The West Awakens Beta Release

[beingofone]

Play anyone but the Kingdoms, all criticisms, comments, and help are welcome.
A comment like "this scenario sucks canal water" - is acceptable.

I have not had any time to playtest except 10 turns with the Spartans. It was either create the scenario or play all the really cool new ones being made. So this is an unplaytested scenario. I am still working on a player help so enjoy the blind adventure



Fairline will be sending the new graphics in a few weeks

[beingofone]

There are three scenarios
1- one year turns for those who enjoy shorter games
2- six month turns for those who enjoy more realism
3- seasonal turns for maximum realism yet a long game

The sounds

Main unit sounds

[beingofone]

A screenshot of a battle in this scenario

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And this picture is dedicated to Leonidas - a fellow fan of Sparta

The battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC.

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A screenshot of Greece

[Leonidas]

beingofone:

Speaking of Leonidas... heheh

I downloaded and had a look at your scenario. It all looks very nice. The graphics are excellent.

Not sure when I will have an opportunity to play this scenario as I am already playing several scenarios now. This, combined with work, doesn't leave much free time.

However, I will dive into it when I do get some free time.

It seems scenarios are being created faster than we can play them, which is always a good thing...

Cheers!

[beingofone]

Speaking of Leonidas... heheh

Thought you would like that. To bad I made the Spartans little sissy men in this scenario

What does it say about my scenario making skills when the pictures get downloaded more than the scenario
I will delude myself into believing its the popularity of WW2
LOL

I will have some time to playtest this tomorrow and try to look for any bugs, military imbalance, or general screwups.

[beingofone]

Found some bugs,
Carthage when controlled by the AI kept getting taken by barbs. fixed
Phoenician culture now non-tradable
fixed the game start famine problem
fixed the tech to allow production and reset cost

[beingofone]

Here are the fixes

[fairline]

I still can't get my computer to run civ without overheating - as soon as I've sussed the problem I'll report back. I'll probably alter your choice of unit gfx considerably, if that's OK with you. Are you definitely wanting multi-figure units for the twelve-rank phalanxes etc? I'm not a big fan personally, and I'd rather distinguish via unit pose.

[fairline]

Oh - will the patch work with the files you sent me, or should I download all of these attachments?

[fairline]

Three in a row - sorry!

Just wanted to demand that all you WW2 addicts give this a try and report back!

[Broken_Erika]

Originally posted by fairline
Three in a row - sorry!

Just wanted to demand that all you WW2 addicts give this a try and report back!

i'd try it but i don't have a cd drive, when my power supply went it took my cd burner and dvd drive with it, not to mention my video card, and my motherboard seems to be on it's last legs,
anyone know where to find a no-cd-patch?

[biru biru]

Sounds are excellent! Did they come from a movie, probably?

[beingofone]

Originally posted by fairline


I still can't get my computer to run civ without overheating - as soon as I've sussed the problem I'll report back. I'll probably alter your choice of unit gfx considerably, if that's OK with you. Are you definitely wanting multi-figure units for the twelve-rank phalanxes etc? I'm not a big fan personally, and I'd rather distinguish via unit pose.

I just wanted to make a distinction by the multiple units, I leave the graphics in your capable hands, especially since I have no such skills.
As soon as you can give me some feedback, I will greatly appreciate it. Some things I am happy with others I am not.

1- Does anyone know how to make the AI keep from abandoning some of its most valuable cities? I would rather not use a unit that can`t move?
2- I set the scenario start with very small cities as this is historical (Athens was barely 30 - 40,000). This may have to be changed.
3- The AI does know how to fight with these unit stats in the scenario (at least better) however with the harsh, and I mean harsh living conditions at the start it seems not to know quite what to do. - comments anyone
(I am thinking I might have to decrease the amount of food eaten)

Oh - will the patch work with the files you sent me, or should I download all of these attachments?

You will need to download these files.


biru biru

Sounds are excellent! Did they come from a movie, probably?

Thanks, many different sources. I was curios if they were good or just irritating - LOL

Broken_Erika

i'd try it but i don't have a cd drive, when my power supply went it took my cd burner and dvd drive with it, not to mention my video card, and my motherboard seems to be on it's last legs,

I hope we don`t lose you, you add allot to the Civ sites.

anyone know where to find a no-cd-patch?

There is one on this page, I don`t know if it works.

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ2utility.shtml