Civ2 PBEM Diplomacy - Beta 2.0 Annoucement!

[yaroslav]

Hi all!

Civ2 PBEM Diplomacy is an utility to do diplomacy in PBEMs directly between players. It's a team-work: Markus Kraus von Güntner (aka Galvatron) and Vincent Frachebourg (aka Cyrion) are the translators, and I (Javier Muñoz) am the programmer.

Well, I'm very, very busy with my university degree rigth now, but I had managed to do some serious work on the new version version. In fact, on Tuesday or Wenesday I hope to launch the BETA

New features the betta will add [version 1 includes gold/tech exchange and treaties like Peace, Cease-Fire and alliance]:

- Map interchanges:
*** Terrain maps (only the terrain, not the units or the cities)
*** Cities maps (cities+terrain)
*** Units maps (units+terrain)
*** Map about other civ (For example: you can ask German for French map in order to launch an attack against France with much more knowlegde)

- Cities interchanges

- After exchanging a tech that involves governments, you can launch a revolution!

- Bug about scientific research corrected.

- Betters and mode-detailed error messages

But, it will NOT include

- Units exchange: I have serious doubts about how to do an interface that includes units, and also I don't know how fair it is (It is very cheats-prone!)

So, I ask you for help.

- Betatesters: I need one or two betatesters. I ask you for load some scens, play a few turn and simulate a diplomatic exchange (playing the role of both the sender and the reciever).

- Translator: If you want to translate the utility to a new language (Currently I support French, Italian, German, English and Spanish), I'll be more than happy.

- Manual-checker: I will write a new manual. I'm very concerned with the manual of the older version. I now that my english is not clear, and the manual was, well, a little mess. I will write a RTF manual, but if someone with a good level of English would want to read it (or even write it), I will be happy.

Thank you in advance.

A old-thread related with this: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31249

 

[Aravorn]

Yaro

Put me in for a Beta test, I just want the gold thing turned off so I can use in colonies. More tomorrow, right now I got to run!

 

[yaroslav]

As always, conmcb25, you are welcomed. I hope the thing that I send to you migth work until BETA is launched (two or three days)

BETA 2.0 has not money-check built-in

 

[Aravorn]

Originally posted by yaroslav
As always, conmcb25, you are welcomed. I hope the thing that I send to you migth work until BETA is launched (two or three days)

BETA 2.0 has not money-check built-in

Great and yes Im going to try it with Academia tomorrow, I will let you know!

 

[germanos]

Oh yes!

Can I have it?
I can think of a few ways to test your beta version

And I am happy to see Unit-gifting is not in it .

 

[yaroslav]

Yes, germanos. You can.

I will put it here this nigth (GMT+1) . There is only a minor bug that I must correct

 

[yaroslav]

Hi guys!

There is the BETA! The ZIP is password-protected. I had sent the password via PM to all people that want to be a betatester. It works like the old version, but with a lot more options.

* Know bugs: Only English and Spanish language are working. In a few days I hope there will be more languages

* Examples of test that I've done

1) In John Ellies' Colonies III
In this scen, I had tested: map exchanges (Spanish map to United Provinces, United Provinces map about Iroquis to Spain, and so on), tech exchange (for example, Protestantism to Spain. Very ironic ), money exchange, teatries (French and English alliance!) and so on.

2) In Exile's Age of War

In this scen I have tested revolutions. When German recieved Democracy from England, they could launch a revolution and, after a few turns, change their governement to Democracy!

3) In Exile's Modern Age

In this scen I have tested that your scientific reserach is saved when you recieve the tech you are working on

 

[yaroslav]

Update: Dear Galvatron has updated the German/Italian translation.

Thank you, Galvatron

 

[yaroslav]

Update: Dear Vincent has updated the French translation.

Thank you, Vincent

Here I attach the new BETA version, with French, German and Italian languages in.

This weekend I will try to test it and write the manual

 

[yaroslav]

A new update: some bugs corrected!

 

[Diatribe]

this is exciting.... bless you yaroslav... this is what this game is all about.

 

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Diatribe
this is exciting.... bless you yaroslav... this is what this game is all about.

Thank you

 

[yaroslav]

another update:

Manual added on Apoly

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70328

Is too big to be here

Also, there is the last update. It solves the problems that are described here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39222

 

[yaroslav]

I hope this is the last beta. I have added the feature Henrik ask for: you can not trade with tech that have prerequisites:

no, no

The no,no thing is explained here:

Leon Marrick said
To avoid a advance being traded or stolen (in versions after 2.4.2 only), appearing in the on-line help, or on the science minister's report, set its prerequisites to "no"s. To help avoid its being trading or demanded in earlier versions, give it an AI-value of zero.

 

[yaroslav]

Oppsss! I forget the file

 

[Diatribe]

yaroslav... a small cosmetic issue. I noticed that sort(by file type, date, etc) in the File Manager was inactive. Not a big deal and if it's not a quick fix you shouldn't waste your time on it. It's just handy. Then again maybe I should clean up my directory

 

[yaroslav]

diatribe... I can not fix it, because it's a problem of Sun's JRE, not of my utility I hope Sun will fix as soon as possible

 

[Diatribe]

No big deal... just cosmetic... thanks for checking.

 

[yaroslav]

You're welcome