tootall_2012
King
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2012
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Hi guys,
Indeed, as for all of us, real life sometimes makes demands upon us that we cannot avoid and that has certainly been true for me for some time now. As a consequence, I haven`t had the time, or to be honest, always the motivation to work nearly as much as I would like to have on my project.
That said, at the risk of repeating myself, Civilization II remains my all time favorite game and I can`t imagine a time where I would no longer want to be involved with it. So to give everyone one a recap of where things stand:
Fairline and Tanelorn have provided me with an incredible set of unit graphics (for which I`m eternally grateful). Besides maybe one or two last minute requests I may have, I consider my unit grid complete
My terrain, city, icons, improvements, people and terrain graphics are completed
All three of my scenario maps are completed ( South East Asia, US OOB and Air)
I have a fully functional rules.txt file (which doesn`t mean it won`t need to be tweaked during testing)
I technically have a fully functional tech tree but I`ve identified gaps that affect my events file that I need to resolve
I`ve come up with three possible scenario paths to victory/defeat. Depending on your decisions, actions and ability/inability to control events you will be forced into only one of the paths below:
This leaves me with the events file and the host of difficulties/complexities I`m encountering trying to implement all the features I want to create (including many not listed above).
To date, I`ve coded 8500 lines (almost twice the amount of my previous largest event file, which was 5100 lines for my Total War project) and I think by the end I`ll probably need at least 12 thousand.
It seems every time I go back to work on the file, I realize there`s some element or bit of logic that I missed or need, which forces me to go back and change this, that or those events. Currently, the events surrounding the `Control of South Vietnam population` are the ones that are giving me the most headaches and which I`m stuck on.
Given that I haven`t been able to dedicate as much time as on my previous projects, I hope you understand why it`s taking so much longer to complete this one.
As a little teaser here is a screen shot. The caption should read: `Units of the 1st US Infantry Division supported by mechanized, ARVN army and Marine units prepare a search and destroy mission into the Iron Triangle, north-east of Saigon city`.
EDIT: new image including flagged cities
Indeed, as for all of us, real life sometimes makes demands upon us that we cannot avoid and that has certainly been true for me for some time now. As a consequence, I haven`t had the time, or to be honest, always the motivation to work nearly as much as I would like to have on my project.
That said, at the risk of repeating myself, Civilization II remains my all time favorite game and I can`t imagine a time where I would no longer want to be involved with it. So to give everyone one a recap of where things stand:
Fairline and Tanelorn have provided me with an incredible set of unit graphics (for which I`m eternally grateful). Besides maybe one or two last minute requests I may have, I consider my unit grid complete
My terrain, city, icons, improvements, people and terrain graphics are completed
All three of my scenario maps are completed ( South East Asia, US OOB and Air)
I have a fully functional rules.txt file (which doesn`t mean it won`t need to be tweaked during testing)
I technically have a fully functional tech tree but I`ve identified gaps that affect my events file that I need to resolve
I`ve come up with three possible scenario paths to victory/defeat. Depending on your decisions, actions and ability/inability to control events you will be forced into only one of the paths below:
o Invasion of North Vietnam: this can only occur, under specific circumstances, during the Johnson administration where you have to conquer X number of cities in the North before the 1968 Election (and not lose key cities in the South). This of course will trigger a Chinese intervention forcing you to take on hundreds of thousands of Chinese `Volunteers`.
o Control of South Vietnam population: provided the Johnson administration can win the 1968 Election by preventing the Tet Offensive, they can win the game by subduing the NLF bid for control of the South Vietnamese countryside prior to the 1972 election.
o Survival: provided the invasion of North Vietnam hasn`t occurred and Nixon won the 1968 election, you can win by holding on to key South Vietnamese cities by the end of April 1975. But you will have to deal with Nixon`s de-escalation of US involvement through his vietnamization policy and of course the oncoming North Vietnamese Easter and Spring Offensives.
Add to this a mix of possible interventions/invasions of Laos and/or Cambodia and its effects on the Ho Chi Minh trail, Chinese and Soviet aid, bombing campaign against the North and you start to get an idea of the scope of the project. This leaves me with the events file and the host of difficulties/complexities I`m encountering trying to implement all the features I want to create (including many not listed above).
To date, I`ve coded 8500 lines (almost twice the amount of my previous largest event file, which was 5100 lines for my Total War project) and I think by the end I`ll probably need at least 12 thousand.
It seems every time I go back to work on the file, I realize there`s some element or bit of logic that I missed or need, which forces me to go back and change this, that or those events. Currently, the events surrounding the `Control of South Vietnam population` are the ones that are giving me the most headaches and which I`m stuck on.
Given that I haven`t been able to dedicate as much time as on my previous projects, I hope you understand why it`s taking so much longer to complete this one.
As a little teaser here is a screen shot. The caption should read: `Units of the 1st US Infantry Division supported by mechanized, ARVN army and Marine units prepare a search and destroy mission into the Iron Triangle, north-east of Saigon city`.
EDIT: new image including flagged cities