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Old April 12, 2001, 17:04   #1
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Age of Alexius-Your Opinions
The Age Of Alexius (First Crusade) scenario is now available at Das Civilization Universum and at The European Civilization II Site .

The Age of Alexius I Comnenus, the Emperor who tried to remedy the disater of the battle of Manzikert in 1071 by inviting Frankish soldiers to fight the Seljuks Turkmen.

Personally, I found that even on Akritas (Chieftain) level, it was tricky, but once I had crossed the troops through Anatolia avading the Seljuk horse-archers (lost 17 stack contingent in first playtest!), around Cilicia and down the Levantine coast (with a side branch taking Edessa) it was worth all that tension...

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Masis,

read the manual about how to debug the events, I tried to do it myself but I wasn´t able
it is something about putting @DEBUG inmediately after @BEGINEVENTS

I love the idea of starting without cities
I hate the road 2 movement

I´ll wait to play until the events problem is solved because in the first turns the byzantines cancel the alliance with all its respectives porblems
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Masis, I think that I owe you an apology.

A few weeks ago, when I first looked at some of your scenarios, the flock that appeared in the European Civilization Site, I wasn't too impressed. I thought them somewhat rudimentary and simplistic.

First impressions are sometimes wrong. I looked again at several of your scenarios, and they look good; my compliments. I have copies of your Constantine, Justinian, and Collapse scenarios. May I offer some suggestions toward making them even better? If you're interested, let me know.

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Old April 19, 2001, 15:19   #4
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where can we download Masis´ scenario??

hey Masis,
are you around???
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There are half-a-dozen of Masis' scenarios on the European Civilization II Site.

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Old April 28, 2001, 15:16   #6
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I'm Here!

Sorry, its bad for the author to vanish-was playing John Elis's Hellas scenario which got me interested in looking into other ancient Greek Civ II scenarios on the net, generally they seem to mimick each other which is understandable, where else can an ancient Greek scenario be based except Greece?

The scenarios I have made/modifed that are available lack new graphics and events.
The Labyrinth of events is something I still have to crack into, but as for the new graphics, thats done.

My 60 day trail of Paint Shop Pro expired a few days ago, I might download it again to continue making more graphics.

Got some feedback from John Elis, yes the Paved Roads in the Age of Alexius scenario make it easy for the Franks to rampage through Anatolia, yet at the higher levels they will need as much help as they can get if they are to reach even Antioch by 1098 AD, avioding the ferocity of the Seljuk horse archers.

Still needs better units definition (values) and info on the wonders and city improvements.

Getting a good plan of events will improve this scenario tremendously...

My ideas so far---

1) Romans (Byz.) Bribe the city of Nikea, which sours relations between Franks and Romans, as the Franks want to create their own states in the east.
2) Battle of Doryleum, Seljuk units gather to fight of the Franks.
3) Reports of Canabalism by the Franks on the dead bodies of Muslim soldiers reach the ears of Islamic realms, causing them to give more respect (improved attitude) to the Franks.

Shaka, I have no real grasp on the workings of the Events system, having only recently jumped from using only Civ II original to the wonderful Fantastic Worlds add-on. The events I tried to make, were merely following the structure Jay Bee used in his excellent Visigoths scenario...obviously he knew what to do-unlike me!

Certainly Exile, Help is greatly appreciated, I do not want this scenario to be a 'Masis' scenario but a scenario made by Civers to demonstrate these specific events in history...

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I'm apparently going to be pretty busy for the next couple of days or so, but contact me during the coming week, and I'll be glad to share some of the ideas I had for sprucing up your graphics.

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Thanks Exile, If you like, I can e-mail the proto-type Age of Alexius to you for evaluation...the other scenarios have also been given a 'spruce-up' in the Graphic area, but they need a second (and a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh...) opinion.



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I could help you if you want

are you going to change the events file??
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Certainly Shaka, everyone is welcome to contribute!
The Events (If I can really call them that) are to be trashed, first I think a plan of events of both historical and game-wise should be made before creating events.

The Tech tree aslo needs planning out.

Is it possible-when pollution reaches its maximum level, a Plague event happens-Plague unit swoops down on cities?



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quote:

Is it possible-when pollution reaches its maximum level, a Plague event happens-Plague unit swoops down on cities?



ask Henrik about that
he has some of that stuff in his new scenario
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Wonder what Stefan Hartel will make of the Scenario?
It is only a proto-type still and in need of events, but Stefan sent sample events, I will include them.
Thanks Exile for the positive comments on the graphics, yes use them by all means.
Did Mathias Koster get me e-mail with the gif updates and info for his amazing Death and Resurection of an Empire?

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Yes, I got your email. Great work! I'm sorry I haven't replied earlier but I am very busy right now with exam preparations and real life.

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Glad your there!
Good luck with the exams!
One factor I have found when playing the Franks is that once youv'e conquered the Levant, there is not much of a challenge to face after that-the Seljuks of Hamadan rarely manage to muster a force that can eject you from the region, with my Sapper units I simply bribed the cities of Ascalon and Aqaba, but then I was testing it out at Akritas (Chieftain) level...
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Age of Alexius version1 can now be downloaded from The European Civilisation II site I expect to release at least 2 more versions forthwith! Not to mention the other updated scenarios...

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Updated version of Age of Heraklius (new name) can be downloaded from European Civilization II Site
It contains Events!
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Age of Arthur-UPDATED
The Age of Arthur version2 with new graphics and text corrections, available from European Civilization II Site
An updated 'The Age of Justinian' is to follow forthwith...WITH WORKING EVENTS!
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Age of Alexius version2!
Yes, I have just sent to the European Civilization II site an updated version of Age of Alexius containing- a anme for the Fatimid Caliph, pedia information, unit updates, readme expansion and most importantly-WORKING EVENTS!
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Age of Alexius version2 WITH EVENTS!
Yes, I have just sent to the European Civilization II site an updated version of Age of Alexius containing- a anme for the Fatimid Caliph, pedia information, unit updates, readme expansion and most importantly-WORKING EVENTS!
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Age of Justinian-released to the European Civ Site
Yes, an updated Age of Justinian scenario has been released to the European Civilization II Site
It contains a major Events file, new pedia, rules, game text, sounds and new graphics.
Now to get to work with the Age of Chaos scenario about the fall of the western Roman empire...
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Masis, please check your PM´s.
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Thanks for the reminder!
Checked the PM's days ago, and I have credited your excellent artwork BeBro.
So what did you make of the extra cities I created for the Turkoman/Seljuks and the added geography in Cross and Crescent?
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Sorry, I´ve lost them. I had a win problem some weeks ago, lost many mails and adresses. But I currently also can´t make a new version of C&C, simply not enough time. I also would rather make a new medieval scenario instead (if I ever can finish my current project ). If you like to make something like a remake or so, no problem...
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Enhancements
Now the Age of Alexius contains more enhancements. Especially where the Rules txt is concerned there have been corrections/ammendments. BeBro-how did you make the batch file for loading new events? Just that this may be needed for AoA, the single events file has a size limit-which is a hindrance.
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Trumpets Herald...
...The Age of Basil*
A new Scenario coming soon!
*About the reign of Nikephoros Phokas, Ionnes Tzimiskes and Basil II and the last reconquests of the Roman Empire.
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I learned it from other scn makers, esp. the batch files of Captain Nemo were a good help. Are you familiar with MS DOS batch files?
Simply create a simple textfile with Notepad, like this...


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@echo off
cls
echo.
echo EVENTSCHANGE (you can add a more specific text here)
echo.

:main
echo.
echo 1. EVENTSCHANGE 1
echo 2. EVENTSCHANGE 2
echo 3. EVENTSCHANGE 3
echo.
echo 4. Quit
echo.
echo.
CHOICE /c:1234 Please choose an option

if errorlevel 4 goto done
if errorlevel 3 goto Opt3
if errorlevel 2 goto Opt2
if errorlevel 1 goto Opt1

:Opt1
echo.
copy events1.txt events.txt
goto main

:Opt2
echo.
copy events2.txt events.txt
goto main

:Opt3
echo.
copy events3.txt events.txt
goto main

:done
echo.
exit
quit
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Save this file as Eventsswap.bat or so (don´t forget the ending .bat ). Then the player has to run this batch file when he should change the events (give him a text message during the game when he should do it).
If he chooses 1, 2 or 3 the batch file copies one of your events files (you need three files in this example) to the file events.txt, which is used by the scn.
Be in mind that there is another problem: you have to instruct the player that he should drag the last savegame of the "Delevent.exe" (do you have this file?), which you should include with the scenario. If the player don´t uses "Delevent.exe", the savegame will use the old events even after a change, because they are embedded in the savegame (delevent removes them, then the new events are used)
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Many Thanks
Excellent! Now to make more Events!
By the way BeBro, have you got the latest version of AoA?
It is being edited all the time, so when I figure it to be immaculate, I'll send it to you to try out, if you have the time that is.
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To be or not to be?
That is the question...

I shall try and squeeze in a few historical notifications such as the' crowning of Stephan Arpad as King of Hungaria' the 'ascensions of the Otto's' and the 'depositions of the Popes' into the Events file. If this proves to be too much for the scenario to handle then it will be divided up into a 3 part Events scenario. Do you think these Events are relevent to a scenario about Basil II? If so then I will go by your valuable opinion. If not then I will also go by your valuable opinion...
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Age of Basilius version1 finished
The Age of Basilius scenario V1 is finished, to sent of to The European Civilization II site, the Spanish Civilization II site and Das Civilization Universum web sites.
Let's see if they accept it!
If not e-mail me and I can send it to you for evaluation.

Is it to be a Multi-Events scenario?
Not in this version.

I have made a 'King of Hungaria' event and 'Otto ascension' events but as for the deposition of the Popes that is something to appear in a second version.
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A Screenshot
How great-now we can attach a file!

Here is a screenshot from Age of Alexius...in this case I have re-written history by reconquering most of Anatolia (the Franks have occupied Lakania, Ankyra and Sevakena) and northen Syria for the Roman Empire. Manzikert is proving tricky to recapture...I wonder why that can be?
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