M2TW hotseat (all factions) closed no more recruiting

[decimator22]

Hi guys, I was wondering if you would like to play a hotseat campaign for vainilla Medieval 2, with all the factions. I know it will be a bigger wait for turns, but it would be great so what ya say. Would you like the mongols and the timmurids to be human controlled? That would give an extra challenge.

Edit: Were just going to use 4 or 5 factions, be sure tu have the 1.3 patch and to have in configured as told by the instructions by armatus

Rules
VH/VH
battles played, not autoresolve
Free diplomacy
no cheats
no pope allainces
no pope gifts
no crusade (except all catholics are ok)

Factions:
Milan
Venice - Romanos IV
sicily
Moors
Spain
Portugal - Ttil
France
England - Ambro
Scotland
Russia
Byzantim
Holy Roman Empire - Blorg
Poland
Hungary
Turks
Egypt - Decimator
denmark

[decimator22]

I guess no one is interested., to bad

[Ambro]

I'd like to play a hotseat game of MTW2, i'll be England if the game goes ahead if thats ok. Not sure if we'd fill all the slots but if we can get maybe 6 people at least we could still have a good game.

[ttilt]

hi yes i'm also interested. I would be portugal.

[Blorg]

I'll take Holy Roman Empire

[decimator22]

Well if we get 5 player, we will play

[Armatus]

I would say don't wait just start playing because if this is your first go at it you will learn from the eperience sometimes problems can come up with with having a big game. Considering I've never seen anyone here at least recently play an M2 hotseat most are playing Kingdoms I would say give it a few days and then just start it. It will be fun even with a few players.

[ttilt]

I would say don't wait just start playing because if this is your first go at it you will learn from the eperience sometimes problems can come up with with having a big game. Considering I've never seen anyone here at least recently play an M2 hotseat most are playing Kingdoms I would say give it a few days and then just start it. It will be fun even with a few players.

i agree w/ armatus. I'm ready to start, it'll be my first time on a hotseat too.

[Ambro]

I dont mind either way.

[decimator22]

Well were just waiting for 1 more person

[ttilt]

let's put here our instant messenger id:

yahoo - ttilt

[decimator22]

Then wait for me to choose a faction.

[Romanos IV]

what version?

I have 1.5

[decimator22]

If you have kingdoms it is 1.3 already so it is fine, you can join , take a faction

[Romanos IV]

well, if that's for sure, I'll take Venice!

[decimator22]

Were ready to go, I'll take Egypt, England - Ambro needs to start, remeber to put passwords on and to disable the consol and papal elections

[Ambro]

Ok. Well I just went through the guide stickied at the top of this forum but it doesnt let me select more than one faction?

This is my config file :

[video]
widescreen=1
[game]
allusers=1
[misc]
unlock_campaign = true
[multiplayer]
playable = true
[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 1
disable_papal_elections = 1
save_prefs = 1
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

I copied it directly from the guide and then added it to the existing file, I then saved it and made the file read only.

Not sure why its not working so anyone got any ideas, I dont have any mods installed just the patch to v1.3.

[ttilt]

i just tried starting it here and it worked, i could select multiple factions. Does it have to be in the order of display in the faction selection list?
The instructions on the stickie read: "your faction MUST be the first line in the faction selection list."

Armatus: By "first line in the list" you mean "the order of players must follow the order in which the factions are displayed in the selection screen from left to right"?

[Ambro]

Yes thats the problem because England is first in line so I have to set the game up.

You said you got it working on yours so could you send me a copy of your preference file so I could see if yours is any different to mine. Also what operating system are you running, im on vista at the moment, not sure if that would make any difference though.

[Armatus]

You might have to unlock all factions I think I covered that in the guide or someone asked about it in the thread.

EDIT: I see you unlocked the campaign, but did you guys unlock all factions?