[Beyond the Sword] History In The Making

[mnlg]

The unit statistics works just fine. I don't really care enough about the Player statistics or whatever to try fixing it right now.

Well I hope you can look into it anyway. With luck it will just be a minor matter.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Ok, now my machine is fixed and I have downloaded and installed the "History..." patches I still get the standard warrior instead of the Egyptian swordsman when fortified.

Oh yes, I do have animations turned off.

I will give you some screen shots when I can get them uploaded. probably tomorrow.

 

[Grave]

Ok, now my machine is fixed and I have downloaded and installed the "History..." patches I still get the standard warrior instead of the Egyptian swordsman when fortified.

Oh yes, I do have animations turned off.

I will give you some screen shots when I can get them uploaded. probably tomorrow.

Try turning animations on?

 

[davbenbak]

My only thoughts on UU's at the moment is that perhaps Polands could be moved back in history a bit. What I mean is perhaps they would have "Winged Knights" as a knight UU and then "Hussars" as light cav. If you feel strongly that "Uhlans" are a better UU then maybe as cuirassiers replacments instead of cavalry. For France I would have liked to see something for Napoleon like an improved Grenadier "Old Guard" or some kind of "Voltilier"(sp) maybe a rifleman with a collateral damage or withdraw promotion to simulate skirmishing?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Try turning animations on?

25 minutes with animations on = two days off work sick! Something I can't afford. The animations and pseudo 3D in Civ mess with my sense of balance some thing awful.

 

[bloodhawk]

25 minutes with animations on = two days off work sick! Something I can't afford. The animations and pseudo 3D in Civ mess with my sense of balance some thing awful.

You're going to have problems viewing most custom models, then. From what I understand, modders can't create static animations, so when you have animations off the game uses the static animation of the base model - in this case, the warrior.

If I managed to get that wrong, would someone please correct me?

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Oh, well I suppose I will have to live with fortified swordsmen that look like warriors.

On another front - Grave - the movie for Zeus Statue is missing even though there is one for BtS. The Tericotta Warriors movie is also missing. Or not displaying.

 

[Grave]

On another front - Grave - the movie for Zeus Statue is missing even though there is one for BtS. The Tericotta Warriors movie is also missing. Or not displaying.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

 

[davbenbak]

Romans seem a bit overpowering on the five times I've played the Grave Earth map. I'll try adding the Carthaginians and see if that helps.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Great Mod

One criticism, what on earth are barb galleys doing spawning in around 2900BC on marathon? No-one can possibly have sailing yet (due to the tech tree and requirements), and I just had a potentially nice start as the Dutch, Amsterdam on clams and crabs with hills to balance, and the barb galley immediately sails in and pillages the lot. Im defenseless, it's happened 2 games in a row, making "seafood" starts almost unplayable.

The "land" barbs don't enter your cultural borders till a lot later, this needs fixing for "sea" barbs.

Thanks overall though, its made Civ Iv seem new again

 

[bloodhawk]

There's a bug with the promotions that allows a fairly major exploit - it's possible to get 100% withdrawal, and it actually does work that way. In the long term, attaching a great general to a chariot and giving it Flanking I, II, III, and tactics gives it a withdrawal rate of 85%. Once its upgraded to Cavalry, Warchief, or attack helicopter, it has 100%+. Upgrading a Gallic Warrior with Guerrilla I-III and tactics to a Highlander also gives 100%. Upgrading a Caravel to Attack Submarine with Flanking I-III and tactics gives 125%.
While all of these require a Great General to actually work, it is sorta unbalanced. They are literally guaranteed to survive attacking. I don't know how it works, but you should probably find a way to limit the maximum functioning withdrawal rate.
An odd side effect of this is that a unit with a withdrawal rate higher than whatever the maximum is supposed to be can no longer be promoted.

 

[davbenbak]

Thoughts on Inca:

Not sure if you realized that the Incas are completely isolated by impassible mountain peaks. Would suggest turning either map plot 27,30 or 33,15 to hills, maybe even both. Also I never could understand why India got the fast worker UU and not the Incas. If you are going to add a second UU for them perhaps that would be a good choice. Also give them a stone resource.

p.s. I'm getting red dots for Inca Macemen.

 

[bloodhawk]

p.s. I'm getting red dots for Inca Macemen.

That was fixed in 0.04. What version do you have? I'm not seeing red blobs for the Inca macemen with 0.05.

 

[Grave]

Patch v0.06 is released!!!!



Please see Post #2 for dowload info.

 

[mnlg]

Are save files compatible?

Also, I started a game with 0.05 but there are no 2nd UUs, I just found out that they are in a module apart. If I install them now, will my saved game be compatible?

Thanks

 

[Grave]

I doubt they will be compatable, as I had to change a few things with Buildings and BuildingClasses.

You can always try... as I personally didn't test backwards compatibility out myself, but I'm leaning more towards "no".

 

[mnlg]

Well, I know I can try, but I would hate to lose my current game, and going back might be difficult.

I will just finish the game then

Thank you for your reply.

 

[Madfox]

Is there an Earth map fot History in the Making? If so, where can I find it?

many thanks,

 

[davbenbak]

Yes, (see I'm not the only one that couldn't find it) it's called graveearth. The path is BTS/Mods/History in the making/History in the making/private maps. See my previous posts in this thread for my thoughts/suggestions.

 

[Madfox]

Thanxxxxxx