Conceptual Balance Mod 1.41

DonCorazon · #1 April 28th, 2009, 01:23 AM

I like that idea. It would be cool and maybe help balance things if it specified a region of provinces where it might be found.

"A merchant arrives with tales that a mystical portal called the Ultimate Gateway has been found. His tales indicate it could lie in X, Y. or Z province."

Burnsaber · #2 April 28th, 2009, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by DonCorazon

I like that idea. It would be cool and maybe help balance things if it specified a region of provinces where it might be found.

"A merchant arrives with tales that a mystical portal called the Ultimate Gateway has been found. His tales indicate it could lie in X, Y. or Z province."

That would be nice. But it cannot be done (nor can anything like that, actually) with the current modding tools. One can always dream..

But since we are talking about MP here, you could just devise a new rule on the games one hosts.

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"If a player finds a magical site [X, Y, Z] he must immediately send a message (using the in-game messaging system) to all other players about the finding and the province number where the site lies."

It's pretty easy to cheat out of this, but it can be pretty easily checked after the game if the guy actually had left a "I win!" site unannounced.

Illuminated One · #3 April 28th, 2009, 05:06 PM

Hmm, I like the idea, really.
Maybe when I have time (and it can be added to llamaserver) I could make an external tool that does this.

chrispedersen · #4 April 28th, 2009, 08:51 PM

Hrm. p3e or pyg could actually probably code this; the guy that did the msg checker.

All you would have to do is check compile a list of unique sites and search the turn file for them. If found modify the turn file to include a message to everyone saying "Player Y has found Site X yada yada yada".

.*all*.

lch · #5 April 29th, 2009, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Hrm. p3e or pyg could actually probably code this; the guy that did the msg checker.

That was Illuminated One, who already posted above.

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

If found modify the turn file to include a message to everyone saying "Player Y has found Site X yada yada yada"

That's nothing else than hacking the turn files. It would require breaking through the game's safety measures. A program that just reads the turn files and finds out if a nation found a new site that hasn't been uncovered before, then allows to prepare a MOTD on a website or an email to all, would be quite a feat.