The Europa Barbarorum Quotes Project

**oudysseos** · 06-13-2009, 20:17

Can you tell me what it is you did that fixed it?

**Urg** · 06-14-2009, 03:25

Originally Posted by oudysseos

Can you tell me what it is you did that fixed it?

At first it was crashing continuously. Now I'm still getting the occasional crash, but its just occasional.

I think it was a vista issue. For some reason the files weren't transferring into the folders properly. After transferring the files twice, I opened the quotes text folder and it was still the old file. After the third time it seemed to transfer.

I foudnd the best way to transfer the files was to download them into a separate file than click-and-drag them across. Downloading direct to the folder, and cut and paste didn't seem to work well.

**Urg** · 06-14-2009, 23:01

Just wanted to say a big thank you to Oudysseos and anyone else who organised the new quotes. They're great! Really enjoying reading them as I play.

Cheers.

**oudysseos** · 06-15-2009, 11:03

I just want to confirm that I have played 75+ iterations of EB1.2 with the new files without any crashes, problems or slowdowns. I suspect, for those of you who have reported a problem, two issues.

1. Vista: Urg posted that he had to make sure that the files were indeed copied into the correct folders. I do not have Vista so I can't confirm that, but let me just recommend that you download the files into a separate folder and then click-and-drag them into the correct locations. More than that I cannot say.

2. Not getting all three files: I just checked filefront, and the three files have three different download counts, which means that lots of people have not read the directions.

IF YOU DO NOT INSTALL ALL THREE FILES IN THE CORRECT LOCATION, THIS WILL NOT WORK.

I don't know if I can make that any clearer.

Although, as I said, I have encountered no problems and am confident that there are no errors, I will review the 2 ancillary files to make sure that all the numbers match up. If I did miss something, I'll repost.

**oudysseos** · 06-15-2009, 12:37

OK, so I have reconfirmed that all the numbers, labels and strings match up over all three files: there is no earthly reason why these should be causing crashes, IF YOU INSTALLED ALL THREE FILES correctly. Without descr_transition_screen and descr_quotes_lookup, the new quotes will not show up in game, even if you replace the old quotes file. Vista users are urged to double-check that the new files have really been installed.

I have run another 50 tests on my EB1.2 without any changes, crashes or slow-downs, so if anybody is experiencing problems I'm stumped.

**Urg** · 06-15-2009, 23:40

They're working perfectly for me too. And very enjoyable.

**oudysseos** · 06-16-2009, 08:24

Oh, Urg, re: your message: as I said, the project is not in the least finished. In fact, I had never originally intended to redo the EB1 quotes at all. For one thing, the file was a mess (I essentially redid it from scratch). So the release of the new quotes for EB1 is merely a happy by-product, and also because I felt that so many fans had done so much excellent work (like yourself) that they should enjoy the fruits of their labours sooner than the first EB2 release.

But the EB2 phase is still ongoing. There are still some old quotes left to do as far as citation goes, and a lot of new material that is specific to individual factions that I left out of the EB1 version. There is so much of it that once I get to 300 quotes, I might start eliminating any old quotes from vanilla RTW and overly familiar ones from EB1, just so the whole thing seems new. I also eventually plan, since I have all this material on a spreadsheet sorted by author, language, culture etc. to do some kind of wiki for them, with biographical info and links to the larger texts that the quotes come from. That won't be done until after EB2.

So, short answer, keep posting stuff if you want. Anything really cool will get in, and I am always on the look-out for non Graeco-Roman material.