BTS Beta-1

[Wahnfried]

Some informations for the German players:

http://www.civilized.de/

Interesting is the message from August 8th.
I guess, that the problems with the BtS-HoF-Mod will last until the next patch.
I have deinstalled Bts, and then I have reinstalled it. But after patching, the CvGameCoreDLL.dll says again "last modified July 4th". It was also impossible to install the patch ingame.

 

[ori]

Some informations for the German players:

http://www.civilized.de/

Interesting is the message from August 8th.
I guess, that the problems with the BtS-HoF-Mod will last until the next patch.
I have deinstalled Bts, and then I have reinstalled it. But after patching, the CvGameCoreDLL.dll says again "last modified July 4th". It was also impossible to install the patch ingame.

The patch should be saved in .../Eigene Dateien/My Games/Beyond the Sword/Patch now go ahead: delete the CvGameCoreDLL.dll or rename it to CvGameCoreDLL_old.dll (or whatever) then start the saved patch again (not ingame ) this should work
Edit: or just download the patch again and apply it AFTER you have gotten rid of the CvGameCOreDLL.dll - civilized.de unfortunately does not know of this workaround - I send them an email about this, maybe they'll post it

 

[Wahnfried]

The patch should be saved in .../Eigene Dateien/My Games/Beyond the Sword/Patch now go ahead: delete the CvGameCoreDLL.dll or rename it to CvGameCoreDLL_old.dll (or whatever) then start the saved patch again (not ingame ) this should work
Edit: or just download the patch again and apply it AFTER you have gotten rid of the CvGameCOreDLL.dll - civilized.de unfortunately does not know of this workaround - I send them an email about this, maybe they'll post it

Thank you, Ori. Now everything is fine. But I had to delete the CvGameCoreDLL.dll. During the next days I will play some games with the mod, I hope.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

After getting the Mod working (thx Ori and Denniz) I played the Beta without any real strategy just to get the feeling for BtS. I got the space victory in 1886.

Two strange things happened:

1. I was able to build a windmill on a flat grasland (see the attachment) Is it worth posting this to somewhere else?

2. After building a coorporation (I built 3 in total) I was not able or too stupid to create a coorporate "missionair" There was no unit icon - this was strange. When playing the trade route scenario I had no problem - any1 has an idea?

And the last thing - because I disabled the movies - I haven't seen the finish movie

 

[namliaM]

The mill thing is a graphics glitch... You can probably mine that same grassland. The food/hammer count will be 1/1 => Hill, but ... the graphic is not shown....

 

[azzaman333]

I've noticed that seems to happen after regenerating maps.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

I assume this is because I was building a windmill on the hill before and during the animated move of the worker I pressed "windmill" again - then he moved and started building the windmill.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

I assume this is because I was building a windmill on the hill before and during the animated move of the worker I pressed "windmill" again - then he moved and started building the windmill.

FYI: This behaviour is already confirmed as a bug http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=232229

 

[weevil]

Can anyone clarify if random events are legal or not? It says in the HOF rules page that "No Random Events" must be checked, yet Ozbenno's screenshot features a random event, and in other threads it says random events are legal.

 

[ori]

Standard Hall of Fame rules will apply to BTS submissions, use of the HOF BTS Mod is required. Contrary to what has been previously stated (and what the mod will warn you about), Random Events and ALL maptypes are legal for Beta submissions

I agree that this should be changed on the rules page as well

 

[BLubmuz]

Just to know...
I own BtS since july 17th, but never played.
I've seen this beta and decided to give it a try.
I realize the DVD version is 3.00.91 and i needed to update, but it gave me the 3.03.
Thus, i can't play it with 3.02.001.
There is a 3.03.001?
I cannot be qualified for this beta, but at least i can play.

 

[Denniz]

Just to know...
I own BtS since july 17th, but never played.
I've seen this beta and decided to give it a try.
I realize the DVD version is 3.00.91 and i needed to update, but it gave me the 3.03.
Thus, i can't play it with 3.02.001.
There is a 3.03.001?
I cannot be qualified for this beta, but at least i can play.

You can use 3.02.001 with 3.03. You just want to replace the HOFSetting.txt file to avoid HOF Warnings. You can get it here.

 

[Jimmy Thunder]

I had a fun attempt at this gauntlet playing around with the new BTS stuff.

I’ll try to summarise some of the “strategies” I used.

Wanted to focus on research so:
Cottaged the capital, took bureaucracy early with Oracle, tried to prioritise Oxford Uni in capital, beelined Democracy for 2-3 other good cottage cities.
(All of this stuff so far is not different for BTS).

One of the first new BTS things I used was the Mausoleum wonder that gives +50% Golden Age duration and the fact that you can start your first GA with just one Great Person. In the end I had 4 Golden Ages, all lasting 15 turns which I thought was quite nice.

I found Charlemagne’s traits not very conducive to fast tech, although the -75% courthouses are very good.

My next tech goal was Biology to set up National Park in a city with about 15 forests left.

I set up my ironworks city with workshops and farms on river tiles that get +1 hammer with a levee building, which is a nice addition.

Next tech goal was Industrialism followed by Rocketry.

After that I went for Superconductor (through Refrigeration) to get Labs in my big cities.

Then got Plastics for the Three Gorges dam.

Last task was finishing up the spaceship parts; they made it harder. You can choose two engines and 5 thrusters and I think a few more of the parts are not sped up by any resource. I was surprised at having to wait 16 turns after spaceship launch for the victory.

I founded Cereal Mill’s corporation in my Wall Street city and found that each city I spread my corporation to gave me +6 food as well as a net gain in gold per turn since the cash gained in the headquarters city offset the corporation maintenance costs. This might have been an anomaly due to the lower difficulty level.

I didn’t find health a real issue, although I did put supermarkets into my cities fairly early on. Using Three Gorges for power, and having access to almost all the health resources helps. The new public transportation building with Combustion also provides a nice health boost.

Trouble with Epic speed is that having another go at the gauntlet takes more time than I would have liked. But it was a good chance to play my first BTS space race.

My best random event was getting a free Great Artist in one of my auxiliary cities. The message said something about the Jewish Synagogue in that particular city.

 

[BLubmuz]

You can use 3.02.001 with 3.03. You just want to replace the HOFSetting.txt file to avoid HOF Warnings. You can get it here.

Hi Denniz, and thanks.
I just DL the file, not tried yet, but i had a runtime error trying to load the mod, not an HOF warning.

edit
Tryed.
still the same error, "MS visual c++ runtime error, abnormal program termination"

edit 2
it works fine, thanks Denniz

there is a version of Blue Marble for BtS?

edit 3
yes, but it doesn't works

 

[Denniz]

Hi Denniz, and thanks.
I just DL the file, not tried yet, but i had a runtime error trying to load the mod, not an HOF warning.

edit
Tryed.
still the same error, "MS visual c++ runtime error, abnormal program termination"

You need to start a custom game without the mod before trying the mod the first time. There is a bug with handling it when the "Game Option = EMPTY" instead of a string of 1's and 0's. One you start a game it gets set and everything is alright.

 

[BLubmuz]

I'm playing with Blue Marble graphics from the beginning of CIV, so i DL version 3 and installed.
It works fine with the normal game, but crashes when i try to load 3.02.001.

 

[Denniz]

I'm playing with Blue Marble graphics from the beginning of CIV, so i DL version 3 and installed.
It works fine with the normal game, but crashes when i try to load 3.02.001.

I would try updating DirectX to the June, 2007 run-time. If that doesn't fix it then I would uninstall Blue Marble for now. We'll try to fix it for the next version.

 

[BLubmuz]

Thanks again, Denniz.
I did what you suggested, reboot, but still the same error.
Too much work to uninstall/etc., i'll wait for next release of BtS HoF.

 

[BLubmuz]

I DL and installed 3.03.001
It works, but it crashes if you check "lock modified assets"
Of course i can't play an HOF game let them unchecked.
As you remember, i got the "blue marble" graphics installed.

Suggestions?

 

[Denniz]

I DL and installed 3.03.001
It works, but it crashes if you check "lock modified assets"
Of course i can't play an HOF game let them unchecked.
As you remember, i got the "blue marble" graphics installed.

Suggestions?

Uninstall "blue marble" graphics it that is what's causing it. Sorry, that's the best I can think of...