Imperium Francorum Universalis Screenshots/info

[JohnMK]

I'd love to help translate some of the events, nation descriptions, or otherwise, into English. I know German sufficiently to be able to do so. Contact me, preferably via ICQ:

ICQ: 2538022
MSN: chs4000@hotmail.com
AOL: chs4000uw
E-MAIL: chs4000@u.washington.edu

 

[Jayavarman]

A sub-forum would be good. PM someone like UD.

 

[Blackberry]

British Isles

Well I have been slowly but surely gathering together stuff for the kingdoms of the British Isles.

Wilhelm, I made those changes to a few of the Angle-Saxon-Jute kindgoms 'owned' provinces that we talked about. Want me to post those changes here?

Been slowly working on the monarchs, leaders, and events for thopse kingodms. Started with the Angle-Saxon-Jute kindgoms first. A whole lot of short lived monarchs, not many leaders though, and still deciding on events. By the way would anyone like me to post any of this for opinions or at least chat about it on ICQ?

As for the IFU champaign, I can't get it to work on my computer I run it through the EU Unlimited batch program and it starts at January 1, 751 but then by January 3rd the year jumps to 1419 and the program tries to run all sorts of events and the like and then crashes. (I'm guessing that is what they are, they're all in German) Any idea? I have EU2 version 1.05

 

[Blackberry]

Franks

I have been wondering, the country code for the Frankish empire is FRA. When the Frankish Empire breaks up in 843 (Verdun), does the West Frankish kingdom (later France) get the keep the FRA tag? what tags do the Middle Kingdom of Lothar and the East Frankish Kingdom (later the HRE) get?



Also do you need help with the Frankish monarchs and the later West Frankish kingdom ones? (or the Eastern one for that matter)

 

[Timur Lang]

to test the ifu beta with the interface in english (this scenario is very good!!):

create a copy of your text.csv english (USA) 1.05, open it and:

1) replace these strings

2) Delete all strings (this is not really necessary) from

EVENTNAME8;Heretics;;;;;;;;;;5875

to

EVENT_A0_A;Accept their rightful claims.;;;;;;;;;;5880


3) paste this strings from the IFU text.csv

from

# DEUTSCHE IFU TEXTE

to

# ENDE

Save changes and replace the IFU text.csv for your text.csv

You will be able to play with the interface in english (not the new events, new countries names and new cultures). I have a ready text.csv with all this, but I only upload the file if Wilhelm (and the forum moderator) authorize me.

Note: the strings substitution is easy with some program of file strings replacement (example: File Substring Replacement Utility)

 

[Damocles]

Great thinking, Timur.

 

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Re: Franks

Originally posted by Blackberry
I have been wondering, the country code for the Frankish empire is FRA. When the Frankish Empire breaks up in 843 (Verdun), does the West Frankish kingdom (later France) get the keep the FRA tag? what tags do the Middle Kingdom of Lothar and the East Frankish Kingdom (later the HRE) get?

We used the FRA tag for the franks to use the FRA2 tag in case of 800, where charlemagne was crown to emperor and got as a gift by the pope the emperors flag. in legend that was the beginning year of the later HRE flag and today germany flag.

@Timur Lang
NIce what you did there! of course you can upload that text.csv.

A forum for IFU here would be very nice

 

[Timur Lang]

IFU text.csv - interface in english

Thanks to Korath for the host

 

[Timur Lang]

Wilhelm , you have these strings duplicated in the text.csv:

EVENT23010A
EVENTHIST27019
EVENTHIST31003
EVENTNAME16001
EVENTNAME20011
EVENTNAME54001
EVENTNAME56001

 

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Timur Lang, I offer you my first born child. Thanks!

 

[Blackberry]

Re: Re: Franks

Originally posted by Wilhelm of Prussia


We used the FRA tag for the franks to use the FRA2 tag in case of 800, where charlemagne was crown to emperor and got as a gift by the pope the emperors flag. in legend that was the beginning year of the later HRE flag and today germany flag.

Ahh, so from what I understand from your above sentence, the FRA2 tag is for the Holy Roman Empire born of the 'Charlemagne gets crowned emperor' event. Cool. But when the Empire breaks apart in 843 (Verdun) and is divided into three for the three grandsons of Charlemagne. I assume here then the East Frankish Kingdom (later HRE/Germany) gets the FRA2 tags? Does then the West Frankish kingdom (later France) get the FRA tag? What does the Middle Kingdom of Lothar get for a tag?

Do you need a monarchs list for any of these kingdoms?

 

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it must be a very nice scenario indeed. by the way do please name the eastern roman empire "vasileia romaion" (kingdom of romans) as it was called.

 

[Hamilcar]

Where did you guys dig up the music? I love it and if there's more of it, I want it!

BTW, Francia is overpowered. They need more destabilising, hindering events. I could just walk through the Omajiden-Kaliphat without serious resistance.

 

[Timur Lang]

Wilhelm so that you test, catapults replacing the cannons in the siege.

Catapult

the zip contains 2 files

T-SIEGE D-L.bmp
T-SIEGE D-R.bmp

And they replace the originals in \Gfx\Map\Units\bmp

 

[Jayavarman]

Originally posted by Timur Lang
Wilhelm so that you test, catapults replacing the cannons in the siege.

Catapult

the zip contains 2 files

T-SIEGE D-L.bmp
T-SIEGE D-R.bmp

And they replace the originals in \Gfx\Map\Units\bmp

Does it "go off" like the cannon?

 

[Timur Lang]

Excuse me Phillip V, my english is very bad. You refer "go off" for the animation?

If you refer to this, yes, the catapult has the animation of rock launching, also the IFU include the catapult sound.

 

[Blackberry]

Franjkish strenght

Originally posted by Hamilcar
Where did you guys dig up the music? I love it and if there's more of it, I want it!

BTW, Francia is overpowered. They need more destabilising, hindering events. I could just walk through the Omajiden-Kaliphat without serious resistance.

I see how that that can easily happen for Francia, having its overwelming size and power.

If wilhelm wants I can look at and add events for Francia to weaken them some, make it more challenging to rule. After all the only reason the cvast Frankish Empire held together such as it did is because of Charlemagne's force of will and overpowering skill and persona. Once he was gone, the vast Frankish empire, while strong was far too large for its extremely primitive and localized infastructure and economy.

Ideas are:

Pippen III

- Aquitaine's rebellious nature against Pippen and Charlemagne (if it isn't independent at the time)

- Brittany's rebellious nature (if under Frankish rule).

Charlemagne

- Same as above.

- Saxony was an extremely hard nut for Charlemagne to crack, perhaps through events we can simulate that.

- Vikings. They started they raids in Charlemagne's reign (although just small scale).

- Internal rebillions and instabilty due to the vast size of Francia.

- The Umayyads. They may only control part of Spain but their society was far more advanced.

Under Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious we can have all sorts of bad things happen. Part of which is due to the fact that Louis was nowhere as good of a ruler as his father.

-- Large scale internal rebellions: Aquitaine, Brittany, Saxony, Lombardia, Burgandy, Bavaria..

-- Large scale Viking raids.

-- Events reflecting poor leadership abilities.

Of course after this to wars between his sons begin (more massive rebellions). Eventually in 843, the Frankish Empire breaks apart.

 

[Damocles]

Wilhelm made alot of modifications to help the game be a touch more realistic, however the one massive oversight is that province supply is still way too high. Massive armies can still lumber about, especially in Italy.

I would recommend a supply limit of 0 in most provinces. Though this might seem extreme, it does in fact, model the actual reality of the situation better then most anything else. German emperors repeatedly marched huge armies into Naples and Apulia, making great gains, only to see them melt away come malaria season...This was repeated in nearly every corner of the globe.

 

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Originally posted by Timur Lang
Wilhelm so that you test, catapults replacing the cannons in the siege.

Catapult

the zip contains 2 files

T-SIEGE D-L.bmp
T-SIEGE D-R.bmp

And they replace the originals in \Gfx\Map\Units\bmp

Whouu man im impressed of that, very amazing!!!!! I will check that soon, much thx...... THe duplicates you did found in the text were fixed.

iwannhs:
it must be a very nice scenario indeed. by the way do please name the eastern roman empire "vasileia romaion" (kingdoms of romans) as it was called.

We wil do that

Hamilcar:
Where did you guys dig up the music? I love it and if there's more of it, I want it!

BTW, Francia is overpowered. They need more destabilising, hindering events. I could just walk through the Omajiden-Kaliphat without serious resistance.

If u got winmx or something like that, search for "chant" . If u found too much of that, search for specifications like "Byzantium chant" or "hRE chant" . I got here, hmmm, let me say 200 mb of that music stuff, but that will crash fast my 25 gb traffic limit/month. Maybe i can put a download on the scenario center of paradox, dont know what they will say for a 20-30 mb download.....

For the francia prob: Yeah thats right, we tried to put them down with bad events such as heavy government costs random events. But we had to reduce the costs because the ai couldnt handle with that as francia gone every 5 years bankruptcy. We must search for alternatives to calm them down.


@Blackberry: Good ideas to calm down francia. What we did by your ideas, even massive:

- The problems they had with the saxons. If you will occupy provinces of the saxons, they will heavy rebell till 804. That simulates the rebelling time around Widukind between 760 and 804.

- for the vikings we gave random events to pay tributes to them and rebells in random at the coasts of the great countries. But as i read in history, the vikings even were standing in front of paris , not only the coastal areas. So we can make more out of that!

- Under Lois the Pios we got many many many bad events. Myself playing in that time i got several government crisis in that time. Since 816 it will rock francia and unbelievable hard to play in that time.

 

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Originally posted by Damocles

I would recommend a supply limit of 0 in most provinces. Though this might seem extreme, it does in fact, model the actual reality of the situation better then most anything else. German emperors repeatedly marched huge armies into Naples and Apulia, making great gains, only to see them melt away come malaria season...This was repeated in nearly every corner of the globe.

We did try a supply limit of 0 and its a good idea but it didnt work fine in game. If theres very less supply limit in provinces, the ai dont move their tropps to such less supply limnit provinces. In a war the AI seems to fight only a defence war and no troop is coming out of home border.