Storm over Europe question

[Mr. Dictator]

ok i got the SOE mod in my Bonus disc but i cant find the save files, where are they?

 

[zulu9812]

get them from http://www.cdgroup.org/forums/tbs/civ3/viewtopic.php?t=4822

 

[Mr. Dictator]

ok got the files but everytime i try to load it says OIC error: BIC or something like that and wont read the save

 

[blushing_bride]

i had that problem with SOE, have you installed the latest PTW patch? cos that worked for me

 

[Mr. Dictator]

yeah i have that but i might as well try again

 

[Kentonio]

Incidentally, if you have a decent connection, download the new SOE exe from the link Zulu provided, the saves are made for it rather than for the bonus disc version as the bonus disc version was rushed as hell. The one on the link is far, far, far better and has been properly playtested.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

thx Kent

but when will the SAVs for the BD be out

and is anything dif. in the BD

 

[Kentonio]

Lots of things are different in the bonus disc. Basically the situation was that we found out that we could get the mod on the disc if we had it finished and ready in 4 days from the time we were told. At this point the mod really needed at least 2 months more work and was nowhere near completion. Myself and Stainz then spent that time working up to 18 hours a day to get the mod playable. We had great help from a group of very good people such as Ripptide, Wyrmshadow, Akula and Hunter in that time. We werent sure even up to a few hours before the deadline whether or not it would be done. In fact i went to sleep 4 hours before it was due in thinking that it wasnt going to make it. Well as you know we did make it, however the finished product was never playtested and was basically desperately rushed.

The latest version has more units, properly balanced unit stats and gameplay, far less bugs and is basically a completely different game to play. A dozen people playested it for about 3 months, that should give an indication of how much has altered since the original bonus disc release.

 

[Kentonio]

Re saves for the BD I can see about getting a few made if you tell me which country you want them for. Seriously though it would be far, far more advisable to just download the latest version.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

ill prob. just get the latest, thx anyways.

keep up the good work, btw when will the conq. vers. be out?

 

[Kentonio]

I dont know to be honest, i've been snowed under with real life lately. The rest of the team however have been working hard getting it done, i'll try and post an update shortly after xmas at the SOE forums.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

it will have new units right?

and i guess its obvious youll have a locked alliance, good luck hope it comes out well

that sounded like i was talking to a pregnant woman

 

[Kentonio]

New units? Yeah I imagine so, we always end up with new ones appearing in there one way or another although we must reach a point sooner or later where we have pretty much all the units we can use. Theres got to be a hundred new units in there by now. Hopefully Akula will have a couple of new ships done by the C3C version, I know she's got a fair few in the pipeline.

 

[FlakE]

I've tried the SOE mod... It's pretty interesting, but it's really slow... every time I bombard something, pillage or take over a city - I have to wait a couple of minutes =(((( And my computer is p4 2.0 with 256ddr ram...
So i dumped it after 15 turns...

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Wow. You give up too easily.