Civ4 bts game?

[Krill]

Map sent to Rham and will be hosted soon.

The only issue is you guys all need the mod to access the server and I don't know where the link is.

[Alhazard]

What mod?

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Map sent to Rham and will be hosted soon.

The only issue is you guys all need the mod to access the server and I don't know where the link is.

The Mod contains bugfixes + Pitboss releated improvements and can be found here: https://civ.zulan.net/pb/PB_Mod_v8.zip
I can not host vanilla Civ4:BTS games on our server, but this mod is almost like it.

Please download and extract this mod into [Your Civ4:BTS installation]/Mods/ and made sure that your unzip program does not create an extra folder:
Wrong: Mods/PB_Mod_v8/PB Mod_v8
Correct: Mods/PB Mod_v8

To start Civ4:BTS with this mod you could create a shortcut and add the arguments 'mod= "PB Mod_v8"'. Attention, do not forget the space after '=' or the double quotes
It should look similar to this shortcut (for an other mod.)

To check your mod setup you can join on our test Pitboss server. If you made something wrong it will crash during the login.
pb.zulan.net:2057  (PBSpy overview page)

If the mod works take a look into this post, I've written for PB43. It describes two improvements, which made the live easier. (Both was mainly developed by me and are used in our Pitboss games on civforum.de for years)

[Gavagai]

What mod?

The same BTS with fixed pitboss-related bugs and a couple of minor QL changes, like no diplofreeze on pauses.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

The PB server for this game is now configured and up

The server is reachable over pb.zulan.net:2044
The PBSpy-page can be found on http://civ.zulan.net/pbspy/game/77/#players

The timer for the first round was increased on 200h hours. Use the first round to setup your environment and please check if I had setup your game correctly.

If you try to login without the correct mod, the game will crash. Please read my previous post in this thread and install 'PB Mod_v8'.



I wish you a lot of fun with the game

[GeneralKilCavalry]

On connecting to the server, I got the message that I had a different game version, I am running plain BTS using the 2015 exe and I do have the mod you linked above running. The game did not kick me, and allowed me to select my civ, but I do not want to go any further with connecting for now, since this may be a problem.

[Alhazard]

save problem as KilCavalry

Other problems I found:

Mod doesnt work with OSX.
the 2015exe doesnt work with Amazon download version.
Got it working with Steam in windows 10 so I will live for now.

[Alhazard]

Does everyone have a scout start? I kind of assumed that it would as a RB default and didnt mention in the ruleset.

[Gavagai]

GKC, I believe "different version" message can be ignored as long, as the game allows you to log in. There is a crapton of versions of Civ4 by now.

Al, no mods work under OSX to my knowledge. I am on Mac myself and use Windows installed on a virtual machine all the time.
In respect to scout starts, it is not a rule, it is a feature of RtR mod. And warrior start is a perk of playing basic BTS which was what you specifically wanted to do I suggest us to have a quick vote between three options:

1) Ask Krill to replace all starting warriors with scouts and Ram to rehost the map.
2) Keep playing but introduce a house rule of no wars until T25.
3) Do nothing.

I vote for (2).

[Krill]

Alhazard, you picked Mongolia, Hunting/Wheel. You get a scout start.

Other players that started without Hunting got a warrior. I know I checked this but I could have made a mistake. I advise everyone to log in and check game settings on T0, and issues I can fix and we rehost.