Rome Total War 1.9

[cleavinghammer]

The chicken coop abilities are in French.
Mason icons are green, and the ochre slab is in French.
During the elephant training, up and down also get you insulted by a singer.
Carriages count as soldiers and aren't let back in the city.
Soldiers cost food, which increases favors (also, is food rank the same as renown?).
When in RP mode, the cities don't give you income (even when your rank is over 50).
Lag is expected, but... maybe you could remove the wandering citizens from unused cities?
Rival faction soldiers don't react to being attacked.

 

[purparisien]

Thanks cleavinghammer I'm gonna fix all the bugs you had mentioned

 

[cleavinghammer]

Elephant again: "Wild Elephant" would be better, and the last instruction remains in the air when you get off.

Alexandria:
* The pyramid is a good idea, but the arrows are too hard to see, and continue their flight into the next room.
* Not sure how you're supposed to do the library job, I tried dumping the book on every shelf on the right to no effect.
* Priest duty: I tried using pray on the altar to Osiris, but it said I needed to select a building (the robe is called Toge de police in the inventory, and can't be unequipped by clicking on it though unequip all works). Speaking of which, why are there altars to the old Egyptian gods if the split is between Jews and Catholics?
* Guard Robe item can't be equipped.
* The creeps around the North African cities don't seem to give experience.
* I bought a Market, but there was no income.
* The fishing boat earns wood instead of gold.
* Turning a slave into an engineer just gets a cancel button.
* Catholic/Jew population can go above 100 and below 0 (if not a member).
* The music that plays when one faction reaches 100% overlaps with the current music instead of replacing it.
* Became Emperor, but the women still didn't want to marry, something about needing a name.

 

[purparisien]

Well I've fix a lot since you played it.

-If the split is between the Jews and the Christians in Alexandria, I wanted to implement another neutral religion for the priest job. This one doesnt need to get involve in the politics of the city and can be played without turmoil.

-The marriages are a bit buggy I realised. Actually you need a certain amount of renown to be allowed to marry someone. However, I miswrote my conditions : you need to be below 20 of renown instead of being above, to marry someone. I will also add different ways to marry a woman, depending of various elements of your character.

-The fishing boat gives woods. It is weird. But I wanted another job to allow you to earn woods. There are so many ways to earn gold. Not so much for the woods.

-I replaced the missiles of the Pyramid with the ballista missile. It will be more visible.

-The librarian was buggy. The triggers were messy. I fixed them too.

-Guard Robe was buggy and fixed too.

-The music turns off with major events.

-cleavinghammer will be senator in the next version.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Let me get my Palpatine robes...

Perhaps the boat could instead be used to catch driftwood?

The Connect Four game needs six verticals to count a win (four horizontal).
Wife's healing ability is in French and requires mana.

Athens:
* The Amphorae items can only be sold one at a time (having two of the same only sells one), and the cooldown to find the granary is far too long.
* Torture: Got the prisoner's health down to four, but it did nothing, and got yelled at for killing him when his time ran out.

 

[purparisien]

I wasn't expecting so many bugs for its release. Well I'll fix them at the same time. I'm also working on approving the Capitals menu in order to add some features. I will probably post the new version tomorrow or the day after.

 

[CNiper]

Really want to play this map, is it on MMH?

 

[purparisien]

It is ! They just need to approve it !

 

[Mech_Warrior]

Just tested the new version. I was getting 20 FPS consistently, on a PC that usually runs 65-70 FPS no problem. I'm blaming the version, it wasn't always like that. Fix please.

 

[purparisien]

I will reduce the number of roaming citizens. It will sightly reduce the lag. Actually, the reason is due to the overall visibility of the cities that reduces the FPS. I could remove this visibility but the map will be far less interesting.

 

[Kazeon]

Uh, this has even worse FPS than my Glideon. I disagree this is a 5/5 material before you improve your triggers. I only played 3 minutes and it requires some seconds to close the map already, means it's extremely leakful. You should learn about removing leaks. Search one at the tutorial section.

And fix the language plz.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Can't you have it check if anyone is in those cities and keep vision up for those cities only?

Also, still a number of pathing issues (the pyramid's first floor can be partly bypassed by going into the wall on the left).

Haven't tried the new one yet, but here's one I forgot to mention, consider setting the "sew" item's cooldown to the same as the patient's, helps to keep track of how long to wait.

 

[purparisien]

Can't you have it check if anyone is in those cities and keep vision up for those cities only?

Yes I think I will do something more dynamic.

For the pyramid I will add some road blocker to fix this issue

Also, wifes now have a purpose and have special abities each

 

[cleavinghammer]

Rome:
* Shoemaker doesn't have an "accuse" button.
* Post car business still in French.
* Troutfishing: most of the time the trouts are out of range, I suggest extending the rod's range.
* Bed's range is short, you have to be almost overlapping before it registers.
* I played a woman this time around, and while the wedding ring not working was expected, the fact that I couldn't equip the job items (even the lictor's axe) wasn't.

 

[Stare Cat]

The stonehenge's ability "Pray to Gods: Turns land to farmland" has no cooldown, don't know if this is intentional or not but it seems really OP
Edit: Literally scrolled to normal zoom and my FPS returned to 60, still playable in normal zoom.

 

[Peaces]

Where's the merchant job or rather the trading post?

 

[cleavinghammer]

It's the Undead Shipyard building.

 

[Peaces]

Where can I find the trading post in Rome?

 

[Kazeon]

Oh and I have a suggestion to save some FPS: enumerate all the pathing blockers and hide them. It will save a lot of frame rate but the pathing is still there. Thanks to zweibelchen for this info.

 

[Peaces]

So where's the undead shipyard?

 

[Stare Cat]

So where's the undead shipyard?

It's on the leftmost part of Rome, just past the glowing walls with the spikes

 

[cleavinghammer]

Way on the western edge of Rome and the map, past the big empty spear chariot minigame.

^ A ninja appears!

Played as Scandinavia:
* Blacksmith doesn't sell items.
* Varegue is considered a ranged unit but has less than 200 range.
* The Scorpio doesn't have a model.
* The cities no longer have a "show income" button.
* The Revive hero button can be clicked repeatedly.
* Haakapeliitaa (heavy cavalry) has Assomoir instead of Bash.
* The upgraded worker still has the Build Structure ability (and should be called Raider).

 

[Stare Cat]

^ A ninja appears!

 

[cleavinghammer]

Slavs: You start with the Scythian's hero in their territory who instantly gets killed due to being surrounded by enemies.

 

[purparisien]

Oh and I have a suggestion to save some FPS: enumerate all the pathing blockers and hide them. It will save a lot of frame rate but the pathing is still there. Thanks to zweibelchen for this info.

Interesting trick I didnt know

For the Income I switch the spell to the other Hero
I'm also fixing all he minor issues with the RTS right now thanks Senator cleavinghammer

 

[purparisien]

The new version will be finished soon. I've added many new features:

-Stats of your Heros will be saved. You will be able to keep the same character as long as you play in multiplayer (in order to prevent exploits with cheats).

-New units will be there. Roman, Carthaginian, Greek and Egyptian soldiers will have their own models thanks to the unique Fingolfin's help.

-The RTS has been reworked and gives more information of the culture, the taxations, the religion of the cities you're holding.

 

[Peaces]

Imperial shield didn't show when bought and a huge error in the Remus faction.

 

[purparisien]

Really ? Can you explain me the error in the Remus faction ?

 

[Peaces]

Mission Recruit doesn't appear anymore after first try.
You know the option to become either a remus or a romulus follower? Well it is now stuck on the first slot.

 

[purparisien]

Ok I'm gonna fix this right now

 

[cleavinghammer]

By the way, I suggest you add a changelog on the first page so we don't end up reporting the same bugs twice.

 

[Peaces]

The translation of the post car salesman is still in french.

 

[purparisien]

Yes I'll do that : I'll also add a changelog in the map in F9

 

[cleavinghammer]

Major bug with the elephant training: after getting off, the camera stayed locked on the same place (I also made the PC go through the Tribune upgrade). The floating text is still present after you get off.

 

[purparisien]

You can press ctrl + c to unlock the camera when it does that

 

[cleavinghammer]

Ah, too late. Still, might want to make that happen automatically (it didn't happen in the last version).

You should replace "Your sex" with "Your gender" at the beginning.
Flames in Rome have double health bars, and give you the Envenomed Weapons buff when you get too close (and the name is French).
Got the Priest robes and started praying... but nothing seems to happen (except for Neptune's altar, which started healing me). Also, Praying on the priest gives him Rejuvenation.
Rome fire: Tooltips don't show up during the fire, and the music overlaps instead of replacing the background music.
Killing a citizen for the Romulus contract got no reaction from the victim or the police (then again, I was using the wolf to attack).
The wolf summon uses "Mummy awaken" as the spell name.
Both gym messages are in French.
If you have summons in the arena, they don't get removed with you. Hilariously enough, if the summon kills the enemy it gets kicked out, you stay in the arena. When I got my Romulus wolf to kill e to get out of there, I got a message saying I was an enemy of Rome (in French) and just after saying I was no longer wanted by the police.

 

[purparisien]

That's a lot of annoying bugs to fix. Ok I'm gonna correct all of that.
The save & load system is also broken at this moment unfortunatly.

 

[Valandil]

Oh new version=)
So if i play standalone and save my character I can load it in multiplayer game ?

 

[purparisien]

Well not yet, actually there is a bug with the save & load system. The code is recognized and it doesnt add up the stats. I'm working on fixing that.

 

[Valandil]

The game is realy beautifull now, but I have a lagg ...
I have a suggestion how reduce it :
1. Share visual control with all players.
2. At the beging make this trigers:
-disable fog of war
-enable fog of war
So you will have all the map explorated and reduced the lag ...

 

[cleavinghammer]

Roman fishing boat is called Driftwood Boat, Athens driftwood boat is called Fishing Ship.

Also, you should consider a way to get renown faster, like bribing heralds or something.

I beat a wolf in the Athens arena and ended up in the middle of Carthage (that must have been one hell of a victory celebration).

So I get that you get experience every minute, but it's weird to see the wives have "hours " as well.

 

[purparisien]

Damn I missplaced the two units. Ok, you are very helping. For the renown, I will also add such a system.

About the lag, I can reduce the leaks of my triggers but it will takes sometimes. There are so many. I'm removing looping triggers meanwhile. They should solve a bit of lag

Valandil will rejoin the Senate !

 

[cleavinghammer]

Wife just had a child despite not going through the whole bed+house thing. There should be an alert when they grow or can make another one.

The Carthage dock, though it looks cool, needs some reworking. Depending on where the camera is it might not even be visible on the screen (I only knew it was there due to the select hero sound).

There should be a way for ships to transition from city water to world map water, especially transports.

The roof of the merchant on the left of the Carthaginian senate doesn't go transparent when you're in his house.

 

[Peaces]

Good job on uploading this update!

 

[Valandil]

Damn I missplaced the two units. Ok, you are very helping. For the renown, I will also add such a system.

About the lag, I can reduce the leaks of my triggers but it will takes sometimes. There are so many. I'm removing looping triggers meanwhile. They should solve a bit of lag

Valandil will rejoin the Senate !

Realy ?))
Im valandil1 in the battle net =)

 

[cleavinghammer]

Heroes don't gain experience in DM anymore.
Blacksmith and item-equipping works, but you get an annoying message every time you equip something about needing to be a tribune.
Assault Chariot has no mana for its ability.

 

[purparisien]

That's an easy fix. I also add entrance from the sea for the main cities.

 

[cleavinghammer]

I found out by complete accident that "-very far" works as a command, you should add it to the menu.
Lyre player doesn't increase your renown, and also has the floating text problem.
Regular merchants can't seem to buy items like pottery (but equipment blacksmiths can).

If I might make a suggestion, make the guide book more useful. Remove all the stuff specific to Rome (since the rules are the same for all cities) and have it use a spellbook effect to ping the points of interest in all cities (ie, merchants, docks, banks, jobs...).

 

[purparisien]

That's an interesting idea ! I will add various color pings to show the different interesting points in the city if the book is pressed.

 

[cleavinghammer]

That'd be too confusing if they all go off at once. Spellbook of each type of shop'd be better.

Shields should have "parry" replace "parade" in tooltips.
Athens post car doesn't work, it sells you an undroppable icon of where you want to go.
Buying slaves doesn't reduce your renown.
The pearl game doesn't give or take away money.
The crossbow doesn't add damage.
Using the telescope reveals the whole map.
Can't unequip any item individually.
The arena vendor should be renamed something like "Pit Boss", and the one in Carthage should be made visible.

Not sure how it happened (I had unequipped everything, and I think I reclicked all of them, it might have been the post car item screwing things up), but at one point I lost all my equipment.