Zhanguo released - it's time to be an emperor!

Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 16:26

Hola, guys!

Zhanguo is now ready!!!! Who wants to be an emperor and playtest it?

Click here to access to Zhanguo web page and download it!

The scen is for MGE. But i need two or three volunteers to convert it to FW and ToT and to play test it to see if it works. Thanks.

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BeBro · February 9, 2001, 16:32

I can´t download, Prometeus, I received a 404 "not found" error...

Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 16:41

Problem solved...

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Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 17:01

Ooops, i forgot...

The beginnings of the war... my first victim was Chao... I splitted this stae int two pieces, and ate them one by one, by taking Jinyang...

... and final results ( i achieved a total victory after 235

turns - deity level ).

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Jay Bee · February 9, 2001, 17:34

Scusi signor Prometeus ma..., wasn't Chang Kuo the title of this scenario? Why the spelling change?

Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 17:38

El server caroñon mi cestinò il primo titolo, señor Jay Bee... Tiscali never takes spaces between words, so i choose pinyin trnslitteration instead of italian/Wade-Giles one...

BeBro · February 9, 2001, 18:07

Hey Prometeus, nice work! And it runs under FW, after using the MGEconverter. Only one problem, I can play the scenario, but only without events - at the start I get an events error everytime.

Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 18:18

Bernd, can you please tell me what to rmove in order to make it fully compatible with FW?

BeBro · February 9, 2001, 19:19

I solved the thing, Prometeus. It was related to my German civ version. You hadn´t included a labels.txt, so the scn tried to use the labels from my civ2 folder, but this file is of course the German version of the labels.txt, with the German term "Barbaren", instead of the English "Barbarians". Since your events use "Barbarians", the scn couldn´t find them, and the error appeared.

Simply solved it by using an labels.txt from another English scn.

Perhaps you can include the labels.txt you used for the scn in the zip for users of Non-English civ versions...

Now I can enjoy the full scn!

Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 19:23

Bernd i forgot to ask you... what do you think about Zhanguo page? i'm planning a web site restilyng and I'm interested in any kind of feedbacks... pages, colors, etc etc...

i remebered a thing... i should have edited txt files to place in chinese names also... thanks BeBro...
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Prometeus · February 9, 2001, 20:33

Mixing some of BeBro effects now... More to come tomorrow, I hope, once i'll stab what to modify again.

Mao · February 9, 2001, 21:06

How many sounds files are there? 2 or 3?

Prometeus · February 10, 2001, 03:12

Three, Mao... The third got corrupted while transferring, and i deleted backup copies

... so i'll have to redo that again.

Prometeus · February 10, 2001, 08:43

Hy... I setted some minor bugs and changed background. Also, i added a Label.txt file to better perform "scen athmosphere".

Ooops, i forgot. I'm collecting a few images for official version. Taka a look...

Ps if you'll stab to playtest this scen, please send me an e-mail. I need to check:

1) estinction of Chao.
2) Wei.
3) Ch'u.
4) Yen.
5) Ch'i.
6) Nanyue ( Nanhai ) conquest.
7) If Chao Te events worked properly on your pc too.
8) If The Annals texts worked without problem on your pc.
9) If you won before turn 235, please tell me.

Thanks.
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Prometeus · February 10, 2001, 14:03

* bump *

Mao · February 10, 2001, 23:20

Zhangou? Zhong gua?

Prometeus · February 11, 2001, 18:34

Zhanguo, Moa... ahem Mao.

Pinyin translitteration for the two ideograms depicting "war" and "state" -> "Warring states".

Last news... Sound3 is ready, and I'm playtesting it right now. Pedia is going to be added ( I managed somehow to modify it ). I deicided to not update with further graphics... "il troppo stroppia"

.

February 11, 2001, 18:41

Looks great!

February 11, 2001, 18:42

Hey Mao. Let's spam this place together!

February 11, 2001, 18:44

Don't worry, Prom. I'm not going to spam this. My name is not Builder!

Prometeus · February 12, 2001, 16:48

Hy my brave playtesters... how's playtesting going?

To And... ahem Chaos Warrior ( "il guerriero casinaro"... LOL

)

You spammer...

To BeBro

Can you please send me FW converted scen? Thanks.
PS I added your backgrounds to definitive version. Grazie mille!!!

BeBro · February 12, 2001, 17:23

On the way!

Chris 62 · February 12, 2001, 17:34

I havn't had the time to get deep into yet(and I'm going to make the time!), so I'll limit my remarks to first impressions. Pro, this might be the most visualy stuning scenario I've ever seen! The mountain gifs are spectacular. Mating age of empires and civilization together has produced a lovely atmosphere to this era. Many different and interesting units. I have one suggestion to make: Change the color of either Chin or Ch'u, as they are hard to tell apart(My bad eyes again!). A couple of shades deeper grey might be in order. Beautiful borders(And I can read them now!), just a first class job. I'll get the feedback info you want soon, and post it here or at the civfanatics.

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Prometeus · February 13, 2001, 05:20

To BeBro

Thanks! I received it a few minutes ago.

To Alc... ahem cpoulos

Colour hints for Ch'u? what about pink? or pale yellow?

Chris 62 · February 13, 2001, 08:13

quote:

Originally posted by Prometeus on 02-13-2001 04:20 AM
To Alc... ahem cpoulos
Colour hints for Ch'u? what about pink? or pale yellow?

HEY!

Pink or pale yellow would be fine!

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Wangshibo · February 13, 2001, 10:49

It's wonderful isn't it. I've never seen another Civ2 scenario that really captured the spirit of the warring states.

I have one pretty minor gripe, and that's that the units aren't sufficiently diverse - I open my city screen and whoa! there's about 20 different units, but they aren't so different - I think. This comes with the caveat that I've only played about 10 hours so far and there may be more to it than I've discovered.

Otherwise - Zhen Hao! Zhe shi Tianxia di yi ge ! ! !
Gongxi, gongxi ni.

Prometeus · February 13, 2001, 16:49

Wangshinbo... surprise!!!

.

But i need to work a little on it...

Prometeus · February 14, 2001, 16:44

Wow!!!! E' proprio il caso di dirlo in italiano, ma chi cerca trova...

The Qin dinasty history page .

too bad there are only Ch'in/Qin units...

Prometeus · February 15, 2001, 05:09

Third update: all of the revised Zhanguo files are now available on my website, included Sound3.

Mao · February 17, 2001, 09:59

quote:

Originally posted by Wangshibo on 02-13-2001 09:49 AM
It's wonderful isn't it. I've never seen another Civ2 scenario that really captured the spirit of the warring states.

I have one pretty minor gripe, and that's that the units aren't sufficiently diverse - I open my city screen and whoa! there's about 20 different units, but they aren't so different - I think. This comes with the caveat that I've only played about 10 hours so far and there may be more to it than I've discovered.

Otherwise - Zhen Hao! Zhe shi Tianxia di yi ge ! ! !
Gongxi, gongxi ni.

quote:

Originally posted by Mao on 02-06-2001 12:51 PM
Wang! Where have you been? Left DotW? There's been a restart anyway so I no longer control China. But I believe that all of China is open so if you wanna take it...

!!!