How to Use Chariots in EB?

[Cyrus]

I was wondering, why is it that CA put in so many limits to modding? I mean between hard codings and limitations due to rtw engine there is not that much u can modify. (exept for the awesome work done with this mod but there is nothing that can't be improved)

[Mediolanicus]

I was wondering, why is it that CA put in so many limits to modding? I mean between hard codings and limitations due to rtw engine there is not that much u can modify. (exept for the awesome work done with this mod but there is nothing that can't be improved)

Because some parts of a game need to be hard coded.
When things can be modded they have to be "read" by the game, because it is variable data. This takes time for the game to initialize.
Hard Coded stuff is inside the game engine and stays the same, it can't be changed and thus the game doesn't have to check if it changed. So if you don't have hard coded stuff it takes ages to load your game.

Besides, RTW is already a very moddable game. Just compare it to other games.

[Cyrus]

Because some parts of a game need to be hard coded.
When things can be modded they have to be "read" by the game, because it is variable data. This takes time for the game to initialize.
Hard Coded stuff is inside the game engine and stays the same, it can't be changed and thus the game doesn't have to check if it changed. So if you don't have hard coded stuff it takes ages to load your game.

Besides, RTW is already a very moddable game. Just compare it to other games.

I'm sorry but would explain that a little better? eg what is variable data?and why do thay take long to initialize? What does inityalize mean?
I'm a real nooooob!!!!!!!!!! man i feel kinda stupid asking that.......
Anyway wich other games could u compare it to ,europa universalis?
Where might a noob such as miself learn modding?

[Mediolanicus]

compare it to this:

Everyday you:
wake up
eat breakfast
(...)
eat dinner
go to sleep

That always stays the same. You know that is what you are going to do today.
That's what hard coded is for the game. It knows that that is not going to change


The (...) on the other hand can be anything
You can go to school
You can go to work
You can go shopping
You can sit in front of your PC all day long and play EB

This can change from day to day. Now, consider that you have a to-do-list that says what you have to do.
You don't know what to do without reading this list, because each day is different.

A game has to read and process the information that isn't hard coded (in RTW: all tha data about what buildings it can build, what units can be recruited and how strong those units are, etc...).

You know you are going to get up and sleep. You don't need to read your list --> doesn't take long.
To know what you are going to do in between, you need to read your list --> takes longer.

Capisci?


BTW : something that can change = variable, variable (in french en spanish), variabel (in dutch and in german), variabile (in italian), variavel (in portuguese), metablítós (in greek, didn't see that one coming...)

To learn modding, take a look at twcenter.net and look at modding RTW
But don't look now because the site is down today.

Or look at the sciptorium: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=77

[Cyrus]

Finally an explanation on hard-coding i can understand! thx man? btw where are u from Mediolanicus?
just 4 curiosity.....
and i thought the word was varìable, not variàble or someting and figured it couldn't be as easy as changeble.....

[abou]

Abou is sad that no one mentioned The Battle of Magnesia or his essay on the tactics at the end of his incomplete description of the battle. Abou is also talking in the 3rd person for some reason.

[Mediolanicus]

You're welcome.

I'm from Belgium. You?

[Cyrus]

I'm Italian-american.
i notice you speak very well english for living in a non english speaking country, and so do many more northern-europeans, care to axplain?