Something for the EBBS script?

[PraetorFigus]

I was looking through the Scriptorium and came across a thread on not having to click the "show me how" button to activate the script.

Here is the discussion thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=104133

and Here is the tutorial http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169689,

The section related to the background script is "Section II: Running the background script automatically when a new campaign starts"

Could this be implemented for the next patch for EB1?

Cheers:2thumbsup:

[Nachtmeister]

The section related to the background script is "Section II: Running the background script automatically when a new campaign starts"

Good Idea basically but if I take you literally, then it would do me (as I am currently actually going for victory conditions) no good - campaign start ≠ loaded game start...
Too much RL distracting me from EB ^^
Don't know about other players of course.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I recall hearing something about this before. IIRC, there was something that didn't work with the EBBS. I don't really remember, though...

[PraetorFigus]

Good Idea basically but if I take you literally, then it would do me (as I am currently actually going for victory conditions) no good - campaign start ≠ loaded game start...
Too much RL distracting me from EB ^^
Don't know about other players of course.

Well that is just the title for the section on background scripts. I put the whole title in so it would be easier to find, I'm still learning how to use the forums!:wall:

From what I understand there is an entry put into the campaign script so that the script is started automatically. And from reading the threads there is something about having to restart the script from a save anyway, but I don't understand how that works! :wall:


I recall hearing something about this before. IIRC, there was something that didn't work with the EBBS. I don't really remember, though...

I brought this up cuz my bro wanted to start playing EB and ignored the Adviser for some turns, and I had to explain to him why he needed to click on the "Show me how" button! :dizzy2:

MAA, could someone who works or worked on the script explain a little about the possibility of using this or why it's not possible?

Cheers:2thumbsup:

[Atilius]

It's possible but not worthwhile in our opinion.

Using the new technique, the script will start automatically when you begin a campaign: for EB that's Spring 272. When you save the game and load it later, the script will not start automatically. Just ask yourself how many new campaigns you start compared to how many times you load a saved one; the benefit is pretty small. Those who fail to start the script on startup now would continue failing to start the script on reload.

[Nachtmeister]

This is something that has somehow always made me wonder...
I just can't get into my head that some people don't read something that flashes up at them and contains words that seem totally alien at first sight and at the same time write a geometrical image of the game's inside into the reader's conscience ("background script activation") but still manage to click onto it (as in "hit-not-miss") to make it disappear.
The internet-created automatic ad-blocker in my brain does not trigger from the advisor because internet and tv and any other ads always have that pathetic pseudo-goody-good-shoes-with-no-grey-mass aura around them ('cept the good ones which I would not really call "ads" as in "pest"), plus some kind of invisible, barely audible screech that makes me cringe when one is going to come into view in a moment. The advisor does not warrant this psycho-hygiene defense to trigger because it is basically a program trying and intended to be useful.
When I have had all the advice I want it tells me how to deactivate it.
This I do as a consequence as soon as I have had enough.
The EB advisor is not affected by this.
It does not feel like the vanilla RTW advisor.
=> I read what it has to say and after reading, I feel incomplete until I have found the "show me how" button and started the script.
So, what is the difference between myself and them...?