Hotseat
Hotseat PBEM for M2TW and M2TW Kingdoms
To set up M2TW for hotseat in the first place.
Open medieval2.preference.cfg
Find [multiplayer] or [hotseat]
If they do not exist, create them before the [ui] section. Even if they do exist, overwrite with the following:
[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 1
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1
[hotseat]
admin_password = abc
Where abc is the password you want as admin password.
Save the file, close it and mark read-only.
Start up the game, pick grand campaign and select your factions for the game. Clicking on a faction icon will highlight it, clicking again deselects it. Choose as many factions as you like.
Then choose the other available settings and start the game.
1 Go to the M2TW main folder.
2 Find medieval2.preference.cfg
3 Right click on it and select properties.
4 The properties window for the file opens.
5 At the bottom is the Attributes field.
Deselect Read-Only.
6 Hit the Apply button. Close the Window.
7 Open the file with wordpad/notepad.
8 Find [hotseat]
9 Add below that admin_password = yourpassword
"yourpassword" means what ever password you want
10 Save the file.
11 Right click it again, select properties and enable the Read-Only attribute.
12 Create the hotseat save like normal. Disable the console if you don't want others getting into it.
Go into the first player's login screen.
13 Check whether you can open the console with ~
14 Type in the console "logon yourpassword" -which is what ever password you entered in the config file- and hit enter.
15 Do you get an error message? Make sure the ` is not in the field like it is when I first open the console
16 If not type "logoff" and hit enter. Save the game.
17 Quit the game, start the game again, load the save and repeat step 13-16 to check.
18 It should all work now, start playing and have fun.
You will then have admin access to your hotseat game. Just enter in your admin password at any player login screen. Even with console disabled, you can still access the console in there.
To reset someone's password:
When that is set, you open the console, login with the password and then type: clear_password <faction_label>
Replace <factionlablel> by say byzantium
The password will then be removed, the first player who enters can set a new one.
If a player drops, and you can't find a replacement, you can set their faction as AI controlled:
It also allows to change control to the AI (so one inactive player? => set faction to AI control and move on). Type control <factionlabel>
To set someone elses password:
There are also functions to set the password (type set_password <faction_label> <password> <password> )
Faction labels including non playable are :
Crusades
egypt
turks
antioch
jerusalem
byzantium
slave
venice
mongols
Americas
spain
aztecs
chichimeca
tlaxcalans
tarascans
apachean
mayans
slave
england
Britannia
france
norway
scotland
england
ireland
wales
Teutonic
teutonic_order
lithuania
hre
denmark
poland
novgorod
slave
venice
M2TW
sicily
milan
denmark
egypt
scotland
aztecs
turks
france
hre
england
portugal
poland
byzantium
moors
russia
spain
hungary
papal_states
slave
Sources:
CA Australia (Pras the Reaper, Unspoken Knight)
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=95420 (Privateerkev, FactionHeir).
