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Topic Subject: Auto Battle Generator

AzN
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(id: AznKnightmare)

posted 02-22-04 05:49 PM EDT (US)

I'm not going to take credit for discovering it, as I was told by "a little bird", but I thought I would show you guys this special trick.

The Auto Battle Generator is likely something used by Stainless Steel to balance and test units. It creates a set of tiggers when ran pits units in a duel and logs the results, which include health and time to kill. Its really very amusing when you set up mismatches such as King Tigers vs Conscripts. I'm sure Automatch players can use this to effectively test units and see what is better. Scenario designers can not distribute it, however, because something is written to memory which makes it one time only. At least I haven't been able to distribute it.

To get it, open up the scenario editor and hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift then press B. A menu drops down which allows you to select two units.

Resource Ammount controls how much units are created per round.
Time Limit obviously controls how long a round will go.
Acceptable Variance controls how much more of a certain unit than another can there be.
Max Iterations controls how much rounds per match (scenario ends after).

You guys can probably figure out more about this and the triggers used to do it than me. So get to work!

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Adder
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posted 02-22-04 06:36 PM EDT (US) 1 / 21

Your "little bird" rocks.

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_o0XxX0o_
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posted 02-22-04 07:10 PM EDT (US) 2 / 21

SPAIN? PORTUGAL?

Well the guess about what civs are going to be in the expansion is officially over!!!!

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MoB FrEakO
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posted 02-22-04 07:24 PM EDT (US) 3 / 21

Lol most likley a mistake, 2 civs that were pointless for have of the time the world existed

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Elpea
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posted 02-22-04 07:29 PM EDT (US) 4 / 21

Er.. sorry, but yes they are(very important)

2 great conquering nations.

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AzN
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(id: AznKnightmare)

posted 02-22-04 07:30 PM EDT (US) 5 / 21

Actually, those were the civs that were removed from Empires

. They may or may not appear with an expansion.

And,
Spain: Superpower of the world during the rule of King Phillip.
Portugal: Reason why United States exists. Began with trade routes to Far East and then expanded to colonization, which gave an example for the jealous Spainish, Franch and English to follow.

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MoB FrEakO
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posted 02-22-04 07:41 PM EDT (US) 6 / 21

Note: I said half Name one Important thing they did in 1900s up

DelfinoMessor
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posted 02-22-04 07:53 PM EDT (US) 7 / 21

there are a few ppl who can be the "little bird" but thts one hell of a good info

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Mokon
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posted 02-22-04 07:59 PM EDT (US) 8 / 21

awesome!

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posted 02-22-04 09:02 PM EDT (US) 9 / 21

Very interesting little easter egg

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Midgard Eagle
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posted 02-22-04 11:09 PM EDT (US) 10 / 21

Quote:

Well the guess about what civs are going to be in the expansion is officially over!!!!

Dream on.

By the way, how on Earth did you get the idea of pressing those buttons in the first place?

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The Crazy Person
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posted 02-22-04 11:32 PM EDT (US) 11 / 21

Didn't you read, middie? A "little bird" told him.

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Hank
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posted 02-23-04 03:32 AM EDT (US) 12 / 21

Why is it always a little bird? Why do they always have all the secrets?

_o0XxX0o_
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posted 02-23-04 04:01 AM EDT (US) 13 / 21

Because all the big birds are stool pidgeons

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Elpea
Hal
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posted 02-23-04 07:44 AM EDT (US) 14 / 21

*hides black ninja little bird disguise*

Yea, the little bird pwns

AirRaid
Member

posted 02-25-04 11:54 AM EDT (US) 15 / 21

doesnt work for me! i get the menu i pick a few units then i press the green button. then the menu disapears and nothing happens

AzN
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(id: AznKnightmare)

posted 02-25-04 06:11 PM EDT (US) 16 / 21

Run the map =)

_o0XxX0o_
Member

posted 02-25-04 06:18 PM EDT (US) 17 / 21

it creates a set of triggers

citixen
Member

posted 02-27-04 05:37 PM EDT (US) 18 / 21

I was wondering when you guys were going to find this one! This was a little tool that one of our designers, Richard "Methos" Bishop had me put together to help him automate some balance testing that he and his team were doing by hand. I told him the testing could be done with a handful of scenario triggers and he held me to my word to make it work. Hope you have fun with it.
-citixen

AzN
Forumer
(id: AznKnightmare)

posted 02-27-04 05:54 PM EDT (US) 19 / 21

Anything else we should know?

Elpea
Hal
(id: lp_usa)

posted 02-27-04 07:10 PM EDT (US) 20 / 21

I think we need more birds, I'll go outside and get some.

Mokon
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posted 02-27-04 11:13 PM EDT (US) 21 / 21

yes we want a list of everything u guys are hiding from us

and send me any xpacks u have in the works

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