Couple suggestions one minor one big for dvk

**TheFaceCC** · March 25, 2012, 03:08 PM

Minor suggestion - i noticed there are many towns/cities with a name like Carthago_nova i dont know if you have tried this dvk but i was always under the impression that in the coding process to name the city if you just put the whole city name in "" for example "Carthago Nova" it should do the same thing, i only tried this on M2TW though so i could be wrong for RTW

Big suggestion - this could be hardcoded so i would completely understand if it is, many people are saying how the phalanx and spear units tend to be buggy, i have noticed this my self it actually almost hinders me from playing factions like Sparta or Greeks, but (heres where it gets tricky) in more recent TW games like Empire or Shogun there is a button on the unit it self that allows you to switch archers from bow to sword by a click, or in empires case guns to melee. Is it possible to just add a button on unit card in battle map for all spear and missile units that would allow you yo switch spear to sword, and vice versa, and missle to sword, and vice versa here too...if you can do it but its a extreme amount of work i would suggest to just leave the missile units alone because i usually run out of projectiles anyway by the time i would absolutely need them to charge into battle.

**Paedric** · March 25, 2012, 03:13 PM

For the second thing simply use tab.

**Jetsean12o07** · March 25, 2012, 03:18 PM

I think mines is Alt by default to get people to use their secondary weapon.

**Paedric** · March 25, 2012, 03:20 PM

Oh yeah alt sorry, i thought à bout something else.

**TheFaceCC** · March 25, 2012, 03:21 PM

7-8 years of playing RTW and never knew that haha makes me feel a little dumb...thanks

first suggestion should still work though

**Ferdiad** · March 25, 2012, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by TheFaceCC

Minor suggestion - i noticed there are many towns/cities with a name like Carthago_nova i dont know if you have tried this dvk but i was always under the impression that in the coding process to name the city if you just put the whole city name in "" for example "Carthago Nova" it should do the same thing, i only tried this on M2TW though so i could be wrong for RTW

Thats intentional.

**TheFaceCC** · March 25, 2012, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Ferdiad

Thats intentional.

Why is it intentional? something to do with an aspect of coding that im just not thinking of?

**Ferdiad** · March 25, 2012, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by TheFaceCC

Why is it intentional? something to do with an aspect of coding that im just not thinking of?

Can't remember the exact reason but dvk said its meant to be like that.

**CTD_or_Bust** · March 25, 2012, 03:22 PM

Why? I've been wondering why there's underscores as well.

**Jetsean12o07** · March 25, 2012, 03:42 PM

I think the underscores is because your writing it the way the game sees the code and a computer cannot understand spaces or something like that, the computer has to be told if its a space which is usually defined by if it is text or not. I think im right lol.

**TheFaceCC** · March 25, 2012, 03:31 PM

well case closed in about 20 minutes on the forum, thanks for quick responses guys....and to the team of RS2 this is easily the best "Rome" experience in a game i have ever played thank you alot, i hope R2TW uses some of the brilliant ideas you have come up with

**Ferdiad** · March 25, 2012, 03:46 PM

Nope, thats not true at all.

**Jetsean12o07** · March 25, 2012, 03:50 PM

Well then why is there underscores?

**Ferdiad** · March 25, 2012, 03:55 PM

I have no

in idea.

**dvk901** · March 25, 2012, 05:48 PM

The reason for the underscores is because we were having trouble with the script. The hardcoded name and the actual name you see in game MUST be the same, otherwise the script ignores the settlement. And, since a 'space' can be buggy in a hardcoded name, I just decided to go with the underscore. It was a nightmare changing all of those, no matter what they looked like, so it got done once. Never again.