EB to BI's 1.6

**mcsquared** · 07-02-2006, 22:33

Has any consideration been given to porting EB to BI's 1.6 version? Some mod folks at RTRPE has already ported RTRPE v 1.5 to 1.6 and it works very well. This allows some units to swim, the shield wall, etc.

**O'ETAIPOS** · 07-02-2006, 22:50

There is a chance for both 1.5 and 1.6 versions as somebody here claimed that going from 1.5 to 1.6 is very easy. BUT we have to fix our problems with 1.5 version BEFORE we start thinking about 1.6 so not earlier than post v0.8

**Cheexsta** · 07-03-2006, 01:53

Porting to 1.6 when a mod works with 1.5 is indeed extremely easy. I tested this with RTRPE a while back: all you have to do is install the game over BI and delete/rename your bi subfolder. Then run the game using the RomeTW-BI.exe file and it works just fine. The game also creates another bi subfolder with a new preferences folder and such, and you can place any 1.6-specific files in the bi\data folder so you can still use the 1.5 exe to run the game normally if you want.

There is also another option, where you can run a simple .bat file before installing a 1.5 mod over BI that changes the file structure to allow the mod to be run directly with the BI exe.

Both methods seem to be extremely stable; I've not had any problems using RTRPE with the BI exe at all. There are no huge differences between using the two exes, though, I *think* there's a few minor tweaks to the AI and the AI factions seem more capable of using the prefers_naval_invasions feature in 1.6 than 1.5.

So IMHO, using the BI executable for EB should only be a concern after a 1.5-compatible version is released.

**Dago** · 07-03-2006, 09:16

Please don`t port to 1.6 because not everyone has BI. As for me 1.5 is good enough.

**Dooz** · 07-03-2006, 09:31

Originally Posted by Dago

Please don`t port to 1.6 because not everyone has BI. As for me 1.5 is good enough.

Why would they not port to 1.6? They're going to finish porting to 1.5 anyways, so those without BI (like myself) will have what they need, but after that, why intentionally not port to 1.6 if it's as easy as described?

**Dago** · 07-03-2006, 09:38

Well yes, they could do two versions, one for 1.5 and one for 1.6. That would be ok.

**Kierkegaard** · 07-04-2006, 02:35

Originally Posted by mcsquared

Has any consideration been given to porting EB to BI's 1.6 version? Some mod folks at RTRPE has already ported RTRPE v 1.5 to 1.6 and it works very well. This allows some units to swim, the shield wall, etc.

well, the current version of RTR PE is 1.5, and the coming version is 1.6, but 1.6 mainly deal with some unit balance and bug-fix, so i do not think RTR PE is going to be ported to BI1.6, that is, RTRPE 1.6 does not mean it will or have be ported to BI 1.6, right?