Need playtesters!

[Luddi VII]

Hi

I have a new scenario which need to be tested before release.

The scenario is about "The Battle of the Atlantic Ocean" and has a few new units, tech tree and civilopedia, so now it's just to balance the gameplay and do the final adjustments.

EDIT: Here is the files: http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ3/scenarios/BAOv1.0.zip

Thanks!

 

[WildWeazel]

What's it about and how big is it (scale of game/ amount of modding)?

 

[Luddi VII]

It introduces almost a new way to win the game. Instead of capturing VP locations on land, you have to capture and control VP locations on the ocean.

The only land units are an immobile infantry and an immobile artillery to prevent the AI from capturing cities, which is not the point of this scen, but instead you have many new sea units to use. Germany has many powerful units, but the allied countries have also a few units which become more powerful later in the game. There are also added two city improvements which autoproduces both axis and allied sea units.

Here is an image of the minimap:

 

[El Justo]

Luddi my friend,

i must ask...how do you intend for this to work?

 

[striq]

don't you need a city to have captured a victory location? will there be ocean cities? if so how will you capture them with no units?

 

[sourboy]

post the beta file.

 

[Luddi VII]

@El Justo
I think to place VP locations on ocean tiles, as the AI (hopefully) will capture and control. It's therefor I ask for volunteers, so I can test it out.

@striq
But if you have a VP location, you don't need to have a city, just in a tile. When you have VP locations on land, you don't always need to have them in a city. So I have VP's on ocean tiles.

@sourboy
Yes, I shall upload the beta.

 

[Goldflash]

Hmmmm.. sounds like fun! I have thought of making a battle for the Atlantic Scenario, but your idea is much cooler than mine! Sign me up!

 

[El Justo]

okay. i can take a look at it i s'pose.

 

[Luddi VII]

Ok, great. I'll PM Thunderfall today.

 

[striq]

@striq But if you have a VP location, you don't need to have a city, just in a tile. When you have VP locations on land, you don't always need to have them in a city. So I have VP's on ocean tiles.

hmmm well I'm game where do I download?

 

[El Justo]

luddi,

how large is the file?

map size? please, friend, give us some more info

 

[sourboy]

Ok, great. I'll PM Thunderfall today.

How big is it that you need Thunderfall to grant ftp access?

Do you have many custom naval units?

 

[Luddi VII]

The file is 17MB and the map is 180x180, but it takes very short time to load. And I have added about 14-18 custom naval units.

 

[Luddi VII]

Files are now available. I suggest that you play the scenario using Snoopy's terrain graphics.

 

[El Justo]

Luddi,

it appears that you missed a text entry...

 

[Luddi VII]

Oops! Tell me if you find some more errors.

Here is the new PediaIcons.

 

[Aeon221]

Does this actually work??? Will the AI play it right? Have you magically created a naval scenario?

If so I LOVE YOU! ;p

 

[Aeon221]

Opening the Tech Tree is a mistake... crashes the game with errors. Is the Destroyer supposed to be in there? It looked like it had standard stats, but I only was playing for a few secods before...

What I saw looked pretty cool!

It definitely was different... did you see the AI ever try to take the victory positions?

 

[Luddi VII]

I haven't acatually seen that the AI has tried to take the VP locations, but it has moved out on the ocean.

Could you show me your tech tree errors? I don't understand why it crashes so much.