[DOWNLOAD] SSHIP ver. 0.97, patch G (Jan 9th, 2021)

**pepa007** · June 04, 2014, 10:22 AM

SSHIP version 0.97 (Oct 18th), patch G (Jan 9th)

First, download and install a full version of Stainless Steel v. 6.4 (without bugfix compilation - best taken from here)
Then download and overwrite the files with the SSHIP ver. 097, then overwrite with patch G (all the patches A-G are included in this download). That last was issued on January 9th, 2021.
This version is KCC 095 ready : you should first install this version, then you may overwrite it with KCC 095 files - it should work perfectly.

Some players find it difficult to install the SS6.4 given that the version available is with the Bugfix compilation. So solve this, here is the current (10.01.21) working version of the mod - the one I have on my hard drive (it's literally zipped mod folder, just unpack it). It includes SS6.4, SSHIP 097, KCC 095 and also the new things that will be included in the 098 version. It's a large file though, zipped 5.7 GB, upacked 12 GB.

Mind that with certain settings you may have very long turn times so you have to find your way to deal with it (what is perfectly possible, see here).

You may also experience frequrent crashes. These should be rather an annoyance given that they occur between the turns, not during or after battle. Anyway, it's perfectly possible to play very long games with the SSHIP, it's been reported that 500 turns is possible.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Outdated previous versions:
DOWNLOAD LINK SSHIP version 0.97 is here. If you've got version 0.96 installed, you may probably just overwrite the data folder. Otherwise read the installation instructions below.
Alternative download link on Mediafire is here.
Patch F (of November 23rd) did two things: 1. limited of the number of priests and merchants fixed, 2. corrected the bugs in the battle_models.modeldb - done by Gigantus (fixed here).
Patch E of November 9th included fixes by Gigantus, Belovese and JoC. The first version of the KCC 095 was based on patch E.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

For the non-English versions of the game you need the following soundfix:
French, German, other
Italian, Spanish
Install it after SSHIP, no need to delete anything, just overwrite.

Click below for...

Installation Instructions

SSHIP : General Presentation

Overview

Initial Factions and Provinces

Map of Regions and Settlements

What to expect if you play Very Hard difficulty

- What is new in the SSHIP 0.97 -

Overview of changes

The following aspects of the game have been changed in the ver. 0.97 as compared to versions 096 or 092:

Traits:
- traits for the generals commanding in the battles improved, a few new added.
- army morale system (somehow limiting the conquest spree) implemented for Very Hard and Hard difficulties.
- army supply costs system (significant costs for foreign expeditions) implemented for Very Hard difficult.
- major and minor changes to many other traits of the generals: economic, psychological etc.
- further improvements to the educational system (properly coded buildings, impact of ancillaries).
- a lot of 'technical' changes that will make the traits work properly (eg. re-coding triggers with 1% probability, getting rid of AntiTrait-NoGoingBack bug).
Ancillaries:
- crown mechanism introduced in 096 works now for all factions; maps depicting relevant provinces added to the faction info panel.
- education ancillaries improved; they have now impact on education.
- knowledge-related ancillaries improved (triggers and effects).
- a large set of books ancillaries added.
- a dozen other ancillaries improved.
- new icons for some existing ancillaries.
- many 'technical' changes as for the traits (eg. getting rid of 1% probability bug).
Agents:
- noble ladies script fixed and refined (fewer ladies, every has name and charm).
- merchants, diplomats and priests numbers limited; in some cases their recruitment switched to different buildings.
- pagan priests recruitment tweaked, as also their traits.
- some tweaks to the traits of the other agents.
Units:
- a new typology for the units introduced.
- prices of many units heavily changed, in line with the typology.
- free upkeep for most urban militia units re-introduced.
- hundreds of changes to the units stats;
- some units renamed (esp. Lithuanian and Georgian), but no unit removed or added.
- some units are again possible to get recruited.
- a few changes to the icons and info-pictures.
- mercenaries' availability and prices reviewed and updated for some regions (mainly Northern and Eastern Europe).
Buildings:
- one new building added (Wind Mill).
- for some buildings effects and conditions reviewed.
- in few cases building times or prices adjusted.
- recruitment from the Local Recruitment buildings reviewed.
- some text descriptions overhauled.
- wonders significantly overhauled (benefits tweaked, some new pics).
- guilds: prices increased, triggers reviewed.
Economy:
- additional expenses added (new generals, change on the throne, joining crusade etc.), they are significant for higher difficulties (esp. the army supply script).
- re-balance of economic parameters to keep the previous balance while various changes happened (eg. availability of the merchants, costs of the units, additional costs).
- many costs before hidden from the player have been made visible through info windows and traits.
- a major overhaul of the economic traits results in bigger impact of governors on the income.
- mercenaries disband warning implemented with disbandment one turn later.
Historical adjustments and flavor:
- a dozen new historical events, their impact on the gameplay introduced (ie. availability of units and buildings).
- changes mentioned elsewhere (resources, fertility, initial situations, buildings, historical pics.).
- more settlements (esp. in the Baltics) will have their names changed after being conquered by other factions.
- names of characters sometime fixed (un-historical deleted, new introduced).
Gameplay mechanics:
- many scripts fixed, improved or added (eg. William Wallace, Bulgarian Uprising, Qara Qitai).
- a great deal of parameters changed, including those for diplomacy and economy.
- additional mechanics added (troop morale, army supply costs).
Map and resources:
- a few campaign map fixes/changes.
- resources: placement in many regions reviewed, several new pics, one resource added (cattle).
- fertility of the provinces heavily reviewed in the light of the historical knowledge.
Initial situation of the factions:
- in a few cases castles switched into cities and cities into castles.
- many changes to the initial set of buildings in the settlements.
- some changes to the traits and ancillaries of the initial characters.
Support for the AI:
- scripted initial sieges for a few factions overhauled.
- three special AI traits giving bonuses - significantly overhauled.
- AI is relieved from certain mechanism it is not aware of (eg. army supply cost).
- special benefits for the AI have been introduced to the buildings (esp. concerning public order).
Parameters:
- hit-melee-ratio lowered to 1.75.
- many changes in the settlement_mechanics.txt.
- high-chivalry generals have big impact on the population growth.
Sound:
- background music replaced with more immersive one.
- voices on the battlefield corrected.
Other changes:
- a number of information windows will pop-out over a few dozens of turns at the beginning of the game to guild the player through various new and old mechanisms of the Medieval 2 / SS6.4 / SSHIP.
- new pictures for many historical or game events (ca. 40, but effectively 160 per culture).
- technical (coding) changes (re-organized script.txt, EDA, EDCT files; triggers with 1% switched to another coding etc.).

You may also want to read the description of the changes in the February 2020 patch to ver. 096.

Ancillaries

Ancillaries

From the gameplay perspective, the ancillaries should provide the player with a tool for management of the generals: they should be "swappable", they should provide essential benefits and they should be rare. Acquiring the traits cannot be controlled by the player (this is a major the difference with the later TW games like Attila or Troy). However, the player may swap the ancillaries to make his generals specialized in something or prevented from something (defection, getting killed by an assassin or in a city riot etc.). The SSHIP 097 tries to extend the already exiting SS/SSHIP ancillaries to be indeed meaningful for the gameplay.

Books

A number of books have been added and many were tweaked to those few existing in the SS6.4. The rule is: your Scholar general should be put into a settlement with a library to find books useful for the ruler and the generals. You will be provided with explanations as pop-out windows, eg.:

In the SSHIP, skilled generals can acquire books from libraries and conquests. You may then swap these from one general to another to get the optimal situation needed for your faction. The books are available for all factions, even though it is more difficult to get them as a pagan one.
The main way to get a book is to have a general with the trait "Scholar" govern a settlement with a Library for an extended period of time. The type of book he will get depends on which other buildings are present in the settlement (e.g. if there is a Cathedral, a religious book can be found). More specialized books (on geography, medicine, architecture) require the presence of a University, and sometimes the occurrence of special historical events (eg. the maps are available this way after al Idrisi completes his map in 1154). The Poetry books require the general to have a Chivalry attribute of at least 3, but these may be gained by non-scholars.
The books are also available for intelligent generals who stay whole turns in settlements which have Great Libraries: military-minded generals can find military treatises, while administrative-minded ones will find civil books. Books can also be acquired upon conquest of certain great cities. E.g. when taking Constantinople or Baghdad, the victorious general is likely to find a few different books, while the conquest of Valencia may provide him the Mio Cid romance (if he is Catholic). Bear in mind that the chances of finding a book are very slim, so your general needs to be patient in his studies. Once a book is found, it may be passed to another noble as a gift. Any noble can have a shelf full of books (up to 8) but he can have only one book of a particular type. Having such a full shelf is not a wise choice though: it is better to specialize in something. Have just one or two books, and leave the space for other ancillaries.

You may read more here.

Royal Crowns

This feature existed before (already in the SS6.4) but now it has been significantly overhauled. There was a long process of historical assessment of the lists of provinces needed to get a crown for each faction, taking into account also the gameplay and the Medieval 2 engine issues. These lists have been updated and scripts to get them fixed for 097. Having a crown received also the gameplay meaning: getting one is needed to expand your faction without serious rebellions (see below in the section "Game mechanics", this part needs to be balanced in the future). A pop-out window and the trait descriptions have been added so that the player can easily get his bearings. A few icons and also a few names of the crowns have been changed to be more historical.

You may read the details about the Crowns here. If you notice an error or you have a comment - please post it in that thread.

Ministerial Offices - provide the player with a tool for management of the generals: he will swap the offices them to his "important" generals: those leading the attacking armies or managing the most profitable cities. The offices are as they were in 096 with patch from Feb 2020, with very minor fixes. There are exhaustive descriptions of this element in the game (both as FL trait description and also as a pop-out window), but you may also read the details here. If you have proposals for specific factions' offices, post it there.

Provincial Titles - they are as they were in 096 (that was a slight overhaul of the SS6.4 sysytem). This means that (almost) all PTs are in the game (Al-Wasit is missing) but only about 1/3 has been overhauled within the system that is foreseen in the end-state of the mod. This actually makes the things easier for those other provinces as they provide more benefits than the will in the future. There are exhaustive descriptions of this element of the gameplay in the game (both as trait descriptions and also as a pop-out window), but you may also read the details of the system here. And remember: 1. don't strip your general of a PT once he gets it, 2. one PT per one general is the most efficient way to use them!

Campaing Map

Resources
* One resource has been added: Cattle (unfortunately, depicted in the city panel as a horse. To be changed in the future. Give us know if you've spotted a pertinent pic in any other mod).
* Two resources have been changed into other: "Pepper" into "Local Spices" and "Tolls" into "Luxury goods".
* The descriptions (info when you hover over a resource) of many resources have been edited.
* A few on-the-map icons of the resources have been changed (courtesy of Zantorian).
* Most of the map has been reviewed from the point of historicity and gameplay and the resources have been added, moved or deleted on the map based on the following criteria:

; Placement of resources - take into account:
; (1) historicity:
; --- some provinces were famous for exporting certain resources (eg. salt near Krakow, wool in England, wine along Rhein, in Hungary, or in Monemvasia).
; --- the overall balance in the income from provinces and their development over centuries (eg. often provinces rich in gold stayed poor nonetheless).
; (2) how the trade between provinces is generated by the M2TW engine:
; --- a province trades with the neighboring provinces: the more land borders (even over the impassable terrain), the more trade connections.
; --- only sea trade for the islands (need to have plenty of resources to be at par with other provinces - but the risk is they'll become the destination of exports from large cities).
; --- no trade of the same good: the neighboring provinces do not trade the same resource.
; --- the resources signify only EXPORTED resources, the abundance of those utilized/consumed in the province doesn't matter.
; (3) merchants' profitability:
; --- a resource close to the capital will not be profitable anywhere on the map - so if you have textiles or glass close to capital, your merchants won't trade it in the game
; --- stacking of resources make a place more profitable and it should be put in the places famous for resources - where it would be historical to see a merchant at work
; (4) visual aspects:
; --- don't place a resource just in front of a settlement because it's name tag would cover it
; --- many resources will be close to settlements, but try to spread them also to far away corners
; --- the pics shown on the map (they play differently with different textures - sometimes they're partially "drowned" into the ground)
; (5) prices of resources
; --- some resources are more profitable - think of it in balancing the income of a province.
; --- mines would provide additional income - so some provinces may get much richer after they're built-up.
; (6) gameplay considerations
; --- they should be spread across the map to make it (map) relevant in more places; in other words: many areas of the map are never visited so the resources may give a reason to.
; --- trade should probably play larger role in overall income so one may place more resources and increase their prices.

In the Middle Ages Venice had important industries (textiles, glass), was a trading point of luxurious imported stuff and locally excavated and exported salt. Venice made much of its money by fishing and selling fish - it's not shown in the pic, but there's a fish resource on the Istria peninsula that is part of Venice province.

Fertility of all 199 provinces has been reviewed and adjusted according to the following framework:

0 - unlikely to develop agriculturally in the Middle Ages (very cold climate or very heavy soils or very dense forests or pure steppes or deserts)
1 - unferitile: cold climate, little arable lands (mostly rocky or marshy); or plenty of semi- and deserts.
2 - not fertile: dense woods, mostly heavy soils, cold climate; or mostly mountains.
3 - average: woods, average soils with some water; or hills with moderately pluvial conditions.
4 - ok: light woods with good soils, rivers, moderate hills.
5 - fertile: good soils, many rivers, good climate, traditions of good agriculture.
6 - very fertile: very good soils, very pluvial, good conditions for transport, long tradition of advanced agriculture.
more - extremely good conditions for farming (eg. the Nile delta, Mesopotamia or Oxus delta); OR a dominant position inducing stable flow of food from the other regions (eg. London, Paris, Kiev, Palermo, Isfahan, Merv).

Hidden resources
These are not directly visible to the player but they impact on many aspects of the game. The following changes have been made:

- 'no_pirates" added to a few provinces to make the pirates not spawning in the lakes.
- 'capital' fixed in few place (eg. Oslo had it, but not Bergen; deleted from a few) because it's now quite important for the availability of the merchants, diplomats and priests.
- 'river' added/removed where it was needed (important for building River Ports - it increases the population growth significantly).
- 'hanse' added where it was lacking (important for the units provided by Hanseatic Guild).
- 'prussia' added to additional provinces around the very province Prussia - to enable recruitment of units consisting of the emigrating Prussians (otherwise the 4 Prussian units are actually wasted).
- 'armenia' added where it was lacking (important for Armenian regional units but also for Georgia's factional ones).
- 'tartars' added to 13 provinces (making the overall number 17). It serves as a proxy of the presence of the steppes were pastoral nomadism was a viable way of living. It enables the building Grasslands for Cumans, Mongols and Turks. It prevents building of paved roads, while the hidden resource "cumans" prevents also dirt roads (in 7 steppe provinces). Any province with hidden resource "cumans" creates huge unrest for factions other than Mongols, Cumans and Turks - thus it'll be extremely hard to control, eg. for the Rus, ERE or Poland (historically the steppes were taken under control as late as 18th century). Each faction draws some benefits from the Grasslands (population growth, trade) but only Cumans and Mongols can recruit their units.

See how the hidden resources capital and river impact on a Market building:

market city requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and building_present_min_level logging_camp logging_camp {
capability
{
agent merchant 0 requires factions { northern_european, } and hidden_resource capital
agent merchant 0 requires factions { middle_eastern, } and hidden_resource capital
agent merchant 0 requires factions { eastern_european, } and hidden_resource capital
agent merchant 0 requires factions { greek, } and hidden_resource capital
agent merchant 0 requires factions { southern_european, } and hidden_resource capital
agent_limit merchant 1 requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and hidden_resource capital
trade_base_income_bonus bonus 4
population_growth_bonus bonus 2 requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and hidden_resource river
population_growth_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { northern_european, middle_eastern, eastern_european, greek, southern_european, } and not hidden_resource river
law_bonus bonus -2
}

Provinces and settlements
* a few changes on the map (eg. the Aqtobe settlement have been moved from the 21th century location to the 12th century location).
* a few capitals switched: Oslo -> Bergen, Aleppo -> Mosul.
* in a dozen of cases the English names of provinces have been replaced with local, historical ones (esp. in Rus, Scandinavia, Maghreb, Germany, to accompany the 096 changes in Byzantium and Central Europe).
* a few names of the settlements slightly modified (esp. in Rus).
* a script changing names of settlements after a conquest has been added for a few provinces in Central Europe.
* several switches of the settlement type from city to castle and otherwise (eg. Nurnberg and Ulm, Plock and Wroclaw).

Economy

Buildings

Civil buildings

One new building was added (Wind Mill - coded from scratch even if it was present in vanilla?).
For some buildings the effects and conditions were tweaked.
In particular, the effects of ports and wharfs have been fixed given the new knowledge about what doesn't work in the engine. The ports provide mainly trade fleets (outbound trade), while the wharf line the trade benefits for all trade.
In few cases building times or prices were adjusted.
Many pics and icons have been updated.
Some text descriptions have been overhauled.

Military buildings

Recruitment from the Local Recruitment buildings reviewed. Recruitment of the peasant units from the farms removed altogether. Many other changes to recruitment (see part on the units).
In some other (but not all) buildings recruitment of certain units have been tweaked.
Some issues have been fixed (eg. number of recruitment slots).

Wonders

the benefits have been tweaked to make a real difference.
many wonders provide much health - the goal is to make it possible for huge cities to be huge and to limit the frequency of the plagues.
the benefits for the religious-related wonders differ depending on the religion of the owner.
some new (or rather old) pics have been added.

Guilds

The changes are actually quite limited: the logic, types and most of benefits were left as before.
Their prices have been increased (2, 5 and 10k), while availability of the Master levels has been somehow limited (only in the large cities).
The triggers for a guild to be offered have been reviewed but not thoroughly (it seems the guilds are lavishly offered).
The Hanseatic Guild has undergone a significant revamp already in 096. Three additional historical events were introduced (ostsiedlung, lubeck-hamburg pact, confederation of Cologne) to determine the moment of the increase in its capabilities. Also the units that this guild make available has changed. All in all, there's a gradual increase of usefulness of this guild. In 097 there're some adjustments in this aspect, and also the triggers giving points were changed. In the patch E a problem of the guild appearing in non-eligible provinces was fixed.

hanseatic_guild requires factions { northern_european, eastern_european, } {
convert_to 0
capability
{

; HANSE - UNITS

recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.09 3 0 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and not event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1
recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.13 3 1 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1 and not event_counter PAVISE_SHIELDS 1
recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.09 3 2 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter PAVISE_SHIELDS 1

recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.06 2 0 requires factions { pisa, venice, papal_states, sicily, serbia, byzantium, georgia, } and not event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1
recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.09 2 1 requires factions { pisa, venice, papal_states, sicily, serbia, byzantium, georgia, } and event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1

recruit_pool "Lettish Crossbowmen" 1 0.06 2 0 requires factions { moors, egypt, zengid, abbasid, rum, turks, } and event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1

recruit_pool "Arbalesters" 1 0.09 2 0 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter PAVISE_SHIELDS 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
recruit_pool "Arbalesters" 1 0.13 3 1 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

recruit_pool "Arbalesters" 1 0.13 2 0 requires factions { pisa, venice, papal_states, sicily, serbia, byzantium, georgia, } and event_counter PAVISE_SHIELDS 1
recruit_pool "Arbalesters" 1 0.11 2 0 requires factions { moors, egypt, zengid, abbasid, rum, turks, } and event_counter PAVISE_SHIELDS 1

recruit_pool "Latin Handgunners" 1 0.13 3 1 requires factions { byzantium, } and event_counter first_watch 1

recruit_pool "Sergeant Swordsmen" 1 0.09 1 1 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
recruit_pool "Sergeant Swordsmen" 1 0.06 1 2 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

recruit_pool "Sergeant Swordsmen" 1 0.06 1 1 requires factions { pisa, venice, papal_states, sicily, serbia, byzantium, georgia, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
recruit_pool "Sergeant Swordsmen" 1 0.03 1 1 requires factions { moors, egypt, zengid, abbasid, rum, turks, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

recruit_pool "Swabian Swordsmen" 1 0.21 3 1 requires factions { norway, denmark, lithuania, russia, kievan_rus, cumans, england, scotland, france, hre, jerusalem, spain, aragon, portugal, poland, hungary, slave, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
recruit_pool "Swabian Swordsmen" 1 0.13 3 1 requires factions { pisa, venice, papal_states, sicily, serbia, byzantium, georgia, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
recruit_pool "Swabian Swordsmen" 1 0.09 3 1 requires factions { moors, egypt, zengid, abbasid, rum, turks, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

; HANSE - AGENTS

agent merchant 0 requires factions { northern_european, }
agent merchant 0 requires factions { middle_eastern, }
agent merchant 0 requires factions { eastern_european, }
agent merchant 0 requires factions { greek, }
agent merchant 0 requires factions { southern_european, }

agent_limit merchant 1 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
agent_limit merchant 2 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

; HANSE - SETTLEMENT

navy_bonus 1 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
navy_bonus 2 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and not event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1 and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

population_growth_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and not event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1
population_growth_bonus bonus 2 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
population_growth_bonus bonus 3 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

trade_base_income_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and not event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1
trade_base_income_bonus bonus 2 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter OSTSIEDLUNG 1 and not event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1
trade_base_income_bonus bonus 3 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter HANSEATIC_LEAGUE_EXPANDS 1 and not event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1
trade_base_income_bonus bonus 4 requires factions { northern_european, southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter HANSE_CONFEDERATION_OF_COLOGNE 1

happiness_bonus bonus -2 requires factions { southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and not event_counter merchant_skills 1 and not event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1
happiness_bonus bonus -1 requires factions { southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and event_counter merchant_skills 1 and not event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1
happiness_bonus bonus -1 requires factions { southern_european, eastern_european, greek, middle_eastern, } and not event_counter merchant_skills 1 and event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1

happiness_bonus bonus -2 requires factions { norway, denmark, england, scotland, france, jerusalem, } and not event_counter merchant_skills 1
happiness_bonus bonus -1 requires factions { norway, denmark, england, scotland, france, jerusalem, } and event_counter merchant_skills 1 and not event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1
happiness_bonus bonus -1 requires factions { norway, denmark, england, scotland, france, jerusalem, } and not event_counter merchant_skills 1 and event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1

happiness_bonus bonus -1 requires factions { hre, } and not event_counter merchant_skills 1 and not event_counter FL_is_crowned_ruler 1
}

Agents

Princesses - due to the Noble Lady script, their number is significantly higher in the game. The script gives each faction a princess (on average) every 30 turns, starting after turn 60. As a result, it is much easier to meet a potential spouse for your Faction Heir and get a foreign blood (and alliance, and better traits for children of FH/FL) through diplomatic deals. As a last resort you may also marry your FH/FL to the Noble Lady that is given to your faction (they're not relatives; some ladies can have 5-6 charm that will profit in the traits of the husband and his children). This feature existed in the SSHIP 096, but now it has been fixed (no more Princess spawn, and Princess without names or without charm). Note that this mechanism is an alternative to the Royal Ladies of the Court submod available for the SS6.4. The traits of the Princesses are as they were in the SSHIP 092 and should be reviewed in the future.

Merchants - their number is significantly lower in the game while their profitability is much higher. You will have just one or two at the beginning of the game, and only a few during much of the game. Only capitals, cities with the relevant guilds (merchants, explorers) and cities with higher levels of trade buildings will increase this number. Ownership of cities certain regions (Flanders, Northern Italy) will add one, making some faction more merchant-heavy than the others. See the discussion on the reasons for such changes here. The share of income from the merchants in your total income should be higher though, because (1) each merchant (or rather each 1-finance attribute) provides much more income than before, and (2) because there are many double-resource spots on the map. Given that there are more resources on the map, the hostile acquisitions should be rarer. The traits of the merchants are as they were in the SSHIP 092 and may be reviewed in the future.

Priests - their number is lower in the game, although not as low as that of the merchants. The number increases by one with (1) each church in a capital (i.e. the faction initial capital and with any other faction's capital that would be conquered. Note that it doesn't change with the change of capital during the game) starting from the town level; (2) each temple in the minor city or higher (unless it is a capital - in this case no change to the number), (3) any huge cathedral; (3) if the FL has the "strictly_religious" policy (trait), the limit for each church building is increased by 1 (ie. 2 instead of 1, or 3 instead of 2); (4) a Theologians guild building (but only after certain historical events, read the pop-out windows to learn when). Note that the priests are not recruitable from the guilds, only from churches. The AI has access to more priests than the player and thus it is likely to present a challenge (the AI is quite good at sending priest abroad to make the players life difficult). The availability of the pagan priests is the same as it was for the small settlements (basically, one per settlement if a temple is built) but will not increase with the increase of the size of settlements. The traits of the priests had been updated already for the SSHIP 096.

Diplomats - their number is significantly lower in the game. It increases with every (1) administrative building in a capital (ie. provinces with hidden resource capital: if the faction conquers another faction capital, it will have access to one more diplomat); (2) Explorers or Theologian Guild; (3) University. Their traits had been updated already for the SSHIP 096.

Spies and assassins - their numbers are as they were in the SSHIP 092 or even SS6.4. It is to be decided in the future how to limit their numbers, perhaps for version 098. Their traits had been updated already for the SSHIP 096.

Witches, heretics, inquisitors - their numbers are as they were in the SSHIP 092 or even SS6.4. Their traits had been updated already for the SSHIP 096. (to recall: both Heretics and Witches convert to the heretic religion (ie that of the rebel faction), but the Heretics effect directly only priests while the Witches effect only Family members (ie. those staying too close could get some bad traits).

New gameplay mechanics

Army supply costs (for Very Hard difficulty)
The supply system makes you pay for your armies (ie generals) staying in the enemy lands, travelling by boat or besieging an enemy settlement. The amount of money depends on the traits and ancillaries of the relevant general. If he's got no specialized ones (like Logistician or SiegeEngineer), the costs may be very significant.

Army morale (for Hard and Very Hard difficulties)

Each general has a trait describing the current morale of the troops under his command. If they have been resting in their homelands for some time, they are likely to be "Ready for Action". If the general is a Good Commander, they may even be "Eager To Fight". In both cases, they will have good morale in battles. Once the army moves, it will lose morale after a few turns of marching and the troops will became "Weary". This happens faster if the troops are in enemy lands or at sea, or if they are conducting a siege, or they are lead by a Bad Commander. If they campaign for very long time, they will became "Despondent", "Undisciplined" and even "Mutinous". Such traits will result in lower morale on the battlefield and slower movement on the campaign map. The general will also (temporarily) lose Loyalty and Command. In order for troops to recover their morale, the army must return to its homeland. The speed of recovery once at home depends upon: initial state of morale (very low levels improve more quickly), faith of the province population (if faction's own religion is above 50%, then recovery is faster), sitting in a settlement.
You may read more here.

Royal Crowns

In the Middle Ages, the main factor preventing rulers from creating large empires was the disloyalty of their nobles at home, which forced leaders to divide their attention between conquest and the preservation of order. When the rich and powerful found themselves far away from the eyes of their overlord, they would often try to establish their own rule in the provinces. Proximity to their liege lord would generally prove sufficient to suppress these ambitions. In turn, the rulers needed legitimacy, preferably with God's blessing. One method of acquiring this legitimacy was a formal coronation.
This phenomenon is reflected in the SSHIP gameplay. A faction leader may acquire a crown, thereby giving him increased Authority. The crown gives both direct benefits for the king and also boosts generals' loyalty in an indirect way, as the penalties associated with the distance to your capital are reduced when you have a crowned faction leader. Plotters and usurpers also less likely to appear in a kingdom with a crowned king. As a result, a good mid-game goal for the player is to attain the faction's crown. The provinces required for gaining your faction's crown can be found in the map in the faction panel, while the other requirements are described in the Ruler's relevant trait (you will also receive notifications with this info). There is also an easier way to have your ruler crowned, namely having the trait Strong Legacy from his father. In this case, when the king's heir ascends the throne he may be crowned even if he does not have sufficient personal qualities or rule over all required provinces. Instead, he simply inherits his father's crown (provided he has enough money for the coronation ceremony and to cover the running costs of a court).

Expanded system of personality traits
There were many personality traits in the SS6.4, or indeed in the vanilla Med2. However, now they were made much consistent and given to all characters.
Mind that the characters born-in-family will usually have much better traits that those adopted.

Education
This feature has been present in the SS6.4, however it was rife with errors (read the analysis here). The system has been tweaked for 092 as a minimod, then included in the 096. For 097 it has been updated: the triggers were reviewed and fixed here and there, and the ancillaries have been added as a way to educate the young generals. The current system is now as folows:
· the education time is 12 turns (that means a general gets education only as teenager: age 14-19);
· each type of education has 4 levels;
· most of the young will start with “Normal Intelligence” and improve over life marginally. This is the central traits for getting administrative education and then getting the economic skills.
· trait “NaturalMilitarySkill” is the central traits for military and pagan education: it determines the speed these types of education can develop.
· trait “Scholar" is rare but extremely valuable: it enables learning process of adult generals and is useful if the character stays in cities with libraries (he may provide books for the faction).
· all benefits and triggers have been rebalanced (see the table below), the descriptions were added or modified, a guide how to get education is shown in-game as a pop-out window.

You should keep your general at school until he's schooled (it makes little sense to keep him longer). If you've got university, he can attain the second level of education.
However, if your general has a Tutor ancillary and stays in a settlement with both School and Library, he can get that second level education.

Limited visibility
One of the problems of waging war in the Middle Ages was lack of precise information regarding what was going on away from the capital or important cities - both inside and outside of one's country. Every general had to lead his army in ignorance of the whereabouts and composition of enemy forces. In the SSHIP the relative difficulty of gathering information is conveyed through:
- increased costs of watchtowers and the absence of the initial ones (see the arguments here).
- reduced sight range for untrained agents (spies, assassins, princesses, merchants, and diplomats - coded in their traits).
- reduced sight range for inexperienced generals (coded in their traits).
As a result of these changes, sight range bonuses are very important. Generals may get such bonuses from education, ancillaries, offices, and various traits. Militarily-minded generals usually fare better in this respect.
The player is also encouraged to refrain from checking the composition of an enemy army before battle, unless you have scouted their force with spies beforehand (due to the limitations of the M2TW engine, it is not possible to disable the preview of enemy forces entirely, but such a house-rule should be followed by those who would like to face a real, and historically accurate, challenge).

A priest can't see the cities even only two spaces away from him. Only spies and, to a lesser extent, diplomats have larger visibility.

Unrest in the conquered major cities
This is not a new mechanism but it has been reviewed for 097, bug-fixed and adjusted.
Certain major settlements were historically difficult to control. The script give them additional unrest when:
- the settlement is conquered by the player (strong increase: you a really good governor to prevent a rebellion, so get prepared or just sack and leave this settlement).
- a weak faction leader ascends to the throne (only for the player: this is a major danger of the change on the throne).
- the settlement is not in the hands of the historical faction (for the AI: slight increase in probability of such cities to rebel).
These settlements are usually the former capitals but also some with strong local identity (eg. Prague).

Units

New taxonomy and stats' changes

Many units' stats, building times and prices have been revamped based on the table:

Costs of the units
They have been re-calculated to fit changes in the mod parameters:
* urban militias have the same price of both recruitment and upkeep, they also have the free_upkeep attribute. Infantry has 1-turn recruitment time, while cavalry 2-turn.
* tribal units also have the same prices of recruitment and upkeep, but they don't have free_upkeep (except for the Cumans in the steppes). They all have 1-turn recruitment time.
* feudal levies recruitment prices are as a rule 2.66 times the upkeep price (that makes them quite expensive to recruit but then the upkeep is comparable to militia). All infantry units have 2-turn recruitment time, while cavalry 3-turn.
* feudal knights still have a very high upkeep price (even compared to their quality) but they have 0 recruitment price. As the result, they should be recruited in times of a need, and could be disbanded afterwards. They are all recruited in 1 turn. This may lead, however, to the AI factions fielding too many knights (if yes, then it'll be adjusted in the future).
* the professionals are very expensive but have very good quality. Mounted professionals have their recruitment time 1-turn longer than the foot ones.
* mercenary units' upkeep costs were adjusted according to the recruitment prices that were implemented in the patch to 096 (it's why many players reported then so many too-cheap mercs). In particular, they have decreased recruitment costs and increased upkeep costs (to prevent them from being the better and cheaper permanent troops).
* the cost of ships have been recalculated (higher construction price, decreased upkeep), the recruitment times made longer.

Free upkeep
This feature has been re-introduced into the SSHIP. However, it's only for urban militia units that could be finances by the rich burghers to keep order in their cities, and nomadic militias that could care for themselves in the steppes. Core buildings (cities and castles) provide 1-4 free upkeep slots (except for the Cumans and the Mongols). The number of theses slots is higher by 1 if the Faction Leader has the "protector" trait. The Cumans and Mongols have free upkeep for their units from the Grazing Lands buildings (previously: Grassland).

Recruitment
* Recruitment of the peasant units from the farms removed altogether. As a compensation, the low-level barracks provide more other lower-tier units. In some cases, the recruitment of the Peasant units also removed from the factional abilities (this is the work to be concluded in the future with full transformation of all Peasant units into useful fighting units).* Crossbow Militias are available also from the barracks in the cities (the exception are less advanced factions that get the access only after the Mounted Crossbow event).
* feudal knights that are recruited from the Local Council building chain have high maximum pool numbers (3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2) so that they can be mobilized in time of a need but otherwise are not tapped. Replenishment rates slightly nerfed (usually by 0.01) and are now on average: 14 turns for cav and 11 turns for foot.
* Prussian units (Axemen, Spearmen, Auxillia, Archers) are recruitable from the castles in 5 provinces with the hidden resource "prussia" for everybody (more if with "lithuania", less with "russia" and "poland").
* Prussian units can be recruited by Lithuania from it's temples in those 5 provinces (this means: also from the cities).
* Lithuania can recruit bodyguards also from it's temples (all Perkunas levels plus highest levels of Dievas and Giltine). Dievas Guard available only after appearance of the Teutonic Knights, before this happens one may recruit a weaker unit (Lithuanian Raiders) from this shrine.
* Chudy tribal unit can be recruited only in the north (hidden resources: russia, denmark, lithuania) (unfortunately, unit available only for Kiev while it should be also for Novgorod or rather be an AoR unit in the north, available for everybody).
* many changes to the Polish units.
* some order in the recruitment of the Georgian factional units made (also with the use of event "Shota Rustaveli"); Georgian Msakhereuli Swordsmen (ex-Tazreuli) are no longer recruitable from the cathedrals, but as usual: from the castle barracks; access to Levy Archers removed (it was a silver surfers' unit). Recruitment of the Peasants removed.
Note that except from the Polish, Georgian, Lithuanian and parts of Hungarian and Rus rosters, the other factions' units' recruitment was left almost as it was in the SSHIP 092.

New names for existing units
* a thorough redress of the names of the Georgian units (Kartlian Spearmen -> Metsikhovne Spearmen; Caucasus Hillmen ok; Metiskhovne Spearmen -> Msakhureuli Spearmen; Aznauri Nobles -> Aznauri Cavalry; Tadzreuli Swordsmen -> Msakhureuli Swordsmen; Khevsur Heavy Infantry -> Eristavi Guards; Foot Monaspa lancers -> Foot Monaspa; Svanian Hunters -> Mountain Hunters; Metiskhovne Archers ok; Foot Monaspa Archers ok; Royal Monaspa Guard -> Tadzreuli; Georgian Horse Archers -> Msakhureuli Light Cavalry; Aznauri Lancers ok; Monaspa Horse Archers ok; Eristavi Cavalry -> Eristavi Retainers; Monaspa Lancers ok).
* changes in the Polish units' names: Piast Nobles -> Możni, Piast Foot Nobles - Spieszeni Możni, Polish Knights -> Rycerze, Dismounted Polish Knights -> Spieszeni Rycerze, Polish Retainers -> Pocztowi, Polish Guard -> Kopijnicy.
* many changes to the names in the Baltic area (eg. Lithuanian Cavalry -> Lithuanian Raiders (it's what they actually did: raiding the neighbouring regions, including Volynia and Masovia), Lithuanian Skirmishers -> Morass Scouts (to give the feeling for the swampy terrain in Lithuania); Followers of Perkunas -> Pagan Fanatics (this is still a fantasy unit, but name is less ridiculous); Lettish Crossbowmen -> Baltic Crossbowmen (explained elsewhere); Prussian Auxillia -> Northern Horse Javelinmen (this unit is a leftover of the Teutonic Order and was historical in that context); Lithuanian Archers -> Forest Archers (to get rid of the ridiculous legacy of vanilla Med2: the backbone of the Polish army turned out to be called "Lithuanian Archers").
* in the North and East, the Light Men at Arms are called again Light Swordsmen.
* in the East the Kazaks are called Steppe Raiders and will be available as mercenaries also on the fringes of the Rus lands.
* in the Slav lands the Peasant Archers are called Slavic Levy Archers, in the Balkans: Village Archers, while in other parts of oikumene they are simply Levy Archers. They all have 2 missile attack value that makes them useful in certain situations, eg. settlement defense.
* Transylvania Peasants are now called Transylvanian Saxons and can be recruited only in Transylvania from the mines; numbers increase significantly after the Ostsiedlung event. They also have a free_upkeep - but only in their own province. [note: given that they are un-historically equipped with halberds it should be changed in the future, it's just a quick fix.].
* Fyrd unit is renamed Saxon Spearmen. It is recruitable only in England (hidden resource england), the numbers dwindle after Thomas Beckett event and then is being finally phased out after the Magna Charta event. The unit has also low morale, albeit a bit higher than the Spear Militia.

Mercenaries

Mercenaries
* a few more mercenary pools created (eg. two Scandinavian pools remade into three: Norway, Denmark, Sweden).
* some (previously overlooked) mercenary prices adjusted to the other mercenary prices (sometimes decreased, sometimes increased).
* changes in availability for some units in some regions were made, especially in Scandinavia, Rus, Poland and the Baltics.
* fixes here and there, eg. Mercenary Ribault are available from the event "Cannons" (which still is rather early, but until now it was far worse: a gun unit used at the beginning of 13th century...); removed from a few areas where it was very un-historical (Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia), re-fill rates have been lowered much. Their prices are initially 1k higher, only later go down. (frankly speaking, we've got no opinion on where/when Ribaults should be available...)
* a warning (pop-out window) on imminent disbandment of mercenaries is included when the faction plunges in debt. Another information window underscores this danger if the faction has less 1000 fl. in the coffers (it doesn't appear each turn, it has a cool-off period scriped).
* the issue of the Siege Weapons as mercenaries has been discussed, but has not been implemented, and it's not foreseen in the future. See the discussion here.

; COMMENTS ON THE UNITS:
; - Northern Europe, with much of woods, have two specific units: Hunters & Woodsmen
; - Russia & Scandinavia have a specific strong axe unit: Axemen
; - Mercenary Spearmen are the unit available accross the Christian world, sometimes replaced by the local unit (like Welsh Spearmen).
; - Western Europe has two early units: Macemen, Sergeant Swordsmen.
; - Mercenary Crossbowmen come only with proper urbanization level and proper technology (mounted_crossbows - the event reflects a broader issue of technological change, not only for horsemen).
; - African (black) units are more frequent in the desert regions but occassionaly appear also on the coast.
; - no mercenary boats - a faction needs own capabilities to build ships to transport own armies (unless it's a crusade).

Diplomacy

AI support

Support for the AI

The AI receives in the SSHIP various tweaks and buffs to the supporting mechanisms from the SS6.4. They scale with the difficulty of the game. Is should be underscored that it is not about giving more money to the AI, it's about increasing various parameters so that at higher difficulties the AI has better generals, less problems with the public order, can grow settlements faster. However, the AI doesn't get smarter with difficulty - at Easy it behaves similar to Very Hard.

The scripts for the behavious of the AI have been fixed just here and there. The SSHIP uses Germanicu5 ReallyBadAI v5.7 and a modified version of the G5 Faction Economy Script. As a matter of fact, these scripts constitute 50% of the whole script, if measured in terms of the number of lines. Perhaps even more in terms of the turn processing time.

Three special traits for the AI generals give them additional bonuses across the board - these have been thoroughly analyzed and overhauled. This should be visible in the AI long-term developments and the difficulty in battling strong commanders. They scale with the difficulty of the game.

AI agents' are buffed up (priests, spies, merchants etc.): they are likely to have higher initial traits and get them improved over their lifes. The player is supposed to level up his own agents to match those buffs. They scale significantly with the difficulty of the game and some also with the length of the play (eg. there are triggers that fire only after 200 turns of play). Eg. if you want to match the AI merchants, build the markets and found the merchants guilds so that your merchants are up to the AI challenge.

Some buildings give additional benefits for the AI, especially for keeping the public order and health of the cities. The AI is unaware of the bonuses of the traits of the generals, the feature that the player is expected to use widely, so it would be at much inferior position to give the player a challenge.

Financial support is provided to the AI factions at the higher difficulties. It is rather modes for is something the mod tries to avoid. This support aims at saving the AI from bankruptcy, not adding much money for a spending spree. There are also financial scripts preventing the AI from amassing fortune that can be exploited by the player in the diplomatic deals.

AI is not bound by the mechanisms it is not aware of, eg. army supply cost, army morale, unrest in the major cities after a conquest / a usurper ascending to the throne, requirements for recruitment of certain agents, etc.

Scripted initial sieges for the AI factions have been thoroughly reviewed for 097, fixed and updated. The smaller factions got additional ones to make them viable in the game (Portugal, Rum, Lithuania), a few bigger got their sieges deleted (HRE in Verona, Seljuks in Ray (this one was actually buggy and a source of crashes since Ray was Seljuk at the beginning), Sicily in Naples), while some got additional to ensure each front would be going (Scandinavia, Ifrikiyya), remote provinces would be conquered (Visby, Bulgar, Al-Ahsa), or there wouldn't be easy expansion for strong factions (eg. Severin by the Cumans). You may see the sieges in the map below - but you may prefer to be surprised in the game and abstain from expanding this spoiler

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Scripted invasions or uprisings have been either fixed (William Wallace, Bulgarian Uprising) or added (Qara Qitai).

Additional Scripted Generals if there're very few in a AI factions script has been fixed (a small error would make it getting a general every turn what could be experienced eg players playing Poland after conquest of Kernave). Currently, each AI faction can get additional 2 generals every generation (20 years) if there're fewer than 4 named characters in that faction. This should limit the defeat of a faction just because the assassins were on killing spree.

Faction re-emergence script has been overhauled and fixed against some bugs (not all of them, unfortunatelly). This means that the destroyed factions should re-emerge after some time. The well-known problem for the Medieval 2 modding is that it is not possible to determine where they would emerge. Let's keep the fingers crossed that not in a very strange place.

Pro memoria: there are also other support mechanisms for the AI (additional initial armies and fleets, additional scripted fleets), but these were left untouched, perhaps as they were in the SS6.4.

Sound and graphics

**Lifthrasir** · June 05, 2014, 07:03 AM

SSHIP v0.9.6 (6th of December 2019)

2016 Modding Awards
3rd position

2018 Modding Awards
Winner

2019 Modding Awards
Winner

DOWNLOAD LINKS SSHIP v0.9.6 (Patch from February 22, 2020 included). The changelog is here.
Download Link #1 - on Mega
Download Link #2 - on Moddb

Patch from Lurker from Codex: fixes ctd's due to some broken traits. It can be found here (save game compatible).
Patch from NaczelnyS: fixes number of recruitment slots. It can be found here.

SoundFix: Brings back missing voices. For non-english version of the game, mostly the French and German one (these being the only one reported so far). It can be found here (Mega).
Once downloaded, copy the file in your data folder to replace the existing one. Go to the sounds folder and delete the .dat and .idx files. Launch the mod

Note that a ctd might happen the 1st time the game is launched on the Steam version. Try a 2nd time if it happens.

IMPORTANT: Stainless Steel v6.4 required - not save game compatible

Click below for...

Changelog

SSHIP v0.9.6

Zengid Emirate has its entries named "zengid" instead "kwarezm"
Abbassid Caliphate has its entries named "abbasid" instead "milan"
Kingdom of Georgia has its entries named "georgia" instead "timurid"
Grand duchy of Serbia has its entries named "serbia" instead "teutonic_order"

This is more for us and for modding purposes.

All capitals should be correct now. Krakow set as Capital for Poland
Ani, Trebizond, Bradenburg and Zara are back as independant settlements.
Some regions' names corrected as follow:
- Bremen province: Westfalen
- Hamburg province: Sachsen
- Liubice province: Meklemburg
- Coellen province: Niederlothringen
- Trier province: Oberlothringen
- Frankfurt province: Nordfranken
- Speyer province:Südfranken
- Basel province: Helvetia
- Ulm province: Schwaben
- Pamphylia (Konya): Lycaonia,
- Lycia (Attaleia): Pamphylia
- Lycaonia (Kayseri): Southern Cappadocia
- Southern Cappadocia (Malatya): Armenia Minor
As such, the faction selection screen has been updated accordingly.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Note that being an animated gif lower down the resolution and quality. This is just for illustration and the final result should be much better in game
Some map adjustments:
- Bulgaria: there was an important road between Triadica and Adrianoupolis. With the v0.9.5 map configuration in that area, it was impossible to set such road. So, Bulgaria has been reworked as follow:

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Bulgaria in v0.9.6:

Without the colours:

These 2 regions has been renammed respectively Northern Bulgaria and Southern Bulgaria

- Anatolia: there was an issue reported about the army deployment beside rivers. That was due to the map heights. We also took the opportunity to correct some heights. Note that it might requier further adjustment depending on players' feedback

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

-> North West - in v0.9.5:

-> North West - in v0.9.6

The river near Nicaea was climbing the hill (red circle). Not anymore

-> Central Anatolia - in v0.9.5:

-> Central Anatolia - in v0.9.6

The heights near the bridge and in North of the lake have been corrected (red circles).

-> East Anatolia - in v0.9.5:

-> East Anatolia - in v0.9.6
strat.txt:

- Changed "Attack faction" to "Promise to attack faction"

descr_win_conditions:

- Fixed short georgian campaign having more requirements than the long georgian campaign

historic_events text & descr_events.txt:

- In-game information (through historic events mechanism) on a few topics that were in the SSHIP but were not understood and that have been recently introduced. The goal is to make easier for the new players to play the SSHIP, but also to understand the differences with the other mods for the seasoned players. The information concerns in particular: officess, settlement management, crowns, character traits, agents, fog of war.

- Corrected for style, grammar, english

- Changed the world is round entry because everyone knew the world was round, it was even in the bible for goodness' sake
- Gave all countries unique flavour text for their civil war events
- Made the "leader is dead"/regency events a little less generic for each faction

EDCT text:

- Standardised the way effects are written
- The royal blood traits for the republics now refer to blood membership in a powerful family
- Fixed entries broken by switch from Milan->Abbasid
- Changed grasslands description
- Significant changes to explanations of officeholding, usurpers, rightful heirs, nearcapital traits
- Removed a number of typos, also cleaned up the english (no judgement, not like I am fluent in a second language)
- Changed entries for traits with new or different effects (see EDCT section)

EDA text:

- Generally removed editorialising, in an effort to bring the style of writing in line with vanilla
- Added entry for manuel anemas ancillary
- Added entry for ecumenical patriarch
- Changed entries for Luther and Wycliffe to correspond to new effects
- Removed a number of typos, also cleaned up the english

expanded.txt:

- Corrected certain entries to remove anachronisms
- Added level 5 priest entry for certain factions to give ecumenical patriarch strat name
- Added unique names for various factions to add flavour

descr_character:

- Added additional entries to orthodox countries' priests to permit additional levels for the purposes of identifying the ecumenical patriarch on the campaign map

campaign_script:

- Fixed broken jerusalem reemergence script (settlement being checked was Marrakesh and not jerusalem)
- Game now knows if a faction is currently engaged in a war they started (aggressor = 1)
- Added princess spawning script for after turn 60
- Isaakios komnenos gets sent off map at the beginning of the game
- Ioannis komnenos gets sent off map at the beginning of the game
- Ali ibn nizar gets sent off map at the beginning of the game
- Game now knows when there is a general with Trusted1 in proximity to the capital (trusted_ally = 1)
- Game now knows when there is a general with Trusted1 (right_hand = 1)
- Prepared a script that allows us to guarantee that there will always be an heir for the republic factions (it is not active)
- Orthodox factions get extra patriarchs if they control alexandria, rome, jerusalem or antioch
- Game now knows when the faction that owns constantinople is having its turn (for ecumenical patriarch)
- Commented out the heir selection script.. I don't think any of us will miss it
- Game tracks when military assistance is rendered for the purposes of fixing the broken mil assistance trigger in the factionstanding file
- Troubadours event now requires jousting lists or better in faction instead of town hall, requires catholic religion, requires turn number greater than 150

export_desc_characters_traits & export_vnvs:

- Education of Generals fix – this is the (first) JoC minimod, with some later fixes included. It fixes the triggers and the effects for the education system that exists in the SSHIP (and also the base SS). See the details here and here
- Generals’ Traits Common Sense fix – this is a JoC minimod, with some later fixes included. It fixes the triggers and effects for many traits that exist in the SSHIP (and also the base SS). See the details here. It also includes the Fog of War adjustments to the traits (Line Of Sight restrictions for not experienced generals).
- Usurper and Loyalty fix - parts o the mechanism in the EDCT have been fixed on the VineFynn's proposa.: see details in this thread. It also includes the Loyalty adjustments as partially described here.

- Priests’ fix: antitrait bug removed (by doubling the number of triggers), definitions and triggers modified to provide balance, the pagan priests fixed (they didn't work before), some information messages fixed.
- Spies’ fix: antitrait bug removed: the triggers were in fact doubled, the definitions and triggers modified. The Line of Sight shortened for base level, LoSfor other traits added.
- Other agents’reviewed for bugs (Antitrait etc.) and for logic/completenes in triggers: Witch, Heretic, Inquisitor, Diplomat (no change of LoS).
- Princess fix - traits were partially fixed for the Anti-trait and NoComingBack bug.
- Added traits and trait triggers for tracking aggressors

- Added triggers for giving royal blood to AI's spawned princesses
- Increased authority gain from Rightful Heir
- Increased authority gain from Plotter
- Speaker and BadSpeaker now affect popularity instead of law
- Nerfed Just trait slightly
- Last levels of HarshRuler and KindRuler impose small penalty on unrest and taxcollection respectively
- Physically Flawless now increases troopmorale instead of decreasing command for some reason
- Ugly levels do not increase command, instead increase troopmorale
- Lewd no longer decreases bribe resistance but instead reduces piety
- Changed the flnearcapital system to make it more interesting/interactive:
- Added Courtier trait
- Added NearCapitalTrait
- Modified FLNearCapital trait and triggers
- Modified NearLoyalty triggers
- Generals now only gain loyalty from being near the capital when the faction leader or a Trusted1 general is
- Generals who hang around the capital for prolonged periods of time may gain increased chance of being selected as next heir
- Once there is a general with trusted1, other generals cannot gain near_loyalty
- Republics no longer transmit Factionleader 1 by blood, instead those with royal blood gain it by having good traits and lose it by having bad ones (simulate acceptability to the electors)
- Adoptees in republics gain the republic's corresponding bloodline
- Nerfed royal_blood and royal_relations for pisa and venice
- Admirals no longer get randomly wounded
- Fixed broken triggers for just trait, which meant being chivalrous would reduce it
- Fixed entries broken by switch from Milan->Abbasid
- Fixed apparently broken trigger for antipopes
- Commented out parts of triggers that use the stupid heroandrogue syste
- Fixed a bunch of broken priest triggers
- Fixed some broken admiral wounded triggers
- Fixed broken agent health recovery triggers
- Fixed broken agent visiting building/guild triggers

- Fixed some broken spy mission success triggers

- Made Maritime Interests trait hidden, it had no description written for any of its levels

- Decreased absolutely insane -5 (1 = 10%) malus to bribe resistance from diplomat education traits (londonedu bolognaedu etc, each level of BribeResistance is 10% increase/decrease)

- Claims inherited matrilineally are now weaker than normal claims, but are treated as normal claims in the event of becoming faction heir or leader provided the character isn't usurping, in which case it is easier for them to be a stronger usurper

- Princesses can inherit normal claims from their mothers, and weak claims from their fathers, but not weak claims from their mothers (originally they could not inherit normal claims from their mothers)

descr_regions:

- Changed rebel type in trebizond province to Greek_Rebels

export_descr_ancillaries & descr_ancillaries:

- Provincial titles fix: 32 titles (from Central and Eastern Europe) have been updated: names, pics, effects, descriptions; in some cases also triggers or the very existence - this is JoC submod, details are provided in this thread.
- Ministerial Offices fix: 8 titles have been fixed: triggers, also existence of a few muslim and greek versions (this is a JoC fix, details are here). The descriptions in the EA provide the player with full picture how to use them.- Harsh judge now affects law 1

- Tacitius replaced with Manuel Anemas, Effect Command 1 Authority 1

- Greeks cannot acquire the privyseal anc
- Ecumenical patriarch worldwide anc will be given to a patriarch of an orthodox owner of constantinople (provided there is no other such ancillary out there)
- This anc makes the patriarch equivalent to an antipope in terms of stats, and improves relations with other orthodox factions, but it could do with a better graphic
- Commented out scepter of the high officer anc, this is completely pointless as it is ahistorical, non transferable and guaranteed to appear on any byzantine general with Military_Career_In_Byzantium > 6, also the career trait doesnt need more buffs than it already gives
- Martin Luther is now only accessible to catholics and decreases piety (so he increases chance of being burnt by inquisitors) but increases a bunch of other stuff to compensate
- John Wycliffe was changed similarly

descr_faction_standing:

- Replaced entry for reducing standing when at war to one which reduces standing for aggressors as being tracked by new script

- Ecumenical Patriarch ancillary improves relations with orthodox factions
- Reputation no longer takes longer to normalise on higher difficulty levels- instead it normalises to a lower level (technically making things harder)
- Hard and Very Hard difficulties reduce your relations less than before (trying to balance above change)
- Actions which are obviously only supposed to normalise your reputation in one particular direction now work as intended
- Player factions now normalise relations with all the same factions as the AI to the same level as the AI but not always as quickly
- Added the sphere of influence system, wherein taking certain settlements as certain factions hurts reputation and relations less
- Military assistance now works as intended wrt reputation

Descr_Strat:

- Byzantium:

-- Fixes:
Isaakios Komnenos- added FactionHeir 1
Roger Dalassinos- added WifeIsFactionHeir 2
Konstantinos Angelos- added WifeIsFactionHeir 2 to Nikiphoros Vryennios, Konstantinos Angelos, Roger Dalassinos
Nikiphoros Vryennios- added WifeIsGreek 1, WifeIsFactionHeir 2
Nikiphoros Vryennios- removed FactionHeir 1
-- Existing Characters:
Ioannis Komnenos- replaced tacitius anc with manuel anemas (tacitius is super dead at this point)
Ioannis Komnenos- added victorvirtue 1, wifehasconverted 1, wifeishungarian 1
Ioannis Axouchos- increased loyal to 2, strategychivalry to 2 (correction for later start date)
Ioannis Axouchos- added near_loyalty 2, BattleScarred 1, Military_Career_In_Byzantium 5, megas_domestikos (correction for later start date)
Nikiphoros Vryennios- added Greek_Edu 2, Handsome 1, WiseIsWise 3
Nikiphoros Vryennios- is now 70
Alexios- added WifeIsKievan 1, Royal_Relation_Hungarian 1
Rogerios Dalassinos- added Usurper 1, WifeIsSickly 1 (maria dies 10 years into the game historically)
Rogerios Dalassinos- reduced Disloyal to 1 (compensates for additional loyalty loss from Usurper 1)
Andronikos Komnenos- is now 24
Andronikos Komnenos- added Greek_Edu 1, Royal_Relation_Hungarian 1
-- Family Tree:
added Ireni Kievskii as dead wife of Alexios (so we can have his daughter in game)
added Maria Komnenos as daughter of Alexios
added Ireni Lastname as wife of Andronikos Komnenos
added Maria as daughter of Andronikos Komnenos
added Ioannis Lastname as son of Andronikos Komnenos
added Alexios Vryennios as son of Nikiphoros Vryennios
added Ioannis Vryennios as son of Nikiphoros Vryennios
added Ireni Vryennios as daughter of Nikiphoros Vryennios
added Maria Vryennios as dead daughter of Nikiphoros Vryennios
added Ioannis Isaakios as son of Isaakios Komnenos
added Ireni Zvenigorodskii as wife is Isaakios Komnenos
added Maria Isaakios as daughter of Isaakios Komnenos
added Anna Isaakios as daughter of Isaakios Komnenos
added Andronikos Isaakios as son of Isaakios Komnenos
added Andronikos Dalassinos as son of Rogerios Dalassinos
added Maria Angelos as daughter of Konstantinos Angelos
added Alexios Angelos as son of Konstantinos Angelos
-- Misc:
removed Eumathios (disappeared from historical record 15 years before start date)
replaced generic priests with historical figures Leon Styppeiotes and Ioannis Agapitos
Trebizond given to byzantium rebels under Konstantinos Gavras
Konstantinos Angelos- moved to Tarnovo (so axouchos can replace him)
Ioannis Axouchos- moved to Nicaea (so andronikos isaakios can replace him)
- Poland:
-- Existing Characters:
Boleslaw Piast- is now 7
Wladyslaw- added WifeIsHRE 1, Royal_Relation_HRE 1, Offensive_To_Nobles 1 to Wladyslaw
Gromislaw Piast- changed name oto Gromislaw z_Wrocimowic (if we have more real piasts in the game, we don't need fake ones)
Gromislaw Piast- removed Royal_Blood_Polish 1
-- Family Tree:
added Agnieszka as wife of Wladyslaw
added Boleslaw as son of Wladyslaw
added Mieszko as son of Wladyslaw
-- Misc:
Stettin begins under the control of Polish rebels
- Sicily:
-- Existing Characters:
Tancredi- is now 14
Guglielmo- is now 1
Ruggero- is now 15
Ruggero- is now the heir
Ruggero- swapped all traits, units, ancillaries and location with Tancredi
Abbasids:
-- Family Tree:
Added Ali as son of al-Mustarshid
Egypt:
-- Existing Characters:
Al-Hafiz- is now son of son of al-Mustansir
-- Family Tree:
added all the caliphs back to al-Mustansir
added wives for all of the caliphs (ahistorical but necessary)
added Abul-Tayyib as son of Al-Amir
added Ali as offmap son of dead Nazir
- Scotland:
-- Fixes:
Uilleam- added Factionleader 1
-- Existing Characters:
Uilleam- is now son of Donnchad
-- Family Tree:
added Donnchad as dead son of Mael Coluim
- Venice:
-- Fixes:
Domenico Morosini- removed FactionRegent 1
Domenico Morosini- added Factionleader 2
- HRE:
-- Fixes:
Konrad von_Staufen- made heir, since I think that was what was intended by giving him Usurper 2
-- Misc:
Brandenburg begins under the control of Prussian rebels
- England:
-- Fixes:
Geoffrey Plantagenet- added WifeIsFactionHeir 2
Robert Curthose- added Factionleader 1
-- Existing Characters:
Stephen- removed Factionleader 2
Stephen- added Usurper 2
Stephen- added WeakClaimant 1
-- Family Tree:
added William Clinton as dead son of Robert Curthose
added Sybil as dead wife of Robert Curthose
- Novgorod:
-- Existing Characters:
Sviatoslav Olgovich- added WifeIsCumans 1, Factionleader 2
Sviatoslav Olgovich- made heir
Sviatoslav Olgovich- removed Intelligent 1, Factionleader 3, HaveChilds 1
Sviatoslav Olgovich- moved to Pskov
Vsevolod Mstislavich- is now 44 (oldest age he could possibly have been at start date)
Vsevolod Mstislavich- is now leader
Vsevolod Mstislavich- added HaveChilds 1, Factionleader 3, Intelligent 1
Vsevolod Mstislavich- moved to Novgorod
Oleg Olgovich- removed Factionleader 2
-- Family Tree:
added Svyatoslava Chernigovskii as wife of Vsevolod Mstislavich
added Ivan as dead son of Vsevolod Mstislavich
added Vysheslava Mstislavich as daughter of Vsevolod Mstislavich
- Portugal:
-- Existing Characters:
Henriques- changed name to Henriques de Borgone
Sancha de Portugal- changed name to Urraca de Borgone
Sancha de Portugal- swapped location and traits and agenttype with Teresa de Portugal
Teresa de Portugal- changed name to Sancha de Borgone
Teresa de Portugal- is now 35
Teresa de Portugal- is now wife of the other male general at start date
Other male general at start date- changed name to Fernando de Breganca
- Castille:
-- Existing Characters:
Sancha- added PrincessWeakFactionHeir 1
- Hungary:
-- Existing Characters:
Borisz Herceg: added BastardHeir 1
-- Misc:
Zara begins under the control of Venetian rebels
- Rus:
-- Existing Characters:
Yurii Monomakh- added Factionleader 1
Yurii Monomakh- added WifeIsCumans 1
Andrei Dolgorukii- added Factionleader 1
Andrei Dolgorukii- added Royal_Relation_Cumans 1
- Misc:
New vc graphics/pic
Naples- now has paved roads
Constantinople- now has highways
Thessalonica- now has paved_roads, removed theatre
Durrazo- now has roads
Tbilisi- now is city
Adrianople- now has paved_roads
Constantinople- now has racing_track, removed theatre
Venice- removed theatre
Rome- removed theatre
Milan- removed theatre
Kiev- removed theatre
Alamut- buffed starting garrison, leader
Initial Watchtowers removed. It's for the player to develop the infrastructure in the provinces.

desc_cultures:

Watchtower cost increased to 1000.

Reported issues fixed:

Dismounted Vlastela: unit size doubled to match other dismounted units size (48 instead of 24 in EDU).
Georgian units have quality and type descriptions now
Only ERE is able to build highways now.
Muttatawi unit have have quality and type descriptions now
Text descriptions related to Leon Castille refer to Castilians instead of Leonese now
Missing texture for Chivalric Footknights for Aragon fixed
Sea trade routes missing: Distance port to port reduce in the descr_campaign_db file
All missing voices and sounds should be fixed now, no matter if you use an English version of the game or not

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**Lifthrasir** · June 05, 2014, 07:03 AM

Older versions: SSHIP versions 0.95 (2018) and 0.92 (2016)

2016 Modding Awards
3rd position

2018 Modding Awards
Winner

DOWNLOAD LINKS SSHIP v0.9.5 (published 25.12.2018)
Download Link 1 - on Mega
Download Link 2 - on Google Drive

DOWNLOAD LINKS SSHIP v0.9.2 (published 19.01.2016)
4 files: 1 .exe and 3 .bin -Patches 1 & 2 included - Total size: 2.63 Go
Download Link 1 - on Mega
Download Link 2 - on Google Drive

IMPORTANT: Stainless Steel v6.4 required - not save game compatible

DOWNLOAD SOUNDFIX - only for non-English players
SoundFix

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Installation Instructions

Important note: For Windows10 users, install the game and mods outside the Program Files folder (especially for Steam users) as administrator and on Windows7 compatibility mod.

Originally Posted by Gigantus

Installing M2TW outside the program files folder avoids virtual store issues. In Steam you should be able to move your installation outside it after installing.
Once installation is completed set the executable(s) to win7 compatibility and admin rights.

For Steam users, check the following links for additional information (thanks to Gigantus for providing them):
- Creating a World - Starting Steam Mods the easy Way
- Creating a World – Steam Install for SS 6.3 and 6.4
- The ToolBox - The Universal Mod Launcher v1.204

by the courtesy of zachman1201

1. Install a clean version of SS6.4. Run SS_Setup.exe (into the /SS6.3 folder). Run the SS6.4 setup and choose Early Era campaign with Savage AI, RR/RC enabled and optionally, permanent arrows.

IMPORTANT: YOU MUST RUN THE SS6.4 SETUP BEFORE INSTALLING SSHIP. ONCE SSHIP IS INSTALLED, DO NOT EVER RUN SS6.4 SETUP AGAIN OR YOU MUST RE-INSTALL SSHIP

1. Download the SSHIP v0.9.2 (Hotfix 1 & 2 included). You should have the following files:

Launch the .exe

2. Check the path for your installation and correct it if necessary.

You will get the following message:

Accept. And you can check again the path of your installation before to proceed:

Finally, you should have the following screen to confirm that SSHIP has been installed:

Before to proceed to the next step, launch the game once and check if the sounds are ok. If there is any missing voice or wrong accent on the stratmap, proceed as follow:

3.a) If you have an English version, delete the idx and dat files in the SS6.3/data/sounds/ folder. The game will regenerate them. If you're still have an German accent and you're called "my Kaiser", download and install the 2nd soundfix made by MWY and delete the idx and dat files in the SS6.3/data/sounds/ folder.

3.b) If you don't have an English version, install the sound fix in the SS6.3/data/ folder and then delete the .idx and .dat files in the SS6.3/data/sounds/ folder.If you're still have an German accent and you're called "my Kaiser", download and install the 2nd soundfix made by MWY and delete the idx and dat files in the SS6.3/data/sounds/ folder.4. Download SSHIP v0.9.5. Unzip it and merged the data folder obtained with the one located in your SSHIP v0.9.2 installation.5. Play the game!

NOTE: Due to the file's size, 2.63 Go in total, the installation takes a while (about 15 min. depending on your machine).

General Presentation

Overview

Campaign Map

Factions & Leader/Heir Titles

Factions Relations

Infos about the mod

Changelog

SSHIP v0.9.5 (2018-December-25)

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SSHIP v0.9.2 (2016-January-19)

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Overhauled Sky Textures for Battle Maps
Overhauled Flora For Battle Maps
Trees and Flora as well as several terrain textures overhauled for the strat map
Landscapes adjusted according to historical data (Italy, Tunesia, Egypt, Irak, Iran, etc.)
Several new wonders
Finally pictures for almost all buildings
Almost every unit info picture adjusted to the actual unit on the battle map.
Byzantine Roster Textures adjusted, most of the models adjusted. Should look more realistic/better now. Latinikon and Alamanoi use sandy’s models now.
Western Units Overhaul 4.0 fully integrated. New skins for aragon/pisa/Serbia specifically.
Custom-made cultural differences in faces/skins introduced to Western Units Overhaul 4.0. Lighter faces for northern units, darker ones for southern ones. Different faces, beards, etc.
Roster for Serbia adjusted. It’s by far not perfect, but it’s playable now. Early game peasantish units, midgame byzantine-influenced units (or some byzantine units), lategame western units. TO-Textures for existing units removed and adjusted for Serbia.
Textures of Lithuanian units adjusted. Should look way better now, with mail-texture by sandy’s units and altered faces.
Textures of Polish units adjusted. New mid-game units to better represent the polish development.
Some New Units, some unit’s use extended according to history.
Extended the Hungarian roster. Added mailed knights, changed the models of Hungarian nobles.
Changed skincolors and textures of most steppe mercenaries. Now you’ll actually see a difference between the different tribes and cultures there are!
Added the bowstring animation to most units.
Added a new axe animation to most units.
Added some of Raaka Norse units models/textures to the norse factions.
Bring back Barabans late unit skins to all western lategame units.
Different adjustments for the factions rosters, more logical transitions, adjusted recruitment replenish rate of most units, also trying to create more diverse recruitment possibilities (f.e. through the “grasslands” building for cumans/mongols).
Adjusted settlement mechanics a slight bit. Settlements in general should be harder to keep quiet now, but capitals should be easier to control. Bigger Empires should also be easier to achieve than before.
Adjusted armor values, bow/crossbow range and damage, and a lot of other values of almost all units, therefore also adjusted costs of those units.
Adjusted Siege Weapons Stats, Wall and Buildings Stats so Siege Weapons are now pretty scary and more worth it than before (also more realistic I hope).
Adjusted Events and Mercenary availability according to history.
Implement a Fatimid-ayyubid-mamluk influenced unit transition to the Zengids and the Abbassids.
Adjusted the Mongol invasion. It really is SCARY now! (and more historically accurate with more historical characters.)
Adjusted Civil War Script. When it breaks out, You’ll now instantly lose up to 3 regions to rebels, but the cities that stay with you will face less unrest than before.
Characters on the map should be now 100% historically accurate. Even traits are mostly adjusted to it.
Added some watchtowers to the map.
Most cities which were historically held by different factions now change names according to the factions language when ownership changes hands.
Added A “Mercenaries Disband” Event. Basically, If you cant pay, you wont keep your mercenaries.
Bulgarian uprising is not static anymore, but dynamic. It now can happen at any time, several times, and independent to the faction controlling the regions.
Adjusted and Improved AI behavior (as always ), AI relationships between each other, etc.
Added a High-Era Campaign. Not yet finished though.
Reworked the Initial Menu of SSHIP to look a bit more modern.
A lot of things changed in the Traits and Ancillaries Area. Ancillaries adjusted to all different cultures rather than the western cultures only. Change of getting most ancillaries drastically reduced.
Increased Siege Upkeep, Being in Enemy/Friendly land now in- or decreases a units morale.
Added several traits for characters like spies, assassins, merchants, diplomats and princesses which they get when being around famous or important places on the map. F.E. if an assassin stays in the region around Damascus, he gets the “trained by the Syrian Hashashim” trait.
Probably countless other things I forgot because it’s been a long time since the last release.
Fixed Bugs as always.

SSHIP v0.8.3 (2014-December-03)

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+ New AI:

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+ New Global Reputation System:

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+ New units for spain, portugal, egypt, the almoravids and the abbassids:New regional berber units, new professional units, more diversity for the roster in general. Thanks broken crescent for most of the units!

New units:

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New Skins (mostly there are various armor versions):

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+ Other stuff:

Added Ship Support Script for factions (increases use of naval invasions without leading the factions to spam ships).
Added a transition in rosters from fatimids to ayyubids to mamluks, dynamically triggered via events.
Adjusted the lighting on the strategic map to look better.
Adjusted some faction colors to be more fitting on the map.
some new resource models.
some new settlements.
Updated unit costs and recruitment times according to an adjusted formula.
Absentminded trait overhauled, should happen much less now, more diversity in other traits.
Adjusted several cities to be more historically accurate.
Toned done the reemergence script quite a bit for the AI factions. So rebellions will happen, but not that often anymore.
Updated the faction_standing system.
New Temperate Fertile Tiles textures made by Melooo182 (many thanks for that)

SSHIP v0.8.2 (2014-April-21)

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+ Issues reported here have been fixed.
+ Overhauled cumans (recruitment system, settlements)
+ New strat map settlements and variants (hre, hungary, serbia)
+ New resource models (glass, timber)
+ Overhauled sea texture
+ Dynamic order recruitment
+ Adjusted AI
+ Overhauled and working civil war and family tree mechanics
+ Overhauled faction traits
+ Overhauled mongols (mongol money script, mongol AI)
+ Fort/watchtower cost adjusted
+ Traits like chivalry, loyalty, etc. are harder to get
+ Artillery cost overhaul (since it costed way too much to be worth it; now it has high construction costs but low upkeep)
+ Unit recruitment time overhaul (the more professional the unit, the longer it takes to recruit. mostly.)
+ Some unit costs adjusted
+ Peasants are now recruitable from farms
+ Slave factions get more recruitable units
+ Implemented Sandy's Western Unit Overhaul 2.3 (only infantry and cavalry units for now ; the others will follow once the Banzaï animations are implemented)
SSHIP v0.8.1 Hotfix
+ Reduce the unrest rate, making the game more "playable".
Nordom's Text Improvement
+ Makes some changes to (currently just) traits' and ancillaries' text:

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1. Makes various English grammatical corrections for the mod-added traits/ancillaries, including spelling, punctuation, structure, and usage errors. Text was generally attempted to keep as close to its original form as possible, but blatant sentence structure errors were revised as necessary.
2. Standardized the language of mod-added traits/ancillaries to British English, as per the language used in the original game. Words like "organized" and "honor" have become "organised" and "honour", like they were written in the original game.
3. Standarized stat names. No more inexact "Slightly increased loyalty" or "True to the crown" nonsense in the effects parameters - only exact language like "+1 Piety" and "+1 Loyalty" is used. Any "incorrect" labels for stats, like "+1 Morale for soldiers", instead of the normal "+1 Morale for all troops on the battlefield", were corrected.
4. When appropriate, amended some of the effects text to the main description.
5. When inconsistencies between what the text stated a trait/ancillary to do and what it actually does in-game were noticed, the text was corrected to reflect reality. So if now a trait/ancillary is stated to do something different from what you remember, that would be because it didn't do what it used to state to begin with.
6. Reorganized in what order stats appear. This order was determined by studying how the stats were organized in the vanilla traits/ancillaries. Said order almost always holds true for the vanilla traits/ancillaries, but there were sometimes a few outliers that I have corrected when I saw them. The exact order is stated at the beginning of both text files, and is as follows: "Text for Stats Guide: Arranged strictly by the order they should appear on a trait, but also loosely (and coincidentally) by category. Previous category stats always appear before subsequent category stats. Almost entirely determined by the way vanilla Medieval 2 had them organized, but using slightly revised stat text names for Stainless Steel as determined by gracul. When adding/editing traits, please keep this order in mind. Main Stats: +/-(x) Chivalry, +/-(x) Dread, +/-(x) Piety, +/-(x) Command, +/-(x) Loyalty, +/-(x) Authority Military Stats: +/-(x) Morale for all troops on the battlefield, +/-(x) to/from movement points (increases/decreases movement range), +/-(x) to/from sight range, +/-(x) Command when, +/-(x) siege equipment build points Security Stats: +/-(x) to/from personal security (improves/decreases the chances of foiling assassination attempts), +/-(x) public security (improves/decreases the chances of detecting and capturing enemy agents) Economic Stats: (x)% bonus/penalty on all trade income, (x)% bonus/penalty on tax income, (x)% increase/decrease in [...] cost[s], +/-(x) to farming output, (x)% bonus/penalty on mining income Public Order Stats: +/-(x) to/from popularity (improves/reduces public order), +/-(x) to/from squalor (decreases population growth and public order/increases public order and population growth), +/-(x) to/from unrest (improves/reduces public order), +/-(x) to/from law (improves/reduces public order) Health Stats: improves/decreases the chances of having children, +/-(x) to/from general's hitpoints, increased battlefield casualties recovery chances"

SSHIP v0.8.1 features:

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SSHIP v0.8.0 features (2014-Feb-01):

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SSHIP v0.7 Features (2012-Dec-01):

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SSMAP v0.6 Features:

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SSMAP v0.5 Features:

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SSMAP 0.4 Features:

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SSMAP v0.3a Features (2012-March-08):

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SSMAP v0.2 Features:

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SSMAP v0.1 (2012-Feb-04):
+ Regions' names implementation.

Contributors

**Architect of Doom** · June 11, 2014, 08:14 PM

Well, the v0.8.0 installer has been detected as a virus by Chrome... is this normal?

**Ichon** · June 11, 2014, 08:32 PM

No idea about Chrome, I only use that on mobile.

If you downloaded from link by Lifthrasir it should be no problem- just pay attention to what you click as some other sites on mediafire etc have ads that might link to viruses but the actual download posted is clean.

**Wickedone** · June 16, 2014, 09:43 AM

If SSHIP gets bigger you might want to put an alternate download link, mediafire is so slow and I have fast internet speed.

**Lifthrasir** · June 16, 2014, 09:46 AM

The problem is to find one allowing big files. Any suggestion?

**MatVego** · June 16, 2014, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by Lifthrasir

The problem is to find one allowing big files. Any suggestion?

https://mega.co.nz/ ?

**Lifthrasir** · June 17, 2014, 02:36 AM

Many thanks bieluxd. I've created an account on that site and have added a new link in the 1st post.

**Fedual** · June 27, 2014, 12:07 PM

Is the animated archers bug fixed in the v0.8 Beta? I mean the archer models originally from Deus lo Vult that were really buged in this mod with their bowstrings acting all wierd

**Lifthrasir** · June 27, 2014, 04:03 PM

Unfortunately, not yet. I'm almost done with the new factions entries in the different files. Then, I have to make the new banners for Fatimids and Rûm as the present one aren't accurate. Then, I'll be able to work on the animations. Borrowing a famous sentence, I would say: "My kingdom for more free time!!!" to mod faster.

**Fedual** · June 29, 2014, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Lifthrasir

Unfortunately, not yet. I'm almost done with the new factions entries in the different files. Then, I have to make the new banners for Fatimids and Rûm as the present one aren't accurate. Then, I'll be able to work on the animations. Borrowing a famous sentence, I would say: "My kingdom for more free time!!!" to mod faster.

Okey thanks for the info mate

. I will be playing some Rome II DeI untill your new version is out

(Rome on legendary diff is a damn pain hehe

)

**Deathchant** · July 12, 2014, 09:47 AM

this mod looks really, really good. I am looking forward to trying it. Much appreciation to the team developing it.

**Katakouzina** · July 24, 2014, 10:54 PM

Greetings!
I have recently downloaded the SS 6.4 mod and i was very excited to realize that there is a newer HIP than 7.0 which i had months ago. Unfortunately im not very familiar with installations etc. and is quite duffucult for me to achieve a succesful installation.
Anyway ,i have a clear ss 6.4 version now and i downloaded v080 and v082 (full install). Firstly i ran the setup (early campaign, savage, RR.RC).I also ran the v080 into the ''classic'' mods/SS63 folder, (where SS_setup, SS_launcher ,data etc. are located) but literally nothing happened. Thereafter ,I tried to unzip the v082 rar. but it couldn't extract its files, because it stopped around 97%. I'm really desperate and i would need some kind of guidance here. Im using windows8.

**Lifthrasir** · July 25, 2014, 02:03 AM

That's strange because I've tested the zip file from the "full install" to be sure it was ok and I didn't find anything.

In that case, you've got 2 options:

- option 1: try to download again the full install zip file and see if you can extract it.
- option 2: download the v0.8.0, V0.8.1 and v0.8.2 and install each of them. As the v0.8.0 installer doesn't work properly sometimes, I recommend that you run it into a separate folder. Then you can merge v0.8.1 and V0.8.2 with it. Finally, merge the obtained "data" folder with the one located in your SS6.3 folder.

Let me know if you still have troubles to install it.

**Katakouzina** · July 25, 2014, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Lifthrasir

That's strange because I've tested the zip file from the "full install" to be sure it was ok and I didn't find anything.

In that case, you've got 2 options:

- option 1: try to download again the full install zip file and see if you can extract it.
- option 2: download the v0.8.0, V0.8.1 and v0.8.2 and install each of them. As the v0.8.0 installer doesn't work properly sometimes, I recommend that you run it into a separate folder. Then you can merge v0.8.1 and V0.8.2 with it. Finally, merge the obtained "data" folder with the one located in your SS6.3 folder.

Let me know if you still have troubles to install it.

ok, it was my fault. The isntallment procedures is easier to be made into an external folder. I cut- pasted the data in my mods/SS6.3 data folder and im experiencing the "unspeciefic error" problem now, while entering the new SSHIP.I'll try to solve it on my own because i've probably made a mistake in one step. Thanks for your responses.
For similar questions should we use an other thread or they have to be made here?

**Lifthrasir** · July 25, 2014, 03:55 PM

Regarding installation issue, you can post here. For other issues, you can post in the relevant post named "SSHIP - Bug reports & Technical help".

**Katakouzina** · July 25, 2014, 04:38 PM

Finally ! problem solved ! After merging the data, i had to "right click > run as administrator" the SS_Launcher, otherwise, in every other attempt the
"unspeciefic error" came out in the loadscreen . I had to post this detail for anyother windows 8 user, who might has the same problem in installation.
As an ERE player i'm really impressed by the details and the upgrade of Constantinople as a fully developed settlement of the period. Next time Hippodromos might be added as a special buiding ! So ,im ready to pay my enemies with gold and silk ,so that they wont attack me

**Provencal** · August 11, 2014, 12:46 AM

Everything seemed to go perfectly.... I click "Launch"...

"Unable to locate Kingdoms.exe.
Is Kingdoms.exe located in your MTW2 folder?"

Has anyone encountered this or know how to get around it?

**Larkin** · August 11, 2014, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Provencal

Everything seemed to go perfectly.... I click "Launch"...

"Unable to locate Kingdoms.exe.
Is Kingdoms.exe located in your MTW2 folder?"

Has anyone encountered this or know how to get around it?

You're using Steam, correct?

If so, copy the medieval2.exe, and rename the copy to Kingdoms.

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