Like most people our support team have the weekend off,
but they should get back to you later today. I have a few ideas I will pass on to the support team but I don't want to get into your specific machine in the forum.Edwin
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Rome Total War: Will It Ever Come Out?
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Like most people our support team have the weekend off,
but they should get back to you later today. I have a few ideas I will pass on to the support team but I don't want to get into your specific machine in the forum.Edwin
Thanks for the suggestions, I cannot comment but your posts have been noted.
Edwin
Cool, I might pick it up if it could be put on Steam, easier than buying from the US. I wonder how it would work though, I assume the Mac and PC version would be two separate games and you would have to buy them both separately, guess we are just gonna have to wait and see.
It's available to buy in most countries in the world without needing to import it.
Yes the Mac version is not the PC version, they are separate and would not be under the same license key. The PC and Mac versions are under different publishing deals so are separate products.
Think of it like the PS3 and the 360, if you download a game for the 360 you don't get a free PS3 copy. Same thing applies with Mac and PC, buying a copy of a game on Windows does not mean it works on Mac.
Edwin
But really the only place I know of to buy Mac games in Australia is gameswarehouse, which is out of stock. Plus I just really like Steam, having the games all tied to your account, easily playing them on any computer etc. Hopefully my ISP has unmetered Mac games on Steam as well.
ppc patch
Could i test the ppc patch beta? I have a g5 and mirror drive door g4, and i own the intel version which i play on my macbook pro. im new so i can't pm but my email is apboche@gmail.com. Thanks!
Could i test the ppc patch beta? I have a g5 and mirror drive door g4, and i own the intel version which i play on my macbook pro. im new so i can't pm but my email is apboche@gmail.com. Thanks!
Noted your name and email I will drop you an email when something is available for external people.
Edwin
Gaming update
I've finished my first campaign game in victory as the Franks. Good fun, this campaign didn't crash once.
However, I had one glitch. It looked like the auto-move feature took a stack of ships onto the English countryside. The ships got stuck on the actual land and did not move, even through end turns. This glictch DID NOT crash the game and it didn't really do anything except deprive me of the use of the particular units.
Fortunately, when I reloaded BI the next day to continue the campaign, the problem self-corrected and the ships were back in the water were they belonged - ready to pillage and plunder.
If not for the fact that they were pretty much utterly destroyed by pirates over the next two turns put an end to that though...
Still, great job Feral!
I've finished my first campaign game in victory as the Franks. Good fun, this campaign didn't crash once.
However, I had one glitch. It looked like the auto-move feature took a stack of ships onto the English countryside. The ships got stuck on the actual land and did not move, even through end turns. This glictch DID NOT crash the game and it didn't really do anything except deprive me of the use of the particular units.
Fortunately, when I reloaded BI the next day to continue the campaign, the problem self-corrected and the ships were back in the water were they belonged - ready to pillage and plunder.
If not for the fact that they were pretty much utterly destroyed by pirates over the next two turns put an end to that though...
Still, great job Feral!
If you get something like that in the future, email your save game. To do this make a save called "Glitch" or similar as soon as you see it and send it to us. The one you described sounds like a PC bug which we have seen a few times on Windows and Mac. But if you do have a bug that you can reload from a save send it to us and we can investigate.
Edwin
Perhaps this is widely known, but why was a multiplayer campaign mode never created for this game or its expansions? Its lack surely would be the only thing preventing RTW from being the greatest strategy game of all time. If the game can handle coordinating RTS for multiplayer, what's so tough about the turn based campaign?
I don't know but I can have a guess... The number of variables to keep in sync is very complex and you have knock on effects that you need to deal with, with only one Human and the rest being AI the problem is simple once you get two humans you get lots of questions.
A few simple ones I can think of are who controls the AI threading? What happens when humans negotiate with humans? How do you control the senate in the game when you have two humans playing as the other human players skill will be hard to evaluate etc etc. All of these might have simple answers but all of them are not currently dealt with inside the Rome code so would need to have custom code written for them.
Basically I think it would be a great feature but I think it also has loads of problems that don't appear obvious but the more you think about it the bigger side effects and problems might occur. As Rome had the greatest popularity as a single player game and coop play was not yet popular as a genre when it was developed, I guess it was overlooked as a valid option.
Edwin
In the particular case of my Franks campaign, I did save it as soon as the ship stack got stuck on land. However, it resolved itself when I reloaded that same saved game. I also couldn't get the error to repeat/
I didn't fret the crash with the Carthaginian campaign, because I started a new game and it didn't reoccur. But, I can still send the saved game for the Carthaginians along to the support email.
Cannot use siege towers?
I'm laying siege to carthage and it has large stone walls. But when my siege towers get up to the walls, none of my units "can be equipped with them" and the ones that were automatically assigned to the towers either instantly drop them or seem to be stuck trying to get in at the bottom.
I did a quick search on the net and it seems that this is a bug on the PC side too. But I just wanted to check to see if I was doing something wrong....
PS Any tips on how to beat elephants defending in a siege? Flaming arrows routs them but once I'm close to the town square they come back into battle pretty quickly.
I'm laying siege to carthage and it has large stone walls. But when my siege towers get up to the walls, none of my units "can be equipped with them" and the ones that were automatically assigned to the towers either instantly drop them or seem to be stuck trying to get in at the bottom.
I did a quick search on the net and it seems that this is a bug on the PC side too. But I just wanted to check to see if I was doing something wrong....
PS Any tips on how to beat elephants defending in a siege? Flaming arrows routs them but once I'm close to the town square they come back into battle pretty quickly.
There are many anti-elephant tactics but in order to give you the best answer I'd need to know what faction your playing as
Is there a Feral-approved way of playing without the CD, or are there plans of ever releasing a no-CD patch?
It is really annoying to have the CD on the whole time, especially when it just pops open when the computer turns on, not very nice when you have to take your laptop to a meeting let alone do a presentation...
It is really annoying to have the CD on the whole time, especially when it just pops open when the computer turns on, not very nice when you have to take your laptop to a meeting let alone do a presentation...
Currently the DVD is required. We get asked about this a lot, so I can say that we're working on a new solution, but right now I don't have a date for when that'll be ready.
A possible workaround for the 'game popping up in a presentation' thing… not many people know this but if you hold down the mouse/trackpad button as you start up your Mac, it ejects the disc before OS X starts. Still requires you to remember that the disc is in there though!
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Add Scenarios
Been Playing for three weeks.
Wanted to add some of the other historical scenarios, like Watling Street. Drilled down through the disk icon that shows when you start playing and found the folder, but it is locked. How do you unlock so I can add the files to it? Anyone tried?
Been Playing for three weeks.
Wanted to add some of the other historical scenarios, like Watling Street. Drilled down through the disk icon that shows when you start playing and found the folder, but it is locked. How do you unlock so I can add the files to it? Anyone tried?
It is not supported but if you convert the image to read write you can then edit the contents just like the PC version. I plan to try and get a documented but unsupported "how to" guide at some point.
I have seen people in forums saying they have had mods working so you should be good to go.
Edwin
My understanding of converting a file to read write is to click on it once and get info and then in Sharing & Permissions make changes. Unless those are not the steps, I do them and then still after unlocking the master lock icon, I can not make any changes.
That is correct for files NOT volumes. If the volume is a Read Only volume you need to convert the entire thing to a Read/Write volume. The RomeData.dmg is a compressed and read only volume. You need to use DiskUtility or DropDMG to convert it to a Read/Write format, you can then edit away.
Edwin
Right! Did it with DiskUtility. That worked, but just so people know, it made the file grow from 4 gigs to 15 gigs.