Europa Portugalis discussion thread

[Marshall Thomas]

It will run as far as the screen where you choose your country and options- then when I select Start. The screen then switches to the initializing screen- but before the green bar gets 25% to the right, a set-up box appears which says: critical error! -Could't open file: EP/scenarios/1419.inc Do you still want to continue?

Then the screen is paused and eventually goes back to my icons. Does anyone know what I sould do?

 

[unmerged(31425)]

It will run as far as the screen where you choose your country and options- then when I select Start. The screen then switches to the initializing screen- but before the green bar gets 25% to the right, a set-up box appears which says: critical error! -Could't open file: EP/scenarios/1419.inc Do you still want to continue?

Then the screen is paused and eventually goes back to my icons. Does anyone know what I sould do?

Make sure that folder is there. If it is, I would try unisntalling AGCEEP or moving it to another folder other than EU2.

 

[Bodders]

It will run as far as the screen where you choose your country and options- then when I select Start. The screen then switches to the initializing screen- but before the green bar gets 25% to the right, a set-up box appears which says: critical error! -Could't open file: EP/scenarios/1419.inc Do you still want to continue?

Then the screen is paused and eventually goes back to my icons. Does anyone know what I sould do?

Did you install to your EU2 game folder? So, in your EU2 folder there should be another folder called 'EP'. Sounds like it can't find 'EP' from the 'root' - which in this case is the EU2 folder. If that 'EP' folder does exist then check the 'scenarios' folder inside it to see if the file is there.

Basically, re-install and make sure it's the EU2 folder that you choose to install in, don't add another entry to it, like 'EP' thinking you have to make a new directory. The installer does that itself.

If it doesn't work, re-download and re-install - maybe a corrupted download if you did install to the right folder.

 

[unmerged(32970)]

It will run as far as the screen where you choose your country and options- then when I select Start. The screen then switches to the initializing screen- but before the green bar gets 25% to the right, a set-up box appears which says: critical error! -Could't open file: EP/scenarios/1419.inc Do you still want to continue?

Then the screen is paused and eventually goes back to my icons. Does anyone know what I sould do?

I just installed EP for the first time and had exactly the same problem. What was going wrong was that I had to browse to find the EU2 folder. When I selected it, what I actually got was a path to ....\Europa Universalis 2\New Folder - which doesn't work. So check EXACTLY where EP is being installed. The EP folder should be directly within the EU2 folder. Then it should work OK.

I had 2 other minor problems. The save folder within the scenario folder wasn't created, so I had to make it manually before I could save anything. The desktop icon wasn't found so I had to track that down manually too (it's in the icons folder within EP if you have the same problem!).

I've started as England and am impressed. Crushing France (France) was easy but getting peace out of France (Dauphine) was a real pain - cost me Orleanais in the end, but a +10 WE I wasn't in much position to argue about it any further.

 

[Bodders]

I've started as England and am impressed. Crushing France (France) was easy but getting peace out of France (Dauphine) was a real pain - cost me Orleanais in the end, but a +10 WE I wasn't in much position to argue about it any further.

Yes - see my mini-rant in the 1.5 playtest results thread

Save and reload around Jan 1423 before the newly created France can beat back what you've done to Dauphine

Whilst I have no problem with Dauphine, when it becomes 'new' France, being very powerful and kicking me off the continent in the mid fifteenth century (in fact, I look forward to it), I do think it's a bit silly that he won't accept peace even when I'm totally pasting him as Dauphine (before he forms France).

However, having said that, if this is the price to pay for the power of 'new' France then I am willing to do so. Only IDLF knows for sure if this is the case. I now know that getting to 'warscore' of 50 or so leads to a white peace being possible so I can do this in future.

 

[Marshall Thomas]

If playing a major(England) on very hard/coward in AGC-EEP was much too easy- especially when it came to dominating world trade and colonization, should I play EP on normal/coward? Would it be better to play on hard or very hard/weakling? I want to play my first campaign in EP as a major(England, France, or Castille), and I am hoping for a very difficult campaign- as I just abandoned an AGC-EEP game which was not close at all. Ideally, I would really like a grand campaign in which there was not a clear winner until the end of the Napoleanic era.

 

[unmerged(31425)]

If playing a major(England) on very hard/coward in AGC-EEP was much too easy- especially when it came to dominating world trade and colonization, should I play EP on normal/coward? Would it be better to play on hard or very hard/weakling? I want to play my first campaign in EP as a major(England, France, or Castille), and I am hoping for a very difficult campaign- as I just abandoned an AGC-EEP game which was not close at all. Ideally, I would really like a grand campaign in which there was not a clear winner until the end of the Napoleanic era.

Well I've been challenged, while playing as a major, on coaward/normal. In fact I just quit a game as Sweden, because what I was doing didn't work and Denmark just clobbered me. So, my opinion is try it on coward/normal and then if you feel you can easily handle more, then try it on a harder level.

 

[Bodders]

If playing a major(England) on very hard/coward in AGC-EEP was much too easy- especially when it came to dominating world trade and colonization, should I play EP on normal/coward? Would it be better to play on hard or very hard/weakling? I want to play my first campaign in EP as a major(England, France, or Castille), and I am hoping for a very difficult campaign- as I just abandoned an AGC-EEP game which was not close at all. Ideally, I would really like a grand campaign in which there was not a clear winner until the end of the Napoleanic era.

Well, it depends what you mean by 'very difficult'. I don't think it's possible to have a game that's difficult to play as England in the sense that you can just give up the fight for France pretty quickly and focus on exploration/colonisation when you get the chance. The AI simply can't do invasions very well so your 'home' is safe. If you don't fight for other major's colonies but just take what you can then you can have a fine and dandy (and peaceful) game for the great majority of the time.

Now, having said that, in EP, unlike in vanilla/other mods, you will not be able to dominate trade in every CoT and the other powers will colonise and trade aggressively. In EP 1.4 I was in 6th place by the early seventeenth century and could see it still being close in victory points for the remaining time period. I'm not sure how EP 1.5 plays out as I've only just started but I'm sure it will only be harder not easier.

Castille is similar as you can probably avoid Iberian wars though you will have a few land wars in Europe. France will have more wars to fight but you are one of the two military superpowers in continental Europe so I'm not sure how difficult it would be.

In addition, if like me, you can't be bothered to refine your tech research beyond roughly equal in all then you'll be behind all game (including in infra and trade) which is a lot of fun

So, in my opinion, you can have a close game without it being difficult - I hope you understand my point

 

[unmerged(31425)]

In addition, if like me, you can't be bothered to refine your tech research beyond roughly equal in all then you'll be behind all game (including in infra and trade) which is a lot of fun

Actually the AIs don't do this themselves. They heavily tech land, I suspect the DP land setting may be a factor in this too, as I've noticed that land 10 AIs tend to lag in naval tech and land 0 AIs do not. But either way, land is the tech they invest in the heaviest. Naval is second. They seem to invest less than 25% each in infra and trade sadly. And they will also invest in stab, but not all, or at least I haven't seen that yet, if their stab is low.

This of course is why the AIs have such high land tech. In fact in other versions, we often get a false sense of their tech strength, because they are doing this. In the mid or late game, we see a few other AIs not very far behind us in land tech and erroneously believe they are probably only 1 or 2 infra and trade tech levels behind us, when in actuality it may very well be 3 or 4.

 

[Marshall Thomas]

I am playing EP(as England), and thus far it is great. Even in just the first five years, one instantly notices the improved AI. I do however have a technical problem. My game will not autosave and when I go to save it myself- the game crashes with a critical error. Unfortunately, my first seven years as England were lost. I really need to fix this problem in order to restart my campaign- hopefully tonight. Can anyone please help? Thanks

 

[unmerged(31425)]

I am playing EP(as England), and thus far it is great. Even in just the first five years, one instantly notices the improved AI. I do however have a technical problem. My game will not autosave and when I go to save it myself- the game crashes with a critical error. Unfortunately, my first seven years as England were lost. I really need to fix this problem in order to restart my campaign- hopefully tonight. Can anyone please help? Thanks

That's really strange. It's true that I uploaded it without an auto-save, but my version autosaved it just fine. I'd say try and go to the menu options and tell it to autosave at whatever interval is relevant to you. If that doesn't work I'd go to the EU2/scenarios/saved games file and try and copy and paste an auto save on to the scenarios/saved game file of EP. If you do this, make sure you copy and paste both the files for the autosaves. They have 2 for each saved game, one big one and one small one.

Anybody else having this problem so far?

 

[unmerged(36846)]

Aha yes I had this problem. Go to the EPfolder/scenarios and add a new folder : "Saved games". So there should be 2 folders: 1419 & Saved games.
Damn, I recently played 50 years with Spain and when saving I got this error!

 

[wolf4492000]

i have a problem, the only way I can play ep is to reinstall it, at the finish it says start ep i click yes, the reason this is the only way to play it is because the button I would use to start the games is one of the program unkown symbols, and I have the latest download, so any help to play this game is oppreciated

 

[unmerged(31425)]

i have a problem, the only way I can play ep is to reinstall it, at the finish it says start ep i click yes, the reason this is the only way to play it is because the button I would use to start the games is one of the program unkown symbols, and I have the latest download, so any help to play this game is oppreciated

That is odd. I'll have to ask either Khefren or my programmer friend about that one. It may take a little while to get an answer for you on that one.

 

[Khephren]

That's a new one to me Are you referring to the desktop shortcut?

 

[wolf4492000]

yes the desktop shortcut and the main button under programs.

Also thanks for what ever help you can give, and if it takes awhile, I will live, also I just discovered that when I have it installed, that if I click on agc-eep, I will get EP, but not AGC-EEP, can I have both, or not.

 

[Marshall Thomas]

I am playing as England- fighting in the hundred years war during the early 1420s. Whenever I have a battle with Dauphine' or Burgundy, my moral is very lacking. Usually, they are at very strong, while my troops are at just strong. I have my maintenance at all the way right. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks

 

[Marshall Thomas]

I am playing as England- fighting in the hundred years war during the early 1420s. Whenever I have a battle with Dauphine' or Burgundy, my moral is very lacking. Usually, they are at very strong, while my troops are at just strong. I have my maintenance at all the way right. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks

 

[Marshall Thomas]

I am playing as England- fighting in the hundred years war during the early 1420s. Whenever I have a battle with Dauphine' or Burgundy, my moral is very lacking. Usually, they are at very strong, while my troops are at just strong. I have my maintenance at all the way right. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks

 

[Bodders]

yes the desktop shortcut and the main button under programs.

Also thanks for what ever help you can give, and if it takes awhile, I will live, also I just discovered that when I have it installed, that if I click on agc-eep, I will get EP, but not AGC-EEP, can I have both, or not.

Right click on the icon and then on properties - check what the 'target' is, should be something like "C:\Games\Europa Universalis 2\EU2.exe" C:\Games\Europa Universalis 2\EP

That's for an installed copy of EU2 in 'Games\Europa Universalis 2' - also make sure when you install it that you make the directory for installation your EU2 main directory. The installation will create the required subdirectories automatically - it sounds like you might be installing it in the AGC-EEP folder by accident. Check the target for the AGC-EEP icon (should be the same as the above except \AGCEEP at the very end instead of \EP).