Sounds great, good luck.

Hell yeah, this will own Oliver! I hope that I can still playtest, sorry if u got angry on me!

FÖR SVERIGE!

Hell, I'm bored. Perhaps, playtesting may re-ignite my interest in completing my own campaign. I'm available for playtesting, humour me if you please.
its_pulk@yahoo.co.in

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Heck, I'm using piles of stone in two things. One I won't reveal, but the other is about the same as yours. Only with more rocky eyecandy (tip: you can use sea rocks to represent rocky rivers in your rocky terrain).

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I've added the screenshots now. As long as you don't click the mapshot link, even dial-up users shouldn't have any problems watching them.

@Pulkit
*with dark and deceitful mod voice* Check your email.

@MoL
You haven't got the latest version. I'll send it to you via MSN in a near future.

Sounds increadibly good

- 1) when is this going to be completed? (Just estimation)

- 2) I completely argree, that every new submission should include something new. New tricks, completly new ideas, whatever. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this opinion

-3) Please keep us updated on the progress!

I wouldn't have the time to playtest, sorry.

It'll be finished before 2006. That is the best assumption I can do. Progress is pretty quick, though, so don't be surprised if I finish it earlier.

@Pulkit
Please let me know if you've got the file. I don't trust gmail for a second.

Msn oliver, msn!

This sounds excellent, Oliver. Looking forward to this one, most definitely.

Ach, your story sounds similar to one I've been planning ready for AoE3 . The gameplay on mine will probably be completely different to yours so it doesn't really matter, anyway.

I would be happy to test (yes, I have my new copy of AoK now ). Drop me an email to nathan underscore wells at hotmail dot co dot uk (with the correct symbols replacing the words, obviously ). Alternatively, I think I have your MSN, but I'm not sure...

Wow, this is great!

Ah, so that's you nathbert in my msn list! I suspected that it was you, but I didn't ask since I thought it would be dumb to start a conversation with: "um... who are you?".

Anyway, I'm sending you a copy to your email this instant. I'm especially curious about the balance issue. I've balanced it so most people can finish 'standard' without save/load. 'Moderate' demands more skill, but anyone familiar to flushing should be able to finish this within one, two or three tries. 'Hard' should be a real challenge, both in b&d and FF.

Interesting to see you use those AoE shallow tiles in the swamps, you think they work though?

I'll play it today, Ollie. Cheers .

Good luck, it sounds wonderous.

I'll playtest for you as well and will help in any way possible.

aznops@bellsouth.net

@Nath
I've checked the big bug you encountered, and nothing happened to me. Everything worked just at it should. After the conversation, Ari and Godred walked away, and about 30 game seconds later, they were revealed a bit south of the meeting point. So I have no clue to what has happened to you. If you describe your way to the chief more precisely, we can hopefully find out what's causing this.

I can send you a screenie of when I marco poloed to see what happened, if you like.

The route I took was straight from the green to the orange camp, avoiding the sea tower on land. I came into the orange camp from the North.

I have watched the screenshots now, and Ari did the right thing and walked to the river. The triggers are set so when Godred comes to the river, too, both he and Ari change ownership to player 1.

The first thing that came to my head - but which probably not causes the problem - was that the main characters had their standard icons. In the version I've got on my computer, they have different, "heroized" icons. I thought this data was in the empires2_x1.dat file, but obviously they're in the language files. I'll send them too now to be on the safe side...

The next thing that I thought of was that Godred was "blocked" by something the moment he was supposed to walk to the river. Sometimes these annoying bugs haunt the poor task object effect.

Anyway, I wish that this bug hasn't occured to the other playtesters, because there's tons of more events to happen in this scenario. If it has, then I must recode the triggers.

Maybe an orange unit walked in front of him the moment he was tasked? I'll extract the .scx and take a look at the triggers on my computer, and re-play the scenario to see if it happens again.

'Kay, Nathan. I hope it works the next time, but I'll probably have to do a change anyway. Chances are this bug will appear again... just remember that if you play the scenario again, play it from the campaign or the necessary AI:s won't be avaible.

@Ksrugi
Sorry for the delay, I'm sending you a copy now... please tell me when you've got the file.

[This message has been edited by Oliver (edited 09-26-2005 @ 09:06 AM).]

Just played it again - everything worked fine. It must have been someone walking in the way the first time around. Anywho, I'll send you some more feedback on the rest of the scenario.

If anybody cares, I've found some new units within the graphics data not featured in the editor, and I've decided to use them in my campaign. With some hex editing, I've replaced cavaliers and paladins with these new horse units. Hope you like 'em, they move and fight and die in sweet symphony. This is not made by any kind of modpack. Pure data editing.

That pic is btw from the next part of the campaign, "Lightning", which I started to work on today. Hope you like the map design. If any one wants to playtest the first scenario, "Thunder", just drop your email. I would like to see as many good playtesters as possible testing my campaign. I'll keep y'all updated as the project strolls ahead.

EDIT - Oh yes, I found new cactuses too. You see, ES made 6 frames with cactuses, but only 4 were for some reason featured in the editor. You can spot one of the new cactuses somewhere on the screenie, but I'm not telling where.

[This message has been edited by Oliver (edited 09-28-2005 @ 03:05 PM).]

How remarkable, well done Oliver. Does this mean that those cavalry units have been hidden away for 6+ years and you're the first person to discover them?

Sweet!

Maybe you've found these two units too?

Anyway, hopefully you can access them using the Hex editing.

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Hi Stephen! The units have been seen (known) for a relatively long time in MPS, only I believe Oliver is the first one to access them through Hex editing, and making them available in a form other than a Mod-Pack.

[This message has been edited by AnastasiaKafka (edited 09-28-2005 @ 06:00 PM).]

It's all coming out now! How many more of these oddities are there? Is the process of extracting them via hex editing one which can be explained in simple terms?

Yes, Ana, I've seen that guy with the kite shield, too. I was actually thinking of using him too. IIRC he doesn't attack with his sword, only protects himself with the shield. If you turn off his attack, he could be some kind of messenger from the byzantine empire, who will not fight for you but who will defend himself if attacked.

@Stephen
*counts tricks written down on list next to computer* 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... no really, there is an amazing lot of things you can do with hex editing, especially with the graphics. The process is simple in theory, but there appears to be so many exceptions it's rather experience than previous knowledge that teaches you how to do the trick.

How did you get those units??

Also, what are they called!

Peej, they are not avaible as units, not even if you unlock every unit in GeniEd. ES only made the graphics, but never used them in any unit. I've changed the graphics of the paladins and the cavaliers (and the knights too, actually, because I found another set of unused graphics today ) to this old graphics, alpha I believe. If you want them, and if you want everyone else to have them, you'll have to use and distribute a dat file, about 950 kb big, which is what I intend to do with this campaign.

That's some good eyecandy

Edit: Oh wow, more discoveries even after 6 years!

[This message has been edited by RiderOfEternity (edited 09-29-2005 @ 03:09 PM).]

Alright, I've decided to post a link to a teaser with the opening cutscene. Maybe this will boost the interest in this project...

Link -- 2,7 megs

This sounds great, I should of checked on this sooner.

So if I can test: aokhwildcard@gmail.com

or link to the file, whatever .

Nice shots!

I've received the new files and will send a play test report soon.

Oliver, look at the tsunami forums.

Maybe you can clear something up for me, Just in terms of replacing the grafics of the units. Whats the diffrence between using the Modpack studio and hex Editing.

I remeber playing around replacing the grafics to get better looking knights and things with the MPS but it come out buggy because each unit had diffrent ammounts of frames.
This might be a stupid question, My knollege of modding is very poor.

This campain is looking awesome, I cant wait to see it, seems like a breakthrough campain with its clouds and rain.

*blushes* The news?! Ana, I hope you realize that my ego has increased by approximately 310 %, along with my determination to make this project even better than before. Oh my... you even quoted me.... *is overcome by gratitude* I'll do the cooking on sunday, Ana, I promise.... *sniff*

Anyway, back on topic, I've just responded to your message Gaspar, and the bugs you've mentioned have (hopefully) been fixed. However, I'm not changing the balance yet in any aspect, mostly because I want to know of my other playtesters' experiences first.

And Ana, would you like to receive the new bug-fixed version, or do you want to continue playtesting on the version you've got now while aware of the bugs mentioned?

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When working with hex editing, you can also mod the number of angles and frames assigned to a unit. You don't have to use MPS other than as a reference. Plus, you can make almost infinite changes while the filesize of the hexed .dat file remains constant.