Bugs in Alexandria

[flyingchicken]

So I was assaulting the Ptolemies' capital city as Pontus the other day, and my first batch of glaring EB bugs ever (aside from post-battle CTDs and a peasant icon for a ship) hit me in the face with full force:

• Skybox-thingies on the ground; sometimes units can walk through them, sometimes not (IIRC)
• Problems getting troops through the siege towers; had to play a sort of stop-dance mini-game
• Units submerging into the ground in front of a gate, though their shadows disconnect and float

And maybe other things I forgot; I can't remember correctly if it was in Alexandria that I my soldiers began dancing off (a lame step-pause-step-pause sort of dance) to some direction instead of fighting when I ordered them to attack an enemy unit. A quick search of this forum showed that at least one other person experienced two of those problems, and a chat with someone familiar with EB told me that Alexandria is buggy as hell.

So, I figured "hey maybe there's some way to fix this" and then I thought of maybe changing the egyptian files in the settlement_plans folder; since I'm no mapper, I thought I could just replace everything with eastern_greek, or barbarian if I was feeling a bit whimsical.

My question now is: will that work? If yes, what other files would I need to change? If not, how do I fix it?

[athanaric]

You mean, like this?

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The Alexandria bugs are a sad and well-known issue. IIRC there was a thread about it quite recently. Maybe in some sub-forum.
The only serious part of it (apart from the Alexandria freeze, which will happen if you try to relieve the city from the SW) is the siege tower issue, because the siege towers won't work in some places.

[Moosemanmoo]

I remember my brave makedonian pheraspidai battling away carthie hordes inside the great temple, the sight of my men charging through walls as if it was merely a hologram reminded me nothing in life is perfect :(

[Aemilius Paulus]

I conquered Alexandria twice - once with Epriotes and once with Romans, and never noted any peculiarities