No defense in Hotseat?

[Silent Hunter]

Hi,

at first, very great mod! I don't post much, but I followed the project and I am more impressed by v.6.0 than I expected. Very good job!

But my problem is the hotseat campaign. When playing with my brother, I can't fight defense battles, they are always autoresolved. And there is also again the faction turn scroll (you know, like in vanilla kingdoms hotseat campaign; the scroll that shows up when it is another players turn).
In SS 5.1, I only had to change the update_ai_camera in the medieval2.preference.cfg from 0 to 1. Now, in SS 6.0, this doesn't affect the game any more, there are the "issues" mentioned above. I've also tried to edit the Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg, but without success, nothing changes.
Can someone help please? I know, it does not interest the most of you because you play hotseat over the internet, but I really want to defend myself when playing hotseat with my brother on one PC.

And another question to the same topic: I noticed that some factions are not playable in hotseat. I am not speaking of the late campaign factions, thats clear that you cannot play with them. I am speaking of some early campaign factions, for example the Kiev Rus aren't playable. Does someone know how to change the playable factions? I think this can be solved like the playable factions in custom battles, but I could not find the right file to edit.



Thanks for your attention, this may be not so easy to read, because I am german and not so skilled in writing english.

[Silent Hunter]

Isn't there anyone who can help? My thread moved down and got lost in the flood of other threads without any reply.

[Master Zuma]

goto your Med2 main folder and open medieval2.preference.cfg using notepad

copy and paste this over the hotseat section...

[hotseat]
turns = 0
scroll = 0
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 1
save_prefs = 1
update_ai_camera = 1
validate_diplomacy = 1

then add your medieval2.preference.cfg read only ability

[I<3Emo]

Master Zuma, is the key part to that having the 'Auto-Resolve' bit disabled?

This also annoys me sometimes when I'm playing with my cousin lol, we normally form a mass nation of 'United Ireland and Scotland', but it isn't fair that I can't fight my own battles
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Would be oblieged if you'd apply,

thanks!

[Silent Hunter]

Ah very much thx Now I can defend myself xD.

I think the key part is the turns=0 and scroll=0, because I had already edited the rest like master zuma mentioned before posting this Thread. I only missed those 2 lines, and it did not work. Now, with those lines in addition, it works very fine and my brother and me are happy