posted 02-28-13 11:46 AM EDT (US)
I'm sorry if this has been asked already, I'm new to these forums and navigating is proving a little tricky so I'm hoping someone might have some easy answers they may be nice enough to share.
-I can't seem to find any mod which fixes pioneers so that the AI will build and utilize them to found new outposts. I am aware that some mods have this feature but I don't want the other features which come with those mods. I am running the unofficial patch 1.4 and don't want to deviate from that beyond the pioneer 'fix'. I read that you could add an attack rating to the pioneers and the AI would utilize them (which would bring with it other problems but one thing at a time..), but I can't figure out how to edit a units attack rating?
-After installing the unofficial patch I notice that the monks have all become race-specific, so it must be installed properly, but when I have run the Setup program I notice that the 'custom resources' tab isn't checked and when I check it there's an option that says Patch_13.. should this be enabled? I'm wondering if I'm somehow playing Patch 1.4 without the benefit of the fixes that were included in the 1.3 patch by not having this checkmarked.
-How do I create custom wizard portraits. I first downloaded a jpeg, I converted it to ILB format, realized when choosing custom wizard portrait in-game that it actually wanted a jpeg, tried jpeg, wouldn't work, found a post someone made giving specific dimensions, changed the jpeg to those dimensions, loaded the photo, the photo came out completely skewed, half of it cut off and the entire thing distorted and stretched weird. Or, if there is somewhere with a bunch of portraits ready-made, this would work fine too.
-Is there a way to remove the possibility for multiples of the same wizard from appearing in custom map games? It seems almost every time I start a game I'll end up with a clone of myself in the game too, or two Julia's, two Tempests etc.. really kills some of the fun to have these duplicates.
Lots of questions and if anyone actually takes the time to read and goes to the trouble to respond then I thank you much in advance as I have tried googling and playing around with files and programs but seem to be getting nowhere but wasting countless hours accomplishing nothing!
-I can't seem to find any mod which fixes pioneers so that the AI will build and utilize them to found new outposts. I am aware that some mods have this feature but I don't want the other features which come with those mods. I am running the unofficial patch 1.4 and don't want to deviate from that beyond the pioneer 'fix'. I read that you could add an attack rating to the pioneers and the AI would utilize them (which would bring with it other problems but one thing at a time..), but I can't figure out how to edit a units attack rating?
-After installing the unofficial patch I notice that the monks have all become race-specific, so it must be installed properly, but when I have run the Setup program I notice that the 'custom resources' tab isn't checked and when I check it there's an option that says Patch_13.. should this be enabled? I'm wondering if I'm somehow playing Patch 1.4 without the benefit of the fixes that were included in the 1.3 patch by not having this checkmarked.
-How do I create custom wizard portraits. I first downloaded a jpeg, I converted it to ILB format, realized when choosing custom wizard portrait in-game that it actually wanted a jpeg, tried jpeg, wouldn't work, found a post someone made giving specific dimensions, changed the jpeg to those dimensions, loaded the photo, the photo came out completely skewed, half of it cut off and the entire thing distorted and stretched weird. Or, if there is somewhere with a bunch of portraits ready-made, this would work fine too.
-Is there a way to remove the possibility for multiples of the same wizard from appearing in custom map games? It seems almost every time I start a game I'll end up with a clone of myself in the game too, or two Julia's, two Tempests etc.. really kills some of the fun to have these duplicates.
Lots of questions and if anyone actually takes the time to read and goes to the trouble to respond then I thank you much in advance as I have tried googling and playing around with files and programs but seem to be getting nowhere but wasting countless hours accomplishing nothing!
really some horrible artwork there and all the female wizards look like skanks. The other aesthetic tweak I made was to get the elder scrolls soundtracks and use them as a custom playlist in place of the original, the original was OK, but the elder scrolls is a vast improvement.