Guide: Changing Dominions 3 defaults

[Ragnarok-X]

I see, thanks. What i actually was trying to ask was how exactly you "add surprises" to it. I figured out what you mean now though.
I was under the impression you might have a script that alters spell effects or spell requirements each time it is run, so all the spells and/or units might have, small subtle changes whenever a new game is being start.

Thanks for the explanation though.

[Gandalf Parker]

Spells is one of the most complicated things to mess with. Its about the ONLY thing I havent written a randomizer for. One Im messing with now creates a random nation by randomly selecting the units you get. So far its just "funny". Too wild to be either fun to play or a good AI

[Ragnarok-X]

Do you know the shortcuts to set up income, ressource and supply modifiers for a new game ?

[Gandalf Parker]

--richness X Money multiple 50-300 (default 100)
--resources X Resource multiple 50-300 (default 100)
--supplies X Supply multiple 50-300 (default 100)

[Ragnarok-X]

thanks man !

One last one, difficult if not possible though. Could you use a command switch to disable certain races being taken by the AI ? I.e. i dont want water races to be in the game, i suppose you cant do that unless you manually choose each AI's race ?

[Gandalf Parker]

I havent tried that. Im usually designating which nations are in the game as AIs so non-selection would be taken care of.

But there is this...
--closed X Nation closed X=nation number (0-94)
which might affect AI choice also.

There used to be a map commands for that
5.3 #landplayers <> no affect in Dom3
5.4 #seaplayers <> no affect in Dom3
but they are broken now

[Ragnarok-X]

Gandalf, can you please help with this ? I would really, really like to copy your way of defaults (with the .bat) to create an automated savegames for each turn, since i only play SP.
Can you help me with this and perhaps post the exact switch AND the your .bat (i can alter it with my path's).

[lch]

[quote=Ragnarok-X;738823I would really, really like to copy your way of defaults (with the .bat) to create an automated savegames for each turn, since i only play SP.[/QUOTE]
Look here for a .bat file and a better solution that uses Python. I believe that somebody even coded a small .exe program for this purpose eventually.

[lch]

Clumsy me, forgot all about this. The post should have been:

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

I would really, really like to copy your way of defaults (with the .bat) to create an automated savegames for each turn, since i only play SP.

Look here for a .bat file and a better solution that uses Python. I believe that somebody even coded a small .exe program for this purpose eventually.

[Gandalf Parker]

This one actually copies all of the Dom3 savegames directory to an oldsaves directory.
Then to restore it just find your game in oldsaves, and copy its files back to savegames

cd c:\program files\dominions3
C:\WINDOWS\system32\xcopy.exe /yes savedgames oldsaves /i

If you put this in a noetpad file called d3bakup.bat then the switch for your Dom3 shortcut is
--preexec C:\bat\d3bakup.bat
and every time just before hosting a new turn, it will backup all saved games.
A bit large and clunky but its easy to follow for DOS or Linux people.

And if you just want to do backups on a click once in awhile I have a desktop shortcut for it in the Utilities section of Dom3Minions.com

As lch said there have been other improved versions. Various program languages and such for those more comfortable with those.