EB v0.73 (hotfix now available)

[khelvan]

Greetings, Europa Barbarorum fans!

The long-awaited patch is now ready for you to download. We feel that it is significantly more stable than version 0.72, and we appreciate all of your help with finding and stomping bugs.

Of course, this is still a beta version, and bugs will still be present. We have fixed many of the problems, but we still need help, especially with CTD issues.

It is possible that with the new animations included, there may be one or two skeleton issues present. This may cause a problem with CTDs in battles. Someone reported a few, but this may have been due to an entirely different issue, and no other problems were noted. So keep an eye out, and if this does happen, please try to get a list of units involved in the problem battle, so that we may find and fix this quickly. If it does exist we can create a mini-patch quite easily to fix it.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Version 0.73 is a patch, and it requires EB version 0.72 to be working properly before installation. Version 0.72, as you know, needs to be installed on a clean, working version of RTW with the 1.2 patch installed, and with no other mods installed.

Once RTW 1.2, and EB 0.72 are installed, simply run the EB 0.73 install. Version 0.73, like 0.72, is wrapped in an installer which gives an uninstall option; another option with this version is to install the EB shortcut with a "high" priority. We highly recommend this option; it has greatly increased performance in our testing.

DOWNLOAD LINKS:
EB Torrent (Recommended)

FileFront
EB FTP
War Arena

In the near future, we will have appropriate places for you to post problems, suggestions, and so on, for version 0.73. In the meantime, enjoy!

Donations: Please note, we have added a shameless donation button to our downloads page. Any funds donated at this time solely go toward the upkeep and support of our domain, FTP server, and website.

We will explicitly track all donations and if at any time we adjust how the funds will be used, it will apply only to donations from that point forward. Thank you kindly for your support.

(and if you want to donate drugs/pr0n/etc send it to pauldls@hotmail.com, wine/women/song/etc. to bilekbp@hotmail.com; your wacky install team thanks you!)

Changes from 0.72 (this file is also included in the installer):

Changes from v0.7.2b

Bug fixes

Traits and Ancillaries
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- Fixed Desertwarrior trait
- fix for Carthage captures Syrakousai message (should have been Allied Greek Cities)
- added age cut-off for Scholarly trait (no more geezers becoming schoolboys)
- fix to prevent intelligent generals from getting checked for RomanHero and Brave twice
- Games Hater shouldn't get Gladiator ancillary; acquiring Gladiator will make it more likely to become a fan of the games
- Censor won't fine or censure himself for not being married or for living luxuriously
- Issue fixed where Censor would never lose his office
- fixed minor bug that would cause Primary Trait aggregate trait to display incorrect information
- fixed bug where son of Triumphator wouldn't get epithet
- fixed CTD issue for everybody who wins at the Olympics, set competitor as antitrait so it will go away
- fixed issue where admiral could not acquire CoronaRostrata
- fixed issue with wrong settlement names in Germany, for Sweboz Uniter trait
- fixes and refinements for Hellenic offices
- Fixed an issue where religion won't work as intended



Units and Buildings
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- fixed beginning placement of some buildings so that text/name would display properly
- Removed unique buildings from Skythia and Mikra_Skythia, they were showing up as Lake Avernus and Wintry Dodone.
- various fixes for unit recruitment issues, including:
-iberian velites recruitable everywhere for iberians and carthies, removed
-added turdulia line to iberian velites recruitment
-added sacred band infantry recruitment line for Zeugitana for Carthage
-added recruitment line for Dalmatia for illyrian units
-added recruitment line for KH and Mak units in Illyria_Hellenike
-added MIC 1&2 units to KH and Mak recruitment in Sardika
-removed galatian kluddolon recruitment from Scorcouw)
-added bactrian agema recruitment in Baktra, removed recruitment in Alexandreia
-added nomandherd and nomadsett recruitment
-added bataroas recruitment to Nervaea Belgae, Bellovacaea Belgae, Vindelicos, Volcallra, and Lugonesis for the Gallic factions
-limited belgae unit recruitment to Nervaea Belgae and Bellovacaea Belgae
-removed Casse, Aedui, and Arverni recruitment for belgae units under Govt 1)
-added Roman recruitment for several regional units
-removed botroas recruitment for Volcallra and Lugonesis
-removed gaeroas recruitment from Volcallra & Lugonesis
-removed clyddabre recruitment for Aedui and Arverni factions)
-added rorarii, accensi, and iphkratides hoplites to Roman recruitment in Syracuse
-added many Roman units (identical to Etruria) to Roman recruitment in Segesta
-corrected brihentin recruitment
-added Gallic units to Roman recruitment in Venetia & Aemilia
-added evocatae, antesignani and praetorian cavalry to Roman recruitment in Venetia & Aemilia
-added reformata & imperatoria cohort recruitment to Roman type 2 govts
-corrected an error in the "yeuzhi" noble name for nomad recruitment
-corrected "roman archer auxillia" recruitment
-limited praetorian cohort recruitment to Latium2 (Roma)
-commented out the building bonuses for nomadherd and nomadsett
-corrected azad asavaran, dehbad asabara, zradha shivatir, and zradhapahlavans recruitment for Pahlava
-removed unnecessary requirements from nomad buildings
-fixed late lybian spearman recruitment for Carthage
-corrected soldurii recruitment for Gallic factions
-corrected median cavalry recruitment area (identical to median javelin cavalry), and limited their recruitment to MIC3 and up 
-corrected pahlavashivatir recruitment area, added parthia, and limited their recruitment to MIC2 and up
-removed Roman early equites recruitment for MIC 2
-corrected hetairoi recruitment problems (cultures swaped/lines missing)
-corrected hypaspistai recruitment problems (cultures swaped/missing line)
-corrected pheraspidai recruitment problems (cultures swaped/lines missing)
-corrected agemata (bactrian, basilikon, kleruchoi) recruitment problems
-corrected chaeonian guard recruitment problems
-corrected galatian kleruchoi recruitment problems
-corrected galatian kuarothori recruitment problems
-corrected thorakitai argyraspidai recruitment problems
-added calawre, rycalawre, and "barb chariot heavy briton" to Casse recruitment in Cassemorg)
-removed sotaroas reruitment for all provinces for Gallic factions, left recruitment for provinces in gaul and briton
-added "merc samnite spearmen" and "merc samnite heavy infantry" to recruitment in Apulia, Kalabria, and Campania for all factions
-fixed bad faction entries for several elephant recruitment lines
-added "elephant indian armored" to MIC4 recrutiment, removed Delta_Neilou from "elephant indian armored" recruitmet
-added "greek hippeis thessalikoi" recruitment for Makedonia for Maks and to Thessalia for KH
-removed duplicate brihentin recruitment line for Vindelicos
-removed superfluous lugoae recruitment for Gallic factions & Casse
-removed superfluous sphendonetai recruitment lines for Parthians & Sarmatians
-removed superfluous toxotai recruitment lines for Sarmatians & Yeuzhi
-removed libyphoenician (early & late) recruitment for all faction except carthage, augmented recruitment area for carthage
-removed chariot recruitment in egypt for casse & gallic factions
-fixed velites recruitment, now recruitable in all roman type 1 provinces (i.e. italy)
-removed herd requirement from High King Court recruitment for Sauromatae
-removed "roxolani lancers" recruitment from MIC 4 & 5 for Pahlava, replaced it in Shahrdar Camp recruitment
-removed "steppe cavalry scythianhorsearchers" recruitment from MICs for Sauromatae and Pahlava, replaced in nomad Camps
-added "chaeonian guard" recruitment to Illyria_Hellenike for Epeiros
-removed brihentin recruitment for several factions, changed govt requirements for all non-Gallic factions
-corrected carnute cingetos recruitment for Aedui
-corrected arverni arjos recruitment for Arverni
-removed gaesatae recruitment from briton
-limited mori gaesum recruitment for all factions to Helvetis
-Swap of graphics files and faction name to fix banner issues
-unique buildings & ports updated
-city wall banner changes
-new ship descriptions and ship changes
-New names for pirates/brigands
-Arverni MIC fix

Scripting
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- Apocalypse 246 fixed
- Parthian horse discounts fixed
- Baktrian, Ptolemaioi VC display CTD fixed
- Sucum-Murgi VC display problem fixed
- SettlementName condition for Roma, Swebotráustástámnoz, Ambrakia, Bin-kath, Arsé, Syrakousai, Rhodos corrected
- changes to have Triumphs trigger properly
- kill off Ptolemaioi DOA spies at the start
- add buildings to correct problems with ownership and displaying incorrectly
- corrected Antiocheiaeia_Margiane => Antiocheia_Margiane, Rhodes => Rhodos, Kashgar => Sulek, Cenobum => Cenabum, Sardica => Sardika, Angl => Karkathiokerta, Yerushalaim => Hierosolyma
- settlement name issues (should use settlement tag for everything except SettlementName condition), removed quotes from around names
- Fixed campaign script precursortype2 placement issue


General
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- various text edits to clean up display text throughout the mod
- fixed messages where it would say "You have been attacked by an army of Rome" when fighting Seleukids, etc.
- added pahlava and ptolemaioi eliminated images to prevent errors when those factions are destroyed
- created getai, eleutheroi defeat images by copying already existing ones to prevent errors when those factions are destroyed (temporary fix)
- swapped seleucid and julii strat map banners for FOW-shrouded settlements


Gameplay tweaks

Traits and Ancillaries
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- tweak to Roman Patrician acquisition
- tweaked Restless Sleeper
- tweaked diplomats to make them cost more to bribe and provide bribery defense for cities
- increased bribe resistance for Loyal generals
- tweaked Bored trait
- raised fertility for Casse so births not impossible
- toned down CasseArgas and CasseBren bonuses to reduce likelihood of "uber-Barae"
- added some 'primary' traits for agents (smart, energetic, charismatic)
- Barcid/anti-Barcid for Carthage tied into adulthood of Hamilcar Barca/conquest of certain settlements
- new faction leader trait for Ptolemaioi
- new traits for Ptolemaioi
- clean-up of BattlePoints triggers, added an additional BattlePoint for large battles (makes them count a bit more for command star acquisition -- difference equivalent to differences between level of victory, not enough to overcome easy vs. even battle difference)
- tweaks and new triggers to randomize aging a bit for new generals and agents
- Made Gregarious and BlackBileHumour antitraits
- Removed almost all vanilla epithets to prevent overwriting of new epithets
- Halved chances for many ancillaries, due to 4 turns per year
- added traits for Celtic Infantry and Cavalry generals, edited triggers to obtain traits
- Note to describe Sweboz general 'adopted' into the faction's leadership
- Trait Type4Governor for spawned generals to garrison settlements with Type4 government buildings, Interloper trait for other generals who occupy settlement to cause unrest
- Disabled "Likes Easy Battles" trait
- General in settlement with Type1 government building makes it harder to bribe, better at catching spies/assassins
- Generals bribed from other factions are less likely to produce offspring eligible for a position of power and authority (hard to trust a traitor)
- new triggers to make it more likely to get healthy wife depending on husband's handsomeness/influence and health of the city
- modified/added some building requirements for a few ancillaries
- removed immediate negative effects of ForcedMarching trait. Can still domino into other traits, though.
- added trait ForcedMarchingExpert for generals who acquire certain traits or ancillaries, blocks off ForcedMarching effects
- added trait Wealthy for generals who acquire great personal wealth, various effects on other traits
- Pahlav not restricted from campaigning in winter
- Roman Patricians more fertile in beginning of the game (first 50 years)
- added triumphs over Dacia, Syria, and Parthia
- triggers added to acquire Nomad/Settled traits for steppe factions, depending on settlement buildings, activity
- made Lenient, Brutal, Warmonger, and Supervisor irreversible once level 1 reached (threshold 10)
- consolidated sickly/healthy/intelligent/ignorant wife traits
- New traits representing training for agents (diplomats, spies, assassins)
- trait for firstborn son of faction leader - +1 Influence
- removed bottom 2 levels of Diplomat's age trait, renamed top two levels and rewrote descriptions
- spies and assassins can train in a settlement with a market or better, depending on natural ability/intelligence
- diplomats can train in a settlement with an academy or better
- Bored now takes city size, city happiness into account
- increased chance to win Olympics 
- changes to have Triumphs trigger properly
- renamed theatron and odeion buildings
- renamed 3 ancillary priests to match temple names (Getai and Iberia)
- reworked Makedonian Hypermethyskos trait so it incorporates the vanilla Drink trait
- made BadFarmer and BaktrianHydreiasTechnities antitraits
- adjusted LogisticalSkill trait to remove morale bonus, since that is now incorporated into the WellSupplied/PoorlySupplied traits
- agent can get lazy and lose his good energy when sitting around in a town doing nothing
- added more triggers for Spymaster so that not every faction leader will be able to get it (now tied to Intelligence)
- adjusted priest ancillaries and "Worships X" traits to match buildings, adjusted/added some effects
- changed ancillary portraits
- Lalos (Talker) and Secretive antitraits
- Aesthetic antitrait to Miserly
- turned StrategicSkill back on
- added message for Carthaginian general conquering Syrakousai
- Slothful general won't get Bored, general under siege won't get Ennui
- new priest ancillaries
- new worshipper traits
- edited description of Magian Tutor ancillary to explain Mirror of Princes and Circle of Justice
- removed SpyMaster epithet from spies (couldn't make it go away when they left town)
- removed all trailing spaces
- civil disturbances at random when taxes high and loyalty very low, to spice things up a bit and make it less predictable
- new Epeirote ethnicities done by Equilibrium
- general who greatly outnumbers opponent becomes known as a strategist
- general who enslaves or exterminates allied eleutheroi cities gets bad reputation (negative Influence penalty)
- more triggers to tie buildings to general's traits (general in settlement with Roman villa has chance to become Wealthy, general without tavern may sober up, general with palaistra may get healthy, etc.)
- various campaign start trait/ancillary tweaks


Units and Buildings
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- renamed theatron and odeion buildings
- changed theatre complex
- changed multipurpose complex
- various campaign start tweaks
- tweaks to temples
- various tweaks to unit stats and balance
- new animation set
- new sprites for some units


Scripting
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- wait times changed from 1 and 0.5 to 0.2 to speed up script during AI turns
- Removed quoted settlement names from create_building and other console_commands (should use settlement tag)
- tweaked AI assistance
- Diplomats killed off for AI factions
- renamed theatron and odeion buildings to comply with complex limit, changes suggested by Teleklos
- changed script-generated precursors for every faction except Getai and Makedonia
- Added precursors for macedon and dacia
- Added Jerusalem temple


General
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- various starting unit & agent placement and number tweaks, beginning diplomacy tweaks
- activated "beta" culture-specific GUIs, news ones added but unable to be displayed until next full version release
- put historical tyrant Hiero in charge of Syrakousai (replaced Alexandros), complete with traits and biography (added his name to possible names for slaves)
- replaced some vanilla quotes with EB quotes
- Fixed "died of the plague" bug where it replaced born year, various other incorrect text, by adding an entry for slave victory.
- edits to command star descriptions
- changed "Summer" to "Spring, Summer, or Fall" for season tooltip clarity 
- culled campaign_descriptions.txt to assist load time
- tweaked loading screens
- new rebel banners and captain/general banners for many factions
- made forests denser on the battle map
- tweaked strat map models
- various map tweaks
- new custom locations, including new custom tiles
- renamed Tripolitania => Syrthim, Prophtasia => Prophthasia, and Cannae => Canusium in all relevant files

Edit: Please note, the patch has temporarily been taken down, while we fix a typo which causes siege CTDs to happen. This, and a couple other quick fixes, will be back up in 0.73a form in a few hours, as well as a hotfix for those of you who already downloaded 0.73.

[Ambiorix]

Hehe, is this for real?

[khelvan]

It is a figment of your imagination. You're dreaming. Go back to sleep!

[Big_John]

wake up! there's a burglar in the house!

[mike^_^]

thanks EB

[Kull]

Ahhhhhhh. Sweeet!!!

[Ambiorix]

Well the last one, as A$$A$$IN will attest, wasn't a good download ;)

[Dooz]

Whose got 0.73 comin' with no wait? I got 0.73 comin' with no wait.

[Ambiorix]

93%

[Big_John]

meh, i've had .73 for.. like.. months.


i mean.. nothing.

[We all need someone]

Sometimes I look at myself and say, "Man, I have no life..."

But then I realize it's just that EB is far superior to any other form of amusement.

[BerkeleyBoi]

thank you! i dont think ill get much sleep tonight

[A$$A$$IN]

Well the last one, as A$$A$$IN will attest, wasn't a good download ;)

haha no I got this version, I was just confused b/c there was no announcement yet.

[Ambiorix]

Ahh I see, so then the only joke... was the joke? I think I got it now... Sleep deprivation does strange things.

*Edit* One of these is downloading v 0.7.2 again instead of the patch.

[We all need someone]

Quashing both bugs and threats to people's masculinity(aka Gaesatae), EB does it again.


Rebel
Against
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RAtS

[BerkeleyBoi]

Yeah, the torrent is the 0.72 file...

[khelvan]

*Edit* One of these is downloading v 0.7.2 again instead of the patch.

Umm, yeah, so, that was the joke...hah, hah, but...ahh...but it's fix...err, joke's over now, so it should be downloading 0.73.

[Kull]

haha no I got this version, I was just confused b/c there was no announcement yet.

Caught us. :)

[LorDBulA]

Yeah, the torrent is the 0.72 file...

No its not. Both name and size are right 0.7.3, 66MB
BTW WOW nice download speed 240KB/s MAX what my connaction can make.

[nemesisvsbrad]

THANK YOU!! NOW I GET TO KILL ME SOME GAULS!!

[Simmons]

There seems to be a typo on the download page

Europa Barbarorum v0.7.3 Open Beta Patch 03/05-2006
EBv0.7.2Setup.exe - 67 MB
BitTorrent (Various)

EB Server (USA)
FileFront (USA)

[Vercingetorix]

Thanks, I fixed it. All of the typos are my fault.

[Trithemius]

Cheers EB folks!

[Djurre]

.72 savegames are not not compatible, right?

[Ano2]

Couldn't see it in read-me but have you guys added back the triplex formation (Or whatever its called) for the Romans?

[khelvan]

Yeah, sorry, no way in hell is it savegame compatible. In fact, you should assume that it is not for all our releases.

Very, very few, if any, will be compatible, because of how many different files we change.

No idea on the formation.

[Dooz]

So upcoming graphic patches won't be save-game compatible?

[khelvan]

I cannot foresee a time we would ever do a graphics-only patch.

[Ano2]

The high priority shortcut seems not to work. Its got that show_err in the target line, is that the problem?

[Foot]

The high priority shortcut seems not to work. Its got that show_err in the target line, is that the problem?

Mine has the same problem. Wierd.

However, I am astounded with the new interface - its beautiful! I really love all the new buttons and icons, much more like MTW, less of the cartoony-ness of RTW, more of that if you will! Now if only you could make the campaign map a little less cartoony...

I was a bit disappointed that the Romans still don't speak latin with the latin mod installed, I assume the Hellenes are still holding on to that language. Ah well...

Otherwise, thumbs-up all round. I thought this patch was simply to fix some bugs and tweak a few settings, I was pleasantly suprised and very happy to see the new interface.

Foot