Orion's Grand Inquisition

[Drakarska]

DL'ing now. Welcome news indeed. Additionally, my heart felt thanks on the honorable mention in your credits. Was a surprise indeed.
I wish you and yours a very Happy Holidays.

 

[Drakarska]

Hey OV, just a little heads up for your users. If you have the complete version of Civ, then your players will need to change the path to; C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Complete\Beyond the Sword\Mods, Instead of your primary path that you have in your wizard. Threw me off a tad when I didn't see it in my mods folder after install. Just a FYI for all you OGI lovers out there.

 

[Drakarska]

Aannndddd I get to be A Grinch for your Xmas release bro, I'm sorry.



I thought it might have been because of the path issues I mentioned earlier. But I uninstalled, then reinstalled into my 2K path, and I ran into the same exact issues. I'm not exactly sure where to look in order to resolve, but i'm guessing because of the .ini issue, it may have something to do with the installer/path?
Anyway. Enjoy your Christmas, and have a happy New Year.

Drak.

 

[OrionVeteran]

Everyone's computer is set up differently. So you have to go with a default.

The install program has a default installation path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Grand Inquisitions 400

However, you can change the path to a different one that matches the one needed on your system.

Once the installation path is correct, OGI should play just fine.

If nothing else, you can manually move the mod to the correct folder and it should detect the correct path.

Looking at your screenshot, you have a permissions issue. Try changing the permissions of the folder.

 

[Drakarska]

I did that. 1st install didn't show in my mods folder, which I then discovered elsewhere on my system. I then manually moved to my mods folder and started a game.
2nd time around, after a uninstall/reinstall, I installed it to my systems path ( the one from my previous post) and started another game again. Same issue as before in my screenies.

Permissions issue? What do you mean by changing the permissions of the folder? Do you mean change the folder to run as admin?

 

[OrionVeteran]

Yes. You must give the entire mod administrative rights (i.e. permissions) to read/write to files. Otherwise the mod will be unable to write anything to the Mods/Grand Inquisitions 400/UserSettings/Autolog.ini file.

Right click on the Mods folder.
Select properties
Select the Security tab
Change the permissions for each item to Full control.
Make sure to add "Administrators\Your UserID\Users" and give it Full control
Click the Advanced button and make sure the checkbox Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent is checked.

You must be an administrator to perform these tasks.

Lastly, you should always run the installation exe file, as an administrator.

 

[Drakarska]

Well, that's a first. Okie dokie, let you know what happens.

 

[Drakarska]

Ok..

1) Right clicked on Wizard, ran as Admin to install.
2) Changed install path to the following; C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Complete\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Grand Inquisitions 400 and installed.
3) Right clicked on mods folder, prop, sec tab, all permissions were already set for admin.
4) Started BTS, Advanced, load a Mod, selected OGI
5) Custom game, all random settings, click ok.
6) Get same error msg's as I've shown in my earlier post.

So. Got a plan B Coach?

I've uninstalled for now, until I can relax enough to take a closer look at what my be the issue. The only thing that I can think of is that WIN 10 may be different on Admin priv, as opposed to what your OS's Admin is. Either that, or there is something off in your installer, because I did get a brief not responding msg before it finally finished the install.

Appreciate all that you do OV, my thx.
Drak.

 

[OrionVeteran]

This is definitely an operating system permissions issue, because the error says "Permission denied".

Open the Autolog.ini file and lets have you manually change the path set in the file.

Look for: File Path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\log

Change it to: File Path = C:\Program Files (x86)\2K Games\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Grand Inquisitions 400\User Settings

See what happens.

 

[PinkPallin]

Installed OGI 400 in a VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.2 (2 processors, 6 GB RAM) running on my Windows 10 pc.
Running the installer as administrator I browsed to my correct path C:\Giochi\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods.
As my user has admin rights I haven't changed any permission, neither have changed the path in the Autolog.ini file.
Started a game as Romans in a Continents world, standard size, temperate climate and medium sea level. Everything ok, apart being surprised by the battering ram escorting my settler . Then tried an all random game, once again everything ok.

Could it be a problem related to Civ 4 Complete, or to user settings?

 

[OrionVeteran]

Installed OGI 400 in a VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.2 (2 processors, 6 GB RAM) running on my Windows 10 pc.
Running the installer as administrator I browsed to my correct path C:\Giochi\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods.
As my user has admin rights I haven't changed any permission, neither have changed the path in the Autolog.ini file.
Started a game as Romans in a Continents world, standard size, temperate climate and medium sea level. Everything ok, apart being surprised by the battering ram escorting my settler . Then tried an all random game, once again everything ok.

Could it be a problem related to Civ 4 Complete, or to user settings?

It is welcome news that the mod works OK on your windows 10 system.
At this point I'm still convinced there is a permissions issue on Drakarska's PC.
As for the battering ram, OGI 4.0 has all sorts of surprises.
Have fun.

 

[Drakarska]

Ok, got it to work. Oddly enough, I had to use Notepad++ in administrator mode in order to change the file path in the .ini file, as I kept getting access denied when I attempted to save the change. First time ever I've had to do that for a simple path tweak.
No matter, lol. I appreciate your help. Hope you have a great holidays.

 

[OrionVeteran]

The access denied message indicates the permissions changes still did not take affect for all the files in the folder.
The permissions issues problem may return.
But, perhaps not if you run the game in administrator mode.
Meanwhile, let me know how the game play performs.
OGI 4.00 should be very reliable.

 

[OrionVeteran]

Work has started on OGI version 4.01. Here is the list of changes made so far:

Spoiler :

1. Tech Tree can now fit eight techs per row.
2. Rebuilt prospecting mod.
3. The prospect mission will remove any improvement on the plot.
4. A successful prospect mission results in a selectable mining resource for the plot (AI is random).
5. After a successful prospect mission, the plot resource can be mined (It is no longer automatic).
6. Converted 10 mining resources to be available at sea.
7. Workboats can perform the Sea Mining mission, just like workers do on land.
8. Added Promotions Sea Prospector 1-5 for work boats.
9. Horse resource is now revealed by the Wheel.
10. The Diplomat has been moved to tech Information Gathering.
11. Fixed Immigrant bug that failed to reduce city population.
12. Moved Woodshop to tech: The Wheel.
13. Fixed Advanced Diplomacy SDK Bug.
14. Fixed Cyber Hacker Python Bug.
15. Tweaked AI Mine placement SDK code.
16. Fixed Harbor, Shipyard and Dry dock XML to encourage construction of capital ships.
17. Fix SDK DCM Ranged Bombardment CTD bug.
18. More to come.

 

[Pomphis]

First, many thanks for your great work.

Second, I had two cases where it froze so far, both involving the zulu leader offering a trade, probably asking for a tech gift. In both cases his picture, and the upper part of the heft field (showing what he has to offer) and the upper part of the right field (showing what I have to offer) and the lower part of the right field (showing the tech he was asking for) were shown. The lower part of the left field (showing his offer) remained blank, which is why I suspect that he was asking for gift. The lower part of the center field below his picture (showing his request and my possible responses) remained blank and nothing happened until I used the Task Manager and I got the Civ has encountered a problem message. In both cases I could restart without problems and continue.

 

[Pomphis]

Another problem: sometimes the end of turn doesn´t stop, that is, the small blue globe circles and circles, and when I lose patience and start the Task Manager I get the Civ encountered a problem message. The first few times it was enough to move some units differently, or to hurry a production, but I am now in turn 161 and so far nothing helps.

 

[OrionVeteran]

First, many thanks for your great work.

Second, I had two cases where it froze so far, both involving the zulu leader offering a trade, probably asking for a tech gift. In both cases his picture, and the upper part of the heft field (showing what he has to offer) and the upper part of the right field (showing what I have to offer) and the lower part of the right field (showing the tech he was asking for) were shown. The lower part of the left field (showing his offer) remained blank, which is why I suspect that he was asking for gift. The lower part of the center field below his picture (showing his request and my possible responses) remained blank and nothing happened until I used the Task Manager and I got the Civ has encountered a problem message. In both cases I could restart without problems and continue.

Never seen of this one before. hmmm.
Please submit the saved game file and I will attempt to track down the issue.

 

[OrionVeteran]

Another problem: sometimes the end of turn doesn´t stop, that is, the small blue globe circles and circles, and when I lose patience and start the Task Manager I get the Civ encountered a problem message. The first few times it was enough to move some units differently, or to hurry a production, but I am now in turn 161 and so far nothing helps.

Again, submit the saved game file and I will attempt to track down the issue.

 

[Pomphis]

Here is a game turn that doesn´t want to end:

 

[OrionVeteran]

OK I'm on it. It is definitely a problem with Advanced Diplomacy. If I disable the option the turn continues. Now to find where it blows up. Found it in the SDK code for Advanced Diplomacy. I would have never found it without the file. Awesome. I will let everyone know how I will release the fix.