Second Reich update

[Darius871]

You can make a hotseat game out of a .net game by saving as a scenario and then starting the scenario as a .hot game with however many players are in the .net game.

I don't know why anybody would be against that; if someone is willing to cheat in a .hot game they are probably cheating in a .net game as well, so what's the difference?

[MagyarCrusader]

I agree Darius. I'm all for a hotseat game. You can cheat in .net , but its easier to cheat in hotseat, but I still understand your reasoning.

[The ANZAC]

I for one would really appreciate a .hot game *tallies up how Russia would factor in against Germany*

[Scott F]

Volkischer Beobachter

The foolhardy Allied counteroffensive has been thwarted and their invasion forces destroyed, with the last remnants fleeing across the wastes of No-Man's Land back into their own trenches. With the failure of the Allied offensive and the restoration of the trench line on the western front, the Supreme Command's strategy of holding the bulk of its western front forces in a theater reserve to counter any offensive and to plug any gaps in the trenches has been vindicated.

[Darius871]

All right, on my turn I'll make the transfer.

[Scott F]

Don't bother. I haven't taken any Russian cities this turn (and I somehow doubt that my Austro-Hungarian colleague will either *glares*). That should allow you to build enough to get around this switching problem anyway.

[Darius871]

But that'll only last a few turns and then it'll start again, so that won't solve the problem.

[MagyarCrusader]

Well I'm sorry big bad mr Kaiser. You want to donate some technologies, 1000 gold and about 10 artillery divisions to the Empire? Sure couldn't hurt...

[Darius871]

I turned it into the hotseat game and it worked perfectly, except that the events file didn't engage. Is there something I have to do with the events file and/or sreich.bat to make this work, MC?

[MagyarCrusader]

Events should work... how do you know they weren't working? I guess you could try running delevent.exe on the game.

[Darius871]

how do you know they weren't working?

The usual:

[Darius871]

What is that delevent.exe file in the folder and how do you use it?

[MagyarCrusader]

Firstly, I don't know how you started the hotseat game. When I started it I only got the choice to be Aus-Hun. I assume that means the last person to go in the pbem gets to be the single human player in the hotseat conversion. If thats the case, this won't work at all. So I need to know how you started the game, and if you were able to select all the human civs for play. On a side note, when I did the conversion I did not get an events error. So I'm not sure why we are getting different results.

Anyway, here is the delevents.exe if you don't already have it. Just drag the .hot save file over it and the saved events for the game will be erased, and next time you open the game the events will be reloaded.

If you have trouble, give ANZAC your password and let him have a shot at it.

[MagyarCrusader]

doh!

almost forgot

[Darius871]

The way you make the conversion is to load the .net file normally (not load a saved multiplayer game, but load a saved game). then you save that as a scenario. Finally, you start a hotseat game with the Begin Scenario option, selecting the scenario you just created. Then you choose 5 players, and you make sure that the 5 civs you choose for the 5 players are of course in order.

It's kinda hard to describe in words, but it does work. But delevents didn't do anything, the events file still doesn't work. I have a working .hot file but the events just aren't engaging. It's beyond me.