Trying to put age of tribes engine on alexander 350 world map

TheDog

@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.

Ted Self

@thedog But I thought github had file size limits. ??

TheDog

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

Ted Self

@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.

TheDog

25MB is the Browser to GitHub limit.

You need
https://desktop.github.com/
Its limit is 100MB

Also 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

RogerCooper

@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.

Ted Self

@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.

RogerCooper

@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.

Ted Self

@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.

Ted Self

@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.

Ted Self

@ted-self OMG why are the cavemen attacking at 2 and axemen attacking at 3???

Ted Self

@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.

Ted Self

@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

wc_sumpton

@ted-self

The is no territoryAttachment for "Bay of Bengal":

<attachment name="territoryAttachment" attachTo="Bay of Bengal" javaClass="TerritoryAttachment" type="territory">
	<option name="production" value="0"/>
</attachment>

A territoryAttachment will need to be created for each territory, "East Pacific Ocean", "Baltic Sea", "Scotia Sea", "Arabian Sea", "Southeast Atlantic Ocean", "Arctic Ocean" and "Yellow Sea".

Cheers...

Ted Self

@wc_sumpton Yes, I checked that. I think I made a breakthrough or two last night. One major problem I have been having is (maybe because I didn't read directions on the xml copy editor) I didn't realize that when you do a save it saves the file to every xml open on the tabs line (which it seems to automatically open like the last 5 you worked on.) So at one point I opened my AgeWorld xml and saw the age of tribes xml there. Panic! Anyhow I am hoping that I found the problem with the convoys, even though it said India was the problem I found an error saying to put Middle East convoy next to Iraq and it should have said Iran, as the alexander350 map doesn't have Iraq touching the water. Then when I ran the DTD check it said that Middle East had to be written as MiddleEast. So I replaced all those. No way to know if this will actually get me through turn 36 except to playtest to turn 36 again. It is hard to create a masterpiece.

Ted Self

@ted-self Is there a way to change the amount of tech tokens given to just certain countries during different ages?

RogerCooper

@ted-self said in Trying to put age of tribes engine on alexander 350 world map:

@ted-self Is there a way to change the amount of tech tokens given to just certain countries during different ages?

Tech Tokens are just another resource. You can give them (or take them away) with events, units and territories.

Ted Self

@rogercooper The game is actually playable (at least to turn 36, maybe beyond). I still have lots of changes in mind for later. I can upload it to google cloud but I might need to include the save folder, either that or when you first start the game go to edit mode and make all 8 tribes at default war with each other. I don't think I want to mess with the relationships in the xml file because I might screw up the cold war thing.

Ted Self

@ted-self I uploaded the game, be sure to read the primeval pop up screen. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GliTK6cSfnUuq1tmGvtBv5XiFRayIP0z/view?usp=sharing

Ted Self

@ted-self OK I just hit the done button at googledrive so it should be ready to go.