Total Bananas - The Road to Simple Pleasures

[4zumi]

Turn 72 on a small Jerusalem test campaign. (Already fixed a bug that makes jerusalem not able to built past a town watch, and on a bug that does not trigger the holds_krak counter for hospitaller access.)

Mogols de surprise, are best mongols. fu......

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And if thats not enough a small leisure trip of moors enroute to jerusalem.

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[4zumi]

And another progress post.

I added a handful of settlements to arabia (ported from crusades) and made jamaica.

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I also added the COA for the new factions.

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I also started with the balancing (money, units, starting positions, etc).
My debt script was also added (but without the free building stuff, so it feels more like the original game. now it just gets the AI barely out of debt, so they won't go dormant when they are out of money. But they will not be able to build or recruit. (while i was doing this, i found a small scripting error in the tvb3 debt script. it is nothing serious, just that cilicia gets 1000 money everytime the aztecs come out of debt . I will fix this in a future patch.))

The inclusion of more teutonic knights units was achieved too.

And a few other minor things, that I will not mention...

I will play a bit as HRE and then it could be possible, that I upload a second Alpha today.

cheers
zumi

[4zumi]

And here we go go go.

Bananas Alpha#2 ready for download
http://www.mediafire.com/file/syuzpw...25232.zip/file

[Nebaki]

And here we go go go.

Bananas Alpha#2 ready for download
http://www.mediafire.com/file/syuzpw...25232.zip/file

This time i got the same Error and your Save Files as Bonus - BTW Late Tier Generals Bodyguard is missing for all Factions but i bet you knew it

Error:

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Save Files:

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Would be better if someone else also test it then me too see if it´s occurs on anyone else.

[4zumi]

mhh, that is so strange with this error.

yeah late tier generals are gone, because they were not usable in the campaign, so i kicked them to make room for other units.
oh, and the save files, i think none of them are save to use, because i changed some things between that and the sunday release. using them may lead to a ctd.

i have seen 10 downloads so far on the first alpha. so there may be others who try it out.

[4zumi]

Clear evidence that Jesus survived the crucifiction, went to the east and gave his konwledge to the Mongols.

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Edit: There is an error in the campagn script that will lead inevitable to a ctd some turns after the first mongols spawn. Has to do with a missing unit and is not fixable in an ongoing campaign.
You may try to console command kill the mongols, when they spawn. This may or may not help.
This will be fixed in a next release.

[4zumi]

This is the world...

Well, because of a slime filled lung and nose pestilence I am a stay at home mom for this week (Yay, extended vacation!)
That is the reason I can present you some screens from a recent test.

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Wales rules Britain


Jerusalem is doing good


All peaceful at the mesoamerican front


The Moors like their vacation island paradises


Only the Mongols are looking for trouble


And took Antioch from Jerusalem, who called right after a crusade on Antioch to retake it.


Some years later the Mongol horde still plunders through the levant and the rest of the world is devided by mighty empires

Right now it looks really smooth, there is still a lot of work ahead, but I may release a last alpha by the end of the week, before going into beta production mode.
As the goal of this mod is to keep it as vanilla as possible and don't do anything fancy, the timeline for a beta and then a full release look pretty good. If nothing gets in the way...

Edit:
And two Bonus pics from turn 200. Mongols and Timurids side by side in the Outremer and Rumble in the Jungle.

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[Virian]

I look at the Maya empire... *screams in horror*... Well at least my fav faction are still looking strong. Also love how the mod looks so far.

[Ghaster]

Can't play grand campaign for Alpha#2, it plays starting video and then crashes. Tried a few vanilla factions and the same outcome.

System log.
23:28:53.040 [system.io] [warning] open: models_strat/pagan_priest.rum is missing
23:28:53.040 [system.io] [warning] open: data/models_strat/pagan_priest.cas is missing
23:28:53.040 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/banana/data/descr_model_strat.txt, at line 395, column 26
Model database failed to load model models_strat/pagan_priest.cas.
23:28:59.129 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

[Ghaster]

Can't play Alpha#2, crashes after intro video.

[4zumi]

@virian
thanks

@ghaster and everyone else experiencing ctds

Thanks for the report, but I would need a little more than this. You can find a log file that will show most of the time, why the game crashes. Il will need the last few line of it.
You will find it in the Medieval 2 base folder. I two little pics on how to find it and what to post here. Thanks

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Here you will find the log


Open the log, scroll to the bottom and take the last few lines on the log and post it here.

cherio

[Ghaster]

Test

[Ghaster]

Here. (I tried posting this like 10, pasting it doesn't work so here is an attachment)

[4zumi]

Thanks,

I copy the part of you pm here too

05:54:20.135 [system.io] [warning] open: data/models_strat/pagan_priest.cas is missing
05:54:20.135 [script.err] [error] Script Error in mods/banana/data/descr_model_strat.txt, at line 395, column 26
Model database failed to load model models_strat/pagan_priest.cas.
05:54:23.211 [system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

It seems like it could not load a stratmap model from the lithuanian pagan priest.
I have little bit of a problem to assign the right skin to the pagan priest right now. They appear a catholics on the map. I had this problem once with TVB but solved it somehow, but i do not know how anymore, as i triple checked everything that comes to my mind.
But the cas file should already be there, so that baffles me a bit.

I will upload soon the last alpha, maybe you try that one out.

[lolIsuck]

Here. (I tried posting this like 10, pasting it doesn't work so here is an attachment)

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[4zumi]

@lollsuck
thanks for the info

@everybody, rock your body...

Here we go again on our own, loading down the only alpha we have known
like a modder i was born to change the files,
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time…

http://www.mediafire.com/file/vhnkda...25233.zip/file

Oh just download the Alpha#3 already (ca. 1,7GB).
This version works for me very good, so any bugs must be just your imagination. But if you should find any that are not known, make sure to report them.

Whats up until the first beta release:

Important Points
-Adding Hispanola and Greenland as Provinces
-Adding the Mangonel for some factions more to recruit
-Starting Positions (they are fixed now, but you never know) and Kings Purse and Starting units, Settlement Buildings at start, etc.
-The motherloving Lithuanian Pagan Priest skin, that won't show up
-Campaign Map Voices for the new factions
-Campaign Map Music
-Porting Traits and Ancillaries
-Making a War Path Trait with more movement Points for Apachean
-Adding possible text and pics that are missing or wrong

Frilly & because it looks nice Points
-Intro Movie
-Main Menu Background movie merge of all 4 movies
-Grand Campaign Selection Screen Map
-Custom Battle Faction Select order/size

Until the important points are done,there will be no beta release.

But enough for now
have fun with the alpha 3, it should be very playable.

[sullivanclan1]

I keep on getting a ctd when loading a campaign. Is there a way resolve this issue? If anyone has an idea for me that would great. Looks really good so far!!

[4zumi]

damn it. mmmhh, could you post the last few lines of the log?
do you get a ctd with every faction or just with particular ones?

thanks and we will see, if i can help you.

oh, and one last question. are you using steam or the cd version?

Edit
@everyone

Do not use my savegames that are included. They will most likely lead to a ctd.

Edit2

OK, just a warning for alpha 3. if you have a battle against a norwegian, irelandishian, walishian king, autoresolve it, as a manual battle will lead to a crash because of a missing entry in the models db.

[VictorGB]

Hi 4zumi

First of all, thank you for the time, effort, and love that you are putting into your M2TW mod projects.


I am confused (which is by no means an unfamiliar condition)...

Is it the case that this Total Bananas - The Road to Simple Pleasures mod project is a quite separate endeavour from your Total Vanilla Beyond mod?

And, if your answer to the last is 'yes', that the instructions for obtaining your TVB mod are:

Download 3.1
2.2 GB download size (5 GB unpacked)

Mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dyk5d6...233.1.zip/file

Mega
https://mega.nz/#!eDZCxQBI!IbAP2WgOKAUS45Rvzn03Oml4ufIgJc_rZJ6xdpbRrKA


Patch 3.2

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9y8xwv...ch3.2.zip/file


PATCH 3.2.1 for 3.2 VERSION

Corrects a bug that lets Cilicia get money when the apachean and aztecs get out of debt.
Unpack it and copy it into the mods folder.
This is not savegame compatible! You need to start a new campaign.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/9qo735...3.2.1.zip/file

(From Total Vanilla Beyond 3.0 Release - Once more with feeling thread.)

Thanks and best regards
Victor

PS I see you have drawn praise on the Reddit TW forum. No mean feat considering it is overwhelmingly populated with Warhammer fanatics. But then, Mongols walking on water are not to be taken lightly.

[4zumi]

Hi Victor,

you are welcome

And you are right. Total Bananas is completely seperate from TVB. It is its own mod.

And you are also correct about the TVB downloads.
Download the Main Mod 3.1 from either mediafire or mega, as well as the two patches.

Then you unpack the TVB3.1 into the mods folder of your Medieval 2 installation.
After that you unpack the 3.2 patch into the mods folder
and finally the patch for the 3.2 patch 3.2.1

When applying the patches let them overwrite the old files.

If you have any more questions feel free to ask. But if its purely TVB related please use the TVB 3.0 release thread. But this was a good question for the Bananas thread too, because it might clear up some misconceptions about this beeing a TVB addon or something like this.

cheers
zumi

PS.: I started out on reddit with my Total Vanilla mod(way before Total Vanilla Beyond) and moved to this cosy place. but once in a while I post something on reddit and am amazed by the interest and the kind words