Utility Battle Simulator!

Joonie73 · #1 November 11th, 2003, 04:10 PM

Johan,

Was that in response to my question?

Gandalf Parker · #2 November 11th, 2003, 06:20 PM

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Originally posted by Joonie73:
Hi, the map file is as below. Where would I add? I tried to add what you told me at the end but it crashed the computer.

Dont take too many examples off the top of our heads as being absolute. The 100 province on the Aran map is a water province

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#dom2title Aran

If you leave this the same then you will get 2 Aran maps listed to pick which is confusing. Change the name here to something like Aran2 AranNot or something.

Nothing else needs changing, just adding. You can change the #description abit as long as you make sure that the description text stays in "quotes"

Take note of all the #nostart lines. Usually those are places where there are no easy ways to move out like a corner or an island. If you do decide to use one of those provinces then remove that nostart so you dont confuse the poor game.

Start a junk game with the Aran map and scroll around looking for a good place to start. Right click a province and note the number of it in the description box. You might want to write down a couple of neighbors also in case you want to start yourself with more than one province or more than one castle or weaken your neighbors abit for a fast start. Or you can pop some sweet magic sites into them.

If you are in a hurry then 106 on the Aran map is nice. So you might add....

#specstart 12 106
#setland 106
#commander 1010
#bodyguards 15 1006
#units 100 1002
#additem "Ice Pebble Staff"

There are alot of other things you an set also. You can add more neighbor commands so that you have "teleports" all over the map. You can change your starting Castle without having to pay for it. You can completely redesign your god and it wont overwrite the one you made before. It would only show up in this game. You can set scales, dominions strength, starting population, defense, give your god magic and items. All without paying for it in points or following any rules. (Playing with a Doom Horror as a pretender is fun)

For options check this mapedit doc. NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FINAL MAPEDIT DOC FOR DOM2 http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion/mapedit.pdf

[ November 11, 2003, 16:22: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Joonie73 · #3 November 11th, 2003, 07:13 PM

I got it to work! Thanks so much!

Joonie73 · #4 November 11th, 2003, 07:16 PM

By the way, is Doom Horror the most powerful unit in the game? If so, how do you beat it? I tested a lot Last night & nothing beats King of the World. In fact, I had 3 super combatant gods attack it at the same time & they still lost.

Nerfix · #5 November 11th, 2003, 07:26 PM

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Originally posted by Joonie73:
By the way, is Doom Horror the most powerful unit in the game? If so, how do you beat it? I tested a lot Last night & nothing beats King of the World. In fact, I had 3 super combatant gods attack it at the same time & they still lost.

Vastness seems to be pretty nasty...

Curse+Antimagic+Hordes of mindless units

In dom I, i saw a horde of soulles without mages
tearing a King of the World to pieces.

Psitticine · #6 November 14th, 2003, 03:44 AM

Yep, best cure for a mind-bLasting opponent is to drown it in mindless troops. I just crushed R'lyeh in a solo game by sending in legions of Souless. Those poor Illithids had nothing to flay, poor little rubbery guys.

Gandalf Parker · #7 November 21st, 2003, 02:56 AM

I need to figure out what to put on the command line to get an icon on my desktop to go into a battlesim game the fastest. Straight into a game called BattleSIm using the mini.map, no intro, no fades, no music, low graphics for fast menus? or hi graphics for slow battles? Anyone messed with this yet?

That way I can edit the .map for the troops I want to test. And go into it over and over to try different formations and script orders