[MOD][WARLORDS] ViSa Modpack

[TAfirehawk]

Folks, let me REPEAT....this thread is done, please go to the development forum.

 

[ruffriders23]

Well, this IS the mod pack forum. Makes sense to talk about the mod in here.

 

[TAfirehawk]

Well, this IS the mod pack forum. Makes sense to talk about the mod in here.

NO

The development forum is the place...please go there.

If necessary I will have Thunderfall close this thread, not to be a pain to people but the entire forum we have setup from Thunderfall is there for a reason....and why the other 'big' mods use their own forum here.

 

[ruffriders23]

I get what you are saying... but I never go to the "big mod forum". It is easier to just come here and see whats up with ALL the mods I play. Not have to go different places on this site.

In the Army we use the acronym K.I.S.S. meaning Keep It Simple Stupid. I'm not saying you are stupid, but you get the drift? Keep it simple for us novice guys please.

 

[Bastian-Bux]

May I suggest some simple rules?

This thread (or a new clean one) is used for announcements from the mod tam about new versions, regular infos about whats going on (newsletter kind of) and such. So those only interested in getting new versions and news, don't need to bother with the big forum.

Also general praise and back patting from the mod users can be done here. Everything else (bug reporting, questions and such, anything that requires a reaction from the mod team) would have its place in the mod forum.

Consider this thread the "showcase" of ViSa, or the "commercial" including some "customer voices". If you want to get in contact with a company because its product isn't working as designed, or because you have an idea how to improve it, you wont talk with your TV while its sending a commercial right? You call the companies customer support. In this case the customer support is in the P&D-forum.

 

[ruffriders23]

Don't get me wrong... I love the mod. I used to play Total Realism, but the guys attacking out of the middle of nowhere got old and stupid. So, I tried this one. I love it... the time between turns gets hard to deal with sometimes, but I will suck it up.

 

[TAfirehawk]

I get what you are saying... but I never go to the "big mod forum". It is easier to just come here and see whats up with ALL the mods I play. Not have to go different places on this site.

In the Army we use the acronym K.I.S.S. meaning Keep It Simple Stupid. I'm not saying you are stupid, but you get the drift? Keep it simple for us novice guys please.

KISS gets used alot more than just in the Army

May I suggest some simple rules?

This thread (or a new clean one) is used for announcements from the mod tam about new versions, regular infos about whats going on (newsletter kind of) and such. So those only interested in getting new versions and news, don't need to bother with the big forum.

Also general praise and back patting from the mod users can be done here. Everything else (bug reporting, questions and such, anything that requires a reaction from the mod team) would have its place in the mod forum.

Consider this thread the "showcase" of ViSa, or the "commercial" including some "customer voices". If you want to get in contact with a company because its product isn't working as designed, or because you have an idea how to improve it, you wont talk with your TV while its sending a commercial right? You call the companies customer support. In this case the customer support is in the P&D-forum.

We will have a new thread for V3.0...but my whole point here is that I don't have the time to answer the exact same questions in both places....

Don't get me wrong... I love the mod. I used to play Total Realism, but the guys attacking out of the middle of nowhere got old and stupid. So, I tried this one. I love it... the time between turns gets hard to deal with sometimes, but I will suck it up.

The lag is from Civ but we are fixing our part and any Firaxian code too....so it should be faster even though we are adding 15 new mods

 

[TAfirehawk]

As a small teaser....here is the new ViSa v3 Main Menu.

ViSa V3 Discussion

 

[ruffriders23]

Nice!!! Looking forward to it. Hopefully the between turns thing works out to be better, even if you can only do so much because it is more of a Civ problem than a visa problem. Any help there would be great.

When I get further into the game, I start getting memory card memory allocation errors and the game shuts down without notice and screws my graphics settings up to where I have to reboot just to fix the computers display. On top of that, the between turns wait it horrible. I know it is more of a Civ problem, but any help there would be great.

 

[Bastian-Bux]

I also get graphics problems (shadows become stronger, even to the point that resources and improvements turn black) and MAFs. Though thats not limited to ViSa, both seem a Civ problem that have to do with a coding error by Firaxis. This error only shows up when the engine is heavily active. Large+ maps, late games without many reloads, mods that "add" to the content and so on).

I never had any of those errors on a quick duel map using vanilla civ, while it happens regularly when playing huge marathon maps with vanilla civ, or even worse, huge maps with FfH2 or ViSa.

Again: this has nothing to do with the mods them self, but with a coding screw up that Firaxis does know about but apparently doesn't plan to repair. Mods (which usually tend to include "more" then vanilla) only exaggerate the problem.

This is also the reason why a a better computer is only of limited use to get rid of those problems.

Follow 3 easy rules to minimize them:

1.) Bigger is not better in this case. A giant map will force a MAF long before the game is over. Neither are more civs helpfull. The "bigger" the mod, the smaller the map you can savely play.

2.) Restart the game often. Not just a reload, but a complete restart. Somehow a memory leak seems to be part of the problem.

3.) A better computer does help. But don't get out of your way to get more RAM, as the result is limited.

 

[JohnYoga]

May I suggest some simple rules?

This thread (or a new clean one) is used for announcements from the mod tam about new versions, regular infos about whats going on (newsletter kind of) and such. So those only interested in getting new versions and news, don't need to bother with the big forum.

Also general praise and back patting from the mod users can be done here. Everything else (bug reporting, questions and such, anything that requires a reaction from the mod team) would have its place in the mod forum.

Consider this thread the "showcase" of ViSa, or the "commercial" including some "customer voices". If you want to get in contact with a company because its product isn't working as designed, or because you have an idea how to improve it, you wont talk with your TV while its sending a commercial right? You call the companies customer support. In this case the customer support is in the P&D-forum.

Because otherwise, as I had mentioned before, folks will probably lose sight of the great Visa Mod...I always come to modpacks too.

John

 

[ruffriders23]

Is it possible to add the option to play as either a pirate or Barbarian civilization? I loved playing Pirate Island for regular Civ IV, but then mod got dropped and never updated again. I like the option of playing as the bad guys.

Maybe Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin for Barbarian types. And Francis Drake and Maurycy Beniowski for the pirates.

 

[Bastian-Bux]

Please, leave out Adolf Hitler. While I know that many (especially british and US) fan boys love that guy, he has one "legal" drawback (aside from any moral ones).

Playing any game or mod depicting this guy would be considered a breach of law in Germany (and probably several other european countries).

This is the reason why even games like Hearts of Iron II only name an Arnold Hiller or such.

So by adding that person (or persons sentenced as criminals of war during the Nuremberg tribunals or other such tribunals) to your mod, you'd make it illegal for germans to play it.

PS: for moral reasons this would also make it logical to exclude Stalin from the game, though there is no legal pressure to do so.

 

[ruffriders23]

Put in Saddam Hussein for all I care. I was just giving some examples.

But, to disallow a certain part of your history to be talked about and used as depiction, only hurts the future generations. For a society to not know where they came from and what they overcame, is to condemn then to repeat the same mistakes again.

The best tool to not repeating mistakes Germany and Europe, is to know your history, not hide from it!

 

[Jenainsubrica]

Salve

Ho scaricato il mod di VISA per warlords ma non mi si vedono le scritte.

Mi appare il gioco così.
Che posso fare?


I downoalded visa's version.
I don't see the writes.

Can help me?

Thanks

 

[Drtad]

Il mod non e tradotto in italiano.

The mod is not translated into Italian. (I hope I said that right)

 

[ruffriders23]

Il mod non e tradotto in italiano.

The mod is not translated into Italian. (I hope I said that right)

Il MOD non è tradotto in italiano. You said it right.

 

[TAfirehawk]

Because otherwise, as I had mentioned before, folks will probably lose sight of the great Visa Mod...I always come to modpacks too.

John

I already said I was doing that....and even before we got the Dev Forum I said a new thread would be out for V3.0

 

[TAfirehawk]

We are still making progress on V3.0 but the BetterAI has certainly slowed us down...


And many thanks to the approximately 4,500 people that have downloaded V2.1!!!!!

 

[ruffriders23]

Visa team. A humble request from the Ruffy. Can someone PLEASE put in a Barbarian Civ or Pirate Civ for me to play as the bad guy. The Hitler thing may be just a little TOO much I will agree.