Problem with World War Scenario

[Norfleet]

I think the problem may be an interaction of the "number of starting provinces" feature with the fact that the scenario doesn't give nations a contiguous starting point, instead splitting them into several pieces that are scattered around the map.

[Edi]

Quite possible, I suppose, but I also found out an interesting factoid yesterday: Whatever the "Något gick fel!" problem is, it only affects the aquatic nations. Trying to include either Atlantis or R'lyeh crashes the game, but without them it creates the game just fine.

They also have one less starting province specified in the .map file than the others (but then, so does T'ien Chi, which seemingly works just fine).

I've also had trouble getting the game to give any nation those extra start provinces, it just gives one, even when more are specified and special start is enabled.

Does this shed more light on the problem?

Could somebody else also run a few tests on this, and specifically concentrate on the aquatics?

Edi

[Kristoffer O]

If you run the Warld War scenarion you can't change nbr of starting provinces. They are set by the sceanario.

[Torvak]

Whatever your problem is it isn't the scenario. Like i said i almost exclusivly play it and most of the time with Ermor:AE and Arcos. With the worldwar scenario you just need to set the nation which is human controlled and leave the others off and it will create them anyways.

[ March 26, 2004, 09:03: Message edited by: Torvak ]

[Edi]

I'll see if I can find a solution.

If not, I suppose I'm going to have to reinstall Dom-2 then, unless I find some other cause for this problem.

One more question: Most people here have gone through the routine of patching Dom-2 multiple times as new patches have come out, but I went straight to v2.08. Could that cause some anomalous behavior?

Edi

[Edi]

Never mind. Problem solved by the usual uninstall/reinstall routine, and all's well and fine now. Apparently something or other got screwed up at some point or another when I first installed Dom2 (the game itself, the patch, or perhgaps even the maps when I put them in the Maps folder, I have no idea which).

Edi

[Truper]

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
If you run the Warld War scenarion you can't change nbr of starting provinces. They are set by the sceanario.

Actually, you can - I tested this as possibly the source of Edi's problem. I specified the World War scenario, and when the scenario settings dialog came up, I asked for 5 starting provinces. What I got was 8 starting provinces - though I am unable to explain why it wasn't 10 - unless what the program did was give me 5 more provinces near my home castle, which I think would normally be a 3 province territory.