Kael
Deity
Yes, we will probably talk about the Mercurians next week.
I just added this weeks entry. Its about the Armageddon counter and the WarScript.
"Fire" Developer Diary
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Yes, we will probably talk about the Mercurians next week.
I just added this weeks entry. Its about the Armageddon counter and the WarScript.
Nikis-Knight
Deity
Getting caught in the middle is not the only logical possibilty; maybe they'll be left to their own as good and evil focus on each other; or maybe they'll be wooed by both sides to help out in the war. The secret will lie in the warscipt, I think.
Love
Deity
Kael
Deity
Feb 16th.
Love
Deity
Yay 15 days!!! Will it break saved games 
Kael
Deity
Yay 15 days!!! Will it break saved games
Definitly.
Love
Deity
I still want screenies...
Rhymes
Drive 4 25 is back
Kael
Deity
the warscripts and armagedon counter look great, like they'll capture a bit of the feel of scenarios and make games have more atmostphere
Glad you like it. My favorite feature of the WarScript is that its completly written in Python (I did have to expose some additional SDK info to python to do it). So folks like you that want to play with the ai logic (or do some fancy stuff with on of the civs) will be able to without having to dig into the SDK.
Armagedon Counter sounds great! I've been looking at ways of "increasing tension" as the game progresses - and this sounds like just the thing to do so.
One question though - you mention that the Mercurians will go to war with all evil empires -- if they just meet someone late game, will they still give the "friendly" welcome message - then declare war? Or will they be able to declare war as soon as they meet someone new and evil? (definately hoping the later)
One question though - you mention that the Mercurians will go to war with all evil empires -- if they just meet someone late game, will they still give the "friendly" welcome message - then declare war? Or will they be able to declare war as soon as they meet someone new and evil? (definately hoping the later)
QES
Court Jester
Good job, good job. If we add an Israeli civ, I assure you I will fight for their civ hero to be Jono
So what of a bandit hero? I say that there be a hero dedicated to threadjacking - I have suggestions for his name.
-Qes
Kael
Deity
Basium will declare war with any Ashen Veil civilization he encounters. Im not sure which message comes first. The reason I don't know is that until recently he wasn't limited by who he had met (the WarScript pushed wars even if you hadn't met that opponent yet). I just fixed that but I haven't played an Ashen Veil game since fixing it to know how the messages come across.
BeefontheBone
Windbag of the sea
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That's the funniest thing I've read all day, and I just finished reading Order of the Stick (I'm sure Kael and any other D&D players will appreciate it a lot, it's a great comic). Sigged.
Incidentally, the stigmata-style effects which depend on the Armageddon Counter sound amazing - this has to be one of the most ambitious, impressive, result-achieving mod projects I've ever had the good fortune to enjoy. Worth the cost of Civ4 just for FfH2 alone. The 16th is already shaping up to be a good day (Hot Fuzz is out! Yay!), but this takes the biscuit
Silverkiss
NekoChan
Agree about the Order of the Stick, and agree about the awesomeness of this mod 
Sureshot
Goddess
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might be good to make AI civs declare war on their enemy civs (especially when Raging barbs is checked, since an AI in war mode survives the raging barbs easily)
we've played tons of Always War/Raging barb games with my modmod, and in it i removed the barb bonuses to the AI, and found that before we meet the AIs they sometimes die, but after we meet them they dominate the barbs. the reason for this is because before we meet them the Always War option doesn't come into effect, so they have no wars and are in peace mode, despite being in a dangerous condition (i.e. barbs mass attacking), but after we meet them, the AIs declare war automatically and then theyre in war mode. having some minor wars always going on would help the AI to survive the barbs and benefit from them the way players do (in our games the AIs get tons of xp like a player does, because they build tons of units and fight a lot of winning fights against the barbs).
we've played tons of Always War/Raging barb games with my modmod, and in it i removed the barb bonuses to the AI, and found that before we meet the AIs they sometimes die, but after we meet them they dominate the barbs. the reason for this is because before we meet them the Always War option doesn't come into effect, so they have no wars and are in peace mode, despite being in a dangerous condition (i.e. barbs mass attacking), but after we meet them, the AIs declare war automatically and then theyre in war mode. having some minor wars always going on would help the AI to survive the barbs and benefit from them the way players do (in our games the AIs get tons of xp like a player does, because they build tons of units and fight a lot of winning fights against the barbs).
