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Call To Power 2 Cradle 3+ mod in progress: https://apolyton.net/forum/other-games/call-to-power-2/ctp2-creation/9437883-making-cradle-3-fully-compatible-with-the-apolyton-edition
BTW, if it interest someone: changing the title colours is a bit tricky to implement, it is easily possible to mess up your units file. It also seems only to work with GIF, not with BMP files...However, now it works
Hm, after further testing, it works also with BMPs. However, I gave it up to change the titles, because the needed palette changes on the untis file affect all other gfx, including those saved in DLLs...I could fix it via gifextractor, but that is too much work for such a small thing...
Bebro, why do you keep calling those danish viking cities for "Haithabu" and "Riper" ?
-It sounds really, really strange -because it is so obvious that it is germanized names of danish cities. I now know which cities you mean, but "Haithabu" is actually Hedeby, which literally means "city on moors" (hede=moors, by=city/town, in danish), while "haithabu" means something completely nonsensical. The first time I saw it in C&C I didn't know which city it referred to, until I thought about it long and hard.
You might consider replacing Hedeby with Slesvig, which was the new city founded in the viking age, on the other side of the creek, while Hedeby was abandoned. I'd prefer Hedeby myself, but it was a comparatively shortlived city.
-"Riper", likewise, is simply Ribe. I don't know what this name means, but I don't believe there's any ancient spelling of this site, that is more correct than "Ribe", since the city (and thus the name) was founded in the early middle ages.
Reworked the window borders, finished the title.gif
Finished the first events file for the Germans (each of the playable civs has three files). Every file cover ca. 100 years (955-1066, 1066-1187, 1187-1291 - guess what those mean ).
If someone has ideas especially for the English or French events, feel free to post them.
Played a bit with the Germans - lost two cities in the first turn
Originally posted by BeBro
If someone has ideas especially for the English or French events, feel free to post them.
936 - Otto the First, the "Great King of Germany" reigns until 973.
962 - Revival of the Holy Roman Empire.
1016 - Danes rule England to 1042.
1066 - Battle of Hastings, leaving Duke William of Normandy in control of England. Please note that William, while he lived in France, was not a true Frenchman... but rather a decendand of the Viking conquorors who ruled Normandy.
1075 - Church disputes the merits of Lay Investiture.
1115 - Knights of the Temple are founded by Hugh de Payens of Burgendy.
1152 - Fredrick I, Holy Roman Emporor until 1190.
1170 - Thomas Becket, the Bishop of Canturbury, is murdered.
1066 - Battle of Hastings, leaving Duke William of Normandy in control of England. Please note that William, while he lived in France, was not a true Frenchman... but rather a decendand of the Viking conquorors who ruled Normandy.
Of course in, but this is extremely difficult to implement, since England is one of the playable civs. So, if one plays England, he starts in 955, but in 1066 his kingdom would fall under Norman rule, but would be still England - such a shift of power to another ruling elite (from Saxons to Normans) seems impossible with the civ2 limits . Currently, I "cheat" a bit here, you receive only a text message about Hastings and its importance, then in the eventschange follows...
1075 - Church disputes the merits of Lay Investiture.
Will be definately in
1115 - Knights of the Temple are founded by Hugh de Payens of Burgendy.
Will be in (but the exact year is not known I think - could be around 1120)
1152 - Fredrick I, Holy Roman Emporor until 1190.
1170 - Thomas Becket, the Bishop of Canturbury, is murdered.
1171 - Henry II annexes Ireland.
1215 - The Magna Carta is signed.
1240 - Battle of Neva.
Good ideas, I have not much planned for the later events files yet, but I´ll keep them in mind.
1241 - Mongols withdraw from Europe.
But before they´ll wreak hacov on the eastern part of the HRE
Originally posted by BeBro
Of course in, but this is extremely difficult to implement, since England is one of the playable civs. So, if one plays England, he starts in 955, but in 1066 his kingdom would fall under Norman rule, but would be still England - such a shift of power to another ruling elite (from Saxons to Normans) seems impossible with the civ2 limits . Currently, I "cheat" a bit here, you receive only a text message about Hastings and its importance, then in the eventschange follows...
Perhaps this could be represented by a change in government?
I loved the orginal C&C, I managed to take over the map minus France and Spain while playing as Germany.
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