VIP - Closed discussions of Old Versions

[OHgamer]

Playing France, actually a VIPR01 game, but I'm guessing the AI scrpting is vanilla.

its now 1900. prussia has not formed in to Germany or the Northern federation. They are allied to italy. prussia dows me evry five years without fail and has done since late 1860 to 1870? I have been allied at times with Austria and Switzerland. Austria and Switzerland are being gradually eaten up in each war.

I know prussia wants to occupy paris and form Germany but they haven't managed to do so against me yet.

Will prussia ever give up on dowing me?

Also the succesive wars must be adding to my revolt risk, France is pretty much permanently red on the rr map. I'm just defending myself against the aggressor here. Prussia and Italy otoh have no such revolt problems and according to the ledger have pretty much nothing in the way of reforms whereas I have introdcued all I could afford before my current laissez faire govt came to power. Does the AI have an assist/cheat in controling revolt risk?

short answer, no. especially if you are in occupation of any German cores, it will continue until you put Prussia out of its misery (satellite it perhaps??)

AFAIK there is no AI cheat controlling revolt risk, AI nations do tend to keep crimefighting at full, which helps immensely in reducing revolt risk.

 

[OHgamer]

My capis suddenly change "issues" and then lose all their money. is this supposed to hapen? they sure arn't building anything. their reserves go from 1500-2100 to 400-500

i should mention that i am uncivilized. i suspect they are buying state bonds, since i am gettin 0.1 income from state bonds. maybe some tech is required for the capis to build stuff?? or do i need to be civilized??

there are known issues with capi reserve spending for uncivs and less-developed civilized nations, seems to be connected to a mismatch between techs a nation has and what the game engine wants the capis to build, and not being able to build due to not having the tech needed.

At least that is my latest theory.

For uncivs and less-developed civs, the best solution is to hold off converting POPs to capitalist until later in the game, once you have all the basic industrial techs (level 1 and 2) researched. by that point all the discoveries should be done and your capis will legitimately be able to build whatever factories or railways that the game engine decides to go for first for that capi POP.

 

[theokrat]

High reforms might not be a good thing. Eg. it might be your officers who cause the revoltrisk.

 

[unmerged(9383)]

finally the pics for my prussia - russia question. the problem still exists and really drives me crazy

 

[unmerged(9383)]

finally the pics for my prussia - russia question. the problem still exists and really drives me crazy

ok somehow thtat doesnt work: here are the links:

http://img61.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unbenanntxe9.jpg
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/tresckow/images/detail/#65/unbenannt2eb8.jpg

 

[Quantum_AI]

that's very good reasoning OHgamer! you the man!


i am all civilized now, and with my 50 million loyal subjects about to steam :rofl: roll the sub-continent!

 

[OHgamer]

ok somehow thtat doesnt work: here are the links:

http://img61.imageshack.us/my.php?image=unbenanntxe9.jpg
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/tresckow/images/detail/#65/unbenannt2eb8.jpg

Very odd. Only thing I can think it might have been is that as you were clearing out the spam messages, you ended up clicking yes to a Russian peace offer in error. I've checked the event files and nothing leading to peace via event was found.

Perhaps start the war over from an earlier save, and change some of your message settings, that one screen is just covered in messages, so I think it might have been an error in clicking yes when the Russians made a peace offer.

 

[unmerged(9383)]

i know i allready restarted three times and clicked the messages off one by one. it happens again and again. i thought it might be the assassination of bsmarck event, butthat would be starnge. and you cant click peace offers away by pressing return. you have to do it by mouse.

 

[Armfeldt]

Isn't Conservative Empire event supposed to trigger every 5th game or so? At least that's what I've heard mentioned elsewhere. Problem is, it has now triggered in every game I have played so far with hotfix2 or later. Was the event changed or is this a bug?

 

[Armfeldt]

'Leading Scientist defects to your country' event had it's event text in both english and french, one after the other.

 

[unmerged(77251)]

Dumb question...

Once a new hotfix becomes available, is it auto-merged into the 'official' VIP release; ie, now that hotfix 3 for VIP:R is out, is it included in the main VIP:R release bundle, or does a future install still require ricky > ricky hotfixes > VIP:R > VIP hotfixes ?

Thanks for youre time, and for your great work,

qwerkus

 

[OHgamer]

Once a new hotfix becomes available, is it auto-merged into the 'official' VIP release; ie, now that hotfix 3 for VIP:R is out, is it included in the main VIP:R release bundle, or does a future install still require ricky > ricky hotfixes > VIP:R > VIP hotfixes ?

Thanks for youre time, and for your great work,

qwerkus

No, you need to apply the hotfixes over the Base VIP:R 0.1

 

[unmerged(77251)]

Can someone explain me THAT ?

It happend sometimes very early in game (1836): suddently, tons of cash are rolling in - I checked the trade window, et voila:

What's going on ?
(playing VIP:R, latest Hotfix )

 

[noddysseus]

cooooooooooooooooooool

no idea whether thats a regular problem or whether its a bug or something.

 

[OHgamer]

There is an odd bug that sometimes causes price spikes, never seen it happen as early as 1836 though.

Developers are aware of the issue, though its been tough to track down.

At this point, enjoy the luck is the best advice I can give.

 

[RELee]

'Leading Scientist defects to your country' event had it's event text in both english and french, one after the other.

Yes, I've seen that too. If I remember correctly, I traced that down to one of the original, vanilla text files, not a VIP file. Somehow, delimiting characters have been removed/left out allowing mixed language messages to pop up.

[Quick check of files] Yep. It's in event_text.csv. There should be 11 semi-colons for each event text, but in some events there are only 10 which causes English and French to run together.

I began a couple of weeks ago to start cleaning up that file to pass on to OHgamer; but, as always, real life keeps interfering with me actually accomplishing anything on this sort of project. If I could keep from getting interrupted I could get more scripting done. Oh well...

 

[Garuda]

High reforms might not be a good thing. Eg. it might be your officers who cause the revoltrisk.

I only have basic reforms enacted across the board. They're all I could afford and now I have a LF govt anyway. The pops with most mil are conservative turned reactionary farmers and labourers.

I have fully funded crime fighting. Crime fighting costs are rather cheap in VIP so there's no excuse not to fully fund it when you're playing as a major power.

 

[robou]

I only have basic reforms enacted across the board. They're all I could afford and now I have a LF govt anyway. The pops with most mil are conservative turned reactionary farmers and labourers.

I have fully funded crime fighting. Crime fighting costs are rather cheap in VIP so there's no excuse not to fully fund it when you're playing as a major power.

I fear it is all those reactionary pops...i had the same problem as Bavaria
Because you have a liberal government the reactionary pops are very sensitive to anything, especially war!

 

[unmerged(77251)]

Sorry for the mis-posting; i though it wasn't directly related to VIP ...
Actually, the main problem is the "global wealth": i was pretty happy with my 650k cash; but a little "info FRA" showed me over 10M, and the brit was close to the 100M ... That's why I decided to restart .

 

[Garuda]

VIPR01 Possible event bug.

Playing as France VIPR01. After researching electricity I had an invention fire: Daimler’s Autos which allows the construction of automobile factory. I had an event fire on the same day (A state support for industry event?) which gave me the choice of building an automobile factory. I chose yes and paid the handsome fee, but I did not get the factory.

I am wondering whether I need to research combustion engine too to get an additional invention to allow auto factories (autos were enabled from this tech under vanilla Vicky)? If so, maybe the industry event fired too early?

I had similar industry events through which I built a telephone factory and electric gear factory, these worked fine. But the automobile factory didn’t work, no factory was built.