Africa Mod!

[bostonkaiser]

I enjoy this mod very much. Ran into a possible glitch, however. I encountered a File Not Found error: "Art\Units\Boer_Rifleman\Boer_Rifleman.INI"

Just curious if anyone else has run across this. Or do I just need to move some file/folders around? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Nwoll]

Bostonkaiser, Welcome to CFC!
Yes there is a problem with the Boer Rifleman, I've posted a patch that will take care of the problem. Just extract to . . . \Conquests\Scenarios folder and say yes to overwrite.

 

[thapagan]

the gold mines of king solomun ?? as a wonder

 

[bostonkaiser]

Thanks for the fast response, Nwoll. And over a holiday weekend as well! I wouldn't get that kind of service from a product I paid for! Thanks again, and great job on the mod.

 

[bostonkaiser]

I hate to be a pest, but I ran across more problems with the Boer Rifleman unit. The game crashed again, but this time the error message gave a different missing .FLC file. I checked the Boer Rifleman folder and noticed several .flc files missing: Death, Fidget, and Victory if I remember correctly. I seem to have rigged a temporary fix by copying the corresponding .flc files from the Infantry folder and then renaming them to Boer Rifleman. This may lead to problems later on, but for now I've gone several more turns into the game with no crashes. After checking several other unit folders, there seemed to be a couple other files missing from the Boer Rifleman file. Again, sorry to be a pest.

 

[Nwoll]

Okay Boston, I updated the patch to include the fixed ini. file. I'm really sorry you had these problems. I thought I tested the mod fairly extensively but obviously not as much as I should have. I hope you dont run into any more problems, but if you do just let me know and I will try to fix them as soon as possible.

 

[elmoro]

I encountered:
"Load Error File Not Found Art\Units\Marine\../Marinesattack.wav"

To fix u need to open the marine.ini file and under sounds, you need to replace Marine Attack from ../Marinesattack.wav to Marinesattack.wav

That comes after creating the African Marine folder as per the instructions written in the Marine txt file found in Marine folder.

 

[bostonkaiser]

Found another one:File not Found:Art\Units\Kwanhama\Kwanhama.INI

 

[Nwoll]

Okay I put the new patches up to fix these problems.

It bothers me when modders post mods without testing them first, and now I'm guilty of it. I'm really sorry.

On the positive, it appears that people are actually playing the mod and maybe enjoying it(?). I promise I will continue to fix the mod as soon as I'm told of problems.

@Boston and elmoro: Thanks for telling me of these errors.

 

[elmoro]

Nwoll, there is no perfect scenario man, you have done a great job anf frankly speaking this is one of the most enjoyable scenarios I have ever played.

My 2 main comments remain:

1) The larger map size scenario takes a long time to load per turn
2) Lack of African oriented wonders, how about the holy city of Akenaton, it was called Tal El Amarna and he built it for the sol worhiping of the Sun or rather the power behind it.

 

[Ankenaton]

Hi Nwoll, I usually post in another Civ forum as Ankhenaton. I have yet to play your mod, however I have downloaded it and as soon as I am able to I will give it a play. A couple of years ago, I and another Civ Fanatic (Piankhi) came up with the idea to do an Africa mod. As you can tell by our screen names my favorite civ is Khemet (e.g. Egypt) and Piankhi's is Cush (e.g. Nubia). At last count we came up with about 30 playable civs, through the various era's. Unfortunately we were unable to bring the mod to fruition. I am glad that you were able to complete yours. Also Jan van der Crabben of the Ancient Mediterranean Mod was the technical genius behind our effort, Piankhi and I were more of the historical idea men. Again its a shame that it did not get off the ground, but blessings and salutations to your effort. And I would definitely love to contribute to your endeavour.

 

[Plotinus]

An obvious African Wonder would be the rock churches of Lalibela, which are often called the Eighth Wonder of the World as it is. Of course, lots of things are!

 

[elmoro]

Nwoll,

Here is a very helpful link for the African Wonders:

http://www.pbs.org/wonders/fr_wn.htm

I really wish to see the new Africa mode version with wonders

If you need any help as far as research goes, drop a line

 

[Aion]

Very nice mod, Nwoll!

This was much needed. I'm currently downloading this, more feedback to come when I've played it

 

[Abrie JF Kilian]

Greetings

I just want to enquire on the Afrikaners. There is a South African group, but this group is so diverse. What about the Afrikaners?

 

[NeverMind]

Nwoll

I like the idea of regional mods, but it's just too big. Of course, it's a pleasure to have all era-specific 3d leaderheads, but real fun is the game. Is it possible to make the flics-overweighted part of mod some way optional? Static leaderheads? I really like this option in CivArmy's mods.

I think, this mod could be a good starting point for full-scale Africa Mod.

 

[Chrush]

What about the ANC (African National Congress)? Or what about a National Park (Krueger or whatever? You can also recklessly copy from the ancient mediterranean mod or others!

Or you take a look at the tourist homepages of each country? What about Slave trade? What about Great Diamond mine? Consider the Assuan dam! Livingston expedition? The Albert Schweitzer Mission (reduces illness from jungle)!

Just a few ideas...

Good luck!

 

[Heron]

The ANC might work. The Slave Trade would be more of a negative wonder. And isn't the Aswan Dam another Egyptian wonder?

 

[EDA Green]

It's a Great MOD, Nwoll, Thanks!

 

[tjedge1]

Nice mod. BTW. If you wanted Sween's leaderhead, just go to GIDustin's site. When Sween's site went down, I luckily had all of Sween's work in my own personal library and sent them to GIDustin so others could still enjoy them. I'll try this mod someday, but I have so much going on right now. Good work on it so far.