EB v1.0 Released

[Anarzius]

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[I Am Herenow]

Don't forget the permanent fixes (in the Bugs subforum)!

[Anarzius]

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[I Am Herenow]

's all good

[PrimusPilus]

My laptop's video card crash coincided with the initial release of this fine MOD! I was on the phone with HP almost daily checking on when it woud come in!

I ordered Goldsworthy's Complete Roman Army so I could feel that I was doing something "constructive!

The download was fast and without a hitch.



The mod! Beautiful! The depth of the research that you guys have done and the amount of work that you have put in is certainly worthy of a Triumphus!

AVE!

[eadingas]

Fantastic news guys! I knew you'll eventually make it :) I'll start downloading asap.

BTW, mentioning EB in my CV has significantly influenced my getting a new job in London ;)

[johnhughthom]

Fantastic news guys! I knew you'll eventually make it :) I'll start downloading asap.

BTW, mentioning EB in my CV has significantly influenced my getting a new job in London ;)

I'm very curious how a mention of EB helped get you a job. Pray tell.

[PrimusPilus]

How many turns per year is EB 1.0? My game seems to be going very fast!

Is it 3? Is there a glitch if you forget to hit the Script at any time?

Thanks

[Admetos]

4 turns per year. You won't really notice a difference if you miss the script for a couple of turns.

[King Philip II]

Just a quick note to thank you for a brilliant expansion to RTW. I was really pleased to see that v1.0 had been released since I got fed up with M2TW - EB has so much more to offer on all shelves IMO.

My favourite faction is probably the Romani, but I'll postpone that campaign until someone makes a mod like the old "Roma" mod, since there is very little challege as it currently is. Hayasdan, Pahlava and Pontos are simply brilliant campaigns - a really good challenge. My only problem is that it takes me forever to progress through a campaign, since I simply have to read all the descriptions.

My only comments are regarding the high costs for markets and port upgrades. I always do a quick cost-benefit analysis before building economic buildings, and in most settlements it's just not worthwhile building anything beyond the 2nd level of merchants when the payback is 100+ turns. Each level gives only +1 in trade base bonus, which is the same you get for many government structures, temples, Large Granery, River Port etc., so the benefit of the trade base bonus is actually "depreciated" when so many other buildings provide this benefit as well.

I'm surprised that some ports have 4 or more trade fleets available (up to 8 IIRC), when the maximum number of export fleets is 3. I might be wrong on this, but in all the years of playing RTW I've never seen more than 3 export fleets (same issue applies to M2TW btw). It seems a little steep to pay 30,000 mnai for something that adds no benefit :)

Thanks again for a great mod!

regards,
KPII

[Darth Stalin]

One thing about cities and walls:
How can I change the walls level in the city? (what file should be changed?) And maybe when making corrections for EB someone would change Lilybaeum from "Wooden palisade" to "Stone walls" like the Syracuse? => Lilybaeum was at the time one of the strongest fortresses, where not only Pyrrhus had broken his teeth upon, but also the Roman legions had to abandon their siege and the fortress felt into Roman hands only after the conclusion of the First Punic War... bnow it's all too easy to capture Lilybaeum...

[Felix Constantus Alexander]

Great game, its frustrating having to wait for it to load, but worth it.

Also, I was wondering how soon would there be a release for a patch or upgrade for the bugs, like a 1.1 or something? Does the team have a timetable for that?

Thanks

[I Am Herenow]

The EB team is planning to release EB 1.1 which should have, among other things, First Cohorts, although I doubt they'll tell you when (as they don't know, and even if they do, they never tell us!). As for bugfixes for 1.0, all the current ones can be found here. Please note that 1.0 has none of the fixes found in that thread, and so you should download and extract all permanent fixes, and any optional ones you want (again, I'd recommend getting them all).

[Dreadking]

Will EB 1.1 be a separate download/game or will it just patch 1.0?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Will EB 1.1 be a separate download/game or will it just patch 1.0?

Probably separate, full-install version.

[Dreadking]

Thanks for the info Marcus and Herenow. Just wondering if it was worth downloading v1.0 a day before i read this lol

[Bonny]

Probably separate, full-install version.

There will be a new 1.1 full install but also a 1.1 patch for all of those who have downloaded 1.0.

[Rilder]

Is there any direct download links? as in no redirrects, the current links don't allow me to use a download manager, and theres no way i'm downloading a half gig without the ability to pause it.

[PrimusPilus]

I just have to see that this is the best thing i have played! Wow the depth of the research. It far surpasses 8.1

THE EARTHQUAKE ANIMATION WAS AWESOME!

My Roman Campaign is progressing nicely but not without some nasty surprises.

THANKS!

[Bonny]

THE EARTHQUAKE ANIMATION WAS AWESOME!

My Roman Campaign is progressing nicely but not without some nasty surprises.

THANKS!

We haven't done it, its part of the original RTW.
What we have done is upping the frequnezy of them a bit and we made certain regions more likely to get earthquakes.

[bovi]

Rilder, use the torrent and it has the download management inbuilt.

[Rilder]

Rilder, use the torrent and it has the download management inbuilt.

Torrents don't work with my router.

Plus I don't like torrents regardless.

[bovi]

Then I suggest you get the router opened for that traffic. But if you don't like torrents (on what grounds ) there are a number of other download options. I don't know which if any that support download managers. I'd just take a wild shot and choose one.

[Morte66]

This is a bit late in the day because I had some other stuff going on, but thanks for 1.0 guys. I'm having a great time playing Pontos.

[Ferret]

Nice mod, I enjoy the slow pace and different way of cobquering regions, however I cannot seem to get the correct faction units in custom battles, so I can't see the legionaries or anything Roman as Rome. Is this a bug or have I done something wrong?

[Bonny]

Nice mod, I enjoy the slow pace and different way of cobquering regions, however I cannot seem to get the correct faction units in custom battles, so I can't see the legionaries or anything Roman as Rome. Is this a bug or have I done something wrong?

This is a feature ;)

Factions in EB have acces to more units than the costum battle rooster can show (they are all there, if you use random army they might popup).

In order to solve it EB 1.0 is shipped with an edu only for costum battle (limiting units to faction and some regional only). You find it in your eb folder its called costum multiplayer edu. Just replace the origional edu with it, and play costum battles. of yourse, if you want to play camapign again you need to switch it back

Someone has made a program which can do this automatically, you'll find it in the unofficial mods subforum.

[Rilder]

Then I suggest you get the router opened for that traffic. But if you don't like torrents (on what grounds ) there are a number of other download options. I don't know which if any that support download managers. I'd just take a wild shot and choose one.

They didn't allow me to, I figured it out(at the time of this post) though I set my download manager to identify itself as IE7 and it seemed to work.

Also I hate Torrent cause it didn't work when I first tried using a torrent client and it pissed me off, and I have a bit of anger at times........

[Senatus Populusque Romanus]

EB TEAM!!

CAN YOU LET ME SLEEP?!


THE BEST MOD IN RTW COMMUNITY

[Ajantis]

Excellent

[AlExal]

Music in game is amazing.
But theme for stategical map is too agressive. It is hard to listen to for a long time. How can I replace it by smth more peaceful and calm but the same atmospherical?