TWCenter site down - team post here

[tonyw]

I don't know whether any of the team or beta testers are reading this, but since the TWC has been down so long it might be worthwhile posting here in the meantime so that we've at least got some contact.

I've continued to make updates to the Beta - mainly environment stuff, but just working on a script update to improve the spawned armies / legions with proper characters as generals.

[Paedric]

Ok, here I am.
I saw that rory seemed to have found a (serious?) bug on the roman campaign, he posted it on the facebook page, without details.
If apple, or whoever has a facebook account could post a mesage there, that could speed up things a bit.

I've always been through the whole export_vnvs and fixed what I found.

[tonyw]

Just had a look at his post and it's nothing too serious, but DVK should be able to sort it out alright.

[Beast Within]

I have got up to the roman rebellion and now are quite some way through the war. Would you like me to post the info on here. Just wondering as to whether we are allowed, and whether this is private, or your not fussed if not testers see this information?

[Irishguy]

I assume tonyw = tone? ok well the rebellion I'm posting here then!
Way to easy! is my comment... maybe it's because I was more prepared or that I had way better troops this time but honestly, have you changed anything to the script? pic's:

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I overpowerd the rebels in 5 years..
Some Improvement IMHO:
Maybe you can make the rebels have the same diplomacy as the romans? I don't think the Parthians cared if it was crassus or pompeius they defeated at Carrhae..
Can you let the armies rebel with the cities? because I had Gaul back in no time because of all the garrisons there..

some other stuff:

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[tonyw]

Yeah, it's me - Tone

Thanks, that's really helpful, and fine to post here while we're down over at TWC. Some questions:

1) OK for starters could you tell me which of those two blue lines is the Roman rebels? Either way, they're running out of money too easily.
2) Have the rebel Romans spawned any legions beyond the initial ones created at the start of the rebellion
3) The rebellion is randomised so that occasionally the player will keep hold of Rome - do we need to remove this possibility or add some more rebel legions to up the difficulty if this is the case? If you reply the start of the rebellion a few times you'll se a different scenario each time.

There's no way of killing off the player's units that I know of.

[Irishguy]

1) the one going down very very very steeply :) and yes you should give them a shit loads of money, they're really bad managers...
2)yes a few... I'd say you could add some armour and weapons to them (silver)
3) I'd say always loose italy and Africa, they're such money makers... I was able to get my finance up in 3 turns!

another I thought of is to give them bigger starting garrisons, because as I said, gaul was conquered quite easily because of 2 things;
1. I had very experienced troops walking around,
2. their garrisons could easily be only 2 units of auxilia

[DVK901]

Both of the name issues you included in the screens are correct. J and 'i' were interchangeable in Latin, but in both cases I used the names that were historically used.

Thanks Apple, I'll have a look at what Rory posted, but he was playing in the wrong folder it appears.

[DVK901]

You guys beat me do it, I was going to write a text doc. and send it SVN, but I see Tone already did. Anybody know what's happened to TWC?

Anyway, I'm sorry I am 'facebook challenged', I do not know where to go to find that post. Could someone post a link or just copy\paste the text so I can find out what's going on.

[apple]

I'm here now. :)
Dvk it's in the first post on the wall: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roma-S...m/211863013848

I post a notice there that we are now using the org forum untill twc is back.

[Irishguy]

Rory:
I've found in the Play_Test campaign (so the updated Roman one), that in Thebes (the one in greece), it has the iron resource so you can't build a weapon import - so you should be able to build the third oppidum, but you can't, despite Iron being one of the four "Weapon Metals" that SHOULD enable advanced barracks construction - i added tin to the ...
Rs II answer:
Rorry Play test isn't the most to update Roman mod folder anymore. Play Rome is.
BTW: I found this in multiple settlement that metal import is unavailable, but normal mines are in some cases, and you can still build Curia Hostilia al right... maybe put it in description that you can also use normal mines? it's not in there and I think it's rather confusing...

[Irishguy]

appel beat me to it
sorry for not editing I can't -.-'

[Irishguy]

and C.F.? is that normal? or is it Caius Flaminius?

[apple]

Yeah I have the username "RS II" in our RS II facebook page.