Guys (and dazedroyalty in particular), I've just pulled the dot mapper out of BUG and into its own stand alone mod. I've tested it (a little) but I was hoping that someone here would be interested in banging it around a little more.

At the moment, it is designed to be a totally independent and stand along mod - it may or may not work with other mods depending on what files the other mod modifies. Note that this version doesn't include the nice BUG options so if you actually want to change some of the options (ie brightness), you will need to track that value down in the python code and change it.

Once we are happy that we have a stable version, then someone can run it through the RB Mod Approval process.

This is the thread for game two devolving out from the Armageddon Game. If you would be interested in a new FfH PBEM, please post here.

No real settings decided yet, but would prefer to use the mod (EitB) to get Sareln some more intel. Apart from that, I vote for no other quirkiness.

Iskender- rbiskender at gmail dot com
HidingKneel- hidingkneel at gmail dot com
Mr. Yellow - rbmryellow at gmail dot com
Yell0w- snowboyforkATweb.de
Kyan - peterofindia at gmail dot com

For my mod, see:
http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=5752

Stream link

http://www.twitch.tv/ipllol

Schedule


Friday
10:00 am – 1:50 pm PST / 7:00 pm – 10:50 pm CET: Counter Logic Gaming vs Against All Authority
10:00 am – 1:50 pm PST / 7:00 pm – 10:50 pm CET: Epik vs Curse
2:00 pm – 5:50 pm PST / 11:00 pm – 2:50 am CET: Dignitas vs Mono
2:00 pm – 5:50 pm PST / 11:00 pm – 2:50 am CET: Team SoloMid vs v8
6:00 pm – 9:50 pm PST / 3:00 am – 6:50 am CET: W1 vs W2
6:00 pm – 9:50 pm PST / 3:00 am – 6:50 am CET: W3 vs W4




Saturday
10:00 am – 1:50 pm PST: L1 vs L2
10:00 am – 1:50 pm PST: L3 vs L4
2:00 pm – 5:50 pm PST: L8 vs L5
2:00 pm – 5:50 pm PST: L6 vs L7
6:00 pm – 9:50 pm PST: L9 vs L10
6:00 pm – 9:50 pm PST: Winners Finals




Sunday
10:00 am – 1:50 pm PST: Losers Finals
2:00 pm – 5:50 pm PST: Grand Finals
6:00 pm – 9:50 pm PST: Grand Finals (Extended Series, If Needed)


As I still watch TreeEskimo's stream when he's around I'm interested in seeing how v8 perform in their first tournament as a true team, however they apparentely have a poor record vs TSM in past scrimmages. Epik vs Curse is also a big game to watch to see whether Epik is on the decline and whether Curse will be the newest member of the NA scene's big 4 teams. AaA are the only European team that made it through the qualifiers having fortunately avoided playing a strong NA team on NA servers. They did defeat the CLG eu team on the way and I'd expect them to give CLG (the originals) a good test while ultimately losing out after the laning phase. The other match features Dignitas and Mono. I don't think anyone would expect Mono to take a game from Dignitas, maybe not even a game from anyone else in the tournament as this is their first offline event.

As usual, CLG/Dignitas/TSM are the favourites and you'd expect to see all 3 of them make the top 4 in the tournament, the dark horses are Curse who looked potentially very strong in Hannover and AaA who seem like the European version of Dignitas. Hopefully we'll see Soaz play some legendary lanewick again!

p.s. expect the commentators to be garbage

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015306/The-Art-of-Diablo

Pretty cool presentation on the development of the art aspect of D3 and how they iterated on what they wanted to come to what the game looks like now. They have a nice chapter system so you can skip around to see what you want since the whole thing is an hour long.

If you've seen the cinematic trailer they put out earlier there's nothing spoilerly. You do see 3 different locations, but if you want to avoid that just skip "Developing environments".

Anyone here play? I'm kinda interested in watching how a game plays out, don't know the rules myself but I kinda wanted to try my hand at it after being reminded of the excellent Hikaru no Go anime. Anyway, is anyone decent at go here?

You know how in PBEMs you will sometimes get the popups (e.g. You have constructed a Courthhouse in Thessalonica) of another player? I read in someone's thread recently (unfortunately without remembering which one) the idea that this might be related to saving games in the middle of the turn. It sounded promising so I checked it out, both with a controlled test and by checking the code.

That's totally it! It looks like whenever you save a game mid-turn, if you have open popups, they get saved for every player!

So there's a fairly easy solution to stop the madness (or at least to prevent other people from seeing your popups): Make sure you select builds/techs everywhere before doing any midturn saves. Please try to remember to do this if possible, and please don't use this bug intentionally to be like "Ho ho ho, now I have a Horse Archer".

What are the keyboard shortcuts in 1.41m?

1. I can't use "W" to make a unit wait. It works in the combat screen, but not in the overland view. I have to use the mouse for this command (only), and I prefer using the keyboard as much as possible in MoM.
   
2. I can't use "L" to load the game, instead it selects "Patrol".
   
3. I can't use "ESC" to get out of the Spells screen or the Info screen.
   
4. I can't use auto-turn end. I find this very useful at the beginning of the game when there is not much to do but move your magic spirits around exploring.
   

What I've got in mind so far. Sound off in the comments, most especially civic changes and condensed thoughts from finished games? Also wanting thoughts on what to do with the Wither Promotion, Spirit III, and Shadow III.

EDIT: Pulled in the comments from the first several posts (Bob, Mardoc, Selrahc) Changes from the original are in green.
EDIT: Pulled in more suggestions. Changes from the original are in cyan.
EDIT: Pulled in bugs mentioned elsewhere and universal CIV BTS bugs. Changes from the original are in red.
EDIT: If the item is struck, it means I've added it to the latest build I have. If it's bolded then I've also tested it. When everything is struck and bolded, we get another build!

Balance:

1. [STRIKE]Sidar Wanes @ Lv. 6[/STRIKE]
   
2. [STRIKE]Tsunami Fix (Range 1)[/STRIKE]
   
3. [STRIKE]New Promo: Favored (as Arcane Potency, but only for Disciples).[/STRIKE]
   
4. [STRIKE]Spiritual grants favored and Mob1 (Disciples)[/STRIKE]
   
5. [STRIKE]Arcane grants potency and Mob1 (Arcane)[/STRIKE]
   
6. [STRIKE]Falamar loses Adaptive[/STRIKE]
   
7. [STRIKE]Ljosalfar can build Alchemy Labs[/STRIKE]
   
8. [STRIKE]Svartalfar can build Alchemy Labs[/STRIKE]
   
9. [STRIKE] Conquest reduced to +2XP from +3XP[/STRIKE]
   
10. [STRIKE]Command Post reduced to +2XP from +3XP[/STRIKE]
    
11. Council of Esus Changes (See Post Below)
    
12. [STRIKE] Spirit III Spell gives +50% GPP and cures Enraged[/STRIKE]
    
13. [STRIKE] Shadow III Spell summons a Mistform w/ Marksmen[/STRIKE]
    
14. [STRIKE] Wither Promotion gives -1 Defense along with its other penalties[/STRIKE]
    
15. [STRIKE] Sons of Asena costed the same as standard Axemen[/STRIKE]
    
16. [STRIKE] Javelins somewhat cheaper (30H, quick speed)[/STRIKE]
    
17. [STRIKE] Diseased Corpses do not go Obsolete[/STRIKE]
    
18. [STRIKE] Give Specters Death Affinity, remove fear, str. 3[/STRIKE]
    
19. [STRIKE] Boar Riders (Khazad Horsemen) get +40% v. Mounted[/STRIKE]
    
20. [STRIKE] Horse Archer hammer cost restored to original[/STRIKE]
    
21. [STRIKE] Arturus Thorne set to IND/ORG/ING from FIN/ORG/ING[/STRIKE]
    
22. [STRIKE] Fix Consumption Popup[/STRIKE]
    
23. [STRIKE] Fix Basium to properly apply immortal only some of the time[/STRIKE]
    
24. [STRIKE] Fix 7 Pines (Likely Python Broken)[/STRIKE] WAD
    
25. [STRIKE]Change Arcane Lacuna to not require any improved nodes (+0 XP but still block casting)[/STRIKE]
    

1. [STRIKE] Adaptive does not remove earned traits[/STRIKE] Only works for case: (Illian Aggressive). Where else can you earn traits that might be removed by Adaptive?
   
2. [STRIKE] Insane does not clear Civilization traits (Perpentachian Kuriotates)[/STRIKE]
   
3. [STRIKE] Change Cassiel's religion weightings so he can adopt a religion if not agnostic.[/STRIKE]
   
4. [STRIKE] Sheelba loses BAR[/STRIKE]
   
5. [STRIKE] Jonas loses BAR[/STRIKE]
   
6. [STRIKE] Clan of Embers gains BAR as CivTrait[/STRIKE]
   
7. [STRIKE] Game Option for Basium to spawn as a human player (Off by default)[/STRIKE]
   
8. [STRIKE] Game Option for Hyborem to spawn as a human player (Off by default)[/STRIKE]
   
9. Tholal's v1.8 or 1.9 if I can find it. He's up to 2.1 right now but it adds some functionality which I don't want to worry about (revolutions, puppet states, BUG, etc.)
   
10. [STRIKE] Traderoute Bug Fix[/STRIKE]
    
11. Production Automation Bug Fix
    
12. Build Culture Bug Fix
    
13. Multiple Techs from Oracle/Tower of Divination Bug Fix
    
14. Reach for the City Capture Culture Conundrum Let's hold off on this one for now.
    

I have a Civ V adventure I could post. Is anyone interested? Yes, I think it has genuinely become a good game at this point (though not as great as Civ IV, different enough to be worth playing too) with the sole exception of some bannable AI abuse. And if we're to be fair, Civ IV has some serious problems with AI abuse too.

If people are interested, there is one setting I want an opinion on: Quick or Normal speed? Normal has been traditional for adventures but nevertheless I heavily favor Quick.