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  How To Add Maps To TripleA Downloads
  • redrum

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  @roiex Make the website refer to the forum if people think they found a potential game bug sounds like a good plan. The forum allready has a category (Help and Questions) that aims to discuss bugs and let people ask for game support. This would require someone to change the instructions at the website's "Help & Rules" - "Submitting Bug Reports". Is @theredbaron still the wizard and master of the website? Advanced users and veterans could of course always bend the rules a bit and chose to post their bug reports directly at GitHub, I can't imagine any trouble with that.
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  Short Attachment Names
  • RoiEX

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  @roiex That seems acceptable for me.
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  Map Making Reference Guide (POS2 XML)
  • redrum

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  Updated POS2 XML description to not refer to SourceForge anymore: https://github.com/triplea-maps/the_pact_of_steel/pull/5
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  Air battles not working
  • Elreigh

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  @elreigh My guess is you were editing/loading the wrong XML or something :) I think most maps set air defense and defense to the same value so there could be a bug there. I'll have to take a look.
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  [bug?] destroyedWhenCapturedFrom does not destroy infrastructure when territory is returned to allies during a capital liberation
  • Elreigh

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  @elreigh Yes, without seeing the actual XML this is just a guess... but by what you described.... the game is trying to create and then subsequently render the image for an "Allied" Arcadia Motor Pool. The game is attempting to change the "Arcadia Motor Pool" into a unit of the Ally, but since the unit is designed as a national specific unit... it is trying to capture the unit as it is defined. This is not really a bug. I think it is just how you have designed the units. I have come across the same thing while designing. The other thing that is causing the conflict is that as Allies the game does not view the changing of the territory when the Capital is liberated as a "Capture" strictly speaking. Would really have to see your XML to figure it out.
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  Improving AI without improving AI code
  • Mahks

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  @mahks Here is a pretty good list of things it doesn't handle now: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/105/ai-development-discussion-and-feedback The further from traditional A&A features you use generally the AI will perform more poorly as most of them it doesn't understand.
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  flag image file ext
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  In regards to a new UI and videos, it might also be nice to be able to embed YouTube video into the notes or notifications. Perhaps this could be useful for examples, tutorials, map intros and stuff 🤔
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  capturing munitions from an enemy
  • Elreigh

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  @elreigh Yeah. I'd recommend checking out Total World War XML as it already does some similar things for making air transports isInfra true then false.
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  "createsUnitsList" Placement Logic
  • theredbaron

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  @theredbaron Yep, that's the general approach I like to take as otherwise I end up spending time making changes that might never get used :) But it should be relatively easy to replace the existing logic with something a bit less random.
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  Trigger not triggering?
  • Elreigh

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  @elreigh Best guess 'Sea Zone' ownership. Water territories do not have ownership, give 'SZ Sea of Japan' an 'originalOwner' option in its 'territoryAttachment' and use 'alliedPresenceTerritories' in the trigger. Also check the property: <property name="Use Triggers" value="true" editable="false"> <boolean/> </property> Hope this helps Cheers...
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  Selectable alliances?
  • Mahks

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  @general_zod That sounds like it is the answer, thanks! Will investigate...
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  I need help for to fix the error
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  Transport Casualties Restricted only applies to sea units?
  • Mahks

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  Ok, Thanks, will add a feature request...
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  is requiresUnits still a valid property?
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  @general_zod Hmmm, faulty search on my part. Found the section "propertyList" as you predicted, Thanks!
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  Block unit placement on contested territory
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  Yeah, Age of Tribes and Civil War are the most popular maps I know that have limited battle rounds. So they are probably the best references.
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  Map Making Error
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  Probably not the best place for this as i'm sure it's addressed somewhere but if you have: <info name="Global 40 House Rules with Canada" version="1.2.1.a/> instead of: <info name="Global 40 House Rules with Canada" version="1.2.1.1"/> it won't show up in the "select map" section when triplea is on. Just thought I'd I share since it took me 24 hours to figure it out : ) Please move to appropriate place or delete : )
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  1939 game using Global 1940 setup
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  @seancb sounds good as redrum says, need more info : ) Rock on heppster image
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  changing where excess units display
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  @beelee The manual placement picker is very cumbersome to work with. But on bright side your only doing switzerland. Good luck. :)
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  Map Making Reference Guide (POS2 XML) - Suggestions & Discoveries Corner
  • General_Zod

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  A discovery that should be at minimum updated in POS2.xml. Or fixed. Involves description for "attackAAmaxDieSides" and by extension "offensiveAttackAAmaxDieSides", "offensiveAttackAA" and "offensiveAttackAAmaxDieSides". Below is the excerpt from POS2.xml "attackAA" values: the value that an isAA unit will attack at, for shooting at air units before battle "attackAAmaxDieSides" values: sets the dice sides for aa guns. defaults to whatever you chose above in diceSides or 6 if you did not choose. All units with the same typeAA must have the same dice sides. Be Warned that all aa attack values (including with Radar and without Radar), MUST divide into attackAAmaxDieSides without remainders, or else there WILL be errors in LowLuck! "offensiveAttackAA" values: same as attackAA but for offensive side "offensiveAttackAAmaxDieSides" values: same as attackAAmaxDieSides but for offensive side I discovered that, "attackAAmaxDieSides" must be divisible by "attackAA" without any remainders for LL and for dice. This results in very limited functional choices for "attackAA" values. eg. If using a d12, the only truly functional values are 1/12=8.3%, 2/12=16.6%, 3/12=25%, 4/12=33.3%, 6/12=50%, 12/12=100%. Since nothing else divides without remainders, effectively 50% to hit, is the highest practical value that can be used for LL or dice. If someone wants to confirm it. Use dice and pay attention to actual rolls and their hits. I did this a while back so I'm only 99% sure, since going from memory and a note that I made then.
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  RulesAttachment vs TriggerAttachment
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  @redrum Only Veqryn could really tell, but, to be clear, I think that objectives are like the simple support options and triggers are like the complete support attachments.