Mega Age II -Kingmaker(Started)

[Xietor]

LLAmabest has finished the Kingmaker Mod. He redid the banners so all the nations look different and spent much work on it. So those who play in the game owe him a debt of thanks.

There are others as well, who contributed mightily, such as Slobby, with the race descriptions, Dr. P, with the research mod, and of course the original authors of the single age mod, gandalf, and the banners and streamers mod, etc.

Llamabeast also reports 52/61 players have sent in pretenders. There is about 12 hours left. And there will be no extensions. Hopefully the rest will get their selections in on time. I still have 2 subs waiting in the wings, who will get 24 hours to get in their pretenders after the deadline passes, then the game will proceed with the number we have.

At a minimum, that will be 54. Though I will pm 3 more subs as well.

[Folket]

I received a pretender file from you, but unfortunately someone else has beaten you to it, and Mictlan has already been taken. Please try again with another nation. This is a list of the nations taken so far (note you can always check this at www.llamaserver.net):

Can someone kick out the old LA Mictlan pretender?

[Xietor]

are you sure that was not evilhomer? I will ask llamabeast to check.

[Zeldor]

9 still missing? And probably one of them is you? But still a lot... but probably some people were waiting for the patch as there was some doubt if we won't have to submit new pretender files after that. But still, it is few days already.

[llamabeast]

Here is the mod! It contains 3 .dm files:

KingMaker.dm, which we'll use for this game.
sns3.dm, which is Zepath's Standards and Streamers, updated to include the new nations
llamaBanners.dm, which is the same as sns3.dm apart from the fact that a few nations are modified to make them look more distinguishable.

Only the first one is needed for this game (it has llamaBanners built in), but being as you have to download all the banner pictures anyway I thought I might as well throw the other two mods in.

So, the overall contents of KingMaker.dm are:
- Xietor's, banning spells and changing the costs of gem-producing items
- Slobby's completed single-age mod
- Twan's Mists of Deception fix
- A research mod produced with an ingenious script by Dr.P. Spells of levels 1-6 are lowered by 1 level so that these early game spells aren't too hard to reach on the Very Difficult research mode we'll be using. Note that the levels for Construction aren't changed, as it isn't possible to change them. Hopefully this will affect everyone roughly equally.
- Zepath's Standards and Streamers, with new standards and a number of changes by me.

Edit: Removed faulty version of mod. Will upload new version ASAP.
Edit2: Uploaded new version of mod. This is the same file as I have just posted anew several pages on.

[Herode]

Great work llamabeast. Thanks to all modders ^^

[Falkor]

Thanks guys for all the work done!

Question: does Mists of Deception give a Mirror Image now or is taken away from the game?

[Xietor]

If you look in the mod forum, twan describes his "fix" to Mists of deception. Basically it is 9 rounds of Mist spell with phantasmal beasts, ghost wolves, and phantom warriors coming from the sides like the spell howl. Pretty nice fix. 2 air gems, 200 fatigue.

BTW, Llamabeast mentions me as the source of the gem reduction mod language and spell banning mod language. While I did incorporate those into a "kitchen sink mod" that I invented, I can claim no credit for the language that is contained in those mods.

As far as I know either Dr. P or Endoperez, or both had a hand in that.

[Xietor]

EA Atlantis(dedas) has informed me he will not be able to play.

Agema, 1st sub, has graciously agreed to take EA Atalntis, and the relative safety of the water.

[Twan]

There should be a little change to make the MoD fix consistent with changed spell levels :

For my MoD fix mod I had to replace the spells "Phantasmal Warriors" and "Ghost Wolves" by spells named "Summon Phantasmal Warrior" and "Summon Ghost Wolves" (doing exactly the same things) so I could use the originals as chained #nextspells for Mists of Deception (as the #nextspell mod command only work with original spells).

But the other part of kingmaker mod change the level of the original spells, not my remakes.

So "Summon ghost wolves" should get researchlevel 2 and "Summon phantom warrior", researchlevel 1 (research level of "Phantom Warrior" and "Ghost Wolves" original spells are not important as they are no longer researchable)

(I corrected in the attachment, and also added correct descriptions for these spells -I was lazy when making the MoD fix, the descriptions of the remakes just said "as the spell x described in the manual")