Final Fixes Reborn

One thing I noticed downloading the mod is that when I follow your SVN instructions I get more than the mod it self. I get the whole SVN repository complete with various meta files. Now that might be me copy pasting the link wrong, or it might be a tortoise thing. But either way your instructions don't seem to cover what to do if this happens. (I know what to do, people who don't use SVN might not)

 

stupid question: is there a reason why limiting the ability "gift vampirism" to Calabim (and maybe Mekara) is not considered as sufficient ?
was it not possible ?
was calabim OR mekara not a good fit ?
did you needed to forbid mekara but sometimes allow it which made it bugged?
did calabim get access to vampire mercs before the should have been able to "rightly" get vampires ?

(just curiosity)

 

Black_imperator wanted vampires obtained by non-Calabim civs by other means than mercenaries (e.g. dominant promotion, Stephanos' crown of command, domination spell) to be still allowed to gift vampirism, as a reward for the hard work to get them. It is disabled for vampire mercs because they are too easy to obtain in comparison.

 

Austrin Archmage: Hello esteemed Caretaker Matron, here is your monthly pay. Now, can you gift me with vampirism?
Caretaker Matron: Of course no! Our order is not open to every outsider with lvl6 certificate. I am hired worker, and this is not part of my contract.
Austrin Archmage: Okay, whatever....

Few months later, white van drives by Caretaker Matron and stops. A door opens.

A familiar voice: Come inside, i have fresh, blood-filled people
Caretaker Matron: B-but Zaria told us not to go into stranger's cars...
A familiar voice: Zaria only feeds you old and sick, but i have young, vigorous, healthy bodies to feed upon!
Caretaker Matron: Fine, let's see! (gets into van)

That's how through a little bit of guile and Body 3 promotion Austrin civilisation aquired vampiric archmages.

 

I'm coming back to AOE after being away for a long time. I'm enjoying the SVN release, but is there a way to stop or severely limit the effect that changes climate on tiles? In every game, a large portion of my tiles end up changing to tundra or desert.

 

i assume it comes mostly from the constellation event, i have plans to replace them, but in the meantime you can tweak their chance to happen directly in their xml (Assets/XML/Events/EventTriggerInfos, then find the problematic events (SIGN_BHALL and SIGN_MULCARN and decrease their iWeight)

 

Ah, great thanks! An easy fix.

 

Is there a tag in the promotions XML for this mod for defense against ranged bombardment? As in if you have a catapult or archer or what have you firing from range your unit with a specific promotion takes less damage.

 

I couldn't find any info on ranged bombardement in the UnitSchema xml save the one that increase range or strength or damage cap... nothing on defense vs ranged...

 

could be added easily if needed.

 

I've been playing the standard download of AoE for a couple weeks now and want to say I'm loving it My question/note though, is the mod designed to be played primarily as PVP? In my own games the AI civs tend to struggle for a long time - my game last night for example ended with AI Tasunke turn 200 who had yet to even pick up mysticism! Is it the flood of barbarians that the AI just cannot handle? Thanks for all your hard work on this project!

 

it's a mix of multiple factors. Some weird ai choices, some general difficulty with handling the barbarians indeed, the fact that ai code is complicated to do right. We do incremental improvements on it, though it'll never be as good as a human player.

 

Appreciate the response I do have loads of questions as I'm still learning things like the use of perception but the only big question I have - how much of a difference is there between the standard version and the current iteration of the beta build?

 

Please feel free to ask (and if you don't want to bloat this thread with questions, you can join the discord server ^^ )

As for the beta build, it's much more up to date than the standard version, with some bugfixing, ai and balance upgrades and some features more fully realised ( emergent leaders in particular). you'll also get all the currently developped modules in the download.
Beware though ,it's a beta so it may be unstable occasionally (though it is generally relatively stable unless you stumble upon the damn python bug, which is a random error that only happens to certain people)

 

Hi. Just came back to AoE after years away. Such a great effort.

But I have an issue with the textures of the unit - it changes back an forth between the AoE skin and the vanilla skin. For example - the Ljusalfar warrior is 3 seconds the right skin, then changes to the vanilla archer. The Shiam Skeleton is for a couple of seconds per turn itself, and the for a couple the vanilla swordman. The Pegasus turns into the chariot.... Any idea what creates thin conflict and how to fix it?

 

What are your graphics settings?

 

Like this

 

the frozen animation option is the cause, and must be disabled

 

You sir rock! Thanks a bunch!

 

you're welcome ^^