Family Values 0.2 -Submod

[StealthEvo]

I bring some sexy news to the Fourth Age Total War fans. In this in no way shape or form offical sub mod. Painstakingly put together over about two days of overall labour. Link is at the bottom.

StealthEvo productions with some fantastic testing and helping by the equally sexy Nehcrum and the somewhat unwilling (I jest) Aradan as the person thats enabled my limited scope of modly potential to flourish into the barely passable skills I possess at the moment of this pet project turned awesome.

Fourth Age: Total War, Family Values.

In short the overall goal of this sub mod. Is to do what Zarax and Suppernaut did for XC, expand the immersion somewhat, by introducing tribes, houses ect ect. Naturally. I'm a bit too lazy to redo the entire thing. So you'll have to suffice with some extra house's and tribes from the Family Members you might meet along the way. Some extra ancillaries to whet your appetite and just some other super sexy secret stuff.

In short. It's nothing game breaking and just looks at add some fun to things. When I first played Fa:TW I was REALLY impressed with the thought that the House system brought to the game. This is a simple expansion which may or may not be tossed aside when DoM comes out. But then i''ll make a DoM version. So it's all kosher.

What's New; in Family Value's 0.1b

The House of Mornan has been added and implemented fully. All the traits have been CTD checked and work. The triggers has been fixed and should work properly, there is some further documentation as to what shows that it's not working. I have added Ancillaries. However due to timing and other issues. I have not tested their triggers. Will be doing that sometime this week. If there are any outstanding bugs. Drop them in here and i'll address them ASAP. Well in a week.

There is also, if your lucky enough to find them. A hint of the next House to be added. The House of Peredhil. Marriage only.

At the moment all the changes have been made for the Re:United Kingdom. However there is plenty of room for expansion. On my to do list.

Finish House of Peredhil proper-including Ancs.

Start on Harad. Got some idea's kicking.

All the work currently within the mod is purely within the Fourth Age timeline. I've taken some creative liberty and tied it in as much as I can with Lore. I am hesitant to add purely Third age Material as well thats going to lead to fighting. But there are influences for those canny enough to find it.

I don't expect this to be popular, or people to care. But I do this as a labour of Love.

As always. I love feedback, idea's so throw them my way. Have your input and have your name in the speshul thanks.

Download Info

Instructions.

1. Download the sexy Rar
2. Backup the relevant files(put them somewhere else with some copy pasta)
3. Replace the files
4. Play.

All the changes are purely traits and ancillary related. This is NOT savegame compatible. Nor will any further versions be save game compatible with older versions.

Final word. This is NOT Offical or even close to being offical. This is a fan made Sub mod for a Fan made mod. I only have loose blessing by Aradan

NOT OFFICAL!

I would recommend using the Megaupload link.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3NUN2CXM

[StealthEvo]

Latest patch is out already

Changes:

Tested New Ancillaries and found a few grammar bugs.
Hopefully fixed the festering Guide Trigger
Played around with some more percentages

FYI These are not easy to find traits (re Houses) Don't expect to find them with your first adoptee. If you do. Your luckier then I am outside of test conditions.

[Thangaror]

Errr. So what does this do? I don't really get it.

[StealthEvo]

At the moment, it expands the House/Tribe/Family system already in place. IE taking the RK for example you have the House of Hurin, Telcontar and Galdor. I'm simply expanding that by adding Houses for the odd general that joins the family, through adoption/marriage what evs. I can't speak for other people but i'm a BIG fan of what XC (eXtended Cultures) did for for XGM in adding another element of game play to the tribes, cultures and stuff. So in my own slow methodical fashion. I'm doing something similar and ultimatly less intensive. I'm not aiming to make another game. I'm just adding onto the Fa:Tw game.

I'm not a total OMG LOTR=Sexy person. I don't profess to be a hardcore fan. But at the same time I do find the nurting and coddling of Generals and Family members sometimes more fun then the battles. So this is a way to share my passion .

In short.

Adding a whole heap of new tribes/familys/houses through Traits, adding a few house only traits and ancillaries and making the whole thing that bit more immersive.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

very nice

[StealthEvo]

This weekend if I get time (i've been busy with Life)

I'll start writing up the House of Peredhil Half Elven traits and asscioated character generation traits. If anyone has any idea's on implementing the Half Elf system (I have a fantastic idea which can be applied in another form for showing the thinning of blood depending on location [might not be possible for cultural thinning, IE Haradian to Rhunite FOR EXAMPLE!!!! if a character gets a wife in a Rhun province) but I do have an awesome idea for how to do the Half elves. If you think you have idea. Send it my way. I'll see if I can implement your system. You don't even have to provide code for it. Just tell me your idea and i'll tell you if my slowly growing talents can manage it.

[StealthEvo]

Word, While it may seem that i've been ignoring this side project and not giving you all your needed fix. This is not the truth. I've been busy getting better at modding

The current Half Elf system is nearing it's testing phase. There was alot to get my head around and still is. But. I do have a picture of how it all works in theory and concept availible on request.

But that is not why I am posting today. No today I present an optional module. Which come the next update will be included for free. But this module works perfectly with the Vanillla Fa:TW mod and adds an element of NEEDED difficulty to us veterans.

I present.

StealthEvo's Fame Module:

In short depending on how well your general(and the Ai's generals) performs in the field well start to add up. Either gathering them great amounts of Fame if they are successful, or if they are completely useless gathering them high amounts of Infamy. These traits are balenced in that the Positive end of the trait tree while being difficult to acquire at present. I might still turn down the chances of acquiring it. Will infact add a negative affect to your family member. And not yet implemented is the positive side of being infamous. But thats because i'm lazy.

There is also included two new epithet's, colourful descriptions and the AI will get a significant AI headstart over the player. For balencing sakes and the fact that due to being the AI they will be unlikely to make any significant progress down the tree.

Planned are a series of Ancillaries for both sides of the tree meaning sometimes it might be useful to allow a general to be completely useless in order to grab some of these new and swish planned Ancillaries. However at present unless you want to read my awesome descriptions theres really no point. Unless you REALLY want to make it hard on yourself.


As always. Back up your files and enjoy.

If there are any bugs present. Please get in touch. Note this is not save game compatible.

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