Napoleon's Campaign patch 1.04

[Nikel]

OK, thanks for the answers


As there is regular light cavalry, like Hussard or Chasseurs, with light cav. movement, I thought it should be similar with regular light infantry, like "Leger".


About the wagon, this text on the manual was the cause:

Wheeled (normally used by supply wagons and artillery units).
Note: Horse artillery units are classified as Heavy Cavalry

[Nikel]

With BOA you arrived till 1.13d, with AACW you are right now in 1.10c.

What must we expect for NCP? Not just in the number of patchs; I mean, besides possible bugs that could be posted and fixed, is there any plan on the short, medium or long term for NCP?


Regards

[PhilThib]

The plans will depend mostly on whether we find sufficient help from the community...at the moment, we have no way to give the game enough personal involvement to do everything alone...so we need help...which is not yet found leure:

We really want to improve parts of the game within the frame of the possible today, but we can't do it alone...

[Nikel]

And that was a fast answers Mr. Thibaut

But for example Longhairedlout was interested on General bios and asked, but no answer from you or any other developer Well, perhaps you answered using a pm

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9200


And there is a NCP improvement team, or there is not? Brigade infernale NCP Coordinator, Bruit Bleu Napoleon's Improvement Team, Chris38 NCP Improvement Team. Are they working silently on the background, or the fact that there are no post here means that...

[PhilThib]

I missed the post, so I answered it now

Now there are people who have NCP 'titles' because they have been quite active at some point...the fact there are no longer posts means they are no longer active...hence our problem leure:

[Nikel]

Sure Longhairedlout will be encouraged by your answer


I see there is no NCP improvement team then The "titles" are misleading, there should be an "ex-" before the "title"

It is a pity there is no people involved like with AACW. Well, real life and playing your games takes a lot of time


I wonder if things like this make you and your team think, let's better concentrate on the USA market, for example the next WIA or a future AACW2 expanding to the wars with the indians tribes of the west plains,...



Hey no, we have Frederick the Great!

[dooya]

I was looking in the Options menu for the language switch, but I did not find one. Is this WAD?

[Bruit Bleu]

I'm sorry gentlemen, I joined the improvement team a week ago, and hadn't much time to invest in serious learning & modding work since.

I should have time to in a week or two... You know what it is, a job, etc.




@ Dooya :
I think you can chose the language during installation.

[Paul Roberts]

Speaking of language, is there a chance that the official language of the NCP beta forum might return to English? I know that most of the current participants are Francophone, but I fear that the trend towards French-language discussion there is closing out some talent that we could use. I'd like to be of use myself, but I'm functionally monolingual.

[dooya]

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@ Dooya :
I think you can chose the language during installation.

So I did, but it had no effect. I did choose German, but the game is in English. Maybe language selection was overwritten when I applied patches?

Moreover, I think there was a language selection in the options menu under patch 1.02b, but got lost again in later patches.

For me personally this problem is a minor one, because I know how to change languages via editing the General.opt. Nevertheless I think that a switch in the options menu would do better in general.

[Bruit Bleu]

Moreover, I think there was a language selection in the options menu under patch 1.02b, but got lost again in later patches.

Indeed, I forgot the three language buttons in the option menu !
As you say, it seems it got lost in a patch... certainly until the next one !

[arsan]

That's strange... i have the change language boxes right there in the options menu. As always.
Check the option menu, first tab (Media) second line on the left column.
Don't you have it there??
The only trick with this option is that you must restart the game after changing language for the change to have effect.
Regards!

[dooya]

That's strange... i have the change language boxes right there in the options menu. As always.
Check the option menu, first tab (Media) second line on the left column.
Don't you have it there??
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Actually I do not find it. Please have a look yourself...


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[arsan]

What the f...
I have the lenguague check boxes right there on the options menu.
Could be some problem with the game versions?
Mine is the Spanish retail one (comes on the CD patched to 1.03) and then patched to 1.04.
Have you tried a reinstall?
Regards!

[dooya]

What the f...

f...eeling? f...eautibul

I have the lenguague check boxes right there on the options menu.
Could be some problem with the game versions?
Mine is the Spanish retail one (comes on the CD patched to 1.03) and then patched to 1.04.
Have you tried a reinstall?
Regards!

It is a fresh install. I have the French DVD version, applied the French Foundation Patch and then applied 1.04.

[arsan]

My bet is that this is a case of poltergeist
Pocus?

[Pocus]

Can you check what's in the general.opt file for the language line?

[dooya]

Can you check what's in the general.opt file for the language line?

Of course.

2. *** General interface choices ***
// language (0: English; 1: Francais; 2: Espanol; 3: Deutsche)
Language = 0
ThirdLanguage = -1

[arsan]

That "minus" sign on the
ThirdLanguage = -1
looks very strange.
What i don't know is how it has get there

[Pocus]

the 0 means you are in english, the -1 that you don't have the language switch proposed in-game.

switch language to 3 and third language to 3 too.

[dooya]

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switch language to 3 and third language to 3 too.

Thanks, but I knew that before (Henry D. posted this at si-games while ago).

The problem is IMHO that this strange setup was present after patching.

[Pocus]

but general.opt is not added when patching, it is only added when the setup is done.
what's the remaining problem exactly?

[arsan]

Dooya, you could look at the time stamp of the general.opt file and see when was last modified.
As pocus says, this file should not be touched by the patching process.
Maybe you put that minus sign there by mistake while editing the languages options?
Regards

[dooya]

but general.opt is not added when patching, it is only added when the setup is done.
what's the remaining problem exactly?

The remaining problem is, that if someone does the same like I did (Install French DVD version, apply the French Foundation Patch and then apply 1.04), he/she might not find the language selection in the options menu. Moreover, the language chosen during the installation is set to English.

Dooya, you could look at the time stamp of the general.opt file and see when was last modified.

It appears to me that the time stamp is modified every time you open the options menu. Thus, it might not be a valid indicator.

As pocus says, this file should not be touched by the patching process.
Maybe you put that minus sign there by mistake while editing the languages options
Regards

Putting in a -1 by accident? No, I did not. As I said, it was a fresh install, I did not touch anything. If I remember correctly, NCP has not even been installed on this computer before.

[arsan]

Hi
I mean the creation time stamp, not the modification one. To check if the patch could had substitute your file with a new and different one.
But i don't think so, as that file also store the serial... did you have to put again the serial number on AGEsttings after patching?
Regards

[Pocus]

yes, but that's normal, if you bought the DVD version, to only have the language chosen during installation. You need to either tweak the file, or have the download version. This was partly due because of a publisher constraint.

[dooya]

yes, but that's normal, if you bought the DVD version, to only have the language chosen during installation. You need to either tweak the file, or have the download version. This was partly due because of a publisher constraint.

Ahh, then it is WAD. Thanks for letting me know.

[arsan]

yes, but that's normal, if you bought the DVD version, to only have the language chosen during installation. You need to either tweak the file, or have the download version. This was partly due because of a publisher constraint.

Did not thought about that
Spanish retail versions of NCP. AACW and BoA has always been multilenguage.
Regards

[dooya]

Did not thought about that
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Me neither. Did make me ask silly questions. leure: Imagine, if I had any reputation, it would be ruined by now.

[Nikel]

Hi


I do not know if this is related with patch 1.04, but here it goes.

Peninsular war, when you click on "show who is controling strategic towns" button, Badajoz and Elvas are not highlighted, blue nor yellow. In the picture you can see Sevilla and Cordoba highlighted, but not Badajoz and Elvas



And not a bug but a question about PW. Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo were border towns and fortresses key to the advance to Portugal. And so were the facing ones on the Portugal side, Elvas and Almeida, so it is nice that Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo are strategic towns with 10 NM points, but Elvas only 1 and Almeida is not a strategic objective at all?


Edit: just noticed that Cordoba is not s atrategic town? And Burdeos (Bordeaux)? It is highlighted too, look at picture 2. I am confused now, when you click the button, then should be showed in blue or yellow the cities that appear in the objective list, is this right or am I missing something?


Edit2: OK, reading the manual I see that there are strategic and objective towns with different VP

Strategic City +1 VP per turn

Objective City +1 to 3 VPs per turn (according to scenario)

Are there more differences between them?

In the manual you can read too: Objectives (3 key): This filter highlights Objective and Strategic cities that grant Victory Points to their
owner But the tooltip on the button indicates that shows the strategic towns, so is it a problem of the manual only?

Badajoz and Elvas are objective, so not showed is right

Cordoba and Burdeos (Bordeaux) are strategic, so showed is right