Trying to put age of tribes engine on alexander 350 world map
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@ted-self If you are changing a territory name you need to change in the following files.
- <game>.xml
- centers.txt
- polygons.txt
There can be other txt files associated with the mod, they should all be checked and changed. Use File Monk are a similar program.
If you need to check every territory on the map, use a forEach loop.
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@rogercooper Thank you, I need all the help I can get. Basically trying to put age of tribes units and techs on alexander350 world map. It sounded so simple when I first thought of it, lol! As far as I know age of tribes has never been put on any map other than the original.
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@ted-self Can someone tell me what to do about this error I'm getting from xml copy editor "unable to open DTD file"
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@ted-self said in Trying to put age of tribes engine on alexander 350 world map:
@ted-self Can someone tell me what to do about this error I'm getting from xml copy editor "unable to open DTD file"
The game.dtd file gives details on the structure of the xml file.game.txt . I have uploaded as a txt file, you will need to change the file type. Put in the games folder and you can use it to validate the XML code. I am not sure if it is up to date.
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@rogercooper It plays, it still needs changes and fine tuning but the monster does play. Thanks for the help, I'm sure I will need more.
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@ted-self I am having fun play testing, my cousin Patricia is amazed at my prowess and determination, but I am a bit tired of tech stuff at the moment. If anyone wants to help with the finishing touches just tell me where to upload it. Here are some things that need to be done. 1. Add camps at the start, (I used edit mode) add more nature units, caves and barbarians here and there. 2. Change the PUs of various territories as they are all set to 2 (5 for the 8 starting points). Change the names of the tribes to 1 Baltic=Aztec 2 Brittonic=India 3 Germanic= Europe 4 Hattic=China 5 Hellenic=Africa 6 Romantic=Middle East 7 Slavic=Slavic 8 Celtic=Inca. 3. When gunpowder comes along the price of everything will double? for Africa, Aztec and Inca. LOL Also those 3 should have no horse units until then. 5. Change the relationships to Europe and India allied, Inca and Iraq allied, China and Aztec allied, Africa and Slavic allied. Everyone else at war. This is so you can play as any 2 allied players against the world. 6. Add capitals to the 8 starting points. They don't mean much but still. 7. Change the splash screen and pop ups and intro to reflect the new realities.
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@ted-self Don't burn yourself out by trying to do it all at once. Fix one thing a day and will get finished.
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@Ted-Self
Personally I would save it to Google Drive/One Drive as its so quick and easy to save many versions in the cloud.No sooner have you uploaded it and you will see a mistake.
Then when it stabilisers, then upload it to GitHub.
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@thedog But I thought github had file size limits. ??
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I think its 100MB, but you have to go some to beat that.
1941_global_command_decision its one of the largest maps and its only 80MB
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@thedog Well, when I tried to upload it to github I got an error message, file is too big, upload something smaller than 25mb. Go Figure. Anyhow I uploaded it to google drive, which I don't have much experience there but it seems to be there at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LsgfyNO9PNbpCCVjI2F-o0GCnWDmZcal/view?usp=sharing The name of the file is AgeWorld2.rar
So it will start and play but you will have to make note of all the things that need to be done that I mentioned above. There are no camps or caves and not near enough cavemen or nature, they need to be edited in. Also I took Europe and India, see previous post to see how the computer players were allied. So India was barely able to survive, being sandwiched between China and Iraq. However they did manage and Europe grew powerful and came to their rescue. ( I am always willing to start a new game with different alliances to keep it from getting stale.) Also during play testing I saw a blunder, the Slavs were supposed tp start in North Russia. Anyhow I am still playing, currently in round 24. I intend to keep playing until I see if the black death and the convoys come up right. At any rate if anyone is interested as I said before feel free to work on the xml and try to make most of those changes that I mentioned in a previous post. The age of tribes tech tree has got to be one of the greatest things I have encountered in game playing. To start with a group of cavemen (as in the movie Quest for Fire) and end up with missile fired nukes is super cool. Alexander350 might not be the greatest world map but the others looked like they probably had too many territories for me to deal with. Although I would love to see the age of tribes units and techs on any new map. -
25MB is the Browser to GitHub limit.
You need
https://desktop.github.com/
Its limit is 100MBAlso in the past I have found that not everyone can unzip rar files so I would always save as zip
Also I would rename your project to Age/Dawn/Epoch of Man/Mankind or similar.
Also change the title/header of this thread to the project name and add - Official Thread, then players looking for a map know its official and it contains a link to download on the first 1st page 1 post. New downloaders need all the help they get, they dont want to wade through lots of posts and text.
Also I would do a feature list to aid new downloaders.
Also
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@ted-self I have tried some Civ-style stuff in TripleA but I ran into a limitation of the TripleA engine. It lacks proper support for a free-form diplomatic environment, where coalitions will form and break up in a naturalistic way, reacting to conditions on the board. This may change in a future release.
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@rogercooper I have decided to just start the game with everyone at war with everyone else. I need to get rid of all the stuff about allies. So when I started the latest game for playtesting I just went to edit mode and fixed it but I want to code it in.
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@ted-self said in Trying to put age of tribes engine on alexander 350 world map:
@rogercooper I have decided to just start the game with everyone at war with everyone else. I need to get rid of all the stuff about allies. So when I started the latest game for playtesting I just went to edit mode and fixed it but I want to code it in.
The only idea I have is to create some preset "wars" and activate them randomly as events. If you have alliances that give back territory to allies, this could allow a destroyed nation to pop back into existence.
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@rogercooper I'm stuck again. I made it to turn 35 before getting the error message which occurred when the convoy should have appeared.
Then I started to just get everything fixed to its final form. However I screwed something up somewhere because when I launch the game I get this on turn 1.
So actually the 10 cavemen are not showing up at each of the 8 capitals. The number10 is there but no image. The cavemen belonging to the barbarians are showing up just fine. The new xml file is at https://github.com/tedrockets/triplea Someone please help.
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@ted-self Wow, I did manage to get the game to start again, I didn't have my unit folders named correctly. But I still have no clue why the crash happened at turn 35. Now I will play test to turn 35 again and hope for the best unless someone takes a look at the xml and finds what went wrong.
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@ted-self OMG why are the cavemen attacking at 2 and axemen attacking at 3???
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@ted-self I am still playtesting again, about 11 more turns till turn 35, If I make it through that I will try to put the finishing touches on and upload it.
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@ted-self Sure as heck, I play tested to turn 36 and got the same error message as last time. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Triggers: No territory attachment for Bay of Bengal. This was when India was supposed to get the convoy. Can someone look at the xml for me? It is AgeWorld.xml at https://github.com/tedrockets/triplea
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