Having difficulties setting up a hotseat game

[Askthepizzaguy]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?116671-PBMs-A-guide

I read this thread and tried to follow the instructions regarding setting up a hotseat game.

One issue I noticed right away was my medieval2.preferences.cfg file read:


[video]
widescreen=1
[game]
allusers=1

And that's all it said. :dizzy2:

But no mind, I followed these instructions:


1 Go to the M2TW main folder.
2 Find medieval2.preference.cfg
3 Right click on it and select properties.
4 The properties window for the file opens.
5 At the bottom is the Attributes field.
Deselect Read-Only.
6 Hit the Apply button. Close the Window.
7 Open the file with wordpad/notepad.

Done.


8 Find [hotseat]
9 Add below that admin_password = yourpassword
"yourpassword" means what ever password you want
10 Save the file.
11 Right click it again, select properties and enable the Read-Only attribute.

There was no [hotseat] so I added it in, and created an admin password.


12 Create the hotseat save like normal. Disable the console if you don't want others getting into it.

Here, I tried to make a hotseat game but I could only select one player, not multiple.

I've done this before, I hosted at least one game.... what's wrong? Can I see someone else's .cfg file?


I've had immense amount of problems with hotseats in the past. :sad: I am a sad panda. Why doesn't anything work for me like it does for others? :embarassed:

[Quirl]

Don't be a sad Panda. :)

Here's what I have:

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 1
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[hotseat]
admin_password = *********
disable_console = 1
autoresolve_battles = 1

If you don't make multiplayer=true, you won't be able to select multiple factions.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Heh, figured it out thanks to Merlox:

I was selecting single player mode for a Kingdoms hotseat. I needed to select multiplayer. My mistake.

Thanks Quirl for responding quickly. :bow:

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