ALEXANDER EB

[Pherion]

I have a question. What does this mod do exactly? How different is it from EB1.21a Alex version?

[arthuros]

I am not sure that I understand what you mean

note:ја сам из Београда али никоме немој да кажеш

It looks like i'll have to install Alex again
Hope that this really works and that gameplay and especially AI is improved...koмшија

[maksimus]

It looks like i'll have to install Alex again
Hope that this really works and that gameplay and especially AI is improved...koмшија

Ma keве ми бре - само још ћу слика додати па ће бити још јасније

It reallly is the Best AI engine for any RTW/BI game -majke mi-

[arthuros]

The main problem with RTW from the beginning was AI. Vanilla AI was terrible, BI maybe just a little better, and Alex....well, few people played Alex seriously, but it obviously had significantly improved AI (maybe one of the reasons for that expansion).

Definitely an excellent idea to use Alex AI in a epic mode such is EB, to make gameplay of an old game a completely new experience.
Nice work mate

[maksimus]

Thank you very much

[KaerMorhen]

The main problem with RTW from the beginning was AI. Vanilla AI was terrible, BI maybe just a little better, and Alex....well, few people played Alex seriously, but it obviously had significantly improved AI (maybe one of the reasons for that expansion).

Definitely an excellent idea to use Alex AI in a epic mode such is EB, to make gameplay of an old game a completely new experience.
Nice work mate

frankly Alexander TW is rather average as most vanilla TW's imo(I mean as a whole thing). Indeed AI is 'smarter' than previous ones but game itself is not a big one. I do hope 'Megas Alexandros' mod will be finished and we'd enjoy the game to the fullest.

[arthuros]

frankly Alexander TW is rather average as most vanilla TW's imo(I mean as a whole thing). Indeed AI is 'smarter' than previous ones but game itself is not a big one. I do hope 'Megas Alexandros' mod will be finished and we'd enjoy the game to the fullest.

I agree completely, probably the best part of AlexTW is improved AI (and i believe that it could show its real value in EB).
But it also has some other interesting features such as more than 300 DMB, which could be really useful if someone decide to use more unique models for units.

[maksimus]

We are planing of adding some, Like unique Pyrros character and A Gonatas..
Maybe other's, also, any new respawn generals could have unique look and Model.. at least to some extend - because now they are all the same in Hellenic and/or other 'Respawn' part's of EB map.. We will tend to make a few, mybe 3-5 model's of general's in Hellenic areas for example

[chenkai11]

I noticed that ALX.EXE AI turn is a little faster than RTW.EXE

[keet]

Has anyone here had problems installing Alexander?

I have the cd versions of Rome and BI.
Fresh, clean installs patched from 1.0 to 1.3 to 1.5 to BI to 1.6

I DOWNLOADED Alex from Try Media but when I try to install it says "No prior installation of Rome - TW was found. This installation program will now terminate".

They even sent me a new link and explained the old one was incompatible but the new one is doing the same thing.

I can play all my games just fine and was wondering if anyone else here had this issue and/or knows how to resolve it.

I really want to try this. I love EB, EB1 is awesome, I am really wanting to try it under ALEX, it looks awesome.

I tried posting on the SEGA site and TW home but no answers seem to exist.

There was one reference to the regedit fix but I checked and already have the said folders there.

Please help!

[chenkai11]

I had this problem when I changed the path, after I changed it back to D:\Program files\Activision\Rome - Total War\, it should work.

If that's not the case......Sorry.

[keet]

No, I did the default install, nothing was changed.

It must be the install program.

I can't believe no one else has seen this issue.

Please help!!

[chenkai11]

keet, I mean the path you install your RTW and BI, not when you are installing ALEX

[maksimus]

No, I did the default install, nothing was changed.

It must be the install program.

I can't believe no one else has seen this issue.

Please help!!

Ok, try again with the download link and then STEP II,

Go to EB10 shortcut - left clck on the shortcut and chose properties - then - change the Target by copy-paste method (if your RTW is in default install folder)
"C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander

or for 64-bit systems
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander

or for the ones that use different install folder - just edit the end of the target like this ...\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -noalexander

Maybe the Alex.exe is not valid any more.. maybe it was trial version

I dont kow

More info?

note: To my knowledge there are over 150 people that currently use Alex.exe on EB with those instruction's from the main page..

[keet]

I purchased it (Alex)just last week for 14.99 of Try Media.

Perhaps that company is selling crap.

Can anyone who bought a working version of Alex with EB1 please tell me the website they purchased it from so I can buy from there?

Thank You!

[svramj]

great but don't you use the horde ability available only in BI.exe.....alex.exe does not....but a far better AI i suppose

[MiniMe_from_org]

This is about a bug of the alex installer.
The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive.
If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.

To play EB with ALEX anyway you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive.
The easy one first. RomeTW-ALX.exe can be found on the CD. Just copy this file to your RTW installation, into the same directory as RomeTW.exe
The second file is chat_filter.san.
This one is, of course, also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.

I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net.
To get i6comp go to.
http://programmerstools.org/node/123
or google for it.

Unzip the download in some directory, say D:\extract. This should give you, among others, the file i6comp.exe.
From the ALEX CD copy the files data1.cab, data1.hdr and data2.cab into the same directory.
Open a Texteditor and create a file i6comp.bat with the following line:
i6comp e -r data1.cab
Save the file in D:\extract.
Doubleclick i6comp.bat.
This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find chat_filter.san in D:\extract.
Copy chat_filter.san to <your RomeEB directory>\EB\data.
Thats it.
...
cheers
Gerhard

Maximus, since many people still ask, methinks you need to add Gerhard explanation at the begining of your main post
cheers

[maksimus]

Done MiniMe my friend!

I have updated the main post with a solution to one known bug that was posted by Gerhard!

[joikd]

maksimus,

Thanks for your effort in doing this.

Everything is working great for me except night battles--I don't have any. Once on the pre-battle screen, it said something about night battles, and it looked like a check-box was there. I clicked on the text and the box, but nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? I want night battles!

[Admetos]

You can only fight night battles if your general has the appropriate trait.