Play By Email Multiplayer/Hot Seat Campaign - Release

[Triv]

How would would I go about transferring it.

[ByzantineKnight]

Run the script generator on a 32 bit system and take the file that it makes and copy it over to your 64 bit with a thumb drive or over a network and just follow the rest of the instructions in the first post

[Myrddraal]

Have you tried running the generator in compatibility mode? Right click the exe, choose properties. In the dialog choose the Compatibility tab and select to run in XP mode.

[Risasi]

A big "thank you" to you, Myrddraal.
I bought the original Shogun ten years ago, and loved it. But none of my friends showed interest in any of the Total War series. So I was swayed into playing all the standard RTS fodder that's come out this past decade. But I'm going retro. SC2 didn't hold my interest past a dozen games. Honestly I prefer a game of chess or stratego to all the clickfest RTS genre.
I recently rediscovered Total War, specifically RTW and am having a blast. I believe TW and the Close Combat series are now two of my all time favorites for strategy/tactical gaming.

I haven't played and MP games, I'm enjoying the single player far too much. This weekend I'm going to introduce a friend to RTW and hopefully get him hooked also. Anyway, I have not tried this script yet, but fully intend to do so. If I can get a couple of my friends hooked I would greatly enjoy PBeM with them. Both co-op and rivalry play. You have added lasting value to this great bargain.

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A quick question for anyone who has played with friends. Has anyone ever tried to play out the realtime battles? My thought is to auto resolve most battles, but perhaps certain key battles over a certain magnitude, or an extremely key piece of real estate. That those battles could be set up manually and fought out, with a gentleman's agreement over army removal post battle? Has anyone ever heard of this being done?

[Myrddraal]

Hi Risasi, welcome to the .org

That those battles could be set up manually and fought out, with a gentleman's agreement over army removal post battle? Has anyone ever heard of this being done?

You could do this. Of course it wouldn't be 100% spot on; units wouldn't gain experience, and you couldn't have damaged units.

Depending how much time you would want to spend on this, you could set up the battles as historical battles using the right map hex, then write your own script to create new armies based on the battle results. Both players would then disband their pre-battle armies and use the new ones, but that's probably more effort than it's worth.

[Risasi]

Hi, I have a quick question. I'm sure it's something small that I'm missing...I have the script generated and have a new campaign I started. I can't seem to activate the script because when I press F1, and click on the ? at the top-right, even though it brings up the advisor the "Show Me How" button is grayed out. I reset the advisor and tried a couple different levels of advise but couldn't get it "clickable".

-thanks
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ADDENDUM:
I'm posting here so others may learn by my mistake. I didn't pay enough attention and follow the instructions laid out by Myrddraal on page 1 of this thread:

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AdviceThread Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Thread
GameArea Campaign

Item Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01
Uninhibitable
Verbosity 0
Threshold 1
Attitude Normal
Presentation Default
Title Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01_Title
Script scripts\show_me\HotSeatScript.txt
Text Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Text_01_Text1

I thought I had followed this by searching the "export_descr_advice.txt" file for "help_campaign". Stupid me, I assumed it only occurred once in the file and blindly pasted the call to the "show me how" button.

Once I moved it from the "AdviceThread Help_Campaign_Battle_Stats_Screen_Thread" section to the "AdviceThread Help_Campaign_Keyboard_Shortcuts_Scroll_Thread" section where this belonged it works like a charm.

[Stark]

I have everything done right, but I can't get the advisor to show up when I click on ?. Any advice?

I read the post above but that is not the problem.

EDIT

Problem solved, I had to remove the ; signs, as explained on page 5 (I think).