Conquests of Might and Magic III

tom2050 · Dec 23, 2010

Hey, 'The World Tree' is an official name in Heroes lore!

Okay, it's been a long while. Big update is coming semi-soon. I've made a bunch of changes to the way things were setup, which will make things a bit more interesting.

Heres a short list of some of the changes:
For one, re-enabled all worker actions (swamp/marsh/forests). Marsh has disease, swamps do not (although I've made marsh with nice stats, but can't build roads on it; so players decision if they want to chop them or not).
Increased cost of Level 2 units, so they don't get spammed so much, and tried to make their cost relative to their power; so certain civ's don't dominate.
Added new graphics; fixed up a bunch of the pedia, removed all the Hero units (they just don't work well), and kept only the Hero, Hero of Magic, and Hero of Might (3 Army units), added teleportation abilities in (so their now working).
Working on finishing the spaceship victory (have made the other victories conditions reasonable to reach), and some other pedia graphics and entries.
Hordes of other stuff, too numerous to list.

I've been test-playing for some time, and it plays alot better than it did before. Hopefully once I get this done, I can switch gears to finishing the scenarios, which I have been itching to do.

In the scenarios, though, there will be individual Heroes that actually existed in HoMM3 (which I took out of the epic game), which will work for a couple reasons.
1. In most scenarios, there are not more than 5 different town types; which means I can use individual culture groups for each and have a normal tech tree. This will allow Heroes to be able to be used and upgrade as time progresses.
2. In scenarios, I can make only certain Heroes available, so the player won't have 16 Heroes to choose from (to build), which is overkill.

So, perhaps a week or two I'll be able to put the new version up.

haluu · Dec 23, 2010

Nice! Will download as soon as u get it done!

smirnoff · Dec 23, 2010

Update Where...ah Soon

i was looking to re-download but cannot find it, i was blind by the magic , tom did u use the magic spell blind on me lol

DFBATTLER · Dec 29, 2010

Awesome

Andres12345 · Jan 1, 2011

You might remember me long ago and i asked a question. :lol:

I've uninstalled Civ 3 Complete long ago. Got it Back. And now i installed this.

After launching it in Civ 3 Conquests with Patch 1.22 Installed, i get this error.
Heres the link.
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Andres/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/h.png

EDIT: Nvm! I Just had to patch it xD.

Great game though!

Andres12345 · Jan 3, 2011

I Encountered a problem! Is this Common?

Every time i play a NecroPolis Race it crashes on loading.

tom2050 · Jan 3, 2011

Andres12345 said:
I Encountered a problem! Is this Common?

Every time i play a NecroPolis Race it crashes on loading.

No. Does it give you a specific error message and then exit the game? Or do you just get a Crash-to-Desktop. If it crashes straight to desktop with no error message, that can be tough to figure out why.

Do you run on a PC or Mac? I know sometimes Mac has different directory structures that cause problems.

I should have non-beta finished by next weekend hopefully, which cleans the mechanics up a whole lot; but there were never any major CTD bugs from civilopedia, or game start etc.

Andres12345 · Jan 3, 2011

The old usual error message.

Civ3 has encountered a problem and needs to close, we are sorry for the inconvenience.

Im using a PC, Windows XP.

EDIT: Extra Info: It crashes when it loads (Inside) the Civ 3 game on Configuration on the Human Player.

tom2050 · Jan 4, 2011

I have all the old BIQ's, but I have changed alot of the files for the upcoming BIQ; so it would be tough to recreate it. Does it do the same with any of the other Necro civ's (there are 3 of each). Sorry to be of so little help here. There were some things that I have corrected since that could be the case, such as the music sounds that used to cause an occasional crash.

Andres12345 · Jan 5, 2011

tom2050 said:
I have all the old BIQ's, but I have changed alot of the files for the upcoming BIQ; so it would be tough to recreate it. Does it do the same with any of the other Necro civ's (there are 3 of each). Sorry to be of so little help here. There were some things that I have corrected since that could be the case, such as the music sounds that used to cause an occasional crash.

Yup, all of em.

Also i think Stronghold doesn't work either :sad:

.

It seems weird that the AI Can play it.

EDIT: Also, sorry if im mistaken but the Genie has 1 Shield, I Might be Mistaken because i never played Tower.

tom2050 · Jan 5, 2011

When you said you had to patch it, I didn't realize you were actually talking about patching Conquests to 1.22. :wallbash:

I also released a patch for this mod also found on Post 1 (click on link that says 'Download patch v 1.17). It is the only thing I can think of that could be causing the problems (if you don't have it). It's not big (4MB), so let me know if you have the patch or not, and it should solve those issues.

Andres12345 · Jan 5, 2011

Oh ...

Back when i couldn't play the game cause of the error ( The whole game )
I Installed the patch 1.17 and it worked! :lol:

But now Necropolis, Stronghold and Tower dont work.

So to wrap things up i got both patches.

The Main Civilization patch 1.22, And the Game patch, 1.17. :eek2:

Andres12345 · Jan 15, 2011

Nvm! It works on my laptop! Not my computer! :lol:

Btw, could you make the Stronghold Worker Actions a little more realistic?

Cause him mining almost everything looks weird. :crazyeye:

tom2050 · Jan 15, 2011

Andres12345 said:
Nvm! It works on my laptop! Not my computer!

Btw, could you make the Stronghold Worker Actions a little more realistic?

Cause him mining almost everything looks weird.

Only way to give him more actions would be to make a completely new unit. There is no other stronghold-like worker available. I agree, mining everything doesn't help to know what they are doing. :lol:

And I still need to make workers for Dungeon, so I might do it then.

tom2050 · Jan 26, 2011

The non-beta is precariously close to release. Fleshing out some final details. And there are some firsts included in this non-beta mod:

1) Ancient resource race to grab special mercenary camp units (catapults) that are scattered around the map, and guarded!
2) AI makes heavy use of special artillery pieces. They attack aggressively with them. Everything from bombarding ships, to bombarding cities, to attacking enemies in and out of their borders, and they never stop! Relentless and vast artillery wars with regular artillery (1 move, 0 att, 0 def, 10 bombard, 1 range). Now you can be worried when a stack of 10 artillery with defenders and attackers comes next to your city!
3) Makes use of special permanent defensive units that can be placed around the map, like Fire Walls, Quicksand, Landmines, etc.

Most all details of civilopedia are now complete, spaceship has been completed (Armageddon's Blade), Diplomacy win added in, new graphics added, and a bunch more.

I'll update before release.

vmxa · Jan 26, 2011

Sounds like you have been busy.

nick0515 · Jan 31, 2011

Awesome!

How did you manage to get the AI using artillery so well, Tom?

tom2050 · Jan 31, 2011

Found by accident when I was trying to do something different. Here's the thread.

nick0515 · Jan 31, 2011

Thanks Tom, I found that not long after posting. I should have realised you would have given a comprehensive explanation somewhere. Awesome discovery. Can't wait to play around with it.

tom2050 · Feb 5, 2011

Official v1.00 (Non-Beta) has been released!

Go to the post #1 to download.

Partial list of changes to V1.0 from the beta:

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