The Vanilla Mods and BtS

[Jabie]

Despite the problems that have been outlined elsewhere in this thread, I admire the fact that Firaxis tried to add value to their product by including a new MesoAmerican mod. this action should be applauded and encouraged.

Looking through the changes in the new patch, it seems that Firaxis were happy to take on board the updates made by other users on this site for Final Frontier and Next War. So essentially we have a case of if you build it, he will come.

With this in mind, what chance do you think do we have of getting updated versions of either the basic mods with Vanilla (Tutorial, Greek World, American Revolution and Desert War) Two of these have been somewhat superceded (Greek World by Peloppenisian Wars and Desert War by road to War) but the other are still up for grabs. Tutorial almost works, but freezes when asked for a left click early on and American Revolution consistently gets XML errors.

Note that as the base product is required for BtS this wouldn't cause any loss of sales for Firaxis, as might occur with the Warlords scenarios.

 

[deanej]

I suspect that the problem with the tutorial is in python. As for American revolution, the files would have to be updated with the new tags; the same applies to the other scenarios, including World War I and Battle for East Asia (maps came in 1.61 but the scenarios had to be downloaded from here). I don't believe that Greek World was superseded by Peloponnesian War (they are two completely different mods). If it was superseded by anything, it was Rise of Rome and the Alexander scenario.

 

[Jabie]

As for American revolution, the files would have to be updated with the new tags; the same applies to the other scenarios, including World War I and Battle for East Asia (maps came in 1.61 but the scenarios had to be downloaded from here).

Can anyone provide links to these maps and scenarios. American Revolution is not working for me at all (even in base game) and I've still got to win my independence or put down those pesky colonials.

 

[Jeckel]

For those that are interested, I'm just about done with an update of the Warlords Barbarian Mod to BtS. I've got the mod functionality done, Horde Screen, getting gold for killing units, etc. I even got the SDK work done to get the AIAutoPlay part to be MP compatable. All I'm finishing up is making the python work with MP and that is mostly done, just needs some polishing.

 

[Jabie]

Sweet. You ought to send it to Firaxis and see if they'll put it in the next patch!

 

[Metal Alloy Man]

Sweet. You ought to send it to Firaxis and see if they'll put it in the next patch!

I second this, that scenario was Epic and it's way better than that Mesoamerica Mod.