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SCENARIO: American Civil War Full-Release Version
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Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
Version 2.12PRE is now uploaded, with the load flag removed from immobile units (which should GREATLY speed up gameplay), as well as a few other little changes, mainly to union cavalry units.
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
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A new version can be uploaded at almost any time, as bugs are fixed and such. This scenario is always undergoing constant improvement.
A new version can be uploaded at almost any time, as bugs are fixed and such. This scenario is always undergoing constant improvement. Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
Mobilize: Thanks. The average load time is about 2 to 5 minutes for most users. On my Pentium III 750 MHz/256 MB RAM system, its about 3 minutes on average.
There are some scenarios on this forum where the load time is 2+ hours.
If your load time is higher than 10 minutes though, please tell me, and I'll see if there is something which is causing the problem. I ideally want it under 10 minutes for everyone.
Rocoteh: I've found nothing in the .bic that would cause such an error, I'll test it myself.
Edit: I'll look into the Home Guard problem tomorrow more thoroughly...I have to go to work soon. Scanning the .bic file, I didn't see anything which would cause them not to load.
The average load time is about 2 to 5 minutes for most users. On my Pentium III 750 MHz/256 MB RAM system, its about 3 minutes on average. There are some scenarios on this forum where the load time is 2+ hours.
If your load time is higher than 10 minutes though, please tell me, and I'll see if there is something which is causing the problem. I ideally want it under 10 minutes for everyone.
Rocoteh: I've found nothing in the .bic that would cause such an error, I'll test it myself.
Edit: I'll look into the Home Guard problem tomorrow more thoroughly...I have to go to work soon. Scanning the .bic file, I didn't see anything which would cause them not to load.
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
Rocoteh, the bug is now listed on the bug report on page 1.
DivineImpact
More Than A Noise
Hehe, I made it to 3200 BC before I realized that all those cities used to have a home guard.
DivineImpact
More Than A Noise
Yeah, in the 2.12PRE the home guards were gone. I didn't try putting the load tag back since I was pretty into the game and just wanted to keep on going. I'm not at the same computer right now though.
Another question of concern: Why does it cost so much to make workers?
Another question of concern: Why does it cost so much to make workers?
Thank you for the information, DivineImpact.
Concerning workers:
Considering time scale 1 turn=1 week and that the
Civil War ended after 4 years I think its a right design
decision that one can not alter the infrastructure to much.
...but I think you are addressing an important question.
Maybe workers should be cheaper to make.
Rocoteh
Concerning workers:
Considering time scale 1 turn=1 week and that the
Civil War ended after 4 years I think its a right design
decision that one can not alter the infrastructure to much.
...but I think you are addressing an important question.
Maybe workers should be cheaper to make.
Rocoteh
DivineImpact
More Than A Noise
I must have missed the part about 1 turn = 1 week. That makes sense. So, workers should take a while to build. But I don't think that they should take that long. Perhaps, cut the shield cost in half.
One more question of interest. The confederacy razed a city on the Mississippi river. and so my ships could not move past it. Is there a way to turn off razing?
One more question of interest. The confederacy razed a city on the Mississippi river. and so my ships could not move past it. Is there a way to turn off razing?
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
I don't know when I'm going to honestly have time to work on this...I will try to get something like this up tomorrow (the ONLY day I possibly have to work on the scenario till at least Monday, my work schedules are multiplying in hours it seems).
The "short game" option will be PTW only though, so the Civ3 players...well...they can think of themselves as having won if the objective cities are taken.
Regarding the time it takes for the scenario...should I increase roads to 1/4 movement instead of 1/3 movement? This would have some affect on speeding things up some. I'm also hoping that the cost reductions done in Version 2.00PRE have helped in this regard as well.
Question to all: Are the A/D values for the Infantry ok? From my reading, on normal ground the attacker should have 3:2 odds to insure a victory, when attacking moderate entrenchments it should be 2:1, and when attacking large fortifications it can be as high as 3:1. Does the scenario reflect this? Part of this already is reflected in the A/D values, as most of the infantry units have higher Defense than Attack.
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
I'll look into the 2.12PRE home guard bug tomorrow...I don't understand why it would be occurring. I didn't change anything but the load flag on them, and I changed their stats/cost. That was it.
Why Engineers/Slaves cost "so much". Engineers in the American Civil War were 1) hard to come by, and 2) it took awhile to get anything significant done.
The idea behind this is, I don't want the entire map covered in irrigation, "railroads" and mines within like 50 turns. These troops are valuable, and should be treated as such. To give you an idea of perspective on this, it took the Confederacy 2 YEARS to build the railroad from Danville to Greensboro. That's a distance of maybe 120 miles (200 kilometers), or in the scenario, its about 4 tiles.
The Union should have about 6 Engineers to start with, and the Confederacy should have I think 3 or 4, plus about the same number of "slaves". Slaves cost less but have no defense. Engineers have only 3 defense, but they at least have a prayer of defending themselves against say cavalry raids (attack of 5 or 6).
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
I'll lower the aggression level of both sides to the lowest possible spot, to reduce razing. If I make the rivers bypass cities, the map would look horrible and unrealistic.
Procifica
ACW Scenario Creator
This is more realistic of where Union forces were in June of 1861. I couldn't fit Philippi on the map, so I have the Confederates still holding Grafton, and the Union poised to try to take it. Wheeling was converted over to the Union, because it was Union held by June of 1861 by loyal West Virginians. Charleston was taken by the Union in July of 1861, by Brigadier General Cox, and he came down the Kanawha (however its spelled) River to do so (from Gallipolis, Ohio, but that city is too small and insignificant to put on the map, so I put them on the other side of the Ohio River to make it simpler).
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