New Beta 0.2 of C.O.R.E. ***Discussion Thread***

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by Copper Nicus
Test both options in extreme conditions (forced war with USSR, Allies and neutrals) and see which one approach is better. I don't mind if it will be yours variant - everything but not everyone allied with everyone!

yes, that's the idea

 

[unmerged(15561)]

Originally posted by Burris
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Im going to play through as Switzerland, as I simply can't find this to be true. I created the events, and they fired fine when I was testing them. So unless some revisions were done, I dont know what the problem is. Expect a report.

PM'd Burris to tell him this worked on a subsequent run. Must have been an unstable XP session! Probably around the time of the memory spikes etc. Since these have been sorted.....

My apologises Mr B

 

[unmerged(11703)]

Just installed 0.2 Beta but I didn't get a Desktop Icon... my HOI is installed on d:\
and so is CORE.

HOI is 1.04 w/ no mods before installing CORE.

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by Flashblade
Just installed 0.2 Beta but I didn't get a Desktop Icon... my HOI is installed on d:\
and so is CORE.

HOI is 1.04 w/ no mods before installing CORE.

i have HoI in d: too...
did you "direct" the installation into your "Hearts of Iron" directory?

 

[unmerged(11703)]

Nope, I installed CORE to D:\program files\mod-CORE

I just made the desktop ICON myself and HOI starts fine and I have the CORE campaign. Looks like I was only missing the desktop item.

It's win9x...

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by Flashblade
Nope, I installed CORE to D:\program files\mod-CORE

I just made the desktop ICON myself and HOI starts fine and I have the CORE campaign. Looks like I was only missing the desktop item.

It's win9x...

i recommend you install CORE into your HoI directory, because there some files that will be installed that needs to be in your Hearts of Iron directory.
so, suposing you have HoI in:
d:\Program Files\Hearts of Iron\
CORE should end like this:
d:\Program Files\Hearts of Iron\mod-core

 

[unmerged(11703)]

OK, in that case perhaps the installer can locate the HOI dir and display it as the default? Also, a disclaimer should be posted somewhere in the installer about this.

Thanks!

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by Flashblade
OK, in that case perhaps the installer can locate the HOI dir and display it as the default? Also, a disclaimer should be posted somewhere in the installer about this.

Thanks!

well, you are right, it should say that you must install it to your HoI directory...
sorry...


i' ve checked and you MUST install it to you HoI directory, because, if not, some files will be missing and you could have problems....

 

[unmerged(15561)]

Ive just been testing my minister sacked event for Vichy France and noticed a perculiar thing. The government screen for the nation is corrupt...as seen here.

This doesnt happen with 104 only! It also happened for everyone of my last three games, even startring one from the beginning!

If someone can point me to the correct file I will look at the problem some more. Where are ministers defined for a new nation? Is it in an event? as I have looked their and cant find a solution.

Anyone seen this before?

 

[Generalisimo]

they are in:
db\ministers
there you have:
ministers_vic.csv

if you deleted important things (like ; or things like that) the file will become corrupt...
so look for a simple minister file (like Ukraine, Burma, etc...) and try to have your file equal to that. (in structure, i mean)

IMPORTANT THING: when you want to play with Vichy, you need to let pass the day Vichy is formed, if not their leaders + ministers will not be loaded (they are loaded at the end of the day). So, for example, Vichy is created at 2:00 1/1/1939, wait until 0:00 2/1/1939 (dd/mm/yyyy ), then save, quit, reload, and play with Vichy.

 

[nachinus]

Originally posted by Doc2
I play the scandinavian version (same as UK ??), and the Irish event crash the game every time. Witout them the game work fine.

I have the spanish version and the event didnt crash (although i only tested it 1 time, ill test it again). I must say that as long as i know, the

command = { type = minister_loyalty which = -1 value = -1 }

command works fine. I used it in a event and gave no problem, maybe it´s another thing, or just that surprisingly in my version it works and in the rest not.

 

[nachinus]

Oh! Generalissimo or somebody else: could you send me the changes made to the text.csv file? I´d like to implement them in my original spanish text.csv file instead using the one that comes with CORE. That way i could run HoI in spainsh.

Thanks in advance, i guess the changes are big ones

 

[Generalisimo]

Originally posted by nachinus
Oh! Generalissimo or somebody else: could you send me the changes made to the text.csv file? I´d like to implement them in my original spanish text.csv file instead using the one that comes with CORE. That way i could run HoI in spainsh.

Thanks in advance, i guess the changes are big ones

they are all descriptions for countries, EGY, SYR, LEB, U03.
currently Procer is translating them...
(i must warn you that they are toooooo long, thanks to OHgamer )
more changes to that file could lead to an "unknown dimension of uncontrolled bugs".... ... so i prefer to only add DESC to countries that didn't have one, so if you use your spanish text.csv, you will not have names + desc for the new countries. (User Defined, No Desc)

 

[MateDow]

??!?

There is an event (?) at the end of the Spanish Civil War that results in Germany declaring war on Russia at the end of the war. This has happened in two of the games that I have played as the US. It has made for some interesting games with fighting happening through allied nation in the Balkans, but it isn't very historical. It also made for a short lived Poland once the Allies entered the war because of German forces massed to "repel" the Soviet invasion. Enjoyable to watch the clash on Europe. France has managed to survive until well into 1940 against a distracted Germany. MDow

 

[Generalisimo]

Re: ??!?

Originally posted by MateDow
There is an event (?) at the end of the Spanish Civil War that results in Germany declaring war on Russia at the end of the war. This has happened in two of the games that I have played as the US. It has made for some interesting games with fighting happening through allied nation in the Balkans, but it isn't very historical. It also made for a short lived Poland once the Allies entered the war because of German forces massed to "repel" the Soviet invasion. Enjoyable to watch the clash on Europe. France has managed to survive until well into 1940 against a distracted Germany. MDow

well, try to get the history.txt and see which is the name of the event...

 

[JRaup]

Originally posted by nachinus
I have the spanish version and the event didnt crash (although i only tested it 1 time, ill test it again). I must say that as long as i know, the

command = { type = minister_loyalty which = -1 value = -1 }

command works fine. I used it in a event and gave no problem, maybe it´s another thing, or just that surprisingly in my version it works and in the rest not.

Arrrgh. So far, the events work fine on the NA, and Spanish versions, are hit or miss with the UK version, and they CTD the PAN and Polish versions.
This is making soem sense, but I still don't get it all. It has to have something to do with the patches. I can't think of any other reason why this would happen.
I'll rework the events, and see what happens with those versions.

 

[hendriks]

Arrrgh. So far, the events work fine on the NA, and Spanish versions, are hit or miss with the UK version, and they CTD the PAN and Polish versions.

Sorry, JRaup, the event crashed with me and I have NA........

I changed the text to read;

command = { type = reveal_minister_loyalty which = -1 value = -1 }

for both the SCW experience event and the Irish event of April 1938 and the fired and I could move on..............

 

[Lord Baldric]

Originally posted by JRaup
Thanks. Right now it's all anecdotal, but it seems as if the issue lies with the non-North American versions. Not sure about the UK version, as that seems hit or miss.

Nope. I'm using the NA version.

 

[JRaup]

Dang. Now it makes even less sense to me.
If it's not an issue of versions, then why are some events being so hit or miss as to causing a CTD? I haven't been able to reproduce a CTD involving the Irish events, or Burris' Afghan events. They all fire fine when I play.

I'm at a total loss on this one....

 

[Lord Baldric]

My intuition is telling me that the reason the Irish events don't cause CTDs consistently is because the offending commands target random ministers, and a crash only occurs if a certain minister(s) is selected, such as when you try to change the skill of a sleeping general. Are any of the Irish ministers asleep or otherwise suspect? This is my only guess as to what could be the cause of the random crashes. I just don't think it is a coincidence than an event with random effects is causing random crashes.