AD: Gameplay Discussion Thread

[Takeda Shingen]

Hi!

First of all, sorry for not posting in the bugs thread.

What I did mean was "chirping", the noise grasshoppers make.
Seems to be around a swamp or something.

And I have a question. Did you record somewhere which regions you have to hold to get a regional title e.g. Rex Burgundiae?


Regards

Takeda

[Re Berengario I]

And I have a question. Did you record somewhere which regions you have to hold to get a regional title e.g. Rex Burgundiae?

It's, unsurprisingly , in the readme file included with the mod

[Takeda Shingen]

Hi
I'm back.

I somehow didn't download the readme or can't find!?

Coming back to my main and most frustrating bug.
It seems like if I save, whether normal saving or quicksaving, just before taking over a merchant or trying to burn a heretic and loading the game again after will **** up the game. This never happend on anymod or vanilla.
On the other hand and thats most frustrating part, I was playing my HRE campaign, wisely saving a lot without using the quicksave and faced this da*n heretic. I tried to burn him with one of my priests and failed. I loaded and savedata 1, autosave, dat 2, 3 , 4 all ************ up.

Same thing happend without saving after turn with the "Almohad's"

The only thing I did with the installation when it was vanilla is removing banners and changing years counting. Then DLV 1.8ext, but this one comes separate installing in its own folder.

So what now? :hmmm:

[Re Berengario I]

There is a file named "AD - README - IMPORTANT.TXT" in the root directory where you installed the mod.

About quicksaves MTW2 itself has problems with the saving of scripts so I already uploaded in this forum a new campaign_script which disallow saving while a script is in execution. This file will be included in the next release but if you don't want to wait just browse these pages and you'll find it.

[Takeda Shingen]

Ha ha, thats quite an easy place to find....

Thanks for your help, mate.

However, I can't find your script_file....
Could you please be so kind and post a link.

Thanks in advance

Cheers

[nerazzurri]

I think this is probably what you need:-

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/attac...6&d=1171737478

[Takeda Shingen]

Thanks for the instant help!



....I will try it right away!!

[Szun]

i had a very odd thing happen in my first game (after i found the .bat file to start it)

German ruleing famaly was destroyed in turn 9 with no outside war.
I asume the AI lost all famaly members to rebels?

well that leaves a huge power vacum in middle europe now..wonder wich faction goes next with so many provinces in rebel hands...

[Re Berengario I]

i had a very odd thing happen in my first game (after i found the .bat file to start it)

German ruleing famaly was destroyed in turn 9 with no outside war.
I asume the AI lost all famaly members to rebels?

well that leaves a huge power vacum in middle europe now..wonder wich faction goes next with so many provinces in rebel hands...

Probably is what it happened, I'm working right now to fix the problem with HRE.

[Szun]

well i am not worried, my longbowmen must kill more frogs in the long run, wich is ok
if you are aware of it, its fine...i wasnt sure you were (i didnt read the bug threat yet)

[Takeda Shingen]

Hi

The new campaign_script works.
But after turn 20 with England the same hard-lockup occured.

So tough luck for me I guess.
Is there still a hint left to help me out so I can play your wonderful mod?

[Re Berengario I]

The lock-up occured when you don't select the choice the advisor tell you to make.

It isn't that hard, just press the "show_me" button or the "dismiss advice" button.

[Takeda Shingen]

I did that!
No tab open, no menu open, your script confirmed!!!?
Chivlary for RTW uses scripts too, so I'm actually used to that.

So what do you think, does the DLV directory and the files in the M2TW folder produce that trouble. Maybe I should re-install?

[Re Berengario I]

I don't know how other mods can interfere with AD, I have it installed on a clean vanilla folder and I suggested the users to do the same.

Still if your User Interface is locked this means you have to select the choices the advisor explained to you.

The new campaign_script I uploaded in this subforum block you from saving if an event is waiting for you to choose (because MTW2 corrupts savegames created during the execution of a script).

I'm playing the campaign too, I just accept or decline the events, I save when I'm ready to press the "next turn" button (like I always did in Vanilla) and I never suffered corrupted savegames, interface locked and so on.

[Takeda Shingen]

Thanks Berengario!

I really confirmed your script!
I will re-install the game right away - I just have to play your wonderfull mod!!!
I hope this is no Gates-Problem and this will solve my problems.
I will report my experience!!!


Best regards

Takeda

[Vagabond]

your mod is pretty fun ^^, but there're smth:
_ invade a foreign land cost you a fortune( while it's not so sure that it'll give you smth worth enough), so the AI is pretty passive,some factions, i've never seen they got out of their homeland
_smth wrong with the battle AI, their stupidity suprise me alot, alot worse than the vanilla ( just my feeling)
_the rebel, they appear out of nowhere, another after another,endlessly, reduce them abit won't harm the gameplay of your mod ( i think your goal is making the game most accurate possible, and historically, i don't think a rebel happen in a same place every 6 months), 7/10 of my provinces got a half-stack rebel each turn, it's kind of fun , the only problem is i don't know what did i do to get that, and how to fix that, of course
_the stupid pop still sucks, the French **** a war on me, and he did nothing, when i pushed them back and sieged a city, he said to me " stop, son, or you'll get excommunicated ", no complain but i really hope you can fix these "all eyes on you" problems, it's no fair
anyway, it's just some piece of my mind
your mod is pretty interesting, i'd say, thanks for the nice work

[carnivore]

Really like this mod , amazing

one thing that reduce the fun is the REAL SLOW turns

is there any solution to hurry this a bit ??

great work

thanx

[Re Berengario I]

one thing that reduce the fun is the REAL SLOW turns

is there any solution to hurry this a bit ??

In the next version I'll try to optimize some scripts and I also hope CA will make the script engine more efficient in the next game patches.

Both the above things are nothing to bet some money on though.

[Alatar98]

i didnt read anything about more efficient script engine in the 1.2 patch notes. They do fix the shield bug though and other animation problems.

i wonder if .93 will work with the patch

[Yarkis de Bodemloze]

First of all congratulations for your fine mod. I started some AI only games to see if I would like the overall pace and development of the game, and so far I like what I see. Your diplomacy AI is outstanding with a lot of reasonable dynamic. AI's start war, build up alliances and make peace in a very fluid way. For example I witnessed HRE starting a war with Denmark and only 2-3 turns later Denmark was allied with HRE's old enemy Milan. To test the variability I started several games and the diplomatic development was always a bit different. I also like the very historical setup with cities which were relevant at that times (for example the centers of catholic faith in Germany).

I had some random crashes during the AI only test games but could always recover the game from the autosaves, so no showstoppers so far. However my longest test game was only up to 1110. I will try to run a longer game to see the further development. It's a pity that game turns take so long. Are you sure the script is the only culprit? There are a lot of units in the game from early on, so it may be that pathfinding calculations are a source for the slowdown too. Especially the larger empires and the rebels need a lot of time. Maybe raising the upkeep costs and lowering the chance of rebel spawning could help a bit. I looked at the script and the chance for rebel armies to spawn seems to be rather low but you still see a lot of them and the constant attrition and eventual loss of family members caused by them may be the reason for some factions dying as reported by others.

I would love to see a 1 turn/1 year version of the mod since 900 turns is too much for me and the pace of the game would be more historical too. But I guess you are not a fan of that because of the character aging problem and I will have to do such changes for myself...

Do you intend using Point Blanks Real Combat mod? His work seems reasonable to me and it would save you much time developing your own edu files.

You already announced an era system for recruiting which is a good idea. I never understood why the size of cities/castle should be related to the kind of unit you can recruit.

Looking forward to test some more and finally play your mod after 1.2.