@kindwind Efforts You seem to have in mind using a neural net style AI to play TripleA. I suspect that this we actually be quite difficult given the huge number of possible board positions.You might be better off using a very small mod like Minimap even without a large record of games to train it. TripleA's own AI can be used for training.

@lafayette thank you for your help. Its very much appreciated.

@ubernaut yeah, redoing MARTI would potentially save us $10/month on costs as well. I think redoing the bots with 'network relay' might be higher up on the list. That will save a ton of code, create an effective infinite number of bots, and save us maybe like $25/month. The 'network relay' will be an update where the bots will just be responsible for only forwarding network packets. Today, a bot is basically an entire player but is made somewhat invisible. We are bounded by the amount of RAM on a host for how many bots we can host. If bots are just sending network packets, they'll take up very little RAM. We'll only be bounded by network traffic. We could theoretically run dozens of bots per host instead just 3 to 5. This should cut our bot host count down from the current 6 or 8 today to maybe 2. I think there might be some quick wins with the server's as well. AT least for me, I might be inclined to do a quick ELO system before redoing MARTI.

@rogercooper Not yet. I'm thinking to bump the version number to '2.8' when all of these updates are ready. The '2.8' release announcement will be when it is ready. These backend changes are most of what we are waiting for.

@beelee I will give it a shot seeing if I can finally figure out how to post screenshots. If so, I can complete the game report

@beelee great help, thanks again

@beelee thanks for this hint too. I'll try both of them, but one at the time.

@rogercooper Thanks for the encouragement! I was able to mod it this AM. Appreciate it

@djabwana You can restrict the movement of units by step and switch them on & off, between steps, not just by turn as in 1888A Steam & Steel eg (I have not played your game, so this will probably be wrong) turn off all movement for none Battleships/Cruisers, Heavy Artillery, and Railguns step Move Battleships/Cruisers, Heavy Artillery, and Railguns turn on all movement for none Battleships/Cruisers, Heavy Artillery, and Railguns Search go winter in the xml and apply the principles to different step phases of a turn https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4056/1888a-steam-steel-official-thread Here is an overview, there are a lot of components, you will not them all Winter Search go winter in the xml to see the components that make up how to use terrain effects and a dummy player needs an allied dummy player, eg. winterp define TT & SZ to be affected define a new allied relationship eg winterr allows combat takes over in TT/SZ (oops has no go winter) needs a WinterLand & WinterSea to be shown in the TT & SZ define territoryEffect eg. Winter Triggers to make it happen when you want it. Note -reset- has to redefine the TT/SZ when a TT/SZ changes effect Hope this helps

@crockett36 triplea_4155_Russia2.tsvg

Hi @shazbot182 DL "Domination" and it will be included in there.

@thedog any reason it's not finding the map when I try to select the map in game? i downloaded the zip, copied it to the downloaded maps folder, and have tried keeping in both a zip format and unzipping it but when I go to select the map in TripleA it gives me this.

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@panther thanks for responding, I tried searching but couldn't find anything before posting. I basically figured out it when typing a response. TripleA version is 2.522294. OS is Windows 11. TripleA is exclusively using the Display Scale settings for Monitor 1, but I have Monitor 2 set to my main monitor and that's where TripleA is launched and displayed. So basically, it renders based on Windows 11 display for Monitor 1. I'm not sure if there's a way around that within TripleA.

Hi @bamaackbar Welcome to the site ! 2.5 should have the auto save feature as well. When you fire up triplea, hit Saved Game, then autoSave. It will have a large list of games depending on how much you play. I've never been able to figure out how it orders them, so I just scroll through and look for the correct date or time. Since you like playing Global 40, I suggest trying it on BlackElks UHD map with the Frostion units. UHD World War II Global Have Fun gaming

@lafayette said in Relationship Problems: If you can upload a zip of the map somewhere; I can run it through with a debugger. I will keep that in mind. For now, I removed the code and will see if I can work without it.

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@ubernaut What I have learned - in almost two decades of assisting people with TripleA - is that problems in many cases are not related to TripleA itself but to a general (not ) understanding of PC, Operating Systems and computer / software procedures.