Real-Time Game Tweaker

[Seravy]

"I tried loading the 2.9 version of the tweaker but the program just gives me an error saying that it cannot find or load the qt platform plugin "windows"?"

I'm still having this problem too.

[I like Serena]

Ah. So you're not interested in MoM-1.1 spell selection functionality - you just want a more user friendly way to select spells?

Kind of, but the way i understood it, the spell picker would let you do both right?

That's not how it works now.
The dialog enforces a specific small number of spells and won't do anything until it matches.
Then it randomly selects the remaining spell picks.

But I get your point. I can reuse the dialogs for a user friendly way to change the spell selections, such that all dependencies are automatically updated.
I believe that is: research candidates, currently researched spell, and currently cast spell.
I guess it also means aborting research and/or casting if applicable.

I've created ticket 36 to keep track of it.

Upkeep : From what Seravy said, it seems the upkeep refers to mana upkeep because gold upkeep is hardcoded to be a % base of the unit cost.

Tweaker is designed to work with 1.31 and with all versions of Insecticide.
I'm afraid it's not designed to work with Seravy's mod (yet).
Actually, the upkeep is the amount of gold for regular units and the amount of mana for phantastic units.

I tried loading the 2.9 version of the tweaker but the program just gives me an error saying that it cannot find or load the qt platform plugin "windows"?

I'm still having this problem too.

Fixed.
Please download again.

Level bonus table : Does this apply to normal units or heroes? As i understand it, heroes use a different table...in the level column, canc i just use numbers or do i need to enter the level names exactly as they are in game? (like Elite, etc)?

The leftmost column contains 'Hero 1' to 'Hero 9' respectively 'Unit 1' to 'Unit 6'.
If you don't see those, please take a look at the new Tweaker.
I fixed an issue around that.

[I like Serena]

Okay, let's see

[-6008h] Willingness to listen to treaty proposals
[-5FF0h] Willingness to listen to spell exchange proposals
[-5FFCh] Willingness to...I don't know yet. It moves a very similar way than the other two.

Tracking it in ticket 37.

[Seravy]

Tweaker is designed to work with 1.31 and with all versions of Insecticide.
I'm afraid it's not designed to work with Seravy's mod (yet).
Actually, the upkeep is the amount of gold for regular units and the amount of mana for phantastic units.

You're wrong, this is the other way around.

1.31 and Insecticide ignores the value in the gold upkeep field for normal units. Or to be more precise, overwrites it with [cost/50] at the time of loading the game so whatever was originally there has no effect.

Currently the only mod where the upkeep field does have any effect on normal units is mine.

Meanwhile I figured this one out :
[-5FFCh] Willingness to offer a Peace Treaty

[I like Serena]

1.31 and Insecticide ignores the value in the gold upkeep field for normal units. Or to be more precise, overwrites it with [cost/50] at the time of loading the game so whatever was originally there has no effect.

Ah okay.
So if you load wizards.exe, the tweaker will show values that will be overwritten when starting the game.
But in a connected game the values show up properly and can be changed to effect - they just won't be permanent.

[Seravy]

1.31 and Insecticide ignores the value in the gold upkeep field for normal units. Or to be more precise, overwrites it with [cost/50] at the time of loading the game so whatever was originally there has no effect.

Ah okay.
So if you load wizards.exe, the tweaker will show values that will be overwritten when starting the game.
But in a connected game the values show up properly and can be changed to effect - they just won't be permanent.

Yes, I think so. "when the game is loaded" isn't accurate though, just a guess. There are two procedures that do this and I didn't check when they were called. It might even happen repeatedly during the game.

[Seravy]

I think I'm finally done with analyzing all diplomacy related code, or at least the interesting parts.

[-5FCC] : AI Diplomatic action to take
[-5FD8] : AI Diplomatic action strength
[-5F0C] : 3rd party wizard name referenced in AI diplomatic action
[-5FBA] : City ID for town referenced in diplomatic action, if any
[-5FC6] : Spell ID referenced in diplomatic action, if any
[-5F96] : Grudge over broken treaties (aka Hidden Relation Modifier)
[-6008] : Willingness to consider or offer Treaties.
[-5FF0] : Willingness to trade spells
[-5FFC] : Willingness to offer peace
[-5C98] : Military aggression level (Hostility)
[-5C8C] : Military aggression reevaluation timer (number of turns). Maybe rename this "Hostility Timer?"
[-5FA8] : Last violated treaty
[-5EE8] : Grudge counter (while nonzero, the AI will repeat demands instead of clearing 5FCC I believe)
[-5FAE] : Initial Contact made (0 no contact, 1 contact made but not introduced yet, 2 already introduced)
[-5EE2] : Number of consecutive warnings given for being near town
[-5DD6] : Total Population in towns controlled/10000. (not astrologer total power even though I also expected that)

Some of these are only valid for the player, or only for the AI. Don't remember if any of them are word arrays or all bytes. 5FD8 is word though, it is set to 10000 in some cases.
List includes some you already added.

Also, new version works, and it's awesome, everything has icons!

Oh, by the way.
In unit tables, my mod uses "zero19" for "AI producing priority" if you decide to support it. Would be nice if it showed up in the table format. I'd like to see the entire table somewhere to check the game does not overwrite this value or use it for anything else.

[-5FCC] values mean the AI will perform this action at end of turn towards the player :

2 – Offer gold reward for attacking enemy
3 – Saying thanks for a city buff?
4 - ? they were angry
5- Breaking a Treaty
6 – Thanking an attack on enemy
7- Warning for being too powerful, or defeating another
8 – Warning for attacking troops
9 – Attacked a town
A – Spell of Mastery warning
B – Warning for summon of powerful unit
C – Ask for removal of global enchantment
D – Casting a city curse
E – Warning for overextension (too much towns)
F-14 – Introduction
15 – Broken Wizard's Pact reaction
16 – Troops on border warning
17 - “too agressive” warning if treaty
18 – Attacked town despite Alliance warning
19 - “Cannot maintain a treaty while you cast SoM”
1A – Summoning of X endangers treaty
1B – Dispel X or I will need to break treaty
1C – Dispel X on town of I'll break treaty.
1D – Warning for overextension if treaty
1E – Treaty broken by AI (0/0)
1F – Troops on border Treaty Broken
20 – Treaty broken to attack
21 – Attack on town treaty broken
22- Spell of Mastery treaty broken
23 – Summoning X treaty broken
24 – Overland enchantment treaty broken
25 – City curse treaty broken
26 – Overextension treaty broken
27 – War Declared by AI on negative relation
28 – War Declared by AI ?type
29 – War declared by AI on positive relation
2A – Greeting, used before requesting a treaty
2B – Greeting, “unhappy”, short audience
2C – Forced end of audience.
2D – Request a Wizard's Pact
2E – Request an Alliance
2F – Request breaking Alliance
30 – Request a spell trade
31 – Request peace treaty
32 – Request peace treaty and offer gold
33 – Accepting player's Wizard Pact proposal
34 – Accepting player's Alliance proposal
35 – Accepting player's Peace Treaty

[Question]

Thanks, i can load 2.9 now, i noticed the text size got a lot smaller though, making it harder to read. Was there a particular reason for that change?

The map option doesn't seem to work sadly, it just displays a lot of pink checkboxes and then crashes if i try clicking on any of them.

[I like Serena]

I think I'm finally done with analyzing all diplomacy related code, or at least the interesting parts.

I'm in the process of adding all that information.
For the record, I still see plenty of 6-byte arrays and 6-word arrays that are referenced, but as yet undefined. J

Thanks, i can load 2.9 now, i noticed the text size got a lot smaller though, making it harder to read. Was there a particular reason for that change?

The map option doesn't seem to work sadly, it just displays a lot of pink checkboxes and then crashes if i try clicking on any of them.

I've been fighting with my upgrade to the newest tooling (Qt5 with VS2010) on Windows 7.
I decreased the font size because it was suddenly way too big.
Now it appears that on your screen it's too small?!
Could you provide a screenshot please?
Which platform do you have?

As for the map option, it works fine for me.
Can you clarify?
Did you connect to a game, or load a .exe, or a .gam file?
Was it Caster of Magic, Insecticide 1.40n, or Vanilla?
Can you perhaps show a screen shot?
Anything else about what and when it happens?

Oh, and last but not least, can you provide the cout_cerr.log file that is created in the same directory as the tweaker?

[Seravy]

Thanks, i can load 2.9 now, i noticed the text size got a lot smaller though, making it harder to read. Was there a particular reason for that change?

The map option doesn't seem to work sadly, it just displays a lot of pink checkboxes and then crashes if i try clicking on any of them.

I've been fighting with my upgrade to the newest tooling (Qt5 with VS2010) on Windows 7.
I decreased the font size because it was suddenly way too big.
Now it appears that on your screen it's too small?!
Could you provide a screenshot please?

As for the map option, it works fine for me.
Can you clarify?
Did you connect to a game, or load a .exe, or a .gam file?
Was it Caster of Magic, Insecticide 1.40n, or Vanilla?
Can you perhaps show a screen shot?
Anything else about what and when it happens?

It does look smaller to me too but not significantly. I can read it fine and the more information visible on screen at the same time, the better.