Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

[Soapyfrog]

Nasty Edition research is set to standard research by default.

Are people ok with this, if not does anyone know how to mod the scenario so that research is set to hard?

[Huzurdaddi]

It's actually ok. Considering the number of gems that are getting pumped into everyone's economies I'm sure that they are going to want to spend them.

[baboune]

I am just afraid of research being so fast that I wont be able to adjust, and as a newby get crushed...

[archaeolept]

you need to know the appropriate command and put it under the scenario specialties.

something like

#research 2 or #magicresearch 2

also you'll need to edit the .map to change the #features to 75

knowing the commands for setting HoF to 15 and commander renaming on would also be very nice...

perhaps

#renaming 1

just mod the file and see if it works in a test

edit: nope those renaming and research commands weren't the right ones

Ahh - just delete the #scenario from the .map

[Alneyan]

You can change both the HoF and renaming in-game. I have yet to see a command about the research setting in the mapmodding file however; hopefully it has been forgotten in the documation, and does exist, but I am not positive about this.

Actually, just removing the #scenario flag seems to work fine. It allows you to set up all standard settings as usual, without removing the special commanders/starting sites. Make sure not to disable "Special starting locations" however, and it *should* work out. I was also beaten to it in this contest of cross-edits. *Waves at the poster below*

[Nappa]

I'm about to take off to visit my GF. I won't be back until late Sunday night. Don't start without me

[deccan]

Please let me know if it's going to be standard or difficult research. Makes all the difference.

[Soapyfrog]

Well I am going to make it hard research as stated in the first post. Is that bad?

[Peter Ebbesen]

archaeolept said:
Ahh - just delete the #scenario from the .map

Just be damn careful, if you do that, that you do not override some of the more important settings. E.g. if you remove the #scenario, you can set the number of starting provinces, and this number does not take the number of provinces granted in the scenario file into account.

Anyhow, have fun spellslinging. I predict a weird game for you all, as some of the special sites can have a substantial influence on strategies if you let them. E.g. certain nations are rather more dangerous summoners than they are usually, and an Iron Faith Ulm going for massed Templars and a decent blessing might even be feasible.

...And don't play with a human Atlantis without R'lyeh and/or Ermor, or they will slay you all.

For those (if any) unaccustomed to special sites that let you enter them, they can be entered by one commander (usually a specific magic type commander) per turn only, by giving him the strategic "enter site" command. If you have a monster-generating site, it nearly always pays off to park mages there for permanent summoning over time. Some of the troops granted are not negligible.

[deccan]

We have no water nations in this map, but this means that Ermor will have free rein of Atlantis' provinces since they're controlled by AI.

I think that some nations have better advantages that others. Conjuration and Construction bonuses rock. Alteration bonus (Pythium) is less cool because there are few early game Alteration rituals.