šÆ Shogun Advanced - Official Thread
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This is a collaborative map between Ebbe (Graphics, Code, Sound, Testing) & TheDog (Code, Testing)
- A historical map set about 1561 Japan, intended for solo play or a Free for All with the balance being played by the Fast AI or Hard AI
- 15 playable factions, comprising 13 Samurai Clans and the Ikko Ikki and Wako Pirates
- Factions typically start with 4 historically 'home' territories/cities and three random territories/cities, so each game is different. This simulates the minor clans changing their allegiances even they might get brave and start their own conquests
- Large size map 11264x6290px=71MP, amongst one of the largest TripleA maps, with Unit size equivalent to 68x68px (54x54px x1.25 unit size) with 4K screens in mind.
- The map has lots of Cities, Mountain Passes, uncrossable Mountains, Rocky Shores, Coastal and Open seas all channelling forces.
. - Immersive Campaign
ā¢ Serious time & effort to provide suitable sound effects
ā¢ Tried to represent historical, economic, spiritual, geographical and natural events as the backdrop to the Sengoku period
ā¢ Monopolies, 11 historical commodities highly sort after in the Sengoku period
ā¢ Diplomacy/Politics you will need friends and foes to ascend the ladder to be Shogun
ā¢ Natural Disasters, like Blocked mountain passes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Storms
ā¢ Peasants will revolt
ā¢ Kami (Shinto Spirits of the world) will either aid or hinder your raise to power
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Currently only available for TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-maps/shogun_advanced
Click green <> Code button
Click Download Zip.
Get TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases.
Please give feedback, so we can make the map game better. .
Lots of Help files like;
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Map Zoom
Remember to use map zoom ctrl+mouse wheel, to zoom out of the map, that is, to make it smaller..
Our game needs more java RAM allocating to it ā¦
If you have 8GB or more of RAM it is suggested that you follow this link to improve Shogun Advanced game speed. It changes the TripleA.vmoptions. It also shows you how to put it back.
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/3133/get-ready-for-our-new-game-the-shogun-coming-soonThe above will also improve the following maps;
1941 Global Command Decision, 270BC Wars, Another World, Gundam (both), Shogun, Shogun Advanced, War of_the Relics, Warcraft War Heroes.
2K & 4K Screens
It is hoped that with a map size of 11264x6290px=71MP and effective unit size of 68x68px that Shogun Advanced can be played on a 4K screen properly in all their 3840x2160px glory. Please let us know?.
For Code Raiders
This map has the following code that is worth looking at;- The land territory Mon.png/flag unit uses a feature of the isAA that puts them in the 1st slot of the place.txt list to position the Mon/flag.
- The sea zone _convoy.png/flag uses the little used convoy.txt file to position the _convoy.png/flag
- Extensive use of foreach, with a count of 250, making it so much easier to maintain the xml
- Politics of thousands of lines of xml code reduced to hundreds of lines with the use of foreach
- 16 Nested foreach for eg. $AllPlayers$^$RandomHighPU$, a complex-ish piece of code putting the correctly owned castles in the correctly owned random territories, saving over 90% lines of code
- One of the first maps to use isAI. This allows the map maker to make the map do clever/obvious things or give bonuses to the AI without the player selecting anything. However it does require TripleA 2.6.14517 onwards.
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@thedog It looks great, Congratulations! When will be in TA games?
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@raville
When some kind soul fixes the "map-server".Raised here;
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/2999/2-6-release-getting-close-need-volunteers-to-help-beta-test-2-6/107 -
@thedog said in
Shogun Advanced - Official Thread:Currently only available for TripleA 2.6 here
- Minor issue with several Naval units' placement fixed;
Latest update: "SHOGUN ADVANCED V2.3"
Currently only available for TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-maps/shogun_advanced
Click green <> Code button then Click Download Zip Get TripleA 2.6 here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases - Minor issue with several Naval units' placement fixed;
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@ebbe I am impressed with this mod. Most Japan mods try to play the Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa game while your mod seriously simulates the actual war, with mountain passes and fortifications playing key roles.
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thanks to @TheDog and extra support from other heroes like @wc_sumpton ,for a very pleasant jolly good cooperation in this project... and we were serious digging deep in research
in old japanese maps for historical mount passes, locations of resources, cities and settlements and adding suitable army units and natural events....
creating extra matching sound effects and background sphere sounds, (check the arrows hitting wood or ships sailing away , haha ) adding extra sphere and strategy with partly random forwarding terr.'s and bonus or penalty "kami"
anyway, we had a lot of fun in creating! And we hope the ingame map downloads will be fixed sooner or later so that we can easier share it for players!
and if our TripleA improvement wishlist one day may become reality,
it will get closer to the result we had in mind
