Final Report from Brisbane

**alpaca** · 11-09-2006, 19:21

Well I thought about this a bit and I decided to offer you my services as castellan for the Research subforum. I think we should have a discussion forum instead of a wiki - the latter are more useful for tutorials, not for research. First research, then write a tut about it

So, I'll just be lurking behind my chair again until you answer.

**Myrddraal** · 11-09-2006, 20:52

I think we should have a discussion forum instead of a wiki - the latter are more useful for tutorials, not for research.

The wiki is a discussion forum. I know this hasn't been explained very well, but the idea is that you use the thread as a normal discussion forum, but you update the first post with anything you can confirm. The result is a concise list of everything we know.

**Epistolary Richard** · 11-10-2006, 00:56

Originally Posted by alpaca

Well I thought about this a bit and I decided to offer you my services as castellan for the Research subforum. I think we should have a discussion forum instead of a wiki - the latter are more useful for tutorials, not for research. First research, then write a tut about it

So, I'll just be lurking behind my chair again until you answer.

Great!

BTW as it says in the Tutes forum description "Threads researching modding an aspect of the game in depth are also acceptable" just as there are such threads in the Scriptorium (such as Myr's scripting and nik's AI threads). So hopefully between the wiki and the tutes forum we've got it covered.

**rorarii** · 11-11-2006, 06:52

Thanks to Richard for his effort in finding all this info, especially considering his talents are required back in the real world ..

And many thanks to the Brisbane CA team (I didn't realise they were so close .. I thought all the programming was done in England) for allowing us modders access to this precious info .. on how to mod their great game. Sounds like the original TW developers have moved on and we have new blood.

First, the bad news for me .. no way of dividing up the populations into classes? .. hmmm, although with 32 factions and new events and capping, I might be able to work around this.

Now what I liked, New Event possibilites

Events can now be included in both this file and the campaign script file – with a new event that allows us to trigger a script off an event happen and increment other events at the same time. A lot of the stuff in there for M2 should be very useful for us in adding new campaign dynamics and storylines and I can tell you as a scripter that I am very excited by it all!

Perhaps most interestingly, there’s a new event_counter condition that can be used – referencing events in descr_events and in the campaign script. This should allow complete control over when and how certain troops become available to be recruited.

This should allow alot more realism in the game.

descr_campaign_db_ai.xml
This exposes some of the decision making processes that the AI factions go through at a strategic level in terms of who to attack, who to keep peace with and who to ally with. There’s a set default behaviour which can then be overriden in a variety of special cases. These are determined by different faction_ai_labels which are associated to a faction in the descr_strat file.

descr_campaign_db.xml
A new and pretty extensive file – this includes the modifiers by which we can tune the campaign equations such as religion and agent success. There’s also an auto-resolve section which looks promising.

Gee wiz, I really hope I can alter the strategic AI to make it more realistic .. and sensible.

Thats' all for now, just thanks to CA and all you forum administrators for you time and efforts.

PS, I have MTWII on order and paid my deposit .. so apparently I'm entitled to some special release or something?

Thanks