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heh...

As David Webber remarked over on Baen's Bar, he regrets ever inventing the G*** L****

(http://dahak.ne.client2.attbi.com:80...grav_lance.htm)

Re: For Honor, and no mercy !
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Should the file "Terran_AI_General.txt" be renamed to "Manticore_AI_General.txt" or what? What does the "general" file do?

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manticore_AI_general is there too. Terran file was left by mistake http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif Sorry

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No problem. I just don't understand the AI files and cannot make a decision concerning the files without aid. Speaking of aid, manticore has no EMP files. How does one create them? And what happens if you play a game against a Manticore AI that has no EMP file?

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.emp files are only used to add an empire in the game setup. When an AI is chosen randomly, it uses the settings in RaceName_AI_General.txt .

To generate an .emp file, start games with a large number of random AIs until the race you want is included, then take control of that race and Save Empire (on Game Menu [F2]). You'll need to repeat this for all three point levels (2k, 3k, 5k).

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Someone should upload this shipset to PBW. I quite like it, but it's a pain to use when it's not handily available to download by others in the game (IE, when I'm not the host http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

Edit: Where do you guys think Weber'll go with the next book? He kinda threw everything back into the fire, so to speak, and things should get interesting. Heh... I've read the series 2 or 3 times so far http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif , but that still doesn't help predicting things. Any thoughts?

[ March 15, 2004, 06:20: Message edited by: Tanus ]

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Glad you like it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I don't visit PBW much. If you like, you can upload it there. I'll appreciate it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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"Where do you guys think Weber'll go with the next book? He kinda threw everything back into the fire, so to speak, and things should get interesting. Heh... I've read the series 2 or 3 times so far , but that still doesn't help predicting things. Any thoughts?"

Read up on your history of the Napoleonic Wars and you should pick up a few clues, I daresay.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't think so. SK Manticore is a dominant force now so it should be beyond Napoleonic Wars. Next step would be a some sort of Crimea War - united SKM and Peps invading Andermin (sp.-sorry) Empire or whatever else that can pass as a Russian Empire.

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I think he is creating the conditions for a general war that includes all of the current combatants as well as the most of the rest of human space. Whether or not this will happen remains to be seen, but the threat of such a war (and its effect on trade) will figure into the current combatants' calculations. Further complicating matters is the impending disintegration of the Solarian League which will lead to dozens of pocket empires and many brush-fire type wars. These may become involved in the current Manticore-haven war. He has a lot of ways to jump, but the whole of human space is definately more destabilised and the Haven-Manticore-Andermani tech bases have become more even then before the cease-fire. "Crown of Slaves" really blew the door open.

Several years ago I posted a note on a Harrington fansite postulating that the (then) unlocated Manticoran wormhole would lead to alien space, opening all kinds of possibilities. That, of course, did not happen. But still, if he ever needs to he can introduce aliens for the human factions to deal with.

[ March 17, 2004, 02:48: Message edited by: solops ]