27th of March 2010 - New 4.1 beta

[Johan]

Since we have our big MP office game running every week, several developers seem to check in fixes at evenings or weekends..

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468050 for the full list, but we mostly strengthened the Ottomans, improved interface, made navalcombat more strategic and did some minor balance tweaks.

NOTE:
- this beta patch is only available to those who have a copy of the EU3 base game or EU3:Complete registered.
- Like other betas it has no installer, so you must be comfortable with manual file and archive handling to install it.
- Save game (and User Mod) compatibility is never guaranteed, we recommend finishing any valued games before installation.
- All bug reports against this version will only be accepted if from games started afresh under this version.

 

[Trin Tragula]

Well, I'll just do what I did when I modded Arsenal of Democracy and ran into an issue - I'll make a new mod folder and folder by folder add in the files to see which one causes the problems.

The error logs turn up nothing?

 

[Trin Tragula]

And the logs show nothing. I'll check through the other files modified tomorrow.

If you use notepad++ there's a very nice "compare" feature that I usually use on all files that's been modified since the last beta. Did so this time as well and was able to launch my own mod without any problems.
The new, ottoman, tech group did take some work to adapt for, even if it's unused in the mod I was adapting it for.

 

[Trin Tragula]

What's with the decision "ai_will_do_title"? When I got to 4 magistrates, it showed up in all my provinces, but the tooltip shows nothing at all, about anything.

If that shows up it means a decision somewhere is bugged (either by using faulty commands or because it's lacking brackets).
It's a common side effect for typos in decisions (a decision somewhere has been "cut short" by the game and it's parts are showing as independent decisions instead that doesn't do anything).

 

[Trin Tragula]

If theres an Ottoman techgroup does that mean muslim, indian, chinese, african and newworld tech groups have another hoop to jump through to able to westernize fully?

Depends entirely on how the westernization decisions are scripted.
It will however affect map spread.

 

[Trin Tragula]

I'm using the same mod as Tuore, and the setup.log ends like this:

Looks to me like the error shows up when starting a game and not when the game is loading?
Your problem might actually be the text rendering crash bug in that case. There's supposed to be a new beta out tomorrow that fixes that so if your lucky the problem will go away