EB v1.1 released!

[Tellos Athenaios]

I have a question for the trivial script and whatever other ones I missed out there:
Do we need to activate these separately or outside of EB or does it just activate when we click on the advisor?
What do they do?

First of all a clear distinction needs to be made:

1) Trivial Script - something to configure your EB with.
2) The EB Background Script - that thing which you activate each time you play; in order to actually play EB and not RTW with additional units and GFX...

You run (1) by using the shortcuts the installer will generate for you:
Play Singleplayer; Play Multiplayer or Configuration. The latter will allow you to adjust some settings first before entering EB; the other two will directly take you into EB. Singleplayer is the campaign mode; Multiplayer is the (what's in a name) custom battle mode.

The Trivial script basically automates the management of your shortcuts to EB as well as switching export_descr_units.txt files and map.rwm files to give you a user friendly way of playing EB without having to do all the switching etc. manually yourself.

[Incongruous]

I have noticed with some of the Macedonian units I have used, that the recordings of their speech (like when they announce their name to you) skip a bit or repeat a bit.
Is this known or just my sound card?

[Marteze]

Ludens

Simple I syn, about buildings, and ask about temples in seleucids in general.
Maybe The Second Temple like the buildings (judean's wall, rostra in Rome) in Invasio Barbarorum?
And seleucid has recognize new kingdom. Them troops was broken light infantry an cavalry hasidim's.

This script mustn't attachmen to year

When the diadoh destroyed Temple = rebellion.
destroyed Temple (for seleucids)= many dinaries at exchequer?

[Ludens]

Maybe The Second Temple like the buildings (judean's wall, rostra in Rome) in Invasio Barbarorum?
And seleucid has recognize new kingdom. Them troops was broken light infantry an cavalry hasidim's.

This script mustn't attachmen to year

When the diadoh destroyed Temple = rebellion.
destroyed Temple (for seleucids)= many dinaries at exchequer?

Please read Tellos Athenaois' post:

If you mean the second temple of Jerusalem; again no. There will be no Maccabean revolt and/or associated script in any near future release of EB for a number of simple reasons:
1) If you want it fully dynamic et all; why them? There've been much more important; and much more far-reaching revolts throughout the EB time frame for many factions. And then, if we did them all or something akin to generic revolt scripts for each faction (or close to) -- the mod would become much, much heavier.

2) If you don't want it fully dynamic; then it would be against the philosophy of EB to include it. It's a highly 'dynamic' event -- it would not make sense for it to happen if the prerequisites for such an event simply were not there. An example of such prerequisites would be AI/player oppresion of Jewish religion but most of all the tax level maintained by the AI/player in Ioudaia. Governments/governors is another factor to take into account.

If both levels had been low, no such revolt would ever have occured...

With EB we aim to give you the 'board' and the 'pieces' and let you work out how history could've happened. Within the limits of the RTW engine, of course -- but that's another matter altogether.

[Marteze]

How I may change the stat cost column in export descr unit?

[bovi]

Just edit it. There's a good explanation of each field at the top of the file.

[Marteze]

May you create Ancillaries for Oddysey and Illiad volumens (books) at the export_descr_ancillaries

[Tellos Athenaios]

No, I very much doubt it. Mainly because in the Greek world it wasn't really special to *know* those stories (or large parts thereof) by heart. Actually the one thing the Greeks probably learned by heart were those stories as it was the material with which the Greek language was taught at schools; as well as the fact that there were or used to be public contests in reciting parts of these works...


... We very much do consider, and at times proceed, to quote or play to these (among others) sources for the Voicemods. Heck there's one line in the prebattle speeches about a general not wishing to see the enemy fleeing the field; instead looking forward to see him impaled by dusk... Guess what line it would correspond to in the Illiad?

[Marteze]

Whill be a celtic karniks voise (sound) in mod? Like roman tubus

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'm not entirely clear on what you meant there *but* we've got voicemods for both cultures. However if you were wondering about musical signs in battle to accompany the orders; no as of now we do not have those (yet).

[keravnos]

Whill be a celtic karniks voise (sound) in mod? Like roman tubus

Carnyx. Yes, the famous celtic "tubus". I don't know, but our soundmen are cooking some exciting stuff all the time. Maybe this will be one of them.

[Cyclops]

Just back from an overseas trip and I downloaded EB 1.1 two weeks ago. It has been an absolute joy to use.

I fired up a Hayasdan campaign on M battle/VH campaign and as of 230 BC I am upgrading to second level mines throughout Asia Minor in preparation for rebuilding the Achaemenid Empire. I have 2 level 5 MICs for the cataphracts and I expect to be Shah-in-Shah by about 200 BC.

The battles have been satisfying, with the AS sending big (but just barely managable) stacks for a series of battles at Karkiotherta (sp?) as well as cunning probes around the flanks of my kingdom. I regrefully terminated Pontus and shoved the Ptolemai back to Cyprus.

Each foe has given a fair account of themselves with the glittering AS elites, hardy Ptolly stacks and a terrifying Prince's army (4 FM's and about 4 more cav) in the final battle for the Pontian capital.

The unit roster is dazzling, with a spectrum of nicely differentiated units on offer. I feel I've been very lucky with the Armenians but its a testament to the game balance that I've managed to fight through to a winning position without resorting to exploits like the fort/diplomat defense, or HA seiges.

This mod just gets better and better.

[JackAlexander]

Hei, I'm playing a game with Makedonia on medium/medium, but now it seems too easy, but I don't want to begin the game again with a harder difficulty. How can I change the difficulty for a saved game or make the AI more aggressive or just give it more money maybe?

[PrimusPilus]

Servus Manner,

JUST initiated Marian reforms in my 1.0 game! Damn...this looks to good not to go to!

Would love to hear more from people who are playing 1.1 now!

Thanks

PP

[vidugavia]

Last version that I had, prior to 1.1, was 0.81a. Bravo to all improvements!
Only thing that bothers me is the interface in battle screen.
Is there a way to reverse to vanilla style, or 0.81a version?

[Strategos Alexandros]

In your RTW folder click the EB preferences link and deselect minimal UI

[Tellos Athenaios]

Though you might want to try using F5; F7 and F6 (the last one repeatedly) to remove GUI elements obscuring your sight... Only the cursor has to remain.

[Ibrahim]

is this playable on multiplayer?

[heroic21]

I'm so damn curious to know what those new units in v1.1 are!

To make the preview even more appealing than it is now, I want to suggest, that you replace the simple listing of the new units by links to the according trading card style unit description.

I think that would render it a lot easier to learn about the new units! =)

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Besides that: Thank you for all the hours you spent to create this wonderful game and keep on the excellent work!

[PrimusPilus]

Marian Schmarian- what is the current download time on this puppy? Time to switch over!

pp

[christophoros]

amazing!

[Boyar Son]

Hi

I'm sorry to be a 0mFgn00bkIng here, but will I need 1.0 freshly installed? then asume this EB patch is like any other, and just download and apply?

[I Am Herenow]

You need a clean install of RTW 1.5 (and/or BI and Alexander if you want, although you don't need them) - this is the full mod; there is no 1.0 -> 1.1 patch.

[Swordmaster]

I was wondering, how many hours in total have been spent by the team to get to this point? (EB II excluded) That must be a many good thousands of hours, surely?

Thanks!

[reaperwolf]

Not sure if this is the best place to post this but couldnt find a suggestions thread anywhere.
Having played through a couple of games of EB1.1 I find myself wondering if it would be possible to have some military ranks added to be based on the command ability of a general while in the field. When governors are in a city they become attuned so would it be possible to have a similar system so that a general in the field with his army who gains a higher command rating increases in ranks until such time as he enters a city.
I.E for the Romani have Junior Military Tribune, Senior Military Tribune, Prefect, Legate, General for instance and also when a Consul enters the field after he has served his year have a trait of proconsular general with an influence increase maybe.

[bovi]

Not sure if this is the best place to post this but couldnt find a suggestions thread anywhere.
Having played through a couple of games of EB1.1 I find myself wondering if it would be possible to have some military ranks added to be based on the command ability of a general while in the field. When governors are in a city they become attuned so would it be possible to have a similar system so that a general in the field with his army who gains a higher command rating increases in ranks until such time as he enters a city.
I.E for the Romani have Junior Military Tribune, Senior Military Tribune, Prefect, Legate, General for instance and also when a Consul enters the field after he has served his year have a trait of proconsular general with an influence increase maybe.

While not entirely a counterpoint to the attuned governor, there is the Warmonger set of traits that to a certain degree represents his comfortableness with the soldiers (it's the counterpoint to the Supervisor set, however).

I was wondering, how many hours in total have been spent by the team to get to this point? (EB II excluded) That must be a many good thousands of hours, surely?

Thanks!

Absolutely. I think we are at a couple thousand hours even with EB I excluded, actually . It's hard to gauge the hours though, as we don't report them, and many tasks aren't really represented in the game files either. There have been some 20-60 people working on the mod at any given time however, and it's been many years now since RTW was released. Add to that the time spent before that was released. It's a lot.

[PrimusPilus]

I cant get the downloads to work. They download to a certain point. about 2% of the file and then say complete. Then I get a message saying they are corrupt. Any ideas?

thanks for your help


PP

[Mithridates VI Eupator]

I think we are at a couple thousand hours even with EB I excluded, actually . It's hard to gauge the hours though, as we don't report them, and many tasks aren't really represented in the game files either. There have been some 20-60 people working on the mod at any given time however, and it's been many years now since RTW was released. Add to that the time spent before that was released. It's a lot.

And the results are thereafter!
Best mod ever!

[bovi]

I cant get the downloads to work. They download to a certain point. about 2% of the file and then say complete. Then I get a message saying they are corrupt. Any ideas?

thanks for your help


PP

You should use either a torrent or ED2K client for downloading when your regular downloads get cut off like that.

[PrimusPilus]

Thanks for the tip. I hope it works.

PP