SS Hotseat

**-Myth-** · June 19, 2011, 03:55 PM

Guys any idea why I can't get SS to setup a hotseat game? Or any mod for that matter (britannia, teutonic etc.). M2TW works just fine and yes, I've edited the preferences file and made it read only. In vanilla I can set up a game, disable the console, log on as admin and the players can have passwords.

Can't do it in SS...

I've disabled the Win7 protection AND labeled the M2TW folder as trustworthy. There is no data in user/whtever that belongs to M2TW.

**bɑne** · June 19, 2011, 04:07 PM

How are you trying to set up the hotseat?

**-Myth-** · June 20, 2011, 04:46 AM

From the instructions online:

Open medieval2.preference.cfg

Find [multiplayer] or [hotseat]
If they do not exist, create them before the [ui] section. Even if they do exist, overwrite with the following:

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[hotseat]
admin_password = abc

Where abc is the password you want as admin password.

Save the file, close it and mark read-only.

Done just that, and it works for vanilla but not for SS...

**bɑne** · June 20, 2011, 05:30 AM

No idea what to tell you, pretty sure kingdoms lan/hotseat play in the multiplayer section of the game menu is available for me out of the box... without any cfg changes.

**-Myth-** · June 20, 2011, 11:43 AM

Aye, I'm talking about setting up a hotseat game not a MP battle.

**bɑne** · June 20, 2011, 12:47 PM

Add this to your \SS6.3\default.cfg

[hotseat]
## disable start turn scroll in hotseat campaign - false or 0 needed to be able to defend against AI
scroll = false
## disable forced separate human faction turns (including diplomacy) in hotseat campaign
turns = false
## enable cheat console in hotseat campaign
disable_console = false
## enable camera updates during ai turn in hotseat campaign
update_ai_camera = true
## enable or disable 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

and this

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

to your medieval2.preference.cfg

If this still doesn't work doublecheck if the option "hotseat campaign" isn't yet available in the multiplayer menu. Should be right below LAN battles.

**SoulBlade** · June 20, 2011, 02:55 PM

Press MULTIPLAYER in the main menu, click Hotseat.

**bɑne** · June 20, 2011, 04:30 PM

Moved to tech support.

I guess SoulBlade will help you out if there are further questions

**SoulBlade** · June 21, 2011, 06:25 AM

Just to clarify before he comes with the same question/issue:

Kingdoms has hotseat feature by default, while in Med2 (Vanilla) you have to edit/add some lines in the cfg as you may have done. So, for Kingdoms you just do what I said in my previous post.

**bɑne** · June 21, 2011, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by SoulBlade

Just to clarify before he comes with the same question/issue:

Kingdoms has hotseat feature by default, while in Med2 (Vanilla) you have to edit/add some lines in the cfg as you may have done. So, for Kingdoms you just do what I said in my previous post.

Yeah that is what I thought but his insistence on this issue made me doubt it. The cfg edits update his config so that he can fight defensive battles in hotseat campaigns and some other stuff.