@schulz Here is a possible unit image for Wassmuss of Persia:
wilhelm_wassmuss.png
Similarly to Lawrence of Arabia, he would give a bonus to allied units with him. Whereas Lawrence of Arabia would be in Hejaz fighting the Ottomans, Lawrence of Arabia would be in Persia fighting the British. I would picture them both having a small entourage of troops with them as they rarely operated alone.

Also, I do not know how others create maps, but for this latest map I used Photoshop CS2. I cropped a world map to get an image of Europe and an image of America, then placed them closer together. I then traced over them and colored in the water. For detailed territories I looked up regional maps of each area and if the territories were too small I would combine two or more together so that I could fit units in them.

One thing you have to be careful with is that the lines must be completely black and there can be no gaps, otherwise TripleA won't register the territories properly. This gets particularly hard to do with large maps.

For this game, I have been thinking of doing a 1914 start date and that other countries will gradually join the war. Forts will be a new unit like bunkers in other games.

Marne.PNG
I have done some AI games and it looks like if there are forts on the French-German border, the German AI will turn away to avoid them and instead attack through Belgium, which is close to what happened historically.

@umesh ai i'd say any of the v3 variations, 1914 no mans land, nwo or v3. versus human i'd say TWW

FWIW, a very sizeable chunk of the memory footprint and memory pressure comes from rendering the minimap. The minimap is rendered by drawing the entire map at full scale and then shrinking it down. The more detailed the territory images, the more memory that this will consume. Physically larger images can allow for greater detail, but not necessarily. Hence a large map where all the territories are a single color will require less memory than a small map where the territory images have lots of detail.

@schulz i think you're gonna have to do a better job with the resizing

I am changing battleships to be unbuildable and 1-hit. I thought that this would lead to a lot of battleships being destroyed too quickly, but after a few playthroughs with the AI it seems like I was wrong.

So I am starting to examine AI suitability for some randomly picked scenarios.

Great Lakes War All these scenario are fine for AI

Great War The only problem for the AI is the odd blockages for the US. This is an old scenario before events were introduced into TripleA. The large numbers of units and sprawaling map also slow the game. The actual units are straight-forward and the game can be played with Fast AI. Combat movement is before purchase.

@zlefin just make sure you aren't reusing other people's IP. 🙂

@rogercooper

It has some understanding, but not a complete understanding; from what I've been able to tell. It does, at least partly, recognize the movement bonuses units will get in terms of avoiding counterattacks, though I'm not sure it does so fully.

In terms of strategic bombing, I'm not sure to what extent it specifically targets harbors/airfields that are relevant right now, vs simply targetting anything in the area that's raidable that it's not already invading. (and of course bombers often have regular combats worth doing as well).

It does not seem to preferentially move units on/next to harbors/airfields so as to get the movement bonus.

I was trying out Global recently, and some of the moves quite clearly showed the ai not 'getting' the impacts of those bases.

@lafayette said in 270BC Wars - Official Thread:

@Cernel why is there a '+' folder in the map? Seemingly it's making the download size quite a bit larger than it needs to be.

The "270bc" map has several such useless items too. The main difference is that I group them externally, leaving inside the "map" folder nothing but what is or may be used by the program.

Completely useless items of 270bc (I would keep without the "map" folder):
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/misc/Legend.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/territoryNames/Saria.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/territoryNames/Heraclea.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/RomanRepublic_unit_development.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/archer_hepps.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/archer_with_marker_at_55pt.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/ballista_with_marker_at_55pt.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/hoplite_with_marker_at_55pt.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/legionaire_hepps.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/warelephant_hepps.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/alt/warelephant_hepps_hit.png
https://github.com/triplea-maps/270bc/blob/master/map/units/Neutral/longboat.png

Other maps have a lot more useless items than this one.

@schulz Hej Schulz, you asked me to use Soundfiles I made/ adapted for the recently released WW2 Oil & Snow project, which is fine, ( except the intro tune , I prefer to keep that unique ) nice to see another 1941 map and I like your ingredients...

I also like a lot this map, but when trying to game it people said it has many problems and bugs. Could be great if can be fixing as a normal map... Thanks forwardly

@wc_sumpton right on thanks again. I'll give it a go

You need to name it Chinese instead China for the easiest way to bring China.

Then copy the XML and give a different name. Then examine the XML. It is not complicated.

Many scenarios have no victory condition defined.

Moved to Maps & Mods.

Oops, I think I spoke in ignorance here. I didn't realize that there are two editions of "Spring 1942". I apparently own the 1st edition. The 2nd edition does indeed appear to be "World War II v5"

Upkeep is possible to implement, the important one is finding good upkeep/cost ratio and in my experiences with upkeep, it works best with 5%-10%. For example infantry cost is 2 and 0.1 upkeep (5%) would work perfectly. But armour upkeep should be definitely higher than 5% but still should not be higher than 10%.

Yes, draw means nobody wins and nobody lose pretty much same with chess. Because of the cumulative aspects of games, the loser side really cannot turn the tide of the war and the fate of the games always seales in the middle of games and just there should have been draw option that gives a good reason the loser side to continue.

@alkexr I was trying to make upkeep as visible source in the purchase screen in my map like that but couldn't find a way because its not a resource. I am using <option name="createsResourcesList" value="-x:PUs"/> tag to represent upkeep.

Wondering is turning into supply like this system the onyl way to make is visible?