PBEM2 - Email and Technical Issues

[Krill]

Save won't load, it says the "file is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed". And then CIV just CTDs.

T-hawk, did you have Locked modified assets ticked when you created the game?

[Krill]

Also, comment on difficulty:

Once the worldbuilder file has been created (after the balance stuff etc), open the WBS as a text file, and alter the difficulty for every player to monarch. Otherwise, I think player 1 is on the difficulty set, and everyone else is still on Noble. We may need a new save creating if this is the case...

Thanks for your help T-hawk

[Yazilliclick]

Ruff, on pbemtracker currently both dreylin and myself are in the 4th turn order spot.

[T-hawk]

I did not have "Lock Modified Assets", does it need so? Does it work if you manually load the NoScoreV2 mod first?

Oh, and I used the wrong turn order. I went by Krill's PM, not noticing that there was a newer update in this thread, with darrell first. Argh, what's the best way to fix that? I think the civs are locked in to their positions (France is player 0, etc), can this be fixed with worldbuilder text editing?

Difficulty at least isn't a problem - on the PBEM start screen, there's boxes to select the difficulty for each player, and I put them all on Monarch.

[Ruff_Hi]

We had similar turn order issue with pbem #1. Best solution is to edit WB text file and manually change player 0 to player 'n'. You can swap the starting position too but not absolutely required.

T-Hawk needs to start pbem game with selected mod loaded. Each player needs to have exactly the same mod installed. Clicking on save will auto load the mod.

I will start a test pbem game and send everyone (including T-Hawk) a copy to test if we have mod issues.

@T-Hawk ... email?

Edit: re WB save ... the three parts you need to move shown below.

If you are swapping team '0' with team '4' then what I usually do is ...

global change 'TeamID=0' to 'TeamID=%%%'
global change 'TeamID=4' to 'TeamID=0'
global change 'TeamID=%%%' to 'TeamID=4'

and then repeat for ...

ContactWithTeam=0
Team=0
UnitOwner=0
TeamReveal=0

Code:

BeginTeam
    [color=Red]TeamID=0[/color]
    Tech=TECH_THE_WHEEL
    Tech=TECH_AGRICULTURE
    [COLOR="Red"]ContactWithTeam=0
    RevealMap=0[/COLOR]
EndTeam

Code:

BeginPlayer
    [color=Red]Team=0[/color]
    LeaderType=LEADER_GILGAMESH
    LeaderName=Gillie
    CivDesc=TXT_KEY_CIV_SUMERIA_DESC
    CivShortDesc=TXT_KEY_CIV_SUMERIA_SHORT_DESC
    CivAdjective=TXT_KEY_CIV_SUMERIA_ADJECTIVE
    FlagDecal=Art/Interface/TeamColor/FlagDECAL_Sumeria.dds
    WhiteFlag=0
    CivType=CIVILIZATION_SUMERIA
    Color=PLAYERCOLOR_DARK_INDIGO
    ArtStyle=ARTSTYLE_MIDDLE_EAST
    PlayableCiv=1
    MinorNationStatus=0
    StartingGold=0
    StartingX=17, StartingY=5
    StateReligion=
    StartingEra=ERA_ANCIENT
    RandomStartLocation=false
    CivicOption=CIVICOPTION_GOVERNMENT, Civic=CIVIC_DESPOTISM
    CivicOption=CIVICOPTION_LEGAL, Civic=CIVIC_BARBARISM
    CivicOption=CIVICOPTION_LABOR, Civic=CIVIC_TRIBALISM
    CivicOption=CIVICOPTION_ECONOMY, Civic=CIVIC_DECENTRALIZATION
    CivicOption=CIVICOPTION_RELIGION, Civic=CIVIC_PAGANISM
    Handicap=HANDICAP_PRINCE
EndPlayer

Code:

BeginPlot
    x=4,y=15
    TerrainType=TERRAIN_GRASS
    PlotType=1
    BeginUnit
        UnitType=UNIT_SCOUT,[color=Red] UnitOwner=10[/color]
        Damage=0
        Level=1, Experience=0
        FacingDirection=4
        UnitAIType=UNITAI_EXPLORE
    EndUnit
    BeginUnit
        UnitType=UNIT_SETTLER, [color=Red]UnitOwner=10[/color]
        Damage=0
        Level=1, Experience=0
        FacingDirection=4
        UnitAIType=UNITAI_SETTLE
    EndUnit
[COLOR="Red"]    TeamReveal=10,
[/COLOR]EndPlot

[T-hawk]

It didn't seem to like the search-and-replace approach. On the startup screen, team 0 was listed third, but still went first.

I moved around the blocks of text within the WB save (everything within TeamId=0 to TeamId=1 instead, etc) and that seemed to work. For tile reveals, I just removed all TeamReveal lines (via a regexp search/replace) since the tiles get auto revealed anyway in game.

This seemed to work, I clicked through a turn cycle and the civs went in order, America (darrell) - France (Krill) - Native America (SquareLeg).

I didn't set "Lock Modified Assets". The mouseover help says that is for single player only, and that it sets a random admin password, which I don't think we want.

Darrell, you have not posted an email address, please do so I can send the save (or email me erik@dos486.com and I'll reply)

[Square Leg]

I know nothing about this side of Civ so for sorting it out!

for post 100!

[darrelljs]

I know nothing about this side of Civ so for sorting it out!

Ditto!

Darrell

[Ruff_Hi]

It didn't seem to like the search-and-replace approach. On the startup screen, team 0 was listed third, but still went first.

No, it always goes team 0, 1, 2, etc. There is an internal loop that drives it that way.

I moved around the blocks of text within the WB save (everything within TeamId=0 to TeamId=1 instead, etc) and that seemed to work. For tile reveals, I just removed all TeamReveal lines (via a regexp search/replace) since the tiles get auto revealed anyway in game.

Fine - that should work. Everyone please check that you have the right starting techs and units when you get the save.

This seemed to work, I clicked through a turn cycle and the civs went in order, America (darrell) - France (Krill) - Native America (SquareLeg).

Great - thx for that. How many grassland hill golds do I have at my start?

I didn't set "Lock Modified Assets". The mouseover help says that is for single player only, and that it sets a random admin password, which I don't think we want.

No - don't need LMA. In SP games, they force the game to disable various things (WB for one) and skip any code in CustomAssets. MP games do this by default.

[T-hawk]

Darrell, an email please?