NEW EB Campaign testing AI !!!

[GRANTO]

Started a KH game with the latest CAI on hard/normal. Turn 30 at the moment, I've taken over 2 settlements and I'm slowly building up my economy. AI is taking it slow as well, the only major development (from what I've seen) being Seleukids taking over Halicarnassus. Ptolomei are looking like they are about to take it back though, as they have 2 half-stacks in the area and it's not heavily defended.

Taking it this slowly might end up being a problem as I'm dead last in military strength. I'm trying to stir up some trouble with spies but the chances to succeed at infiltrating cities are atrociously low, even with high level spies. Makedon has a full stack of troops near Pella, I'm expecting an invasion any day now...

move faster when you have too, somewhere down the line you will run into big trouble {hopefully}.

[mmiki]

Turn 42 now and...stuff happened. Makedon sent the entire doomstack north to take Naissos, leaving Pella and Demetrios completely undefended. Epeiros walks in with half a stack and takes Pella. 5 turns later I decide enough waiting is enough and siege Demetrios, and surely enough, the Makedonian doomstack is back, bypassing Pella that's lightly defended and beelining straight for my siege army.
We'll see how it goes.

Global situation: Epeiros reinforced the south of Italy heavily, they have 1.5 stacks in the area. Romans ignoring the south, focusing on north of Italy. Qart-Hadast took out Syracuse and siege Messana, starting war with the Romans. Ptolomei have almost 3 full stacks next to Halicarnassus but seem obsessed with keeping them around minor settlements to the west of Ephesos, even though Halicarnassus has had a skeleton defense for at least 5 turns.

[Kleitos]

hello,

in trying to get this wonderful game goin - i installed the CAI (from the link: http://ge.tt/1IlBpos1/v/0) and unzipped it via PeaZip in the mods\EBII\data folder.
Moros emphasized it to make sure it overwrites the old files.
my question is: is there a way that i can be sure that the old files were indeed overwritten? ...i was not asked while unzipping if i would have files overwritten.
there seem to be more files there now - the whole "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" file for instance. ..but im not so sure about old ones which supposed to be overwritten.

thanks,
Kleitos

[Sassem]

hello,

in trying to get this wonderful game goin - i installed the CAI (from the link: http://ge.tt/1IlBpos1/v/0) and unzipped it via PeaZip in the mods\EBII\data folder.
Moros emphasized it to make sure it overwrites the old files.
my question is: is there a way that i can be sure that the old files were indeed overwritten? ...i was not asked while unzipping if i would have files overwritten.
there seem to be more files there now - the whole "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" file for instance. ..but im not so sure about old ones which supposed to be overwritten.

thanks,
Kleitos

copy the 2 small files from that new unzipped map NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 2014 in to

your drive:\your folder \Medieval II Total War\mods\EBII\data


in there if you scroll down you see many small files

Always first make a backup of the original files that you going to replace copy those in a map like for example : backup org files

[Kleitos]

so Sassem, you actually unzipped the CAI somewhere outside and only copied the two xml-files ("descr_campaign_ai_db.xml" and "descr_diplomacy.xml") into the \Medieval II Total War\mods\EBII\data folder?.

...well to be honest i didnt know that there are only these two files - just uzipped the whole downloaded zipfile into the \Medieval II Total War\mods\EBII\data folder. (now i know - unzipped it somewhere else just to look how many files there are.)

but mine two are now in a folder called "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" within the folder ...EBII\data - i understood the installation instructions like that - was that wrong?

i found now two xml files with the same name in the ...EBII\data folder among the many other small files. ..well i suppose they are the old ones wich were determined to be overwritten.?

can you, or anyone else confirm that i only have to copy the two new ones out of my folder and one level up into the ..EBII\data folder, overwriting these two old ones, and delete this now empty ""NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" folder?

..well yes, backup of original ones should be good - will do that, if above procedure turns out to be right.

[Kleitos]

@Tuuvi : i only saw your post only after i wrote and uploaded mine ;-) ...so, yes the "desc_campaign_ai_db.xml" right now still in my "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" folder within the folder ...EBII\data was last modified on August 30. the other one: "descr_diplomacy.xml" was last modified on august 23, same as the old one in the ...EBII\data folder (also same size - 16,5 KB)

[Tuuvi]

@Tuuvi : i only saw your post only after i wrote and uploaded mine ;-) ...so, yes the "desc_campaign_ai_db.xml" right now still in my "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" folder within the folder ...EBII\data was last modified on August 30. the other one: "descr_diplomacy.xml" was last modified on august 23, same as the old one in the ...EBII\data folder (also same size - 16,5 KB)

This is exactly what happened to me. When I first unzipped the new CAI, it put the whole entire folder into my data folder and the original desc_campaign_ai_db.xml remained unchanged. So I think your data folder is set to read only mode, which will prevent the files within it from being replaced.

Right click on your data folder, go to properties and make sure the box that says "Read-only" is unchecked. Then delete the "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 2014" folder that is inside of your data folder, and try unzipping again.

If you're paranoid like I am you can extract the folder onto the desktop and then copy and paste the files into your data folder.

[Tuuvi]

hello,

in trying to get this wonderful game goin - i installed the CAI (from the link: http://ge.tt/1IlBpos1/v/0) and unzipped it via PeaZip in the mods\EBII\data folder.
Moros emphasized it to make sure it overwrites the old files.
my question is: is there a way that i can be sure that the old files were indeed overwritten? ...i was not asked while unzipping if i would have files overwritten.
there seem to be more files there now - the whole "NEW CAI for Europa barbarorum Test, 30 aug 201" file for instance. ..but im not so sure about old ones which supposed to be overwritten.

thanks,
Kleitos

I had the same problem. When I first tried to install the new CAI for some reason my data folder was set to read only mode so the old files weren't being overwritten. After fixing that problem I unzipped the folder onto the desktop and manually copy and pasted the files into the data folder, just to make sure it was overwriting properly. If the desc_campaign_ai_db.xml in your data folder says it was last modified on August 30 then you should be good to go.