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    Uhoh, I hope this didn't affect Dietrich. I liked his traits the way they were.

    EDIT - Yeah, I'm also kind of having trouble with this whole batch file thing. Never made one before, and the medifix's instructions are really unclear. Little help someone?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucjan
    EDIT - Yeah, I'm also kind of having trouble with this whole batch file thing. Never made one before, and the medifix's instructions are really unclear. Little help someone?
    Inside your main M2TW directory, just create a text file called "whatever.bat" using notepad, wordpad or something. The file has just a single line:

    medieval2.exe --io.file_first

    Then create a shortcut to it and paste to your desktop (I changed the icon to be M2TW's); double click to run.

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    Speaking of which, is it necessary to set up the mod switcher for this one?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster
    Speaking of which, is it necessary to set up the mod switcher for this one?
    It does not seem to be. If you follow the instructions for installing the mod, you end up with two icons - one runs normal M2TW; the other runs the bat file I mentioned above and so loads the two modified vices n virtues/traits files.

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    Great. Thanks. Will install tonight.

    Quote Originally Posted by econ21
    It does not seem to be. If you follow the instructions for installing the mod, you end up with two icons - one runs normal M2TW; the other runs the bat file I mentioned above and so loads the two modified vices n virtues/traits files.
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    I see where I made the mistake. I wasn't creating a shortcut to the .bat file.

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    ok a quick update from me.

    whole family, including myself, have been very unwell so I've not been online. I have managed to start a campaign but I'm experiencing some "bugs" with the game.

    CTD after a siege "unspecified error"
    major path finding issues
    inablity to deploy units (i.e. option not available in a siege, units won't move prior to starting the battle)

    can't think what else other than that. Good news is though that I have a new keyboard for the laptop meaning I can play the battles better.

    I don't envisage the above issues being a major problem though for me taking part though as they appear to be intermittant issues rather than game killing.

    Anyway, I'll catch up on everything tomorrow evening and start posting as my 4 year old is the only one still unwell in the house.

    So, keep it going and don't destroy the empire until I've joined ya!
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    No problem, Braden - I hope the little 'un gets better soon.

    Just to confirm - Dlain is now taking the avatar of Otto and IvarrWolfsong is Peter Scherer, new Third Elector of Bavaria.

    The list of players and avatars is no longer on the first page of this thread, but at:

    https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...81&postcount=1

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    Glad to see you back, Braden!

    Okay, with the passage of the edicts I'm going to load up the savegame and start playing tomorrow (US time). Hopefully we'll get at least a few turns done by the weekend as Monday is a national holiday in the US.

    Could Lucjan and Braden possibly post the build queues sometime soon? Otherwise I'm just going to build based on the general consensus of the other ones already up. Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
    Could Lucjan and Braden possibly post the build queues sometime soon? Otherwise I'm just going to build based on the general consensus of the other ones already up. Thanks.
    As a general rule, we should not wait for governors' build queues - if they don't post them by the end of a Diet session, the Chancellor should just build what they like.

    For what it's worth, this is what Lucjan ordered in the test thread:

    Land Clearances to be made around Frankfurt.
    The tax level of Frankfurt to be set to High
    And this is Tamur's for Vienna:

    Decreed: that there shall be Dirt Roads built in the Vienna region, immediately.
    Decreed: that the tax rate in Vienna shall be upped to the highest possible level, except in the case of seige or pestilence.

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    woop! Here, sorry about that! Getting on it now!

    EDIT - Posted
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    You have a point Lucjan. I've reconjiggered my build queue. I apologize for the indecisiveness GH.
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    For as much as I know about the game, I'm still feeling like a fool regarding this batch file. I've done everything the instructions and econ have said to do, but double clicking the shortcut does nothing but open the file in wordpad and show me that medieval2.exe --io.file_first line I typed in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucjan
    For as much as I know about the game, I'm still feeling like a fool regarding this batch file. I've done everything the instructions and econ have said to do, but double clicking the shortcut does nothing but open the file in wordpad and show me that medieval2.exe --io.file_first line I typed in it.
    So once you got the .bat file, you created the shortcut and it opens the file in notepad?

    Try rightclicking and removing the tick from "open with notepad" thing.
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    Dlain has shed some light on my conundrum. And the game now runs fine.

    I was clicking simply Save, and the file was saving as whatever.bat.txt!

    I never thought to save as .bat.



    On the upside, game + the medifix work fine now.

    GH! BRING ON HAMBURG!

    EDIT -

    ALSO, more on the upside, I've disconnected all the desktop necessities and re-connected them to the laptop, so the gaming aspect of my ability to play is now no longer even remotely inhibited.

    I'm also playing around with this cool feature that lets me split the screen between the desktop and laptop monitor. So I might have some interesting screenshots if this works out the way I hope it does.
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    I just thought of something else that might make life a bit easier or more interesting:

    We could post the savegames at the end of each reign on the Library thread, if that kind of file hosting is available. The main reason being not only a backup copy, but to allow people to try different strategies and to allow for a better "grasp" of the situation at the end of each reign.

    Just my 2 cent
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    I have bad news. I will not be able to take an active part in this PBM at this time due to a hardware issue. I hope to have it resolved within a period of one hardware item delivery. I may read the forums from time to time, but will certainly be unable to fire up the game. Feel free to skip over me when assigning avatars.
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    Wow, is everybody's hardware all crashing at once? We hope you can get it resolved quick Flydude.

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    Yeah, we dont want everyone not being able to play at once.
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    We have a new avatar available:



    As Prinz Henry is the benefactor of this adoption, the House of Swabia will get another avatar. I believe Warluster is next in line, correct?
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    See, we'll start accrueing new avatar's quickly enough.

    He's a promising one, though I don't know if I myself would want the "fabio-ish" hair.

    Good luck to whichever Swabian Elector gets him.

    On another note. Econ, if you wouldn't mind opening up an RP Stories thread, I've got one ready to post.

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    One thing I've noticed about M2 is that'll throw a lot of adoptees at you. It's like some pushy social services agency. I think the game tries to maintain a certain ratio of faction members to territories, and offering adoptions is one way to do that.

    I've also noticed (and this is by no means scientific) that most of the adopted folks end up in the faction heir's family tree. If we see this pattern in this game we might have to reconsider house assignments along family lines at some point.

    You might not like the haircut but due to the wonky inheritance AI this Kid could be Kaiser at some point.
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    Yeah, in my limited play testing I've noticed that - as HRE I got approx 5 in 20 turns! Haven't noticed the family tree link though.

    BTW - I plan to keep my own campaign to a minimum now so I can concentrate on this one, need to still install the Mod we've decided upon but I hope to get that done tomorrow night.

    Any save files openly available for the current game yet? (or rather, when may they be made open?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Braden
    Any save files openly available for the current game yet? (or rather, when may they be made open?)
    If you check the directory, kotr1084-2 is the last one uploaded. I'm currently on 1088 and will upload that if you want me to. Just waiting on TinCow's response before I fire up the game again.

    Metz should be taken in 1090 so look for that file shortly.
    Last edited by GeneralHankerchief; 01-14-2007 at 22:39.
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    "Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
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    Just want to confirm that Sigismund der Stoltze will indeed become Emperor once Prinz Henry has died. Since he is the adoptee Sigismund will be treated like his first-born child.

    In my current game I have adopted a no-adoption rule for faction heirs if their firs born son is not yet of age to keep the Royal line from watering down. However the HRE was never a royal blood line monarchy, so I don't know how we should handle it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
    We have a new avatar available:



    As Prinz Henry is the benefactor of this adoption, the House of Swabia will get another avatar.
    I'll assign this avatar to Ignoramus - he contributed a lot to Will of the Senate. I hope Warluster will understand.

    I've come to realise the potential problem with Swabia getting a disproportionate share of the avatars. There's a limit to what we can do about it at this stage. Certainly, the Chancellor should reject Swabian adoptees or marriage candidates if they look unpromising or even just so-so. And, after Warluster and Kagemusha have avatars, he could reject them fullstop until the other Houses are fully staffed.

    As a mild balancing factor, Swabia will be losing Prinz Henry at some point. And when we reach the point where we have more avatars than players, it should not matter much. (Only players vote, not playerless avatars).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ituralde
    Just want to confirm that Sigismund der Stoltze will indeed become Emperor once Prinz Henry has died. Since he is the adoptee Sigismund will be treated like his first-born child.
    There's always the possibility that Sigismund might die first though. Don't forget that he is about Henry's age.
    "I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
    "Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
    "I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
    If you check the directory, kotr1084-2 is the last one uploaded. I'm currently on 1088 and will upload that if you want me to. Just waiting on TinCow's response before I fire up the game again.
    Waiting for my response to what? I have no PMs from you.

    [edit] NM, saw it and responded.
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    OOC response: I don't think I have any control over what settlements the computer picks to block the queue in when there's a lack of funds.
    "I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
    "Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
    "I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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    Am I in Staufen or Frankfurt? Sigismund, I mean. I'm just curious.

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