Help with Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg

[Lubo]

Hi all,

I'd like to ask you for help - it's all about solving a problem with defending in hotseat. I figured out that when I start a new hotseat game without changes in settings ("no battle time limit"; "disable console"...) I can defend against AI. But I play a game where I made some changes and we can't defend ourselves.

So I came here and foud this:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=171050
but it didn't help.. I figured out that whether I change any 'trues' or 'falses' nothing changes in the game. So I guess I have some problem with the file Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg and I just can't find here on the forum the solution.

One more thing - I haven't installed the game yet. I reinstalled the windows and just copied the game from the drive D.

[Servant of Dwayna]

Hi all,

I'd like to ask you for help - it's all about solving a problem with defending in hotseat. I figured out that when I start a new hotseat game without changes in settings ("no battle time limit"; "disable console"...) I can defend against AI. But I play a game where I made some changes and we can't defend ourselves.

So I came here and foud this:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=171050
but it didn't help.. I figured out that whether I change any 'trues' or 'falses' nothing changes in the game. So I guess I have some problem with the file Stainless_Steel_Kingdoms.cfg and I just can't find here on the forum the solution.

One more thing - I haven't installed the game yet. I reinstalled the windows and just copied the game from the drive D.

On behalf of Grandmaster Ryu/Allu X

Hey, I can help with this,

you see the reason that you can't defend sometimes during a hotseat campaign is if you have passwords or scrolls enabled. - Basically, after someones turn if a scroll appears saying that it is the next persons turn, then this is the reason why some of you can not defend.

The only way to work around this is to disable scrolls and passwords and simply play with someone that you trust,

in the .cfg files, find scroll and turns and set them to false or 0 -

then you should have no problem

[Lubo]

Thank you but as I had written - the cfg file does not seem to be working!!! Basically when I set scroll = true or scroll = false nothing changes in the game...

[Servant of Dwayna]

Insead, if you comment the following lines by deleting the # this way:

[multiplayer]
comment/uncomment following line to disable/enable hotseat campaign
playable = true
faction mask for setting default starting factions in hotseat campaign
factions = 1 = england, 2 = france, 4 = hre, 3 = england+france, etc

[hotseat]
disable start turn scroll in hotseat campaign
scroll = false
disable forced separate human faction turns (including diplomacy) in hotseat campaign
turns = false
enable cheat console in hotseat campaign.
disable_console = false
specify password for administrator access to the dev console when console disabled. Change 'password' to a suitable password
admin_password = password
enable camera updates during ai turn in hotseat campaign
update_ai_camera = true
enable voting in papal elections in hotseat campaign (only first valid human faction votes)
disable_papal_elections = false
disable forced autoresolve all battles in hotseat campaign
autoresolve_battles = false
disable diplomacy validation for incoming propositions
validate_diplomacy = false
disable forced relevant hotseat options to be saved with game.
save_prefs = false
autosave hotseat game at start of players turn
autosave = true
save config file in save dir containing information about next players turn
save_config = true
## close medieval II directly after a hotseat autosave
# close_after_save = true
## sub directory name for hotseat save games
# gamename = hotseat_gamename
## ensure game data files used in previous save match current campaign data files.
# validate_data = true
## prevent game to load if savegame or data validations fail
# allow_validation_failures = false

Then switch the file to "red only". The problem it's solved: during the AI turns, if AI attacks you, the game stops and you can play the battle.

That should solve it,

[Lubo]

Nope.. Again the same - when I try to load the already played game, the scroll appears and I can't defend..

Any chance to disable to scroll in my saved hotseat game?

[Servant of Dwayna]

Erm, are you choosing "Passwords" in the campaign faction select screen? Make sure you don't;

also you need to make the .cfg files read only.

I can't think of anything else sorry.

[Lubo]

Thanks anyway - no, when I started that game I didn't choose passwords, but there is the scroll anyway. When I start the new hotseat game there isn't the scroll and the defence works, but what about my saved game?...