Whats This

The Big Mc · February 23, 2002, 17:59

Hay I have been looking at the activison ctp 1 site and I noticed a tile imp in this pic I have not seen before can any body help

Locutus · February 23, 2002, 18:25

That pic looks VERY different from the actual game, so it's probably an early pre-release screenshot. I've never seen that tileimp (the one on the water, I assume that's what you're referring to) so I think they replaced it before the game was released.

The Big Mc · February 25, 2002, 08:39

Well that’s not all there is also a cool unit on the page that looks a bit like the war walker.
So is there anyway of getting them off apolyton or do I have to unpack the battering ram and aim it at activisons hard drive.

Martin Gühmann · February 25, 2002, 10:12

Every unit sprite that was in CTP1 can also be found on your harddrive in your ..\ctp2_data\default\graphics\sprites\ directory. You find there unit sprites with just to digids in their names. That are the CTP1 ones. The numbers assigned to the units can be found in the spritID.txt. By the way if there is no sprite entry in the newssprite.txt than the according entry in the spriteID.txt is used. This way would allow us to use 300 unit graphics in one mod. And if you want to know how the CTP1 war walker locks than take a look on your avatar.

-Martin

Pedrunn · February 25, 2002, 10:53

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Originally posted by Martin Gühmann
And if you want to know how the CTP1 war walker locks than take a look on your avatar.

Life is ironic, isnt?

The Big Mc · February 25, 2002, 11:54

Well the IQ on apolyton must have drop in the holidays I a remember saying

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that looks a bit like the war walker

And that it was not the war walker as I know that’s my avatar

Well I have attached the image of activsion so make your on mind up on the unit

An is this not ironic if we just would have read the posts

Immortal Wombat · February 25, 2002, 12:10

No no, that is the same War Walker...

It is going a different way though

The Big Mc · February 25, 2002, 13:13

So go on wombat explain this, look at the walker and tell me were the missiles are look at the shadow you can see it is different, there is two guns on it and that is it. It can’t have just fired it’s standing there missile less with legs under it and not bolted to the side in style it looks like it is an early version of the walker. And put on to that it has a flat top and not the different one of my avatar

Immortal Wombat · February 25, 2002, 13:42

Sorry, yeah, you're right, they are different, but it does look like you're going to have to unpack that battering ram and aim it at Activision.

It agree, it looks like some sort of early version of the war walker that the unit was based on.

The Big Mc · February 26, 2002, 05:41

Great minds final think a like I did the same thing as you with the screen shot I was just about to post it.

Well the ram will get unpacked tonight. the e-mail will be drafted spell checked and put on this thread when everybody is happy with it. we send it.

Ha Ha the declaration of war.

The Big Mc · February 26, 2002, 07:55

This is the mail I am tempted to mail Activsion with

Dear sir or madam

I have been a member of Apolyton for some time now and when I went on your web site to have a look at the your Call To Power site I noticed a tile improvement and unit on your site that were missing from Call To Power or Call To power 2. At this point I posted a section on Apolyton to see if anybody else had seen the tile improvement or unit on there copy of Call To power or Call To power 2 at this a number of people responded each not having seen the said improvement or unit before.

As advised by some other members of Apolton I am e-mailing you to see if you have the unit and tile improvement on file that you could send me or post on Apolyton so that it can be used to further improve a brilliant game.

Yours faithfully

The Big Mc

The Big Mc · February 26, 2002, 09:41

found a better pic but it is hard to see it the reddish thing doing a runner at the top of the screen

and boy does it look like the war waker

Pedrunn · February 26, 2002, 09:53

I hope they still have some of those unused sprites and i will pry so that they aswer. This is a major addition to the community!

The Big Mc · February 26, 2002, 09:59

I just can’t believe no one has seen them before

Oh and the e-mail has been sent
But that’s the only unit I see which was unused

I am just after it because it look related to my avatar they could be brothers

Martin Gühmann · February 26, 2002, 10:06

Actual for the unknown improvement you can grap it from the picture directly. If you like to know if there are some more unused units in CTP1 than take a look on the unit my unit GL picture pack that is available here on Apolyton, or take a look on my avatar, to realise that there is also an unused UFO sprite in CTP1.

-Martin

The Big Mc · February 26, 2002, 10:12

I know about the unused sprites but this looks like an early version of the walker we could have been left behind when the CD was sent to print

Oh and if any body wants to know what that looks like take a look at his avatar

The Big Mc · February 27, 2002, 06:01

I think I know why they did not put it in. it hit my last night when I was watching the tv the unit is a good likeness for the one of robocop the one that’s always going down or being hack in to.

The Big Mc · March 4, 2002, 08:29

Well I finally got a mail back form activsion it said

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Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us here at Activision.

The only improvements for either game that we would have officially released or supported for either one of these titles would be available in the patches for either game. The Call To Power 1.2 patch is here-

http://www.activision.com/downloads/55.asp

And the Call To Power II patch is here-

http://www.activision.com/downloads/279.asp

Any other imrovements or additions to the game are not supported and are not something I can direct you to for a place to find them. Someone may have created an some additional files that could conceivably be added to the game but, again, they are not something that we have released or support.

Please let me know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Don’t panic I sent a nice one back demanding a new patch with the files included

Chance of victory not so good

tigger · March 4, 2002, 08:52

Well I feel sorry for Activision, I mean here we are actually asking for a game they released to be playable. Pah...there's not pleasing some people!

The Big Mc · March 4, 2002, 09:07

I hope you know what I am fighting for a unit and a tile imp

ha ha ha

Martin Gühmann · March 4, 2002, 11:31

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Please let me know if there is anything else we can do for you.

What about the CTP2 source code, at least we should ask. As we think taht the game is unfinished, we can't expect from Activision the final patch and Activision has no commercial interests in this game, so some reasons less to not release the source code and if they won't release the source code we should ask if it is possible that they will do it some time and if yes when.

-Martin

tigger · March 4, 2002, 11:36

I really don't think they will but I think it would be great if they did!

The Big Mc · March 5, 2002, 05:39

With the tile imp I have some leverage the source code almost none

But I will attach you question to it. when they give me the go to apolyton speech again which was a common theme of the last mail.

Lets rattle the sabre

ha ha ha

Martin Gühmann · March 5, 2002, 11:44

I am shure that I would find the support e-mail address on my own that you use but it would be much easier if you post it here so we all could send our source code demands to them.

-Martin

The Big Mc · March 6, 2002, 05:50

Yes I have to do a bit more sabre rattling they have not mailed me back yet

The Big Mc · March 11, 2002, 08:35

news update That’s great they have ignored me now that’s customer service for from activison second only to every one else

The Big Mc · March 12, 2002, 05:48

Well got a replay of activsion and guess what the fountain of infinite knowledge said

The ctp 2 team are no longer together

Well that took me about five seconds to realise wen I sent the first mail.

Martin Gühmann · March 12, 2002, 09:51

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Originally posted by The Big Mc
Well got a replay of activsion and guess what the fountain of infinite knowledge said

The ctp 2 team are no longer together

Well that took me about five seconds to realise wen I sent the first mail.

Wow so much new information here, but I am still curious what the fountain of infinite knowlegde will say us about the CTP2 source code.

-Martin

The Big Mc · March 12, 2002, 11:01

Sours code. the second I get the unit then I will ask for the sours code at the moment I don’t want to ask for to much there more likely to say good bye.

God to see some body reads the up dates I make

The Big Mc · March 15, 2002, 05:06

I think I upset the bloke at activsion he sounds really upset with me

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Response (Michael Hill) 03/14/2002 08:46 AM
Hi,

There is no one here higher than myself in the email department. As I said, there is nobody to contact about this particular issue. There are no planned updates and there is no person who can grant access to any of the files for this game. This really is all that I have left to say on this matter so please consider it closed.

Well Activsion have stoned walled me but that is not the end of the mater

I have this idea that if I could find someone with a very early version of ctp like the test copies sent out the unit may be in there.