Patch8 Available for DOWNLOAD

[dvk901]

http://files.filefront.com/RomaPatch.../fileinfo.html

Alternate Download link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B3HLNJ3Q


Patch 8 includes Patch7a in it, because I've noticed some people didn't ever download it. Fixes for patch 8 include:

1. Fixed economy so money is decent but not rampant.
2. Readjusted all unit costs down, but left building costs high.
3. Reduced building time on many buildings.
4. Moved a legion from Syria to Lugdunum.
5. Allowed the recruiting of some units for all factions in all regions (mostly lower end light infantry, auxilia, light cav. etc.)
6. Removed Greek_Cities from Massilia on both maps.
7. Romans can recruit Auxilia, Town Watch and Light Cav everywhere after reforms.
8. Renamed Armenian Leader and Heir, and a city.
9. Fixed the City Views on the Battlemap
10. Moved 'Hideen_resource' Italy to the southern two Italian regions, and Mediolanium and Patavium. You'll have to build an Imperial Palace in one of those four regions to trigger Marian Reforms.
11. Removed 'Roman Military Base'. Legions will now show up in 'Army Barracks' after reforms, and Imperials will show up in 'Royal Barracks' and 'Army Barracks' after reforms.
12. Readjusted the strength of the Free People (both). Their units are not so strong now, and their cities not so powerful. They shouldn't be wiping out factions anymore.
13. Fixed a couple ugly unit cards.
14. Added Numidian Cavalry to Carthage.
15. I'm providing another little batch file that will show up in your RTW folder called 'UI.bat' This will skip unpacking and repacking one of the .pak files that's unnecessary, and make the process shorter. You should run it to fix a few unit cards I added and replaced. It's minor, but if 'Peasant' cards show up for something, you'll know why?

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to add, it will NOT be save game compatible.

[swhunter]

so it will rewrite our old campaigns?
just add this patch ? And it will over write 7 also?
right?

[dvk901]

so it will rewrite our old campaigns?
just add this patch ? And it will over write 7 also?
right?

Yes, sorry. But you can wait to install it if you wish.

[dharos]

cool i'm gonna go try a newly patched game!

oh wow it took forever for the download to start... that was weird. but once it started it took like 40 seconds or so to download.

good thing its an exe file!

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wait are we supposed to run ui.bat or new_ui.bat?

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[romavictoria]

is it worth the download, i mean, i now has conquered the Greek peninsula, and rather dont have to conquer it again.

Cant you do it save-game compatible with 7a`?


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is it worth the download, i mean, i now has conquered the Greek peninsula, and rather dont have to conquer it again.

Cant you do it save-game compatible with 7a`?

Excellent Mod by the way, its all that i play now on my computer.

I give it 4.6 stars
RTR i gave it 4.3 stars

Its "almost" perfect...but i dont like the later marian reforms,

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[swhunter]

hi
so i hit the new bat file and that other one also just called ui flle ?
so there are two bat ui files?
thanks

[dharos]

well i just opened the newest patch in winrar and the instructions there say to run new_ui.bat but i believe it says here to run ui.bat again. i'm assuming we're supposed to be running new_ui.bat like it says in the actual patch file since this is the update?

[romavictoria]

you must download the big one, 240mb then the small one, 8.0 á 34 mb.
I must say, WOW! this is a blast to play =)

[dvk901]

Please read what i said about Patch 8 above. Install it just like the big .exe. But you only have to run UI.bat. It just SHORTENS THE PROCESS. You DON'T have to run both new_UI.bat and UI.bat.

[Xtopherus]

If you run the "New UI batch" do you have to run the other one instead because i accidently ran that one and im just checking incase it will muck up something

[dvk901]

If you run the "New UI batch" do you have to run the other one instead because i accidently ran that one and im just checking incase it will muck up something

You do not have to run it again. The only difference between the two is that 'NEW_UI.bat' unpacks and repacks TWO RTW pack files. UI.bat only unpacks and repacks ONE...the necessary one for this patch.

[Fresco]

What file have you modified for this: "10. Moved 'Hideen_resource' Italy to the southern two Italian regions, and Mediolanium and Patavium. You'll have to build an Imperial Palace in one of those four regions to trigger Marian Reforms."?

[Squid]

descr_regions.txt

[Kamos]

My favorite Greek swordsmen are gone , wanna hook me up with their files DVK?

[dvk901]

My favorite Greek swordsmen are gone , wanna hook me up with their files DVK?

The .cas file it used is in the 'models_unit'
It looked like this in DMB.txt:

type greek_swordsman
skeleton fs_fast_swordsman
indiv_range 40
texture greek_cities, data/models_unit/textures/new/greekswordsman3.TGA
texture romans_julii, data/models_unit/textures/new/greekswordsman1.TGA
texture romans_scipii, data/models_unit/textures/new/greekswordsman2.TGA
texture egypt, data/models_unit/textures/new/greekswordsman3.TGA
texture seleucid, data/models_unit/textures/craigs/unit_greek_sword_sele.TGA
texture slave, data/models_unit/textures/new/greekswordsman.TGA
texture macedon, data/models_unit/textures/new/unit_greek_sword_macedon.TGA
texture numidia, data/models_unit/textures/new/unit_greek_sword_pergamum.TGA
model_flexi data/models_unit/unit_greek_swordsman.cas
model_sprite 60.0, data/sprites/greek_cities_greek_armoured_hoplite_sprite.spr
model_tri 400, 0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f

And like this in EDU.txt:

type greek swordsmen
dictionary greek_swordsmen ; Greek Swordsmen
category infantry
class heavy
voice_type Light_1
soldier greek_swordsman, 40, 0, 1
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, can_sap, very_hardy
formation 1, 1, 0.9, 1, 5, square
stat_health 2, 0
stat_pri 15, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, sword, 0 ,0.68
stat_pri_attr no
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, no, no, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 10, 9, 6, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 1, flesh
stat_heat 1
stat_ground 3,3,-4,-4
stat_mental 26, disciplined, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 10
stat_fire_delay 5000
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 0, 1000, 200, 90, 140, 400
ownership greek_cities, romans_julii, romans_scipii, egypt, slave

Guess you and I were the only one's who liked it.

[Kamos]

Well I have no idea what to do with that the only thing I've moded is playable factions.

[dvk901]

Well then, go to the tutorials thread at TWC and read up on it. I started just like you a year and a half ago.......then wrote this mod.

[margio]

Hi dvk901,
I do not know if it is the right thread, but Patch8 is part of the install that I would like to do. I bought RTW Gold Edition (the one with BI patched 1.6) and I would like to install to play BI MOD and also due to what you wrote that in future BI will be needed.
1) RS + Patc8 will work with RTW Gold Edition?
2) Points to follow are
* clean RTW (in this case Gold Edition patche 1.6)
* install RS release 1.0
* install Patch8
* run UI.BAT (the NEW_UI.BAT should not be present)
* play
Therefore if playing Provincial Campaign (Big Map) I have to replace the default descr_character.txt with the one in the IMPORTANT STUFF/Provincial Campaign folder?
Nothing else?
Thanks for help

[tone]

Yes, exactly as you've written.
I have RTW Gold. Works fine.

Install clean RTW
Install RS release 1
Install Patch 8
Run UI.bat
Set Autosave to FALSE in /preferences/preferences.txt folder

IF USING BIG MAP (Provincial campaign), replace default descr_character.txt with the one you've mentioned.

Play
Remember to save game before any big battles

[margio]

Yes, exactly as you've written.
I have RTW Gold. Works fine.

Install clean RTW
Install RS release 1
Install Patch 8
Run UI.bat
Set Autosave to FALSE in /preferences/preferences.txt folder

IF USING BIG MAP (Provincial campaign), replace default descr_character.txt with the one you've mentioned.

Play
Remember to save game before any big battles

You are right... I forgot the setup AUTOSAVE = FALSE.
I save before any battle and every 5 years ending turns by different files.
"Melius abundare quam deficere"
Thanks for help.