It´s time to say a big Tank You.
On the 24th March of 2009 I received the following message by Takeo:
Civinator,
I have read about the lock-ups you have been having with CCM and thought I'd message you about something odd that happened in testing my personal mod. I apparentley messed up a city list and left a blank line at the end of it. When testing in debug mode I was putting out some settlers and when one planted down(after all the city names had been used up) it came up with the city name of "new" with no name behind it. I went ahead and settled it with that name. The next city I tried to settle came up with "new" also and the game said I must pick a unique name and would not let me settle. If this happened to the AI in a real game it might cause a hang-up, cause the AI obviously couldn't come up with a new name. Sorry to bother you if you already knew this kind of thing could happen.
Takeo
Takeo, I didn´t know “this kind of thing”.
The CCM prebetatesters found some settings triggering freezes. But we hadn´t found this one. After looking in the CCM biq, we found several citylists with blank lines at the end of the list. This error is very nasty as it can´t be seen directly.
The CCM prebetatesters now have two testgames in the latest stages of the game without freezes.
The next big Tank You is for one of the greatest and in my eyes completest and friendliest modders of Civ 3, who helped a lot with CCM in the last weeks:
Vuldacon
For me it was and is a great experience to have direct contact in this modding-project with such a modding-genius as it is Vuldacon. He helped in catching the freezes, he helped with producing some very good sound files and especially he improved and made tons of graphics for CCM. Wondersplashes that I thought they look good, now even look better and for the round multiple leader-advisor-graphics he often combined many different images with different palettes to a new good looking graphic. If civers in the near future can play with nice coloured advisor images of Lech Walewsa, Adenauer, Sharon, Nasser, Khomeini, Saddam Hussein and many others, please don´t forget that it was Vuldacon who combined these multiple leader images (and of course please don´t forget the civers who created the original leaderheads).
Here are some of the round advisor images in a smaller scale:
Persia:
Poland:
Germany:
Indo-China:
Egypt:
The third big Thank You is for the CCM prebetatesters Marine Corps, Rhodie, Badkharma and Recon who contributed a lot to the progress of CCM and also gave many hints and ideas to that mod.
I´m doing now a lot of textwork and a (I hope) final upload of the CCM-files for the last CCM prebetatests until the public CCM betatest can start.