Turns Per Year - What's your setting?

[Musashi]

I hate short games, so I play on 2 turns per year and can't stand the default timescale.

Campaigns should take at least a week to complete.

[Faenaris]

Right now, I have 1 turn = 1 year. But since I'm a huge turtler, I'm probably gonna mod it to 2 turns a year. I hope characters age normally at that setting.

[IrishArmenian]

Hopefully when the patch comes out, we can set it to 2 turns per year. I can't mod for my life. I tried modding RTW and made it unplayable.

[KARTLOS]

i play on the defualt settings.

i apreciate that the discrepancy messes up the role role playing aspect of the game somewhat, but i think making the game progress slower would make it incredibly boring for me.

The rewards of conquest combined with the provocative campaign ai means that I inadvoidably find myself reaching the victory conditions fairly early. I am reaching america for the first time, and I have had to artificially maintian the staus quo in europe for about 200yrs i.e if i wanted to win i could have done so around 1200ad. That 200yr wait would be so much more irksome if i had had to play through twice or four times as many games.

[Ituralde]

I hate short games, so I play on 2 turns per year and can't stand the default timescale.

Campaigns should take at least a week to complete.

I'm on turn 86 in my current campaign and have been playing three weeks now. I like to take it slow but 2 years per turn is ample enough time and gives me some prospect of maybe reaching the America's.

Hopefully when the patch comes out, we can set it to 2 turns per year. I can't mod for my life. I tried modding RTW and made it unplayable.

Anyway, here's what you do. Go to My Computer and open whichever drive you installed M2TW onto. Then go through these files:

Program Files/SEGA/Medieval II Total War/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.

This file is the one you need to mod. Open it. You'll notice a section that says;

start_date 1080 summer
end_date 1530 winter
timescale 2.00

Change timescale to 0.50 for turns to last 6 months.

[FactionHeir]

You can play under 0.5 or 1.0 as well and reach America. Takes a very long time though as campaign events are linked to years and not turns, but if you do not care too much for historical accuracy, you can check the link in my sig which lets you determine when you want the events to happen. It explains all the things you need to do really.

[TosaInu]

12 tpy would be nice, but I'm sure it needs a lot of tweaks for other things to make it sound.

[Ice]

12 tpy would be nice, but I'm sure it needs a lot of tweaks for other things to make it sound.

12?! You wouldn't get through any of the events of the though.

[TosaInu]

You wouldn't get through any of the events of the though.

Playing is more important for me than reaching an event.

[FactionHeir]

You could reach the events when you want using my technique linked to in my sig still :D [does anyone actually read my posts regarding that? heh]

[Ice]

Playing is more important for me than reaching an event.

Yes, but what about the mongol invasions, gunpowder, or discovering the new world? These are just a few of the things that make the game interesting. Although, 12 turns per year would give the units a more accurate move time.

[Musashi]

I'm on turn 86 in my current campaign and have been playing three weeks now. I like to take it slow but 2 years per turn is ample enough time and gives me some prospect of maybe reaching the America's.

See, 86 turns would be like one play session for me. I like to play in 3-4 hour blocks and still take a week or two to finish a campaign.

[KARTLOS]

See, 86 turns would be like one play session for me. I like to play in 3-4 hour blocks and still take a week or two to finish a campaign.

but what do you do in that time - how do you not finish the game? are you deliberatly prolonging things?

ive found that the ai diplomacy really gets in the way of playing a long term game. it is very hard to make peace with people and easy to provoke them into war. the easiest way to stop a faction bothering you is to eliminate it.

in my current campagin i have used shaba wangys diplomacy mod from twc:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72471

I have found this made things a bit better - alliances hold and the ai doesnt foolishly attack you when it has no chance of winning.

still a successfully first crusade left me the main global power and i have been effectively toying with everyone else for years.

[Musashi]

I play as though I were actually the ruler of a state. I don't attack anyone who doesn't attack me first, I accept all ceasefire proposals, and I actively pursue good relations with every other faction.

Playing this way takes a long time.

[FactionHeir]

I'm doing the same in my Moor campaign, except that I send assassins around to kill of AI family members to eventually make an invasion easier should they attack me, or even wipe them out silently. It has worked well so far and 50 turns into the game I own some 36 regions although I'm at war with jsut about every catholic faction now due to a crusade having been called on a city I bought off my French allies while I was allied to the Pope as well.
My reputation is very reliable now but the relations abysmal with everyone :)

[Dan.o6]

I play 2 tpy, I like playing slow. Buiilding up settlements and forces and taking the occasional province is how I play, and when I feel like it I just rush a faction.

[JR-]

is there any benefit to a 2 turns per year system, over the increased number of turns?

i.e. does M2 model summer and winter, and does it make a difference in the game, e.g. reduced income and movement rate in winter?

regards