Help getting Hotseat to work in 1.1

[Blyzintine]

Hey guys. I'm trying to get me and my friends' dream come true of being able to play a hotseat grand campaign against each other, and to my delight I found instructions on the .com on how to activate it!

They were as follows:

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Question # 32 - How do I enable multiplayer hotseat campaign mode?

Answer #32 -

1. First, copy your medieval2.preference.cfg file to your desktop.
2. Rename the copy of the medieval2.preference.cfg file to multiplayer.cfg.
3. Now, make sure that the multiplayer.cfg file is not read only (right click on the file, and check the properties).
4. Open this new multiplayer.cfg file with Notepad or Wordpad, then add this to what is already in the multiplayer.cfg file:

[multiplayer]
playable = 1
hotseat_turns = 0
hotseat_scroll = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 1
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

5. Now save the multiplayer.cfg file and put it back on read only.
6. Move the multiplayer.cfg file into your C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War folder.
7. Now open up Notepad again. In an otherwise blank document, type this:

medieval2.exe @multiplayer.cfg

8. Save the Notepad document as Launch_Multiplayer.bat
9. Put this new Launch_Multiplayer.bat file in your C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War folder.
10. Now, if you want to, right click on the new .bat file and send it to the desktop (Create Shortcut).
11. When you want to play the multiplayer version of the game, double-click the .bat file. This will launch the game in multiplayer mode.
12. Once you are in the game, select Singleplayer. Then Grand Campaign.
13. Now, pick which factions you want to play. Just click on as many as you want. I am playing as all 17 playable factions now.
14. When you start the campaign, you will play each faction you have chosen in order. You can save and quit at any point and resume your game as you choose.
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So I did all of that, loaded up the game using the new batch file, started a grand campaign and clicked on England, then Scotland. I couldn't tell if both factions were selected because it wasn't different in any obvious way. Since I clicked Scotland second, I started off the game as Scotland. I moved a Scottish army south, clicked end turn 1 and...started turn 2 as Scotland.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'd love to get this to work, so any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Blyzintine]

Also, should my multiplayer.cfg file entry look like this:

[multiplayer]
playable = 1
hotseat_turns = 1
hotseat_scroll = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 1
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

or this:

[multiplayer]
playable = 1
hotseat_turns = 1
hotseat_scroll = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 1
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[Domen]

hotseat_scroll = 0

Can someone explain what is this option responsible for?

I always see guides which either tell me that I should set it for "0" or for "1" - but don't explain what it actually does...

[Myth]

@Domen you can ask in the Throne Room, I bet someone will know. As a reminder to all players who enjoy Medieval 2 and play single player. Come to the Throne Room and play the Grand Campaing with other live human players! Right now you can cast a vote to see which game will win a contest and start next!

[Domen]

Thanks Myth!

I think I've already found most of what I wanted to know (i.e. what is worth adding to my medieval2.preference.cfg and what is not).

But if I have some other questions (I still don't know how some of these lines in preference file work), I'll surely ask there. Thanks!