BC 2.01 Hotseat Signup!!! (It's finally out!)

[Merlox]

Hey guys, It's Merlox, your favorite person in the whole world. =D, any ways, I wanted to bring up that I have decided that I want to try running a BC 2.01 in the org with the full RP and such going on! This should be exciting and fun, with most of the game balanced, now it takes more skill and thinking to simply defeat your foes, unlike in BC 1.05 where you would focus on mercenaries, this game spins it around, Mercenaries are expensive as regular troops! so no more ghazi, hindu longbowmen, kypchak horse archer spam!

here is the list availability to all, and if you guys are very wanting to join, I can also unlock the 2nd Indian faction, so it's playable as well. (It's the same size as the other one).

any ways, this game is INSANE, we should start it immediately!

Rajupts
Kypchak - The Lemongate
Makuria
Kwarez Shah
Omani
Kingdom of Jerusalem - phonicsmonkey
Great Seljuks
Turks
Abbasid
Ghanzi
Eastern Roman Empire
Georgia
Ayyubid - barcamartin
Armenia - Cultured Drizzt fan
Ghorid
Sindh -

If you need to have 1.05 installed as well, here is a VERY simple guide.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=275081 by TriforceV

The Downloads are here!

2.0 FULL install

via megaupload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O784D1NN

or

via torrent
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/attac...1&d=1246548804

or

via filefront
http://www.filefront.com/13958883/bc20.part1.rar
http://www.filefront.com/13958315/bc20.part2.rar

2.01 hotfix (It fixes a ton of bugs!)

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/attac...8&d=1246738021

Please get back to me!

Regards-

Merlox

[The Lemongate]

Sign me up for the Kypchak.

I'll have to instal this in a new folder to keep my previous BC hotseat running.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

I am willing to give it a shot, but I am not sure. M2TW folder is pretty cramped, and I really don't feel like having to uninstall and re install everything (again.... is it a separate mod folder? I have both SS and Lands to conquer in there right now....)

If I can get it all to work then sign me up for the Kingdom of Armenia, that way I will probably end up dead anyway!

[Ramses II CP]

If there's a clean way to install this and keep BC 1.05 live I'm definitely in!

[Merlox]

If you need to have 1.05 installed as well, here is a VERY simple guide.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=275081 by TriforceV

You can have both 1.05 AND 2.01! the mod does some really amazing things. They balanced it out, and Lemongate, you will be the Kypchak!

Drizzit, you are in as armenia! all the really bad factions in the last version such as sindh, armenia, such have been balanced out so they have a fighting chance now. (Kypchaks are some what balanced now, as they added tier 1/2 boats for them as well as assassins.

[Chaotix]

Hrmm....

In as long as it doesn't die out like the last one!

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

If you need to have 1.05 installed as well, here is a VERY simple guide.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=275081 by TriforceV

You can have both 1.05 AND 2.01! the mod does some really amazing things. They balanced it out, and Lemongate, you will be the Kypchak!

Drizzit, you are in as armenia! all the really bad factions in the last version such as sindh, armenia, such have been balanced out so they have a fighting chance now. (Kypchaks are some what balanced now, as they added tier 1/2 boats for them as well as assassins.

good to know. Armenia will reclaim its homeland!

[phonicsmonkey]

I'm in (as long as I can get it working alongside 1.05) - I'll take the KoJ this time - I've had enough of fighting Christians!

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

alright, got everything to work properly. So I should be all set
although should it specifically say that the game has been modded to 2.01? I am not sure how to check if I have it all patched up.

[MerlinusCDXX]

I'd be interested to play this campaign. For factions I like Ghaznavid, ERE, Ayyubid, Ghorid, and Abbasid. It would be cool if i could get any one of those, but I'm flexible (those are just the ones I've actually played-in 1.05 though).

[Chaotix]

I'm cool with whatever is leftover at the end- I seem to be terrible with just about every single BC faction, so it will hardly matter which one I choose.

[phonicsmonkey]

Merlox I'm just reading through the instructions that TriforceV wrote for having both versions installed at the same time.

Do I have to reinstall BC1.05 or can I just fix up and rename all the files for my existing installation before installing BC2?

[TheFlax]

You can just rename everything with your current install Phonics, it works fine for me.

[phonicsmonkey]

You can just rename everything with your current install Phonics, it works fine for me.

Sweet, thanks!

[barcamartin]

I'll grab the Ayyubids if they aren't taken. (Speaking of which, an updated faction list with player names might help, Merlox?) :)

[Merlox]

Ofcourse Barca! how silly of me, I will do that at once!

Also, if you guys wanted, I could do any thing to this game as well, (Possibly remove the rebel stacks outside of the cities?, or give the AI a life? IE: Attack people. ect ect?)

Basically, make a hotseat patch, (Not messing with the children cap this time!) of this game. XD (Personally, I love permenant forts... makes the game so much more strategic! if you want, I can put down the list of what I can do, if you guys do decide, I want to let you all know that BC is for a single player campaign, not for hotseats. thats why hotseat patches are nice to have. =x

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Merlox, I am Armenia, not Sindh, they are both tiny and insignificant, I can see why you would mix them up.

I also like permanent forts. as long as you don't mess around with children caps then go right ahead!

[phonicsmonkey]

Hey Merlox you have the Lemongate down for KOJ - did he already request it when I posted, or should that be my name there instead?

Let me know so I can pick another faction if necessary.

Re: a hotseat patch, I would probably rather keep my bc2 installation clean so I can play the SP campaign for a while the way the makers intended...also I use forts a lot and I quite like the fact I can let them disappear when they're no longer needed..just my 2c, I'll go with the majority

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

I think Merlox just lost track of who is which faction.

also, I am not an expert on this so how exactly would you do a hot seat for M2TW without a hot seat patch?

[barcamartin]

I think Lemon called the Kypchaks actually. Merlox, you on drugs ?

[phonicsmonkey]

how exactly would you do a hot seat for M2TW without a hot seat patch?

You don't need a patch for hotseat, as long as you don't want to make any modding changes to the game - the person who starts the hotseat game just has to edit their preference file, then it will work for everyone else without the need for modding each person's installation.

[Chaotix]

I thought (although I could be wrong) that in order to play a hotseat in a non-Kingdoms version or mod, you had to edit the preference file anyway, right?

In my experience, if you don't add a line under the [HOTSEAT] category that says "multiplayer = true" or something, then the game converts any save back into a single player file when you open it.

[phonicsmonkey]

I thought (although I could be wrong) that in order to play a hotseat in a non-Kingdoms version or mod, you had to edit the preference file anyway, right?

In my experience, if you don't add a line under the [HOTSEAT] category that says "multiplayer = true" or something, then the game converts any save back into a single player file when you open it.

Only one person has to do that - the person who starts the game and creates the initial save game file. Everyone else can just open that file and it will work fine with no changes to their game.

At least, that's how it worked when I started the other BC hotseat..

[The Lemongate]

Yes phonics called the KoJ, I called the Kypchaks.

[phonicsmonkey]

I called the Kypchaks.

Cannibal!

[The Lemongate]

Oh I bet you can guess where those "uniting the steppes" units are going to go.

[Merlox]

Sorry, fixed, I was sleepy.

and yeah, Hotseat patches are not required. but I find they do balance out the game a tiny bit more, and help the games (hotseats) progress, Due to the makers of this game had no intention of people playing 1 turn every 1-3 weeks. :o The hotseat patches just speed up things alittle. ^^;

[phonicsmonkey]

Oh I bet you can guess where those "uniting the steppes" units are going to go.

You're going to send them all the way to Jerusalem?

Make sure they don't eat each other on the way!

[The Lemongate]

You're going to send them all the way to Jerusalem?

Make sure they don't eat each other on the way!

Oh you think you're so bright eh? You think I didn't plan this all out? Well you, Mister, are wrong! That's what the HORSES are for!

Ha! What do you say to that! Uh?

[phonicsmonkey]

Oh you think you're so bright eh? You think I didn't plan this all out? Well you, Mister, are wrong! That's what the HORSES are for!

Ha! What do you say to that! Uh?

well, all I can say is you'd better be quick about it, because with barca's rampaging ayyubids breathing down my neck there might not be much left of me by the time you get there..