ALEXANDER EB

[maksimus]

[Blau&Gruen]

lol.

C'omon

(Seriousely, take your time! You are innovative.)

[Dominatrixx]

[Dominatrixx]

Almost a week has passed

[maksimus]

I know..

It is almost done!

Its just that it was my birthday and I was slow on modding a bit

[Dominatrixx]

Oh, happy birthday if so

[maksimus]

Thank you ,... I must say that I was working after the guests left

I am Addicted

[Dominatrixx]

As we're all here

[Dominatrixx]

[maksimus]

Some rebel issues are slowing me down

But when its done we will have real rebel armies that will spawn in 'sensitive' regions

[Dominatrixx]

[maksimus]

We need beta testers for the finall - any interested ?

I will test it a bit today and tonight and hopefully send the mod to the rest of ALXEB team to see it..

So I can give it as beta to anyone tomorrow and then I expect the testers to run it as hell or just to Casse-end-turn it so we can have the suggestions we need

What say you?

[Blau&Gruen]

Is the Beta identical with the link on the first page of this thread (85,2MB)? What kind of Beta do you expect, specific feature testing, faction testing, more report what you see?

[Dominatrixx]

We need beta testers for the finall - any interested ?

I will test it a bit today and tonight and hopefully send the mod to the rest of ALXEB team to see it..

So I can give it as beta to anyone tomorrow and then I expect the testers to run it as hell or just to Casse-end-turn it so we can have the suggestions we need

What say you?

I would like to help if i could but i'm busy as hell in next 2 days

[maksimus]

About the testing, we need the info on balance mostly and the basic ''graphs'' that are in the game - like those main: population, money, military, production - that can be done with the ''PrintScreen''

Other than that we need that all factions are alive in 200bc or 210bc - after that anything can happen
Those beta 1 and 2 were to show the progress and direction of the mod. Beta 2 is not even clost to this finall, this finall is really goning to take off!

But now we are in the finall release, I just need some to test more with Casse end turn so I dont have to do it for two days non-stop..

So If anyone wants I can PM the linky for of the finall tomorow and see for the results of the tests in a day or two,

The main issue is that all factions must alive in 200bc or 210bc

[Dominatrixx]

Hope you'll find someone and we'll be able to enjoy final release soon

[Dominatrixx]

Btw a pair of questions before Final comes out...

Are there gonna be any changes in buildings and unit stats if compare to Beta?
And are u gonna take a look at buildings and units descriptions once more (because i've found few little grammar mistakes like repeating words or sentences stating from litte letter)?

[mdg1125]

Maksimus,

Couple of questions. What is the limit on descr_model_unit and export_descr_unit? I've been messing around Alex.exe as well.

[maksimus]

Here is what we know

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

a) Alexander draws off of RTW and not BI (you do not even need BI installed), though you do need to make sure RTW is patched to 1.5 before installing Alexander. So BI features (swimming, shieldwall, schiltrom, loyalty, religion, etc.) are not inherent within it.
b) Victory conditions can state a "survivor" which requires that a specific unique character survive in order for that faction to remain in the game; however, We are not sure if that can be used for anyone other than the initial 'Alexander' character. Needs more testing.
c) Mercenaries can be designated as ''faction-specified'' in the campaign merc pool file. In ALX.exe, you can specify regional mercenaries to be recruitable only by certain factions.

d) ''Descr_Model_Battle.txt'' model's entries are increaseded from RTW/BI's 250 max to 500 !
e) AI can be instructed in the ''Descr_Start'' file not to attack certain factions (unless at war already). There is ''ai_do_not_attack_faction'' in ''descr_strat'', which prohibits the AI to attack certain factions, except when they're at war!
f) Immortality trait can ensure that named characters do not die of natural causes!
g) However, ALX.exe cannot use the features of BI such as hording, shield wall, schilstrom and swimming.
j) The next big thing is, of course, the unique general models. You can have battle and strat model and portraits that cannot be used by any other general in the game.

We can use specific campaign models, battle models and portraits for all the initial characters.
This is the example of entry in ''descr_strat'':

character Denethor, named character, leader, age 50, , x 149, y 80, portrait denethor, strat_model denethor, battle_model denethor

The biggest difference between ALX.exe and vanilla or BI.exe are the hard coded limit's on DMB. There are confirmation's that some mod's based on ALX.exe have more that 330. - BI and vanilla are limited to 250 entries.

Victory conditions can state a "survivor" which requires that a specific unique character survive in order for that faction to remain in the game; however, it is uncertain if this can be used for anyone other than the initial 'Alexander' character. Needs more testing.
This survivor condition only works for the human player however. That is you will not finish the game unless your Fleader is dead or Fleader of your enemy.

[mdg1125]

thanks I appreciate the info. so the Descr_Model_Battle.txt is 500. So how bout the export_descr_unit?