Warning: This is no good to you if you don't have the pc game CivilizationIII Conquests v1.22 or CivilationIII Complete v1.22. In which case you can look a the previews and see the artwork involved if you want.
Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara
:-) Jesper
581mb - that's what I call an add-on! ;)
EDIT: There is about 600 different units in the mod.
It is fantastic!!! I absolutely love it! I just have to be disciplined enough to make sure I don't use up any of my time for working on MC, or my other Mystara projects. Again, WOW!!!
This thing will be ongoing for the next 6 months I fear.Everything was going well until that war-monger Stefan Karameikos decided to attack. Then it got even better - hillside city sites rock for defence! :D
?I started a new game last night as the Hin of the Five Shires. Things are going much better this time. tjedge1 put an incredible amount of work into this. Truely great work! I doubt I'll ever play the 'regular' game again!
Truly great work! I doubt I'll ever play the 'regular' game again!
I agree - I've just captured Luln and I'm eyeing up Threshold, it really adds a new dimension to the game.
Although I am a bit worried - when the Hin start threatening the Dwarves I think I might need to look to my defences!
I love strategy games.Cool strategy! Btw, I downloaded the random (giga?) map, and WOW!!!! that makes for wickedly huge maps!
I downloaded it too, but haven't tried it yet. I think I will soon, though - I need room to breathe! With about 30 civilisations, you run out of elbow room pretty quickly. I like a fairly isolationist early growth period - it was a bit of a shock to find 4 or 5 nations so close to me at the start of the game!
... I like a fairly isolationist early growth period - it was a bit of a shock to find 4 or 5 nations so close to me at the start of the game!
I'm the same way. From the sounds of it, you're really going to love these massive maps!
EDIT- You guys know the tricks to speed up the game when tthe turns begin taking too long? of course I don't mind it I have 2 pc's and I've played games that have turns that take so long to process I go workout for 30 minutes come back play my turn, end it and go finish my workout. ;) Sometimes I just have 2 games going at once. Or I work on setting up my campaign. I need to post an update too as my players started their first adventure yesterday.
EDIT- You guys know the tricks to speed up the game when tthe turns begin taking too long?
If you know, *please* let me in on them! My turns are taking 5 - 6 minutes, and I find that long. But like you, I find something else to do in the meantime (tonight will be finishing off prep for tomorrow's D&D game
, while yesterday it was cleaning up the house 
).If you know, *please* let me in on them! My turns are taking 5 - 6 minutes, and I find that long. But like you, I find something else to do in the meantime (tonight will be finishing off prep for tomorrow's D&D game
I don't know either!
I've been playing on the 300 x 300 map today, and it's been taking TEN minutes a turn!
It's VERY cool, but I just don't have that much time, so it's starting to get too long to continue on that size map. How can I cut the time down?
2) Before you hit begin to hit the end turn button, turn on your caps lock. This makes the game skip all animations. It will do it during your turn to, so if your in a hurry, just leave it on all the time and your playing will speed up as well. I only use it to end a turn.
These 2 methods combined can really speed things up, but on those 300 sized maps it still slows down the later the game gets, unless you conquer most of your enemies. The AI is slow.
Oh almost forgot. There is a 100x100 map available now.
With these tricks or less civs then there is less of this:
I did get a problem on the Civilopedia entry for iron though - there's a problem with the hypertext, and it causes an error box to pop up. The only way to sort it out is to save the game, exit and reload.
Not a big problem, I know, but I thought your beta testers might have spotted it.
My wife was complaining again last night - so I reckon the mod counts as a winner! :D
). There is another way to get through the hypertest if it happens. Just keep clicking ok and it will eventually stop. Apperently there is a limit to the number of things that can require a resource. If you go over that (and with 256 buildings and over 600 units) it causes the hypertext for each item over the limit. It eventually stops and you can continue playing. This only happens with the resources, and there are some others that do it too, like horses and possibly saltpeter. It's one of the many weaknesses to the game engine. I had to just push it through anyway to keep the games flavor.I'm seriously thinking of redoing this mod when Civ 4 comes out. It's is going to be much more flexible for modding and I can do far more to make a D&D mod feel like...D&D. ;) The only real problem then is editing graphix. I'm going to have to learn to do more 3-dwork.
Actually the hypertext was caught in beta testing. The only way to get rid of it was to remove requirements and that would just bring the mod down a notch, so I refused to (I had already thrown out half my plans for themod because of limits to the game engine
I can confirm what you've said here, tjedge1. Just keep pressing ok and it will go away. My brother is playing the mod as well, and to give people an idea of how cool it is, he just purchased Battlefield 2 that he's been anticipating for quite some time but he still plays the mod as much as it!
I'm glad you guys are enjoying the mod. It makes it feel worth the last 2 years building the thing.
And Dave L, tell your wife I'm sorry. ;)
It's been years since I played Civ III, so I bought a download version of Civ III Complete to get the two expansions (my original CD seems to have gone walkabout), and I just installed it now.All I can say is wow! It seems you've really been busy!
I'm a bit behind when it comes to all the expansions and stuff. It seems that there are three versions of the game, and three different editors. Are they at all compatible or what? Things have changed a lot since Civ III came out, it seems. It's all a bit confusing.
Unfortunately I have to go to work, so I don't have any time to start a game, but I had a look at the maps. The terrain looks impressive, and the maps aren't bad. I'd really like to see a very accurate map too, though. (All this cartography has made me very picky it seems! :P ) It seems to me that it would be better to make a Known World-only map, or a map encompassing the Known World, the Isle of Dawn and at least part of Alphatia, to cover the problem of lack of space in southwestern Brun. The full world map could then be made more accurate, and you'd have to pick and choose which civilisations to put there.
Of course, that's just how I would do things. ;)
I haven't ruled out the possibility of making a map myself, although it would take a lot of time away from my other mapmaking. And I'm not sure whether it would turn out to be that good...
I can't wait to get home from work and play around with this more!
beeing a fan of CivIII and Mystara I just had to try this out, but unfortunately I dont get it to run. The problem is that I have the german version of the game and thus the directories are all named german so I guess your links to directories dont work.
Is there an easy fix for that, or do I have to get the english version?
I've been wanting to have a look at your mod for a while now, and last night I finally found some free time.
All I can say is wow! It seems you've really been busy!
I'm a bit behind when it comes to all the expansions and stuff. It seems that there are three versions of the game, and three different editors. Are they at all compatible or what? Things have changed a lot since Civ III came out, it seems. It's all a bit confusing.
Unfortunately I have to go to work, so I don't have any time to start a game, but I had a look at the maps. The terrain looks impressive, and the maps aren't bad. I'd really like to see a very accurate map too, though. (All this cartography has made me very picky it seems! :P ) It seems to me that it would be better to make a Known World-only map, or a map encompassing the Known World, the Isle of Dawn and at least part of Alphatia, to cover the problem of lack of space in southwestern Brun. The full world map could then be made more accurate, and you'd have to pick and choose which civilisations to put there.
Of course, that's just how I would do things. ;)
I haven't ruled out the possibility of making a map myself, although it would take a lot of time away from my other mapmaking. And I'm not sure whether it would turn out to be that good...
I can't wait to get home from work and play around with this more!
I actually plan to do something like what you describe for the Wrath of Immortals scenario I was planning. It won't be exact to the books due to the lack of events editing, but the war itself is quite possible. I can lock the alliances and see a fight to the death. I'm going to replace some of the civs with others that were left out of the total mod, like Graakhalia, Ulimwengu, Soderfjord Jarldoms, Ylaruam, Thothia, Ochelea, Aengmor and the Hinterlands. Then I would make a map of the Known World, Great Waste, Alphatia and the tips of Skothar and Davania and everything in between on up to Frosthaven. I figure for this map to be accurate will be really big (like 200x200) or more and Alphatia and the Isle of Dawn will be scaled down so Thyatis and Alphatia are not so overwhelmingly powerful. If you want to try this map you can, so far nobody has succeeded. At civfanatics.com they have a board with utilities that help in making maps easier, including one that converts bmp's to biq. Biq is the Conquests map file extension. THere is another World map version that is goingto be far more accurate and detailed than the previous ones, but it is really huge. That one might be released after a while, it will take some time to set it up. THe guy who designed it made everything exact in scale, but the KNown world is so small that the civs that belong there just don't fit, so I have debated wether or not to expand it myself and ruins a lot of what he has done just for gameplay. I think I will since it is a game and it will still have the Mystara feel when I'm done, just the rest of Brun might be cramped. Not that there is much more of it as far as the mod goes.
As far as the editors go, just use the Conquests one. It can open all the older ones and is more up to date with newer and easier options, like enslavement and ground stealth attacks. ;) Conquests is the last expansion and Complete is the same thing basically. Play the World and Civ III can not use the Conquest material at all. But Conquests can use theirs. I hope that made sense.
Hi
beeing a fan of CivIII and Mystara I just had to try this out, but unfortunately I dont get it to run. The problem is that I have the german version of the game and thus the directories are all named german so I guess your links to directories dont work.
Is there an easy fix for that, or do I have to get the english version?
The only way to make it work would be to rename all the directories to what they are named in the text files in the mod. That would be severely time consuming. Sorry. If you have the cash, it might be easier just to get the Civ3Complete in English. Other than that, you could just go through and rename all the directories in English, but then the regular game would no longer work.
I wish I could do more, sorry.http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=73272
thank you!
Civilization Fanatics some time ago, and every once in a while would go back and visit to see how progress was coming. It has been a while since I checked indeed. I'll need to download, and/or buy a copy myself to try this out.
Thorf, do you have a link for where you downloaded your copy?
Thanks,
GW
It all went pretty smoothly, and it was my first experience downloading a game like that.
GW
There is an expansion patch in the making right now, as soon as some of the missing graphics are finished. It was planned for July, but none of the artists working on the units have gotten back to me. I think I'll have to send them some pm's by the end of the month. So basically, if you see anything you want changed, let me know you're opinion. It might actually affect my decisions in the patch.
There are however 2 things that I noticed and personally dont like so please take this as constructive critic.
- the movement speed. Is it really necessary that youve doubled the speed of the units relatively to the normal game(infantery moves 2 squares, cavalry 4 swquares, ...) That leads to suprisingly fast sneak attacks, that the AIs can settle around you, without giving you a chance to react and makes combats very difficult to predict.
- mining/farming. I dont think its a good idea to restrict civilizations in doing these IMHO very fundamental things, even if its explainable for flavor reasons. A rockhome civilization will never be able to produce really large cities because of the lack of farming, and thus could be VERY restricted in a game where it is not possible to expand much.
Overall a big
from me!Not being able to build big cities for Rockhome actually does balance against the huge cities of the humans. Most human civs can't mine so they get big cities with less production. It really does balance out in the end and the civs that can mine are the only ones that get the Mushroom resource which is very good for food. So in effect the smaller dwarf city can build just as fast as the bigger human or elf city. Sometimes better, since they can mine forests which have a lot of food, and farming civs cut down the forests to get more food and then lose the production the forest also gives.
These are 2 things that I spent a lot of time working as best I could into the game during the 6 months of testing. The Civ3 hard code is very restrictive unfortunately. Although it restricts and causing the AI to more aggresive with sneak attacks, I felt these would add a level of challenge to the game that other mods didn't. :evillaugh
I am happy you enjoy it otherwise and there are ways of working around this in Civ 4 that I will be working out, when it is released. ;)