Sub wanted for 1v1 duel

lch · #1 May 29th, 2007, 08:24 PM

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llamabeast said:
I might be wrong (and I'd be very interested to hear if I am), but I don't think you can upgrade a mod mid-game.

You can.

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llamabeast said:
Well, I suppose I could overwrite the file heroes1_6.dm with the new version. Seems a bit crude though, and I'm not sure it would fix the units already in the game. And it might cause difficulties with other games using 1.6.

That is exactly what Edi suggests. Do you have 3.06 clients using the WH 1.6 mod? If not, then you should upgrade. If you do, then you should ask in the mod thread if those could run into trouble.

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llamabeast said:
Well I will look into it when I get the chance, but do you reckon you can cope with the funny slots for the moment? Just both of you promise not to use them.

It's not that I want to exploit this, but rather that those slots are wrongly assigned other slots (usually misc, I believe) that one is losing this way, too.

llamabeast · #2 May 29th, 2007, 08:29 PM

Okay, well I've overwritten 1.6 with 1.7 and changed the version numbers then. Will you guys need to do the same thing?

Hmm, just to minimise confusion I will put my 'fixed' version of 1.6 here. Please unzip this and stick this in your mods folders.

I have another game about to transfer onto the llamaserver which is using heroes v1.6. I suppose I will get them to do the same thing.

lch · #3 May 29th, 2007, 08:29 PM

No wait, now I understand why I got a "second" body slot. I already have overwritten the 1.6 version of the mod with the 1.7 version. Then I unequipped one of the two helmets that my hero was wearing, and I gained another body slot. That's cause all the slot are shifted. Then I unequipped the armor and gained a feet slot. Then I unequipped the boots and finally got the third misc slot that I'm supposed to be having. And yes, Xietor equipped the heroes with two helmets.

Lily · #4 May 30th, 2007, 07:09 PM

Hi lch,

Sorry for the slow start to things, I've been a bit unwell. I'm happy for you to have three turns preparation. Do you want to let me know a turn number when officially end the non-aggression pact?

llamabeast · #5 May 31st, 2007, 10:45 AM

Sorry guys, I've decided I have to switch back to Worthy Heroes 1.6. See the Alpaca post if you're interested. Having clashing versions of the mod led to a startlingly different alternate future (battle reports which were in fact a great victory for one side looked like a crushing defeat).

I'll attach the original heroes1_6.dm. Sorry about this.

lch, I've concluded that I can't really update mods mid-game, because the players will all then need to upgrade too, which will propagate problems to all the other games they're in. Any thoughts on the matter?

lch · #6 May 31st, 2007, 02:43 PM

Hey Lily, no problem, I hope you're feeling better. I'm fine with taking on hostilities on turn 60. And I am even more intimidated by your gem income now that I went remote site searching with lots of mages this turn and got almost nothing out of it - either you went for Acashic Record all the way, or all the good gem-producing sites are up there in the north, or both. This is going to be interesting, let's see what happens.

llamabeast, everybody in every of your games should update to the fixed version 1.7, unless you are still hosting some games which are using the 3.06 game version (or if you like two-headed heroes). If all of your games are 3.08 then it makes no sense to keep 1.6, everybody should use 1.7 instead.

llamabeast · #7 May 31st, 2007, 02:47 PM

Well if they were only in games on my server that would be fine. But if they do that, and they are in games on other servers where they are still using 1.06, then that will mess them up. Obviously if every single game changed that would probably be better. But I don't really think I can demand that - pretty much every MP dominions player would have to download my fixed version if there were to be no problems anywhere.

lch · #8 May 31st, 2007, 03:47 PM

So you are fine with two-headed heroes then?

It's no problem for me, but I think the idea is that everybody should upgrade to 3.08 and WH 1.7, since tons of bugs have been fixed there. I host another game which uses the WH mod, too, and I've done the upgrade, I expect that everyone else should do the same. Having to rename the 1.7 mod to the 1.6 mod is of course not making much sense if you want to restrict yourself to a particular version, so I'll use a filename like "worthyheroes.dm" in the future which I can upgrade without troubles. You're the host, you decide - I don't think that I desperately need the third misc slot.