´s really a bug).
i´m playing as poland vh/vh
and my hier managed to marry a kievan princess. i agreed an alliance, open map and military access for both. also the familymemberdescription mentioned the wife´s kievian relationship.

but ingame it was not with kiev, instead it was with lithuania.

[CoolBreeze-90]

If I read this correctly, this has DLV 6.2 included with the 6.3 changes all in one. Would it be possible to get a version that goes from 6.2 -> 6.3 and not from 6.0 -> 6.3 for those who already have 6.2... I ask because I have a slow internet and a bandwidth limit.