Im absolutely dying to do a multiplayer campaign/hotseat, on either RTW, M2TW or on Kingdoms!
RTW is hard to do, requiring mods and stuff to get it to run properly. whereas M2TW and Kingdoms is a lot simpler.
Kingdoms, obviously, has a Hotseat mode as standard. M2TW hotseat needs to be unlocked by changing the preferences file, but still is nowhere near as complicated as a RTW Hotseat!
Now, the other main thing i need for a Hotseat is people to do it with.
I know a lot of you WANT to do a hotseat, but thats not what im asking. Im asking how many of you CAN commit to Hotseat on either M2TW or Kingdoms, and will be active and not hold up the game?
If you can do it, remember thats CAN and not WANT to do it, please post/vote here on what format.
Personally, i would rather play on the largest Campaign Map there is, so i would prefer to do a M2TW Hotseat. However im aware a Hotseat on Kingdoms would be easier, so i'll go with the results from the vote.
So post and vote, let me know if you can do it and what format, once we have players and format sorted, we will finalise Factions and rules.
Respect and Honour
Simo8484
can M2TW and kingdoms play in same campagin? Multiplayer.
General_Vladimir
Multiplayer Hotseat
Hail Warriors Of Troy
I am currently making a Britannia Campaign for Captain Johnny, Emperor's Consul Mehmet and myself, but if anyone is interested please let me know immediately. Before I go to sleep I will be making it just for the three of us.
If we can get one on MTW2 it would be really good. I look forward to one for Rome: Total War if we can find an efficient way to conduct it. These campaigns take months to complete, so everyone has to be prompt. Encourage others to go through with it in order to make it easier.
I look forward to a MTW2 campaign, but if it is difficult and dodgy, then we will have to organise many on kingdoms
Cheers, and all the best to our Warriors Of Troy, our allies and such. Enjoy yourselves in the Tournament Grounds.
Emperor Vladimir of the Warriors Of Troy
confused_johnny
Yay!! Britannia Campaign!
!!WALES FTW!!
A M2TW Campaign would be cool, im glad thats the way the vote is swinging!
I think, for the Multiplayer Campaign to be efficient, and for it to not take too long between turns, you need to limit the human players.
The theory of lots of intelligent human competition on Campaign is grand, but putting that theory into practice is nigh on impossible.
About 6 people maximum should be a good balance, any more and the time between turns would be so long it would be boring, and hard to keep track of where units/agents/ships are etc.
Simo, i believe there is something called a RetroFit Mod, which installs some of the units and battles and balances from Kingdoms onto M2TW, things like cavalry not so powerful etc. You can also get RetroFit MP, so you can battle online, however im unaware of any Mods that actually "link" the maps from Kingdoms seperate campaigns and the main map from M2TW, although that would be SWEET!
I might send Konie a pm, him being our resident M2TW expert and most active player on it, see if he would be interested in a Multiplayer Campaign as well.
Vlad, also would you like for me to create a sub-forum for our Kingdoms Campaign? A place to have a diplomatic thread and a save passing thread as well etc!
General_Vladimir
Awesome hotseat!
Hail Warriors Of Troy
Indeed, I will await Konie's response on the mtw2 mp campaign.
I shall open up a sub-forum for MP campaigns on MTW2, and in it organise topics for diplomacy, offensives, defensives and such
This should be epic! Just me, you and Mehmet for this one Johnny. It is Very Hard cpu and Very Hard cpu for battles as well so it should be very challenging and very fun!
Emperor Vladimir of the Warriors Of Troy
confused_johnny
Hail Warriors!!
I have some awesome news for you all, something thats making my mouth water even more at the prospect of a M2TW Hotseat!
I have tested the Hotseat unlocking myself, AND IT WORKS A CHARM!
It works near identically to the Hotseat Mode in Kingdoms, each player can Password there Faction etc, even the screens at beginning at end of your turn are the same!
You have all the same options as within a Kingdoms Hotseat, AI difficulty, Battle time limit etc! It really is simple to do!
Its the same as the battle editor and movie camera on M2TW, they are there but you have to unlock them in the preferences text, once you do they work fine! NO BUGS, NO GLITCHES!
Also, i know how to make myself an admin on the Hotseat, so that if anyone goes inactive i can reset there factions password and we can find a substitute for them. I can also AT ANY POINT during the Hotseat return a faction to AI control, so inactivity WILL NOT SLOW OR STALL this Hotseat.
This, dear friends, means WE ARE ON!
Now i have spoken with a few of you directly who have confirmed you will DEFINATELY be taking part in this.
Using just the people who have posted here, its Simo, Vlad and myself for definate.
I have spoken with Nunaronas and Konie, both have said they will join however neither has posted here as yet as i asked them to.
Konie explained he will be on holiday for 3 weeks, so would be able to join in mid to late August.
Dafuge is also trying to fix his install issues with M2TW so he can take part, and im led to beleive by Vladimir that Mehmet is also a maybe!
I would ideally like to start this within the next week or two, so on that basis if everyone confirmed we would have
Mehmet, Nunaronas, Simo, Dafuge, Vladimir and myself!!
That would be IMMENSE!
Now obviously we would need to finalise some rules beforehand, so i will now offer some suggestions as to rules we could use.
1. Absolutely NO INPUTTING of cheats through the console
2. Each player has a maximum of 3 days in which to play there turn, after which there go will be skipped.
3. If a player is skipped 3 times in a row, or 5 times in total, there Faction will be returned to AI control or a substitute found.
4. Faction selection will take place at a later time, potentially using this method- As WOTs most active member, and somewhat an Insomniac, i will send everyone a pm at a conveniant time for all (within reason of timezones), upon receipt of that pm we will operate a first post first served policy with whoever posts at link in pm stating Faction first will receive that Faction.
The reason for the no cheats is pretty obvious.
I was thinking a max 3 day per player rule as with 6 players it could potentially be 18 days before another turn, or near 3 weeks. This would accomodate those with family/work/school commitments without making the wait between turns to prolonged and therefore contributing to lost interest by other parties involved. Lets be fair, no-one can say that in 3 weeks they were to busy to find an hour and play there turn.
The penalties for repeated skipping are pretty obvious as well, basically if your turn is repeatedly being skipped then your not very active so are not contributing to other parties enjoyment, as such the place can be filled with a more active player who will contribute or with the AI.
In some cases this might be able to add excitement however, maybe if we imposed a rule where if someone drops out through inactivity ALL remaining players get opportunity to "defect" from current faction and become alligned with vacant Faction, this would be simple to do. It would just be a case of giving the player the password for vacant faction and setting the players old Faction to AI control.
This would then obviously add another dimension to diplomacy, say you are being exploited coz of weakness territory wise, paying loads in tribute to keep allies who help you rarely, then you "defect" and become leader of a more powerful faction, ready to heap sorrow upon your detractors and tormentors! Obviously the only opportunities for this will be if someone drops out, which we all hope doesnt happen, but its a way of adding a positive to a negative situation and deriving more enjoyment from it for the people still involved.
The Faction selection rule was basically because of people who pick the same Faction as someone else, and deciding who should be granted said Faction. Maybe another way would be for everyone to send me a pm stating first and second choice Factions and i then use my discretion to award said Factions to players.
So thats it for now as far as rules like these are concerned, any of you have any ideas etc then please post here and say.
THIS IS IT GUYS! ITS ALL SYSTEMS GO SO IF YOU HAVE AN OPINION SAY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, COZ THIS TRAIN IS PULLING OUT BABY!!
(Im so excited by Hotseats atm! Its like a whole new dimension and gamemode waiting to be mastered and enjoyed)
HOTSEATS FTW
Simo8484
hi
I would like to have these factions:
Denmark.(first choice)
Russia(second choice)
I am going on holiday trip from today 17th july.
and I am back in 2/3 turn there for I wanna say thanks to Johnny he wanna take my turns till I am back.
Thanks
MehmetTheGoatherd
I think this is all a great idea! Im looking forward to playing our Britannia campaign!
However, a few problems have come to mind of the Medieval II, mostly about settings.
Quoted from a gamespot forum, talking of Medieval II: Total War v1.3 campaign:
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"Besides, the Auto-Resolve is TOTALLY scewed to the enemy. I mean, I like to fight a lot of the battles myself, but late in the game, there are a lot of pesky little 2-4 unit rebel armies popping up, and they get tedious as hell. But on VH, unless I have something like a 75% advantage, Auto-Resolve results in me getting my a** handed to me, so I end up HAVING to fight all those cr**ppy little battles myself (which are always easy wins). ANNOYING!"
Here a user talks about problems of Very hard battles for AI opponents. All AI units recieve bonuses in defence/attack, making auto resolved battles frustrating as you will need a decent advantage on the enemies to break even. This would be alright, but seeing as we may use a very hard campaign difficulty, it means that the enemies will be churning out units and enemies who never run out of florins.
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"On Campaign, the AI flat out cheats. Even on Hard, the other factions never actually run out of money, no matter how Bankrupt they are. And that's OK, since I would hate for a faction to get eliminated just because they went broke. But on VH, the AI spawns in full stacks out of thin air. I guess that could be considered making the game harder, since you can get blindsided, but IMHO, it's just cheating...and ANNOYING!"
Another problem is if AI campaign difficulty is on very hard. The quoted user on the gamespot forums outline the key issues. The AI will churn out stacks of units, far more than they are able to produce each turn. Along with very hard battle AI, this would make a Medieval II campaign "annoying", as the person said.
I suggest that for our Medieval II campaign that we put both sections as Hard, Hard, so the AI is challenging but not impossible.
Also, I suggest that for the Medieval II campaign we put Auto resolve. When most of the AI is destroyed, the only fun thing to do would be to have our own wars. Having auto-resolve would make everything a lot simpler.
-Note: I think V. Hard/V. Hard AI should be fine for our small britannia campaign because there are only two factions to ally against, not 20 :p
Dafuge
I'll post in this thread for definite.
I'll take part as long as I can sort my M2TW out and if anyone chooses England I'll chew you to pieces. Grrr.
MehmetTheGoatherd
Oh yeah, and I can definately attend! I wouldn't mess it for the world!
I call -
1. Poland!
2. Egypt!
confused_johnny
OK, so a quick summary so far!
Competing players are Vladimir, Dafuge, Mehmet, Simo and Myself.
I have passed the link for this thread to Nunaronas many times, although he says he wants to join he still hasnt officially said so here, as such unless he does soon then he will not be able to compete in this round.
In regards to Simo, he will be away for 2 weeks from today, but will definately be playing when he returns. With rules for turn times etc, he should be back to play his second turn, if not he will definately here for his third turn. However second turn is most likely.
As such, he has agreed i can take his turn for him, without biase, and we have agreed i will record what i do with FRAPS and send this video to only him at his request, after which i will destroy any copies i have of the video.
Rules so far are as follows:
1. Entering cheats via the command console is banned. Any person found to be doing this will be dealt with as such in the courts of Troy, as it is a truly dis-honourable act and wont be tolerated.
2. Each player has 3 days to play there turn, starting from the point the save they need is offered to them. Upon uploading save, all players MUST send a pm to the next in line, alerting them that the save is waiting. Exactly 72 hours after save is offered, the turn of that faction will be skipped and game will resume.
3. Should anyone have there turn skipped 3 times in a row, or 5 times in total, they will be removed from the Campaign and a replacement instilled. If no human substitute available then that faction will be returned to AI control and the game will resume.
4. Should someones faction be returned to AI control, all players remaining have the opportunity to defect to the new faction, abandoning all there old territories and armies and alliances for the new faction. To defect, the player MUST win a majority of votes between the other remaining players, sort of like when you vote for a Pope. Any items/agreements/alliances/deals can be made between people to encourage others to vote for your defection, however any territories/resources offered can only be that of the new faction, all your current factions assets are locked and cannot be used in bartering. If no majority is gained within 3 days of Faction becoming available then no-one will defect and it will remain under AI control.
6. Campaign and Battle difficulty will be Hard/Hard, for reasons explained by our Consul earlier.
7. ALL battles MUST be autoresolved, whether vs AI or Human Faction.
So thats the rules so far, and now we have the Factions requested by players.
ALL PLAYERS NEED TO POST STATING FACTION CHOICE
FACTIONS WILL BE GRANTED ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS
With that in mind, we have:
Denmark - Simo
Poland - Mehmet
Holy Roman Empire - Confused Johnny
England - Dafuge
We now need Vladimirs Faction, i beleive he said Venice but im not sure, after which i will make detailed, easy to follow instructions on how you unlock hotseat, and also help people test it to check it has been done correctly.
MehmetTheGoatherd
Looks great Johnny, the rules and all!
confused_johnny
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OK, All those taking part need to read and follow this next message VERY CAREFULLY! I will now explain how to unlock HOTSEAT for M2TW.
First you need to locate your M2TW folder on your hard drive. I use Vista and mine is found at C:/Drive/program files/sega/Medieval2.
Once you are in that folder, look for medieval2.preference and open it with NOTEPAD.
Change existing values in this file to those shown below. If the values do not exist, simply type them in yourself following the EXACT same format as entries already there.
Once you have done that, SAVE and close the preferences file.
Now, RIGHT CLICK on the preferences file and go to properties. Once there make sure you have checked the READ ONLY box, then click apply and exit.
If you have followed those steps EXACTLY, the Hotseat mode is now enabled on your game. Follow the steps below to test and see if you have done it correctly.
First load up M2TW and go to a Grand Campaign. The first sign that its working should be when you can select multiple factions at the beginning, like so....
(Notice all the factions with glowing around them have been selected as human controlled.)
So, pick a couple of factions and start your Campaign. This will be the first screen you see......
The turns run in the same order as they do normally, so based on the factions i selected, England is first. I can set a password on this screen for England, and no-one else will be able to take a turn as the English without this password. You then click start turn.
Dont bother moving any units, when it loads up simply click end turn.
You should now have a screen like this
All the fields are pretty self explanatory, the password is for THE NEXT PERSON to input a pw of there choice to stop others using there faction.
In our Hotseat game its at this point you will press the escape key, click to save game, then click to exit.
However, to test if it has worked, carry on and see if you can take the next factions turn. If done correctly it will allow you.
So you now have HOTSEAT mode on M2TW, and like me you can eagerly await for this to start.
ANYONE HAVING PROBLEMS DOING THIS, PLEASE POST HERE AND SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE PROBLEM IS SO WE CAN ALL HELP RESOLVE IT.
This point is very important, as tech difficulties are now the only thing that could slow us down. Please dont leave it till the last minute, check and see if you can unlock this now and confirm whether you can or not here!
I will make a similar post in regards to finding, uploading, passing, downloading and loading of the save in the near future, once everyone has confirmed this works!
koniecpolski
Hi Lords!
Great job Johnny! As you already said, Im on holidays since 23.07 for around 2 - 2.5 weeks, so back around 10.08. I hope I'll be able to join ya, even if ya start earlier. My preffered faction, well, since Mehmet picked Poland already :] are Hungary, Milan or France. Most prefferably Hungary perhaps. Also I think it is good for exciment of the game to choose a factions that have some border of other fellas. So at the moment no point to choose factions like Egypt or Portugal. Ofcourse it may give an advantage on growth, but less on gaming pleasure.
Never played a hotseat before, but as I understood, we unfortunately won't be able to play battles between ourselves live?
Looking forward. Zee
PS. Also Crusaders campaign can be interesting to play. Strong armies, tight on land.
confused_johnny
Konie is here! AWESOME!
Hmmmm, another human would be most awesome, bringing it upto 6 human players, which was what i said i would like the maximum amount of humans to be.
Now Konie, you have a choice, and the other players involved in this have to have there say on this matter as well.
You can pick your faction, and like Simo has done you can ask another player to take your turn/turns until your back.
Alternatively you can pick your faction, and have your turns SKIPPED until you come back.
Both have obvious pro and cons, ill leave it to you to decide what you would like to do, and if others agree with it. Personally, im happy with either choice if it adds another human to the game.
Other than that, the only thing i can think of is to wait until another round of Hotseats starts, which should be as soon as this one finishes.
If you decide to join though, i'll need to know exactly what Faction you wish to have, and pretty soon as well. Also, before you go we will need to know if you have successfully unlocked the Hotseat mode, as sorting out any tech problems once we have started will be nigh on impossible.
Respect and Honour
MehmetTheGoatherd
Hey Johnny, I'm having problems getting hotseat on Medieval II.
First of all, I never had these headings or options in my preferences:
[misc]
unlock_campaign = true
[multiplayer]
playable = true
So I copy and pasted them in, and saved, following all of your steps until the grand campaign. But it won't let me select multiple factions, so something is wrong.
*Note that I have Medieval 2 v1.3 installed, and use windows XP.
Tomorrow when my friend returns my copy of Medieval II I'm going to try reinstalling it all again.
confused_johnny
Hail Consul!!
Yeah, i myself had to type those values into my preferences text when i did it as well.
Did you remember to change the autoresolve preference to 0?
[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
This value and all beneath it as i explained in earlier post are correct?
If you did all that correctly, what about changing the properties of the file to read only? Did you remember to do this?
If again you did this all correctly, i can think of one other thing.
I know you said your running XP, but with Vista i had install issues with M2TW.
Basically, some of the install files were placed in
All i did was made sure a copy of the preferences text was in both these locations, and was set to read only, as when i put it in just one it wouldnt work for me either.
So in summary
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Check all values are correct in preference txt
Check preferences txt is set to read only via properties
Check preferences txt is in both locations i described above
If you check and do all these, it should be working fine!
MehmetTheGoatherd
Hmm I double checked the steps and everything which were correct, and as for the C:/user folder I don't have one =\
Ill just wait and re install it tomorrow
EDIT: I just re ran Medieval II and it worked Now going through other steps to test.
MehmetTheGoatherd
I can play hotseats now!
confused_johnny
WHOO HOOOOOOO
Thats one done then. Awesome.
Simo has already gone on holidays, and was gone before i posted instructions so we will have to wait until he returns for him to do.
Dafuge is away this weekend, but said he will be doing everything he can to fix his install issues on Monday when he returns.
Konie will be going away, but would be easier if he did this before going, and confirmed whether its working or not.
Finally we need our Emperor to name his Faction and unlock Hotseat as well. I sorta remember our XFire convo Spain was mentioned, but im not sure if you meant you wanted them or were considering them.
Hopefully by the end of next week we can start moving into the next stage of this!
Dafuge
OK, on my first try I managed get this working. Good old English for you, can follow instructions. (It's aimed at Johnny)
confused_johnny
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OK, on my first try I managed get this working. Good old English for you, can follow instructions. (It's aimed at Johnny)
Awesome, thanks for posting m8!
So thats 3 confirmed so far, all set up and ready to go.
SO EVERYONE KNOWS, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, THIS HOTSEAT WILL BE STARTING FRIDAY 24TH JULY, TIME UNCONFIRMED! THE SAVE WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR FIRST PLAYER, DAFUGE, AND ALL RULES REGARDING TIME LIMIT PER TURN ETC WILL THEN COMMENCE. ALL WHO WANT TAKE PART MUST POST HERE SAYING THERE FACTION AND CONFIRMING THEY HAVE UNLOCKED HOTSEAT BEFORE THURSDAY 23RD JULY.
As a footnote, Simo is only person to be granted an exception to this as he is on holiday, although wanted to take part.
Also, Konie said he will post here later on to say what faction, if he can unlock and what he wants to do with his first turns while he is on holiday.
koniecpolski
Okay Johnny,
I followed the steps and unlocked hotseat well. And so I am also decided to take HUNGARY.
Only one question remains is who's gonna pick my faction for 2 - 2.5 weeks and eventually follow my politics. How many turns you suppose to play during this time? Im her till Wed 22.
confused_johnny
Yeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Konie is in, and faction Hungary is granted unto his command!!
To answer your questions mate, its upto you, on both counts.
Simo has asked me to do specific things for him, but he will only miss 1 turn, so it isnt really much.
Maybe asking one of the other players if they could take your turns whilst your away, and give them brief instructions on what to build, who to trade with etc.
In all probablity you will miss anywhere between 2 to 4 turns, depends on how long each player takes. With a 3 day maximum per player, it could be just 2 turns you miss, but if the save passes quickly it could reach 4 turns you miss.
Other than that, we could leave your faction as untouched until you return, skipping all your turns without doing anything.
I would offer to do your turns for you, but as im doing Simo turn for him it be too much.
So your best bet, ask other players and give them brief instructions to last 4/5 turns max, and all should be good.
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With the deadline approaching, we have confirmed so far:
England - Dafuge
Holy Roman Empire - Confused Johnny
Denmark - Simo
Poland - Consul Mehmet
Hungary - Konie
NOT LONG LEFT TO SIGN UP! ALL WHO WANT TO TAKE PART NEED TO POST HERE SOON! DONT MISS OUT ON THE BEST MULTIPLAYER CAMPAIGN TO BE OFFERED TO YOU - A M2TW ONE !!
MehmetTheGoatherd
Oh, and I've chosen my name. *Gets in the zone*
You may refer to me as 'Alexander the Wise, King of Poland'
General_Vladimir
Hail Warriors Of Troy!
This sounds epic!
Sorry I havn't posted previously. University has started again, plus our MP Campaign is still on so I've been busy with that as well. Konie's rank needs changing to Legionary, and such. I will create the forums for the discussion by Friday, for the MTW2 MP Campaign
My Faction will be: The Byzantine Empire
After much consultation I just picked one
All the best, I will try it when I get my next chance!
Emperor Vladimir of the Warriors Of Troy
confused_johnny
Most awesomeness Indeedus!!
Another Human Faction, taking the confirmed total to 6, and hitting the maximum allowed human participants!
THIS IS GONNE BE COOL
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As such the finalised list of players and there factions is as thus:
England - Dafuge (Dafuge I, the Lionheart, Defender of the English Crown.)
Holy Roman Empire - Confused Johnny (Kaiser Confusion mein John) Denmark - Simo
Poland - Consul Mehmet (Alexander the Wise, King of Poland)
Hungary - Konie (Legacy King of all Hungarians, Knight on Vallachia, Besarabia, Moldova and Transylvania. Defender of all Bulgars. Protector of Cathoholicism over south east Europe and part of Russia)
Byzantine Empire - Emperor Vladimir
Myself and Mehmet have assigned ourselves Titles that we wish to be referred to when discussing/playing this, sort of add some role play to it for fun. You's are all welcome to do the same.
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University has started again, plus our MP Campaign is still on so I've been busy with that as well.
Im loving this MP Campaign we doing, very very challenging and very very fun. It helps that i get to command Wales as well!
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Konie's rank needs changing to Legionary
On to it now!
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I will create the forums for the discussion by Friday, for the MTW2 MP Campaign
SWEEEEET!
I was thinking that having individual embassies would be to...excessive..... for the amount of players. In our little Kingdoms Hotseat is not to bad, but for this it would be like creating another forum!
I was thinking something like a diplomatic feast thread, a trade thread and an allied attack/defense thread.
Anything diplomacy wise could be done via pm, much more secretive and much more fun!
Anyways, as with the Kingdoms forums im sure they will brilliant!
MAN I CANT WAIT FOR THIS TO START!
koniecpolski
1. Mehmet - Historically there was 1 (and only 1) King of Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth called Alexander. Cneck this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Poland
Not very famous, but also not very infamous.
2. The diplomacy thing is the one I was thinking to develop over what M2TW offers, cause imho its too short there. Like, just for example, there's no protection pacts against other factions. So thats the thing what could be developed over m2tw abilities.
3. And ok if we change our tittles then I change my tittle to:
Legacy King of all Hungarians, Knight on Vallachia, Besarabia, Moldova and Transylvania. Defender of all Bulgars. Protector of Cathoholicism over south east Europe and part of Russia
confused_johnny
I like your name, however im concerned that after some fine German Beer i wont be able to pronounce it!
It might sound summin like Legashy King of Hungrians, night to Valkyrie, Bethen, rolled over and Transylvania. Defender of all Vulgars. Protector of alcoholicism over shouth easht Europe and part of Rushshia.
Diplomacy will be so much better in this, yeah the AI will be the same, but remember 5 other factions are human controlled. They think and act like you, maybe better, maybe worse than you!!
If they turn on you, its because they chose to, not because of some random AI script. You can offer all manner of things as barter in your trades with people, like resources, ability to have forts, military access, sea access, florins, map info.
Out of curiosity, if there has only been one King Alexander, how many Legacy King of all Hungarians, Knight on Vallachia, Besarabia, Moldova and Transylvania. Defender of all Bulgars. Protector of Cathoholicism over south east Europe and part of Russia's has there been?
Dafuge
Hello all, my name in this coming hotseat as you will now all refer to me,
Dafuge I, the Lionheart, Defender of the English Crown.
General_Vladimir
MMm
Hail Warriors Of Troy
Thank you Johnny I did not have time to change his rank, it has been quite crazy for me this week as it is the start of university again.
I request my name be: Emperor Vladimir the Wise of the Eastern Roman Empire
Please don't put my name as pink It is purple damn it for the Byzantines!!.... Purple=Royalty
Emperor Vladimir the Wise of the Eastern Roman Empire
confused_johnny
I prefer Pink Byzantines!
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As such the finalised list of players and there factions is as thus:
England - Dafuge (Dafuge I, the Lionheart, Defender of the English Crown.)
Holy Roman Empire - Confused Johnny (Kaiser Confusion mein John) Denmark - Simo
Poland - Consul Mehmet (Alexander the Wise, King of Poland)
Hungary - Konie (Legacy King of all Hungarians, Knight on Vallachia, Besarabia, Moldova and Transylvania. Defender of all Bulgars. Protector of Cathoholicism over south east Europe and part of Russia)
Byzantine Empire - Emperor Vladimir (Emperor Vladimir the Wise of the Eastern Roman Empire)
General_Vladimir
Hail Warriors Of Troy!
Marvellous! I shall go and test that MTW2 mp campaign works on my desktop, as I am on it now.
Emperor Vladimir of the Warriors Of Troy
General_Vladimir
It works well
I just hope it doesn't make me not able to play a normal campaign
confused_johnny
It shouldnt stop you!
I know Dafuge said he gets the PW screen after every turn now, but that can be changed by removing the Hotseat value from prefernces txt when Hotseat is finished.
However, my campaign i started before opening hotseat still works as normal, no pw needed or anything.
General_Vladimir
Hail Warrors of Troy
True enough I will have to experiment when I have time playing mtw2 and such, as at this moment I don't have much time to do that, but thats cool. I will tonight make all the forums available for posting.
Emperor Vladimir
Simo8484
hi I cant join the campaign. I cant get my hotseat working, me and C tryed but we cant get it work.
so denmark is open again lol :/
confused_johnny
Unfortunately so!!
We tried everything, exhausted every idea we could think of to make it work, and still nothing.
As the save will be available to start turn one later on tonight, we dont have time to try anything else, so unfortunately we are a player down already!
MehmetTheGoatherd
Damn
So you tried complete reinstalls ect., maybe even cracking the .exe?
Dafuge
It'd different for M2TW without kindgoms to unlock, you have to paste into different areas.
confused_johnny
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so do we have to tune in too next weeks episode to find out where!
Post it up, maybe, an its a big maybe, an if no one else has any probs, Simo can get it working and i will edit the first save so as to re-include Denmark!
Dafuge
No idea how I did it.
Dun, dun dun dun dun.
I'll give him my file next time I'm at my PC.
Simo8484
then I can maybe join it
if every thing turns good out
confused_johnny
Well, im under the impression Dafuge is going to play his turn Sunday night, is this correct Dafuge?
If so, and if Simo is on Xfire, maybe you could send him that file before you have your turn and let me know if it works for him.
Hopefully it will work, and Dafuge has until Midnight on Monday (GMT) to play his turn, so maybe we have a small, slight opportunity to keep it at 6 players!
Ill need to know if it works though, so that i can remake the first save and upload it again for Dafuge!
Good luck guys, hopefully you can get it sorted!
I will be on Xfire from about 6/7pm onwards tomorrow, so im hoping to hear good news!
Dafuge
Yep, should be able to play at around Sunday evening/night and might be able to see Simo before then. Also am I under the impression that I play two turns in a row?
confused_johnny
No, if you can help Simo and delay taking your turn whilst i remake the save file to include Denmark, you will then just take your turn and pass as normal!
If you cant help Simo, then you just take your turn from the save that is available.
In both cases you take just one turn, but i believe you are controlling Hungary until Konie returns. Even then the save must go through other factions before you do take Konies go!
Basically, you only have one turn, when you click end turn it will go to my screen to input HRE password etc, which is when you save and pass, then on Hungary turn you download and take and repost when finished!
Dafuge
Yeah, it goes Hunary me, so i get two turns in a row.
Simo8484
I can now gladly report that I got my hotseat working SO DENMARK IS BACK ON TRACK
confused_johnny
Yep, in the end i sent him my file, helped a little more and it works fine!
All been tested, and Simo is ready at what has to be the 11th hour!
As long as Dafuge doesnt mind redoing his turn if its done already, we can get Simo in on this now and have 6 humans like we planned
General_Vladimir
Huzzah!!
At last, Denmark is in the game Lol Johnny omg, you're going to beat my post count soon thats so not cool
Dafuge
I haven't done my turn anyway, so reloading won't be a problem.
confused_johnny
Reloading might not be, but where still not problem free yet!
Simo cant load up any hotseat saves he receives, so not looking good again!
koniecpolski
Salut WOT!!!
So where we are at? The game is on or we're stuck? I'm just in the middle of my trip. After 7 days in Fogarashi mountains (66 kilometers on walk with 20 kilo backpack, around 12 peaks) just relaxing for a moment in Constantinesti by the Black Sea. Still haven't forgot about ya and looking forward to push the game through when I'll come back.
for the honour of our noble clan,
cheerlo!
Dafuge
Hail koniecpolski,
We have reached the second turn and I've followed all your instructions so far.
confused_johnny
Indeed, Dafuge is right!
We have started and are currently mid way through turn 2! We have a sub forum now, up above this thread, The M2TW Multiplayer Campaign one.
All our discussions, rules, trades etc are all posted at there now!
Your holidays sounds great, tiring but immense. Enjoy yourself and we look forwards to seeing you on the M2TW Campaign Map!