The Will of the Senate PBM - out of character thread IV

[Lucjan]

I forgot we're playing on platinum 1.5. Anybody have the 1.5 patch? I can't find it anywhere.
And the multi-file mn mod zip is giving me more headaches too.

[Dutch_guy]

you can find it here , Lucjan

[StoneCold]

Try here.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=596.

[Lucjan]

Ahhh, thank you so much both of you, except, I mean the platinum 1.5, not the regular game 1.5. My fault.

Lets see....*damns the family for playing card games on his internet and seriously narking it up yesterday..*

[StoneCold]

err... my link is for the RTRPE 1.5 It is a link set up by econ. Hope it is still working...

[Lucjan]

Ok...so..here's what's going on.
I have
RTR PE 1.5
4tpy mod
and the landblock mod all working properly.

I still need the metro naval mod, the multi-part zipped files are driving me up the wall, every time I try to open them I get a "this file is corrupted" or "these files are identical" or this here..

[Dutch_guy]

Hmm, are you sure you're not missing a zip file - that could create such an error.

Other than that, try re downloading the metro and naval mod, as the download may have been corrupted.

[Lucjan]

I've downloaded them three times, I'm not missing one, I tried them from two places. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=417

and here.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=596

And I can't get either to work. I've tried it with winzip and 7zip.

[Lucjan]

Ok, got the metro/naval mod to finally download from strategyinformer.com and actually unzip.

Now I need to get them all to work together...

This is like a pbem in itself, "lets get lucjian to fix his ing game!"

I can devise the strategy and pick the right generals to, in a single turn, expel the Seleucids completely from Europe...but at the same time, I'm struggling with something as simple as zip files.

[Lucjan]

Ok...apparently, the version of the metro naval mod I actually got to work is for gold 6.3, and incompatible with pe 1.5....

All I need is a compatible metro naval mod..

In the meantime...let me go find quintus...

[econ21]

Well, it's too late for this, but I put Metro-Naval on rapidshare:

http://rapidshare.de/files/33490775/...alMod.exe.html

Good luck, Lucjan!

[Lucjan]

.....turns out it was a clear cut case of "what you lost is in the last place you think to look."

Turns out the problem wasn't actually with any of the mods at all, once I got them all extracted. It was that I didn't have updated drivers installed for directx...

BUT!

I have the latest save loaded and working!



Time to move on with the game!

[econ21]

Nice battle report, Lucjan. Well played too.

Can you brief the Senate on your plans for Afrika, Thrace and the east? Maybe I've not been paying attention, but I am curious (although I guess I know about the east). And it has gone awfully quiet in the Senate.

[Dutch_guy]

.....turns out it was a clear cut case of "what you lost is in the last place you think to look."

Turns out the problem wasn't actually with any of the mods at all, once I got them all extracted. It was that I didn't have updated drivers installed for directx...

BUT!

I have the latest save loaded and working!



Time to move on with the game!

Great you managed to make it work again

[Lucjan]

Yeah, well I had a little incident where the family decided since the computer downstairs was in use, they'd come upstairs and use mine to play card games on the internet, somewhere along the line they got me a trojan. (Don't worry, this is long after I had uploaded any save games anywhere.)

And the only way I could get rid of it (it survived three anti spyware removers and norton...) was to do a destructive system restore back to the factory settings. I lost everything...

So they are now banned from usage up here by way of those wonderful user passwords.

Oh..btw, sending quintus libo his orders now. Wanted to last night, but the forums were down.

EDIT - Also, the first consul report has been updated and their is a new battle report. Enjoy.

EDIT 2 - And sure, I'll let the senate know what my plans are...but maybe somebody should ask?? It's gotten awful quiet in there.

[Braden]

Well, that was a worrying 8hrs for me.....forums down! Was that just me though

Anyway, looking forward to getting into action on this PBeM although I still don't have any internet (now they're blaming the Router.....fools!), I can use good old fashioned floppy disks to transfer the .sav files

[Mount Suribachi]

No, I was Org-less for a day as well

[TinCow]

I will be out of the country from Sept 22 to Oct 4. I can still fight battles if needed for the next two days, but after that please move me to the Upper House.

[Lucjan]

Tincow! How dare you leave me with only 11 lower house senators!

lol, hope you have a nice trip. We'll be waiting for your return.

[Braden]

Guess I'll just have to pick up the slack then.......

[Lucjan]

Hm..very uneventful winter. Sending DDW a season transition battle initiated by the Thracians. I'll have an update on the first consul report and probably a new battle report up tomorrow.
Happy hunting DDW. (I'm actually at a loss for why the computer even attacked you. They've got about 6 units of regular old warbands and that's it. This battle should be over before it starts.)

[Braden]

Perhaps that's all Thrace could afford to send out. Plenty of factions have been nipping away at Thrace (Germans, Iberians, ourselves). They may be running out of funds and, landlocked, running out of friends to trade with.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

They can't run out of funds on VH/M. They get 10.000 free each turn, hence the endless mercenary armies.

[Braden]

D'Oh! yeah, forgot that......must just be AI "stalling" tactics.

[econ21]

I think the AI is over-optimistic when making attacks both on the campaign map and on the battlefield. Sometimes it attacks even when the autoresolve implies it will lose.

[Lucjan]

I agree with the over-optimism...

At the very least, the ai doesn't just randomly spawn 5-6 units at a time from every settlement with this free 10,000 a turn. It still abides by the same one unit recruitment per season limit that we're stuck to.

[Braden]

Guys,

Just an update:

Well, firstly my internet is still dead – BT are to do a “Lift and Shift” of my comms line in an attempt to solve the issue. This should be done “within the next couple of days”.

During the week this isn’t an issue, I can access and download save files from work.

This weekend I will be away at an Airsoft LRP weekend near Leicester and from Friday later afternoon (4pm) I will be out of contact. IF the internet is back up before the week is out then I can access files and the forum from approx 8pm Sunday (24th).

Hope this is ok and that IF I have any battles pending during this period I hope you guys can hold on a few more hours until I get a chance to play them through (asking for a special one-off here Simon ).

I have no more events/weekends planned for this year yet so this shouldn’t occur again….oh, and I hope my internet will be sorted as well anyway!

[econ21]

... asking for a special one-off here Simon

The campaign is proceeding at a fairly stately pace, so I doubt there will be a problem. But now that he knows your situation, I guess Lucjan can manage things so we don't have to call upon Decius Curtius to bring you to trial for a no-show.

[Braden]

Thanks, yeah, things will be ok - got a PM from Lucjan.

....still, wish me luck in "rubbing out" those players this weekend with my new M4 AEG!

[Lucjan]

Happy hunting Braden.

We've got plenty of issues here, as you already know, to keep us busy until you get back.