Yes, the beta is finally up and running, well sort of.
I am using Paul's modswapper program, and I am having some difficulty with the terrain features. Certain terrain features are screwed up, and I don't know why. Most, but not all, of the deep water type has a ring of colors around it, like you get when you mis-match terrains, like putting deep water next to land. Also, sometimes shallow water shows up using the hills graphics. The worldmap colors are also screwed up.
I have not even altered any of the map files, and the game should be using the same ones it does for the regular game. And no, this problem does not show up when I switch back to the standard files.

Any ideas here?

Aghh, I can't stand it.

Urgently waiting your mod, Wes. I can wait for cities to become evolving problems, not the army-factories they are now.

I have run into some more problems with the beta, due to the new file naming system and the modswapper. I have been working with Paul on the problem, but I need to get help from Wouter as well, and he is not online tonight.
I have the modswapper up on my site, but I will take it down, since Paul is going to have to make another version of it. When it finally is working correctly, everyone will have to use it as well. Once the problems are worked out, I think everyone will want to use it for their mods, so it's not like it is just for the Med mod.

When we play your mod, do we HAVE to use the new units, or can we play with the original units?

I just looked over at your site and noticed Beta 1.0 has maybe been posted. I went to download the modswapper but I get the error message "file does not exist"

There is a syntax error in this trigger. It needs to be fixed, or else the mod will not work properly. I have done all that I know to do, and cannot find the problem.

// at turn 125, turn off start strategies
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'MM2_TurnOffStartStrategies' post {
if (g.year == 125) {
SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(player[0].leaderperonality));
}
}

If the bug cannot be found, I will have to change all kinds of things in the mod, and it will never work like it should.

I have been having some mis-communication with people lately, or else my email is not working properly once again. Anyway, I have not heard back from the people I emailed yesterday regarding the last pieces of the mod. I am going to wait another day and see if I can't get in touch with them somehow. I also need this trigger corrected.

This is a long, laim shot. Hope it helps.

SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(STRATEGY_DEFAULT));

or set a variable to the DB index and reference it that way (see the PW mod):

dbindex = StrategyDB(STRATEGY_DEFAULT);
SetStrategicState(player[0], dbindex);

> // at turn 125, turn off start strategies
> HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'MM2_TurnOffStartStrategies' post {
> if (g.year == 125) {
> SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(player[0].leaderperonality));
> }
> }

I suppose that "leaderperonality" is not a correct word. How about "leaderpersonality" see the "s" I hope this was the reason of the error and we will now finally get the beta out

That just leaves the texts.
Dale, I have a feeling that you are right about the trigger. The code is so simple for it, something like a non-working variable would seem to be the most likely cause for the error.
One thing I noticed is that the error messages kept popping up for each line in the trigger. Don't know if this means anything.

Right now, I need to go to bed. When I get up, I will tackle the problem of how best to deal with the absence of the trigger. Once I get that figured out, and make some other miscellaneous changes, I will post the texts and we will be on our way. This will probably be tonight, Apolyton time.

If it makes any of you feel any better, I am still finding glitches in the files, so if I had posted the mod sooner, you would have had to go right back and get the texts again. Once it is up, expect FREQUENT updates, espcially in the first few days. This mod is just so enormous. I have gone over most everything at least once, but I am sure there are little things out there I missed.

I didn't have time to look into this until right now (and even now I should be doing something else), so that's why you didn't hear from me before. When I gave you that trigger I told you it was completely untested and quite possible that it wouldn't work at all, I never intended it for you to include in your mod as if it was fully tested and functioning. As Dale suggests and as I feared when I warned you about the code not working, the leaderpersonality thing doesn't return what I assumed it would (i.e. a number representing the location of the personality in the strategy files). Too bad since there's a similar variable for goverment type and that does seem to work that way. Anyway, you can still get the code to work, only it will be slightly more complex. It involves testing if a player is of a certain nation and changing the personalitytype to that nation's personalitytype (assuming every nation can only have 1 personality, so no random stuff allowed/possible, at least not in this version).

I think that once you completed the code for all nations (and corrected it, I just made this example below up as as went without checking the files) it should work, though I'd still test it a little before releasing it if I were you: maybe the whole principle of changing strategies is flawed altogether in the first place. As I said, I haven't tested this code at all. If you test this you might want to (temporarily) make the start-strategies radically different from the regular ones so you can easily see if the AIs actually change strategy (e.g. don't allow the AIs to build units in the start strategies and make them build nothing but units in the regular strategies).

The code:

code:

---

// at turn 125, turn off start strategies
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'MM2_TurnOffStartStrategies' post {
	if (g.year == 125) {
		if (PlayerCivilization(g.player) == CivilizationIndex("AMERICANS")) {
			SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(STRATEGY_SCIENIST_DEFAULT));
		} elseif (PlayerCivilization(g.player) == CivilizationIndex("GERMAN")) {
			SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(STRATEGY_MILITARIST_DEFAULT));
		} elseif (PlayerCivilization(g.player) == CivilizationIndex("DUTCH")) {
			SetStrategicState(player[0], StrategyDB(STRATEGY_ECONOMIC_DEFAULT));
		}
	}
}

---

But, and this is the more important point, a strategy like Strategy_Militarist_Default is the strategy that's loaded by default anyway: it's not going to over-ride your modified start strategies. The thing is that although you can change a personality strategy using SetStrategicState, I can't see how to do the same thing with the other base strategies: the start, defense, etc. strategies. Can anyone? (This might be trivial.)

Also, I wanted the AIs to keep a war setting for the start of the game because of Barbarians, then go to alert status when at peace for the default strategy.

You know, it was Richard who said that the start strategies stay active for the entire game. Looking at the original strategies.txt, the settings there don't make sense if they over-ride the default strategies for the entire game.
I wonder if Richard gave the worng impression with his statement, or if the strategies only remain active under certain conditions.

I am going to leave the settings as they are. It will be easy to tell if they stay in effect the entire game, since the AIs will stay at the war readiness level at all times, and will only build one special attack unit.

// when strategies are first computed, change to our scenario strategy
HandleEvent(InitStrategicState) 'ND_InitStrategicState' post {
int_t strategyindex;
strategyindex = StrategyDB(STRATEGY_ND_SCENARIO_DEFAULT);

if(IsPlayerAlive(player[0])) {
ConsiderStrategicState(player[0], 9999, strategyindex,-1,-1,-1);
ComputeCurrentStrategy(player[0]);
}
}

// every time strategies are computed, consider our scenario strategy
HandleEvent(NextStrategicState) 'ND_NextStrategicState' pre {
int_t strategyindex;
strategyindex = StrategyDB(STRATEGY_ND_SCENARIO_DEFAULT);

if(IsPlayerAlive(player[0])) {
ConsiderStrategicState(player[0], 9999, strategyindex,-1,-1,-1);
}
}

I have bug to report. I attempted to email this to you but, it was returned with an "undeliverable" message. So here goes: When I established my first city, set my building cue, and clicked the "turn over" button I got the following error: "In object DIP_MainRoutine, function_ConsiderNewProposal: Wrong type of arguement".

quote: Originally posted by ssoszka on 03-08-2001 03:23 AM Wes, I have bug to report. I attempted to email this to you but, it was returned with an "undeliverable" message. So here goes: When I established my first city, set my building cue, and clicked the "turn over" button I got the following error: "In object DIP_MainRoutine, function_ConsiderNewProposal: Wrong type of arguement". I noticed a 3/8/01 diplomatic update but got an error404, no file found error. I assume you are working on the problem. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

All please note: this error discussion has been taken to the "Diplomacy Mod" thread.