Civ4 BTS v3.19 Patch

Until 3.17 the AI never trades a SS tech, no matter how friendly they are with you ( "We rather win the game" , the thing they say when they lock on any other victory condition, like when we ask them to stop a war with them pursuing Dom )

 

Dooh. Got all worked up back there :b

 

Situations which invalidated Secretary General/AP Resident now force the next vote to be an election?

I don't get this one. BTW great patch

Lastly,

QQ

 

If I'm reading that correctly, it would be:

You're the Resident of the AP and you change religions (or go Free Religion), thus invalidating you as resident. The next time one of the "Call What Vote?" question pops, it would instead have a new election.

Not sure when that would be the case for the UN

 

Yeah I am more concerned about what the UN one means. A full description of this update with APO and UN would be nice.

 

Are the changes to barrage now make catapults (and other barrage assaulters) more powerful if you're attacking units that don't have drill?

(There was a long thread in the forum about how barrage bonuses weren't as large/effective as they claim, due to rounding and other issues. Eg. barrage + 100% was more like 50-70%.)

 

I got his pic direct the first time, but reloading got me a leading page with "hot girls in %inserttown%"

 

The Collateral Thread of Doom

No - the changes are entirely about the math when a unit with bonus damage attacks a unit with bonus defense.

 

In 3.19, there's a change so that a vassal is always willing to trade a tech with their master.

 

Hi everyone,

I have the Steam version of Beyond the Sword and just patched to 3.19. I want to start a new Pitboss game, but upon running the "Civ4BeyondSword_PitBoss.exe", it just starts the normal game (Videos and then to Main Menu). On 3.17 this file started the Pitboss program, which then allowed me to proceed with a normal Pitboss game.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue after patching?

Thanks,

Lawnboy

 

Really? So a vassal can't refuse to trade a tech because he hates you, or refuse to trade a monopoly tech, or WFYABTA you? That makes vassals much more useful.

 

Indeed. I get so sick of gifting all the back techs to my new vassal in the hopes that they'll finally be willing to trade for their techs only to run out of techs to trade. Given that you can demand resources outright it makes sense that you can force them to trade techs for what they feel is a fair price.

 

Not to rain on the 3.19 parade, but in case anyone wants to put together a new unofficial patch (or official one!), here's a list of known bugs which remain in 3.19 which were found in the development of Better BTS AI or reported to me on that forum.

Fixes are marked with UNOFFICIAL_PATCH in BBAI source code, most have been tested and in use for months.

 

Since I still need to run 3.17 for GOTM, I did a dual install so that I have both 3.17 and 3.19. I duplicated the Beyond the Sword folder in the Civ4 game folder, then duplicated the Beyond the Sword folder in Documents:My Games. Those two folders need to have the same name after duplication. Then I ran the installer which updates the original folder. Since I wanted the blessed version to be 3.17 so I can double click GOTM saves, I changed the duplicated folders back to Beyond the Sword and the original folders with 3.19 to Copy of Beyond the Sword. Make an alias to the executable in the 3.19 folder, change one the version's main menu screen so you know which is which without looking it up, and you're good to go.

 

This looks like making the game harder.

What, btw, does "Fixed cheat where you could apply a free tech from one game to another" refer to. Very curious!

 

I can't compile the CvGameCoreDLL that comes with the new patch using Refar's instructions for 3.17 and a makefile which I made from his makefile for 3.17, except I added all the new files.

Whenever I try to compile I get complaints about not being able to find windows.h.

 

Just stopping in to say Thank you for not forgetting us.

Edit: or rather, continuing to support your fans!

 

A BtS patch out of the blue. Does this mean we can dare hope for a CivRev patch too?

 

hi everyone,

ive made a makefile for 3.19,

ive tested it and it works (use only final release).



***edit - dont forget to change the sdk folder in the file.