The AHD update thread

[GAGA Extrem]

Combine the matchlock and the lightning. Matchlock looking left, lightning facing right, crossing each other in the middle of the icon.

[KonradRichtmark]

Just a little status update. I've re-calculated inputs and outputs of factories, RGOs and artisans, and rewritten the relevant game files. Haven't had much time to do else, me and my wife are moving from our previous apartments to a new one to live together. Been packing stuff almost the whole week, and tomorrow will be spent hauling. And next weekend we move my wife's stuff.

[Havok9120]

Take your time. You do the work, its on your schedule. Just know that I'll be checking in at least once a day until you've got a Beta uploaded.

I'm very excited to see what you (and now, apparently GAGA (!!) can do with the game.

[KonradRichtmark]

Move to new apartment has been done, old apartments are abandoned and sealed up. All that remains is unpacking some 35 moving crates...

[GAGA Extrem]

Good luck with that.

I think we still have some stuff in the garage from moving a few years ago... x)

[Havok9120]

We were so packed up after our first move that when we moved again around a year later we had almost nothing to repackage.

After that move we still had something like half our stuff still in the garage after 7 months....

All of which was subsequently lost when the garage took 3 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina.

[KonradRichtmark]

Well, we don't have a garage, so some 30 crates are in the place where our new (as of yet not purchased) bed is going to be. In the meantime, we sleep on my sofa, which can be deployed into double-bed mode.

[GAGA Extrem]

Did I mention that I REALLY miss all the VRRP factories in AHD vanilla?
:'(

[KonradRichtmark]

Well, we're almost done unpacking the crates now, I even managed to squeeze in a little modding time yesterday

[GAGA Extrem]

Yay! ^-^

[KonradRichtmark]

Also, I think I'm going for now with the match only. Most of the icon would just be the flame, only the very top of the match-stick would be visible. Since we're dealing with very small icons (the tiny icon showing what an artisan is currently making being the smallest), it's best for the icon to be immediately recognizable.

Still, I'll most likely just use something quick-and-dirty as a placeholder until we've got VRRP properly running, so the issue isn't finally settled.

[KonradRichtmark]

Right, I managed to get the new graphics, updated buildings.txt and reworked POP needs (since I'm reversing the 10x magnification of all goods volumes I did a while back).

[KonradRichtmark]

Updated inventions according to factory input/output recalibration, and added new inventions and localisation entries for the power plants and their output-boosting inventions.

[KonradRichtmark]

Updated unit build/maintenance costs, and located and removed vanilla events that refer to nonexistent goods.

[GAGA Extrem]

yay! ^-^

[KonradRichtmark]

And I can state that I've managed to get an alpha build of VRRP 2.0 to run. As in, I was able to start the game with it without crashing. Apparently I've learned something over the course of a handful of major mod revisions. I'll do some more corrections and then upload a bundle.

[KonradRichtmark]

Here's the first alpha version of VRRP 2.0:

http://filesmelt.com/dl/VRRP_v2.0_alpha1_.rar

Mind you, it's not playable in the usual sense of the word, it's just a work in progress. Don't expect any gaming enjoyment to follow, don't bother to playtest (since much of VRRP hasn't even been put in, making the current bundle and inconsistent broken whole). I'm just putting this up in case other contributors need to see it for their own work.

[KonradRichtmark]

I'm going to do some macroeconomic testing with something like the alpha. Just to get a first idea about whether I need money supply regulation. I'd have to know that before I put in UNIT, whose role might change with AHD and the possibilities it offers.

[KonradRichtmark]

Good news. I think I've managed to get the money issue under control. I will be using dynamic money supply control via UNIT to allow the economy to grow at the pace of actual productivity increase, though it will only add money, which is far less problematic to implement than actually removing money like I had to do pre-AHD. Now that that has been taken care of, expect a playable VRRP 2.0 beta in a matter of days.

[KonradRichtmark]

Alpha 2 uploaded. This one's actually playable, it just misses loads and loads of essential features (particularly immigration) to the extent that it can scarcely be called a beta. But it gives a sneak peak of what to expect.