Reviving the tradition: Succession Games

[hexagonian]

Still no monitor...Talk about cold turkey!!!

I'm wondering if the crashes that are happening are due to the adjustments in userprofile.txt, specifically the MaxPlayer setting.

The 1.3 Beta changes are merely numerical balances in the text files and numerical adjustments in both the disaster/updater SLIC code. And I was getting crashes to the desktop with adjusted MaxPlayer numbers pre-1.3 Beta, when I tried to save the gamefile from time to time.

Autosave helps in this matter, but its a very imperfect solution.

Locutus, were you using adjusted userprofile settings in your recent test run?

[August Borms]

Originally posted by Locutus
Team 1:
1. Locutus
2. Immortal Wombat
3. Gazablanca
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?

Team 2:
1. Locutus
2. hexagonian
3. Boney
4. Badfuzzy
5. (yservel)
6. kaan

Not yet assigned:
1. Hermann the Lombard
2. Assur
3. Oerdin

Gee, I wonder which team I'll choose...





How about Team 1?


Oh, and Cradle 1.2 is fine for me, I haven't tried out 1.3 yet anyway.

[yservel]

Hi, I think I will play in the second team...

[child of Thor]

Hi,
Just to upset the nice balance i'd like to play to.......hmmm
2 games of 6players - 12players signed up
+me = 3games, 2of 6players and 1 of 1?
Ah well serves me right for being slow of the mark.
Just put me down for the next lot.....it's probably safer this way as it gives me a chance to see how it works. I look forward to your tales of battle - and remember my 'Uncle' will gladly take the souls of those slain into his hall
Craddle 1.2 might be best(i haven't had any problems with it) and if there is probs getting various files then mine haven't been updated to 1.3, so i could email them or something.
Have fun

EDIT: I don't mind which game i play in.

[Locutus]

Dave,
I didn't have time to test but it's still a beta and if people say it's buggy I'll take their word for it.

Originally posted by Assur
Gee, I wonder which team I'll choose...

Well, at the time of posting yservel could still have been moved to team 1, so there was still a choice (and I wanted to know your preference, not what would be most convenient). I'll give Oerdin and Hermann another day to respond, otherwise I'll just assume they are part of team 1 and send the test files out to team 1 tomorrow around this time (although I have a very long day ahead of me, so if I'm tired I might wait 'til Saturday).

Everyone try to make sure you've got Cradle v1.2 installed with the 12/19 update. Hex posted an update/variation on his mod in the Cradle thread today which overwrites some of the 12/19 files, so be careful with installing those (if you do, I advise you to make backups and restore the old files for the succession game). Also be sure that any 'home-made' modifications don't affect the files that are used for the standard Cradle game. If their are any incompatibilities we'll find out soon enough during testing (I hope), but it would save a lot of trouble if you checked in advance...


Once again, new people are still more than welcome to sign up. I don't think you have much of a chance to get into team 1 but team 2 is has plenty of room! We need YOU!

[Locutus]

Child of Thor: we cross-posted. It would be great to have even more players, so please DO participate! You even still have a choice between team 1 and 2... if Oerdin and/or Hermann prefer to be in team 2 or if someone in team 1 changes his mind you can still be part of team 1, otherwise you can still participate in team 2. Balance, schmalance, I'd rather have 1 team of 6 and one of 15 than 2 teams of 6... the more the merrier...

Edit: Almost forgot:

Team 1:
1. Locutus
2. Immortal Wombat
3. Gazablanca
4. Assur
5. (Hermann the Lombard)
6. (Oerdin)

Team 2:
1. Locutus
2. hexagonian
3. Boney
4. Badfuzzy
5. yservel
6. kaan
7. (child of Thor)

Edit2: child of Thor, I *will* need your email addy if you decide to sign up (ASAP if you want to be in team 1)...

[child of Thor]

O.K.
Done........

[Hermann the Lombard]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

One game and Team 1, please.

[August Borms]

Originally posted by Locutus

Well, at the time of posting yservel could still have been moved to team 1, so there was still a choice (and I wanted to know your preference, not what would be most convenient).

Ah yes, I read that after I posted

[Dinner]

I'll play on the first team.

[Locutus]

The test games have been sent to team 1. Unless someone drops out at the last moment we've got this game rolling. Look out for the game/story thread soon (this weekend or early this week, hopefully)...

Now it's waiting for team 2 to get ready. While Dave and Boney wait for their repairs it's still possible to sign up, so don't hesitate to do so!

[August Borms]

Locutus, is it normal that I have to reload the slic? (if I don't do that, I get all kinds of weird messages)

Other than that, everything seems to be fine after playing a few dozen turns

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Assur
Locutus, is it normal that I have to reload the slic? (if I don't do that, I get all kinds of weird messages)

Not as far as I know, what kind of messages exactly do you get? Not 'noyon' and stuff, I hope?

[August Borms]

Nope, I haven't gotten "noyon" but:


-Instead of the global warming message I get:

"6400BC

CANCEL"

-When I open a goodie hut and barbarians come out, a dialog box appears with the text:

"You should consider running this empire as a theocracy.
A government based on faith is a stronger one."

and a button that has the text "input variable %s, used by set function%s is not initialized"

-If I meet another civ for the first time I get the message "Select recipient" instead of the usual messages

-If I attack another civ I get the message "the" instead of "The XXX have declared war on us!"

I played it with a clean, patched version of CTP2, then installed modswapper, Cradle 1.2 base from Hexagonians website, and altered the userprofile.txt settings to what you suggested...

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Locutus
The test games have been sent to team 1. Unless someone drops out at the last moment we've got this game rolling. Look out for the game/story thread soon (this weekend or early this week, hopefully)...

That would be our fifth succession game or our first Cradle succession game.

Originally posted by Assur
Locutus, is it normal that I have to reload the slic? (if I don't do that, I get all kinds of weird messages)

If you have a non-English version of CTP2 than it is normal, you have only to consider that your successor has also to reload slic. If you have an English version of CTP2 than your version of Cradle could be different from Locutus' one or you used a different mod setup of Cradle.

-Martin